Academics and NGOs open mic night
‘Evaluating programmes in international development’
18 December 2013, 5.30 – 7.30 pm
SOAS Brunei Suite
Flash talks
1. Andrea Deri (Academic)
Birkbeck
Informal evaluation of international development programmes on integrating local/ traditional
knowledge into climate change adaptation
2. Bet Caeyers and Simone Lombardini (NGO)
Oxfam GB
Joining forces to make research and evaluation both rigorous and relevant for the design of quality
programmes
3. Chris Grundy (Academic)
LSHTM
GIS doesn't need to be complicated to be useful
4. Andrew Clenaghan (NGO)
Practical Action
Being Beautiful Beyond 2015
5. Jayne Webster (Academic)
LSHTM
LSHTM Centre for Evaluation
6. Polly Compston (NGO)
The Brooke
Measuring the impact of animal welfare interventions in developing countries
7. Leslie Moreland (NGO)
LSHTM/ WaterAid
Challenges of creating baseline and monitoring frameworks to enable a robust evaluation
8. Ivan Kent (NGO)
HelpAge International
The forgotten generation? Development outcomes for older people – an emerging priority for the
post-MDG agenda
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9. Adam Groves, Julia Oertli (NGO)
BOND
Matchmaking for academics and practitioners
10. Ashleigh Brown (NGO)
Open Equal Free
'Spread the Word
11. Laura Rana and Annie Barber (NGO)
Youth Business International
YBI’s evolving learning agenda
12. Elliott Friedlander (Academic/ NGOs)
Stanford School of Education and Save the Children
Life-Wide Learning and Literacy Boost
13. Matthew Bullard (NGO)
Africa Educational Trust
Introducing Africa Educational Trust
14. Kate Newman (NGO)
Christian Aid
NGO-academic partnerships
15. Targol Jahanbakhsh (NGO)
Rene Cassin
Immigration toolkit
16. Justin Parkhurst (Academic)
LSHTM
Getting research into policy and out of practice
17. Morten Skovdal
Save the Children
When development practitioners use qualitative methods: How methodological do they need to be
18. Rachel Hayman (NGO)
INTRAC
NGO training and research centres
19. Hugh Bagnall-Oakley
Save the Children
Monitoring and evaluation in advocacy
20. Alexis le Nestour
Save the Children
21. Roy Carr-Hill
Institute of Education
2
22. Andrew Dorward
SOAS, University of London
23. Tejendra Pherali
Institute of Education
24. Richard Ewbank
Christian Aid
3
Matchmaking board
NGOs
First name Last name Position, Organisation
Hugh
Senior Hunger Policy
Adviser, Save the
Bagnall-O. Children
Matthew
Bullard
Polly
Research Adviser, the
Campstan Broche
Email
Offering
Have country offices in 120
different countries
On the ground network and
expertise in nutrition, disaster
reduction
Good relationship with
communities
[email protected] Forward looking organisation
Africa Educational Trust [email protected]
[email protected]
Effectiveness
Coordinator, Action Aid
Francesca D'Emidio International
[email protected]
Elliot
Save the Children, Sr.
Specialist Education
FriedlanderResearch
Rachel
Hayman
Targol
Consultant, Asylum and
Jahanbakhsh
Detention Project
[email protected]
Alessio
Programme Assistant,
Kolioulis Stars Foundation
Alexis
Economics Advisor Save
Le Nestoorthe Children
[email protected]
Head of Research,
INTRAC
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Looking for
Interesting practical ideas,
backed by evidence, that
reduces stunting and
improves nutrition
Monitoring and evaluation improving advocacy
effectiveness in developing
countries
Interest in continuing
relationship through
lifetime of projects from
Access to education programmes research/appraisal to
and professionals in Somalia,
impact assessment,
South Sudan, Uganda and Kenya especially lasting impacts.
