Resume

• 2004

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

  Development Economics and International Development

  Tulane University

• 1984

  Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.)

  Program evaluation and policy analysis.

  Public Policy Analysis

  •\tRecipient of the Dalhousie Graduate Fellowship\n•\tSpecialization in program evaluation

  statistics

  and health/social policy\n\nCo-President of the Public Administration Student Society - Organized speaker series culminating in the invitation of two Associate Deputy Ministers from the Government of Canada and the Chairman of the Public Service Commission of Canada

  Dalhousie University

• 1982

  Honours Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

  Thesis focused on statistical correlations between parental acceptance-rejection and locus of control construct in senior secondary school students.

  Social Psychology

  McMaster University

• 1979

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

  Biology/Biological Sciences

  General

  McMaster University

• •\tFounder and creator of the website www.EvaluateCanadaAid.org; a website that rates the quality of Canadian government training programs in developing countries on three dimensions: evaluation design

  evaluation independence

  and public availability.\n\nThis website advocates for the improvement in the evaluation of training programs in developing countries funded by the Government of Canada.

  www.EvaluateCanadaAid.org

  Market Research

  Program Management

  Civil Society

  Recruiting

  International Development

  Management

  Capacity Building

  Inferential Statistics

  Project Management

  Africa

  Project Planning

  Government

  Research

  Training

  Program Evaluation

  Governance

  Strategy

  Leadership

  SPSS

  Report Writing

  PhD Dissertation: Government Institutional Performance Examined through Social Capital and Collective Memory for selected District Assemblies in Ghana

  http://gradworks.umi.com/33/51/3351398.html

  This study within six District Assemblies in Ghana sought to examine if relationships between their social capital and performance existed. Improvements in performance in these six District Assemblies were defined by increases in District Assembly Common Fund expenditures. Greater collective memory among members within a District Assembly was defined as decreases in the percentage of members believing that corruption was present or increases in the percentage of members believing that social capital was present in other District Assemblies. Greater social capital was defined as increases in the percentage of members reporting working with other members and perceiving that relationship as equal and trusting. Significant positive correlations were observed between collective memory and social capital but these correlations were not consistent with performance. Rather

  performance was either poor for all District Assemblies or increased as social capital and collective memory declined. This study may be useful for those examining how social capital/networks between individuals within a particular institution and its performance are related.

  PhD Dissertation: Government Institutional Performance Examined through Social Capital and Collective Memory for selected District Assemblies in Ghana

  CAREER OBJECTIVE: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Manager/Advisor delivering short and long term M&E services in developing countries using my M&E and project management experience. \n\nSUMMARY OF EXPERTISE \n\n•\tOver 10 years of experience in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in the health

  education

  civil society

  governance

  emergency humanitarian

  and private sector development sectors including designing and advising on Theories of Change

  Logframes and data collection plans and analysis. \n•\tOver six years’ experience in designing

  planning

  and managing M&E projects in Canada

  Sierra Leone

  Ghana

  Eritrea

  Rwanda

  Nigeria

  Bangladesh

  and Afghanistan. \n•\tOver eight years teaching/training experience in international development

  program evaluation

  inferential statistics

  and statistics software (SPSS

  SAS

  Excel) at service delivery and post-secondary educational institutions. \n•\tExtensive experience in Africa coordinating and working with a variety of stakeholders such as scientific experts

  multi-lateral international organizations

  federal and local government representatives

  and non-government organizations across political

  economic

  and social strata and peer/supervisory roles to build M&E and statistical capacity. \n

  David

  Wand PhD

  Ecorys UK

  UNAIDS

  UK Aid Direct

  Adam Smith International

  British Council

  NIRAS Sweden AB

  Mott MacDonald (formerly HLSP)

  UK Aid Direct

  African Development Bank

  Colombo Plan Secretariat

  London

  United Kingdom

  Reviewing existing Theories of Change and related Results Frameworks for UK Foreign Commonwealth Office for 3 projects in Qatar

  Oman

  and Bahrain to revise up to global FCO standards. Building M&E capacity specific to designing Theories of Change and Results Frameworks to achieve global FCO standards at London

  UK HQ.

