Elizabeth Germana

MEL team Lead @ NIRAS International Consulting

About

Strategic Impact Measurement / MEL Expert with 20+ Years of International Development Experience in Asia, Africa, Middle-East, and Latin America with a passion for strengthening Impact frameworks /MEL systems to support evidence-based interventions. I am skilled in using evidence from program design to scale up and in communicating program evidence to executive leadership teams and board members to support decision-making. I have a keen interest in promoting capacity building and learning as an integral component of Impact frameworks /MEL systems to enable adaptive programming. My experience includes designing and implementing large research and evaluation projects on time and within budget, working for a variety of bilateral and multilateral agencies such as the World Bank, the IDB, GIZ, GAC, EBRD, and FCDO (formerly DFID). I have a track record of effectively engaging and leading high-performing multi-disciplinary teams to deliver successful outcomes. And I bring to the table effective relationships with key contacts within the international development, education, and evaluation sectors.

Country

United Kingdom

City

London Area

Industry

Management Consulting

Skill

Social Impact, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Strategic Partnerships, Programme Design, Impact Evaluation, Social Impact Measurement, Strategic Leadership, Team Leadership, International Development, Policy Analysis, Program Evaluation, Public Policy, Stata, Research, Program Development, Program Management, Data Analysis, Strategy

Experience

MEL team Lead

NIRAS International Consulting

2023-4 - 2026-1 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Global Director, Monitoring Evaluation and Learning

Right To Play

2020-9 - 2023-4 · 2 yrs 8 mos

London, England, United Kingdom

Associate Director MEL

IMC Worldwide

2019-12 - 2020-9 · 10 mos

Principal Consultant, MEL

IMC Worldwide

2018-1 - 2019-12 · 2 yrs

- Team Leader of the Evaluation, Evidence and Learning Component (EELC) of Myanmar UK Partnership for Education (MUPE), 2019 – 2024, Myanmar, DFID - Team Leader of the Evaluation of the Strategic Approach to Girls Education (STAGE) Project, 2019 – 2022, Ghana, WEI/DFID's LNGB project - Technical Lead, Evaluation and Learning Activity: ‘Building an evidence base on how private sector investments support gender-sensitive, climate resilient development: Tajikistan case’, April 2018 – March 2019, Tajikistan/UK, EBRD

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Senior Manager - DFID's GEC project (consultant)

DFID's Girls' Education Challenge (GEC) Project - Ethiopia

2013-4 - 2018-2 · 4 yrs 11 mos

London, Reino Unido

DFID's Girls' Education Challenge (GEC) Project a £355m fund aimed at helping up to 1m marginalised girls in 18 countries overcome barriers to staying in school and learning. Countries : Afghanistan, DRC, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Impact Advisory Panel - Africa and Middle East

Stars Foundation

2014-6 - 2016-9 · 2 yrs 4 mos

London, Reino Unido

The Stars Impact Awards were launched in 2007 to support organizations achieving excellence in the provision of services to disadvantaged children and encourage the replication of effective approaches and practices. The Awards recognize one recipient in each category of Health, Education, Protection and WASH to provide unrestricted funding as well as consultancy support tailored to the needs of the recipients. A rigorous, multi stage assessment process is completed and the Panel review is one of the steps in this process.

Senior Evaluation Expert - independent consultant

Le Groupe-conseil baastel ltée

2011-8 - 2016-8 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Senior Education consultant

The World Bank

2011-12 - 2012-12 · 1 yr 1 mo

-Organized evidence to help create the PELA (Educational Programme for children´s learning outcomes) 2013-2016 Programme based on Ministry of Economy guidelines. -Coordinated workshops for this programme and prepared the final draft to recommend its diagnostics and design. -Prepared a report for the Ministry of Education to identify the activities need to be financed through the World Bank's Strategic Wide Approach Program.

Head of Monitoring and Evaluation: PEAR Programme (World Bank)

Projects Management Office

2006-1 - 2007-12 · 2 yrs

Perú

-Designed and implemented the monitoring and evaluation strategy: objectives, indicators, instruments and reports. -Produced quarterly, semester and annual Reports of the Annual Operational Plans and Program Indicators. -Produced the Final Project Evaluation Reports. -Supervised Base Line Studies and Results Evaluations. -Supported monitoring areas of the MoE's National Bureaus in conducting monitoring activities.

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

2001-3 - 2004-3 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Perú

Design of the new Education Programme Proposal: -Analysed policy processes. -Identified new strategies for further phases. -Identified new strategic stakeholders and counterparts. -Designed the negotiating process with policy leaders and practitioners at the state, regional and local level. Design and implementation of monitoring systems: -Developed and implemented the system of indicators. -Designed programme base-line. -Designed and implemented feedback information system for program stakeholders and counterparts.