Hub for experience buildig
In country networks, data, holistic and sharing, technical
approach to livelihoods, building assistance with data
capacity in country
management and analysis
Evidence and experience of 93
How can we use the value
offices worldwide
for money agenda to
Participation and community
analyse and learn about
involvement in programmes
development approaches
Data sets ripe for extensive
analysis
Academic partnerships for
evaluation
Super fellowships for graduate
students
Partners of large-scale
evaluations which require
Our organisation has 20+ years
an academic lead
working to strengthen civil
society organizations around the Partners of research into
world. We publish a wide range practical ways small and
of publications, work with civil
medium NGOs can bring
society networks and carry out
more rigour into
joint research with academics.
evaluations and use of
M&E is a major part of our work. evidence
Excellent research skills
Legal background
Extensive case work experience Research/Research
and charity/NGO sector
Assistant positions
experience
Project Assistant and
Polyligual
Project Management
24 impact awards of $100 000
unrestricted funds to local NGOs
in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Middle
East, Latin America in areas of
Protection, Wash,
Provide applications from
Health,Education
the best local NGOs
Expertise in economic
Access to data on projects in
evaluation to strengthen
developing countries
our capacity in
Access to data on evaluation
demonstrating our value
We have the willingness to
for money (see Frances, 4
publish high quality evaluations above
NGOs (cont.)
First name Last name Position, Organisation
Kate
David
Michelle
Email
Offering
Looking for
I am bringing together a group of NGO staff and academics to
explore the 'mechanics of participation' with academic-NGO
partnerships. We are interested in how the institutional
expectations, research literacies, and the focus of the
partnership (i.e the research tools, processes etc) influence
participation, who participates, when and how, who's
knowledge counts and what types of evidence is generated
Head of Strategy
through the partnership and the power dynamics involved.
Implementation,
Please email me if you are interested in sharing a case study of
Newman Christian Aid
[email protected]
your experience of such partnerships
A centre for research in the
Ashanti Region in Ghana.
A very interesting study area,
consisting of isolated villages
offering self-contained areas for
study, inhabited by communities
descending from refugees from A link to academia, help to
Director, Ashanti
tribal wars of the 15th/16th
develop academic
Penny
Development
[email protected] centuries and later
backbone
Community Health Nurse with a Opportunities to bring
Ma s ters s tudent LSHTM,
focus on rural community health , nursing education into rural
Nurs e Educa tor wi th mi d
primary health care in slums and areas to improve
Indi a Boa rd of Educa tors ,
disadvantaged groups,
education, encourage
Chri s tia n Medi ca l
particularly tribal groups. I can
nurses to work in these
As s oci a tion of Indi a ,
Advi s or to the Progra mme
offer opportunities to improve
areas in primary health care
Coordi na tor i n the Rura l
the educators and primary health and to support primary
Communi ty Hea l th Network
care nursing services in rural
health care systems in rural
wi th the Centra l Regi ona l
community
health
and
slum
and slum areas which lack
Boa rd of Hea l th Servi ces
community health settings
capacity.
Verwey Church of North Indi a
[email protected]
Academics
First name
Last namePosition, Organisation
Email
Offering
Excellence of mixed methods
research with a Chinese NGO into
HIV risk behaviours in a
marginalized community
Looking for
Opportunities to design projects,
collect data, analyse data in
Paul
Bouanchaud Fellow, LSE
[email protected]
health behavioural research
Planning to evaluate
effectiveness of outsourcing
Designing Operational Research
malaria elimination activities to
Projects focused on elimination of NGOs in few countries
Chandramalaria and health systems
embarking on malaria
Daniel
mohan
LSHTM
[email protected] strengthening
elimination
Developing low cost but rigorous
Supervise PhD students to
Lecturer Global
enough methods of evaluation for develop these methods, who
Health
NGO projects and programmes that might be embedded in NGOs and
Epidemiology
are linked to existing evidence in
work closely with ME people to
and Evaluation,
that area and other areas but that
test ideas on some of your
Timothy Colbourn
UCL
are also based on indicators that are programmes
Post. Doc
Field Assistant, networking,
Research
development PRA appraisal,
Associate,
Development collaboration and
local support and conference and
Debojyoti Das
Birkbeck
[email protected]
academic engagement
workshop organization
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Academics (cont.)