  Monitoring And Evaluation Consultant

  UK Aid Direct

  Kigali Rwanda

  •\tReviewed project M&E Logframe and project documents concluding with revised and improved indicators along with designing an intervention logic model using Visio software for the Water for Growth Rwanda program.\n•\tReviewed logframes and related indicators from eight sectors

  the National Strategy for Transformation

  and District Development Strategies and compared them with Catchment Plan logframes resulting in the design of an overall generic catchment plan logic model. This involved identifying common themes of intervention between the various logframes and aligning indicators consistent with an overall theory of change and intervention logic.

  M&E Consultant

  Mott MacDonald (formerly HLSP)

  Asmara

  Eritrea

  •\tAssessed the Eritrean Joint United Nations Team on HIV/AIDS (JUNTA) for UNAIDS

  Geneva through the completion of key stakeholder interviews and subsequent quantitative and qualitative analysis leading to recommendations on how the JUNTA coordinating mechanism could be improved. This assessment resulted in providing technical support to various government agencies/departments through these recommendations since these government departments were members of the JUNTA. \n•\tCoordinated HIV/AIDS program data collection from the UNFPA

  UNICEF

  and UNAIDS resulting in the production of regular reports for the Norwegian donor representative. These reports were then shared with the various government agencies as part of the technical M&E support provided to the Eritrean government. \n•\tParticipated in the recruitment and selection of M&E experts for the UNDP and UNAIDS.

  Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor

  UNAIDS

  Colombo

  Sri Lanka

  Designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems for the Gender Affairs Programme

  Monitoring and Evaluation Manager

  Colombo Plan Secretariat

  Reviewing three project M&E Logframes including project documents

  data

  and the related Theory of Change for the Next Generation Gulf programme. Recommendations were provided on how to improve M&E Logframe and indicator design as well as research design for the purpose of supporting an evaluation of the programme.

  Monitoring And Evaluation Consultant

  British Council

  Kigali

  Rwanda

  •\tDesigned and advised on data collection and analysis protocols to achieve data quality assurance for selected indicators within the Forestry sector for the Rwanda Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.

  Data Protocol Advisor

  NIRAS Sweden AB

  Abuja

  Nigeria

  •\tResponsible for delivering monitoring and evaluation (M&E) services to UK DFID for state level programs worth approximately $USD 600 Million covering health

  education

  governance

  civil society

  and private sector development. This responsibility included forming evaluation teams of international and national M&E experts to complete annual evaluations as well as supervising national M&E experts on periodic M&E systems strengthening

  and disseminating IMEP M&E results to build Nigerian government M&E capacity at federal and state levels.\n•\tContributing to the development of M&E strategies in the health sector by ensuring and maintaining data quality standards through the supervision of data collection for selected performance indicators as part of monitoring the performance of the DFID Nigeria Partnership for Transforming Health Systems (PATHS) program. This included using these performance data from the PATHS program to assess the overall progress on implementing government health policy.\n•\tCoordinated and planned two M&E training workshops in collaboration with an international M&E expert that were delivered to National Planning Commission and Lagos state M&E staff that required extensive consultation to ensure consistency with overall government M&E strategies.

  National Program Manager/Team Leader - Independent Monitoring and Evaluation Project (IMEP)

  Ecorys UK

  Dhaka Cox's Bazar

  Designing monitoring and evaluation systems for the Rohingya response including advising on the design of M&E Logframes as well as facilitating and drafting a Theory of Change as part of the Rohingya response.

  Monitoring And Evaluation Adviser

  UK Aid Direct

  Kigali

  Rwanda

  •\tDeveloped institutional performance indicators and advised on how to improve existing donor M&E frameworks to build the capacity of the National Statistical System.\n•\tDeveloped relationships with Government of Rwanda and donor representatives leading to the establishment of committees with representation by donors such as the World Bank and the USAID

  Ministry representatives

  and the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) focused on achieving statistical coordination in key sectors such as agriculture and education.\n•\tCoordinated technical missions to build statistical capacity from African Development Bank headquarters and provided technical support

  including statistical analysis and report writing

  to those missions.\n•\tProvided technical advice for the NISR ensuring high quality services are delivered by consulting teams specific to developing statistical institutional capacity.

  In-Country Statistician

  African Development Bank

  Kano

  Nigeria

  •\tResponsible for designing a MRM Manual and Value for Money strategy for a youth skills training project (Mafita) for the United Kingdom Department for International Development.

  Senior Monitoring Results Measurement Advisor

  Adam Smith International

  English

  Krio

  Recipient of the Dalhousie Graduate Fellowship

  Dalhousie University