Senior Consultant to Sthlm Policy Group, a value-driven consultancy firm with practice areas in international policy analysis, conflict prevention, crisis management and conflict resolution, humanitarian assistance, post-conflict peacebuilding and transition to long-term sustainable development.
ILLUSTRATIVE ENGAGEMENTS:
- Independent evaluator for the Decenial Review of Hand in Hand Eastern Africa. The evaluation helped to better position the organisation to consider and navigate the political economy of underdevelopment, and to design improved systems for monitoring and evaluation of its ultimate impact.
- Independent evaluator for the Sustainable Bacarena Initiative, an attempt to build community voice and cohesion to address challenges of unjust power relations and institutional arrangements in one of the most violent industrial areas of Brazil.
- Chair of the Expert Panel for the evaluation of the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in post-crisis transition, strengthening linkages among emergency, rehabilitation and development
- Led mid-term evaluation in South Africa for the International Finance Corporation of the 2030 Water Resources Group hydro-economic analysis and multi-stakeholder platform operations and outcomes
- Team Leader for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign
Affair’s five-year review of its peace mediation strategies and programmes. The
evaluation focused on strategies for engagement, influence and impact with
internal and external stakeholders
- Led management section of the Independent Review of the
UNMIS / UNDP DDR program in Sudan. The review focused on program relevance,
efficiency and effectiveness in light of the evolving socio-political context,
with special reference to program governance, management and leadership
- Team Leader for the Decennial Review of Conciliation
Resources. The evaluation, with a particular focus on Sierra Leone and Georgia
/ Abkhazia, helped strengthen program design, monitoring and evaluation to
maximize cumulative peace building impact, considering in particular the
respective roles of donor organizations and CR in defining, pursuing, and
demonstrate value
- Co-led with Mary B. Anderson a review of the operations of
the Yadana Pipeline in Myanmar / Burma during a period of intense political
upheaval. This study assessed the interrelationships among corporate operations
and social conflict at the local and national levels
- Led the Balkans team for a multi-year study monitoring programs to reduce inter-communal violence and increase social acceptance of UNHCR refugee reintegration efforts in divided communities in Rwanda and Bosnia & Herzegovina