Salamanca, Castilla and Leon, Spain
I am a Monitoring and Evaluation Lead Specialist for international development cooperation projects and humanitarian interventions. I feel grateful to have learned and grown in the past 10 years through engaging and complex collaborations with excellent thematic and technical experts and partners in dozens of M&E and Third-Party Monitoring projects in Western Africa, the Middle East, South- and Southeast Asia to become a committed and professional international development enthusiast. I now work as an independent consultant focusing on mixed methods evaluation methodologies and developing bespoke quantitative and qualitative data collection approaches. As a passionate team player, I lead, support, and contribute to generating information and to closing gaps of knowledge that can help maximize the impact of international and bilateral agencies engaged in development cooperation and humanitarian interventions so that they can effectively serve and sustainably promote the wellbeing of people all across the world.
Senior Monitoring Advisor in the Monitoring, Reporting, and Capacity Strengthening (MRCS) platform of the US Department of State, focusing on third-party monitoring (TPM) for humanitarian and health programs in the Sahel region in Burkina Faso and Niger. I lead the technical delivery of TPM data collection frameworks and tools designs, as well as the data analysis and drafting of TPM reports.
Experienced Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, Data Analyst, and Project Manager for evaluations of international development cooperation projects, as well as Third-Party Monitoring (TPM) of humanitarian internations. I have 6 years of experience working on site and remotely in a variety of countries like Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Ghana, and Myanmar. The main clients I have worked with are international agencies like UNICEF, UNOCHA, the European Commission, UNHCR, UNOPS and the IMF. The work as project manager included the supervision of international expert teams ranging from 3 – 13 people as well as local subcontractors for in-field data collection. Thematic areas: • Education, protection, social protection, WASH and health projects in the Middle East, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. Technical Skills: • Quantitative data collection and analysis of household surveys and online surveys (KOBO-Collect). Training of field enumerators in the usage of mobile tablet devices for data collection. • Quantitative data analysis and visualizations using survey and data analysis software using R, Excel and Power-BI (Creation of real-time Dashboards) • Qualitative Data Collection (Key Informant Interviews, Focus Group Discussions, H-Method exercises with children and adolescents) • Experience with using AI in qualitative data analysis with Chat GPT (Content analysis generating excerpts, summarizing key themes and comparing of vast quantities of unstructured data.) Business Development: • Development of Methodologies and convening of Expert Teams of winning proposals of values ranging from USD 80,000 - USD 250,000. Coordination and Logistics: • Goal-oriented project manager with profound understanding of clients' expectations of quality (value for money), empathetic leadership, and responsible ownership of processes. • Budgeting, planning, logistics, and supervision of field missions in remote and conflict-affected areas.
- Managing Monitoring & Evaluation projects located in Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia. - Evaluation of humanitarian intervention and international development cooperation projects according to OECD-DAC criteria framework. - Designing and managing data collection systems, analysing quantitative and qualitative data - Carrying out socio-economic research, analysis of institutional frameworks - Supporting experts during all stages of the project implementation (inception, data collection, analysis and reporting phase.) - Preparing offers for calls for proposals
Formative Evaluation of the « Communauté Amie des Enfants (CADE) » Approach Supported the Team Leader (TL) to ensure the technical robustness of all deliverables, tools, and protocols for data collection, analysis, and visualization, as well as reporting. Focused on developing and coding all quantitative data collection tools (household surveys, online perception surveys, and protocols), and trained field surveyors for household surveys. Assisted the TL in sampling clusters and localities at the community level and trained national experts for Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and community mapping exercises. Conducted some Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) (mainly with actors at national, sub-national, and local levels who provided advice on locality sampling). Performed document reviews. Coordinated the implementation of community-level data collection (FGDs, household surveys) with local data companies, ensuring adherence to ethical and quality standards during field data collection. Organized training workshops for community-level data collection with national experts and data collection companies. Travelled to Abidjan with the TL for 2 days, then spent 4-5 days in Poro to support the TL in sampling and training experts and field surveyors. The final report has been published in February 2025. Part of my employment with Cowater International.
Multi-Country Evaluation of the UNICEF-NORAD programme for “Improving Access to a Quality Education for Children of the Sahel in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger” Supported Team Leader in ensuring technical robustness of deliverables, tools, and protocols for data collection, analysis, and visualization. Developed and coded quantitative data collection tools, including household and online perception surveys. Trained field surveyors for household surveys, Focus Group Discussions and children-oriented data collection tools like Body Mapping and H-Assessment. Assisted in sampling schools at the community level and trained national experts for FGDs. Coordinated community-level data collection with local data companies, ensuring ethical and quality standards. Organized training workshops for data collection with national experts and data collection companies. Conducted Key Informant Interviews (KII) and document reviews. Field Mission to Mali and Burkina Faso for data collection and training of field teams. The final report has been published in January 2025. Part of my employment with Cowater International.
Evaluation of the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES)-EU-UNICEF Partnership to Strengthen the Education System in Lao PDR Project Manager of an expert team of 4 members with active support to the Team Leader in the development of the methodology during the inception phase, as well as the quantitative and qualitative data collection tools (Online Stakeholder Perception Survey coding on KOBO Collect, Focus Group Discussions. In charge of Ethical Compliance with UNEG regulations and UNICEF ethics in evidence generation guidelines as well as the GEROS criteria. The final report has been published in October 2024. Part of my employment with Cowater International.
Provision of Third-Party Monitoring (TPM) Services for the Syria Cross-border Humanitarian Fund (as Cowater Project Manager) Management of a Framework Contract for UNOCHA’s SCHF overseeing a Monitoring Team of up to 14 Researchers together and a sub-contractor to conduct independent Monitoring of the Syrian Cross-border Humanitarian Fund in North-West Syria. The humanitarian clusters included WASH, Protection, Food Security, Nutrition, Camp-coordination & Camp Management (CCCM), Emergency Shelter and Non-food items (ES&NFI), Early Recovery, Logistics, Education in Emergencies, and Health. In total the TPM team produced more than 160 TPM reports over the timespan of this project. I led the aggregation and synthetisation of all TPM report data and co-drafted the Annual Reports of 2021, 2022 and 2023. I created dashboards of TPM report data with Microsoft Excel and Power BI. Part of my employment with Cowater International.