First name
Last namePosition, Organisation
Email
[email protected]
[email protected]
Would like to meet NGOs with an
interest building the capacity of
governments and to build locally
accountable and representative
institutions which utilize
evidence to inform policy (while
preseriving systems of good
governance and accountability)
De Menil
PhD student, LSE [email protected]
Andrea
Deri
Andrew
Dorward
Fiorella
Picchioni
Judith
Glynn
Birkbeck
Profs,
Development
Economics,
SOAS
Prof. of
infectious
disease
epidemiology,
Chris
Grundy
Lecturer in GIS,
LSHTM
Kent
Sr. Lecturer in
Environment
and
Development
Canterbury
Christ Church
University
Moran
MSc Devpt
Studies,
Birkbeck
Noemi
Justin
Parkhurst
Senior Lecturer
LSHTM
Looking for
Mixed methods research, including
economics (cost effectiveness
analysis) focused on private sector
healthcare in Africa. Recent research
focus has been on healthcare in Kenya Collaboration
Forum/intellectual dialogue on
Knowledge on climate change,
exploring ways local knowledge
traditional/local, ecological
can be integrated into climate
knowledge and development low
change adaptation and
lying Islands of Indian Ocean
development
Interest in food testing and food price Collaboration support in field
indicators as a meaure of food security work; Opportunities to work
and impact of food price changes on
together in design, conduct and
food insecurity
analysis of food price indicator
Projects that try to keep children
in school that need formal
Interest in intervention for keeping
evaluation, preferably to discuss
children in school
at the planning stage
New areas, fields where GIS has
not been used, or felt not to be
Capacity building in GIS/mapping,
useful.
expertise on how GIS can be used in
Projects around testing new
each aspect of work from fundraising methodologies in surveys and/or
to communication , surveys, field
novel way of collecting social
work, analysis, M&E
data using maps.
Opportunities to explore the
links between livelihood
strategies-environmentwellbeing
Experience in exploring role of natural Opportunities to to apply a
assets in livelihood strategies (impact framework for understanding the
of environmental change)
roles of natural assets in
Experience of qualitative research of livelihoods (output of ESPA
farmer adoption decisions (landuse, project)
env. Change)
Opportunities to explore role of
GIS/mapping in evaluation
Rsearch skills haven worked as
Research Assistant at University,
fieldwork experience working for
academic projects in Ethiopia and
Tanzania, language skills (English,
Work experience in
Spanish), previous experience in
development,
culture and heritage conservation
research/fieldwork assistant
projects
experience
Victoria
Rebecca
Offering
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Knowledge of evidence to policy
processes and research uptake
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Academics (cont.)
First name
Thomas
Elaine
Jayne
Felicity
Last namePosition, Organisation
Research
Assistant,
freelance
consultant, Uni
Salmon
of Sussex
Professor of
Education and
International
Unterhalter Development,
Email
Offering
Expertise in impact assessment (e.g ex
post evaluation of teacher
development programs). Knowledge
management and sharing
research/evaluations using open
standards, data platforms, wikis and
open journals/research communities
Education research on teacher quality
and developments, assessment and
policy, systems governance and
workforce management
(decentralization, financing,
[email protected]
Webster
Deputy Director,
Centre for
Evaluation,
LSHTM
Visitor Liaison [email protected]
Williamson
One-2-one
Cambodia
(medical
programs;
Dental
programs;
Experience of working on gender and
developing research and evaluation in
relation to on and with schools
Opportunities for discussing
methodological issues (workshops,
seminars) with academics to expore
topical methodological
Potential for evaluation partnerships
in the field of health
MSc project on current pre-departure
preperation/programs for those doing
medical or dental work. Collaboration
in Cambodia, experience with liaising
with volunteers , pre and post
[email protected] departure in the field
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Looking for
Collaboration in research or
projects
Interests in topics withi ICT4D
and education/open data, linked
data, open badges)
Possibilities of collaboration
links for MA students
Current research questions
across public health disciplines
Sharing of evaluation design and
conduct interested/working
issues
Anyone
on
predeparture training/standards
for short term medical
missions/dental, electives.
Anyone involved with academics
behind briefing and debriefing
from work in developing