Evaluation in Development

Svetlana is a monitoring and evaluation, learning and gender expert with over 15 years of experience incorporating gender and equity focus, underlined by my feminist principles, into evaluations, and monitoring activities. Her M&E assignments have been from the range of funders, and sectors, with a strong focus on gender, social inclusion, climate change, environment and health. She is currently s Principal Evaluation Officer at the independent evaluation office of the African Development Bank, where she finished evaluation of Gender Mainstearming and is working on Evaluation of Civil Society Engagement at the AfDB.

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Kassem is an independent program evaluator. He is a founding member of EvalMENA and the Lebanese Evaluation Society.
Kassem is currently vice-Chairing the EVALSDGs network. He has contributed to many publications on evaluation of the Agenda 2030 and was on the organizing committees of many of EvalMENA Evaluation Conferences over the last 5 years.

A seasoned consultant practicing for over 15 years, Rania Fazah started and is a managing partner at Elephas Consultants Inc. Rania works primarily in conflict and fragile contexts, she led several evaluations and capacity development assessments for UN agencies, USAID, Canadian agencies, governmental agencies and European agencies. Between 2016 and 2018 Rania lead efforts on supporting International Development Resource Centre in designing, assessment, monitoring and performance measurement of research grants in Egypt (3), Lebanon (2) and Tunisia (2) under the Employment & Growth portfolio implemented in the MENA region focusing on youth and women economic empowerment. In the period between 2015 and 2017 was involved in designing, monitoring and evaluating interventions around women’s leadership in countering violent extremism under the framework of Women, Peace, and Security resolution in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kenya, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, and Tunisia. Prior to that, Ms. Fazah was the Middle East Representative and Researcher for the London-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre focusing on corporate compliance with human rights. She served as the Regional Program Officer for IKV Pax Christi, a Dutch-based peace organization, where she was responsible for co-managing the Middle East Program in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Prior to that Ms. Fazah acted as Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator for Naseej the Community Youth Development Program at Save the Children guiding the overall monitoring and evaluation of youth development projects and activities in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, West Bank and Gaza, and Yemen.