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1 Triple Line Consulting Website: Telephone: +44 (0) Shoa Asfaha Position Senior Consultant Shoa is a social development, gender, food security and forest governance specialist with more than twenty years experience in international development advising voluntary sector organisations, research institutions, governments, UN institutions and donor community. She has a wide experience in monitoring and evaluation, socio-economic studies, mid-term reviews, assessments of challenge fund projects, gender and forest governance issues. She has worked in a wide range of contexts, including fragile and post-conflict states and Congo Basin Profile region. She serves as Board or Committee Member in several Civil Society Organisations and as a Women and Girls Programme Advisor to Comic Relief. Having worked at project implementation as well as programme and strategic levels with a cross section of organisations in different environments, she understands the challenges and complexity of development and expectations of multiple stakeholders and institutions. Prior to joining Triple Line, she worked as freelance with a number of organisations, and on a long-term basis with CARE International. Shoa has strong analytical and planning skills. Monitoring & Evaluation, Mid Term Reviews & Field Research Methodologies: Detailed knowledge of monitoring and evaluation methodologies and tools, and practical experience in evaluations of projects and programmes, in setting up monitoring systems, and qualitative and quantitative methods. Key Skills Socio-economic, Governance and Gender Analysis: Conducting feasibility studies, food and livelihoods security assessments, forest governance & gender analysis. Grant Screening and Performance Assessment: Detailed knowledge of assessment of challenge fund projects implemented globally. English (fluent) French (fluent) Nationality British Languages Tigrinya (native) Amharic (fluent) Italian (Basic) PhD. honors in Social Sciences (Economic Geography), EHESS, Paris, 1988 M.Sc. Agricultural Economics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Qualifications Paris, 1980 BSc. Political Economy, University VIII Paris, 1978 Africa: Tanzania, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Cameroon, Congo, D.R. Congo, Eritrea, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Gabon, Central African Republic, Sierra Country Leone, Mozambique, Zambia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Chad, Sudan. Experience Americas: Canada, USA. Europe:, France, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium. Asia: Bangladesh, India. Access 4, Anti Slavery Int l, CAMFED Int l, CAFOD, CARE USA, CARE UK, CARE Canada, CARE Ghana, Caritas Italiana, CCFD, Christian Aid, Comic Relief, Common Fund For Commodities (UN), DFID, FERN, GIBB Ltd Engineering Clients Company, International Development Enterprise, International Development Research Centre, ODG (University of East Anglia), OXFAM, Princess Diana Memorial Fund, RAAD, Rainforest Foundation, SOS Kinderdorf Int l, SOS Sahel, The Big Lottery, USAID, World Intellectual Property Organization (UN) 1

2 Employment History 2010-present Senior Consultant at Triple Line Consulting Independent Consultant - Africa, Bangladesh, Austria, France, UK CARE International UK Programme Policy Advisor CARE International UK- East & Southern Africa Regional Manager CARE International USA - Project Manager and Sub-office Manager CARE International USA - Agricultural Economist Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, Ghana - Principal Research Assistant. Selected Experience Maanda Women and Girls Programme, Comic Relief, Africa, M & E and Gender Specialist The main focus of work is: i) support Comic Relief design an overarching Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework for Maanda, and ii) support grantees/applicants to design their MELs and identify their capacity needs related to MEL. Shoa s role is to lead on the Results Framework for the Maanda programme and provide quality assurance, peer review and manage the team contractually and client relationship. She also provides technical inputs on the empowerment framework on women and girls across all areas of work (health, education, VAWG, leadership and Trade) as well as backstop the support provided by other team members to grantees/ applicants. Core FGMC Review Team, ITAD, Team member Partnership between ITAD and TL to monitor the implementation of DFID Forest Governance, Markets and Climate (FGMC) Programme. The FGMC Review Team responsibility is to ensure that FGMC activities are on track relative to the milestones set out in the programme logical framework and are contributing effectively to the Outputs and the Outcome. This will involve project and country visits and writing country visit reports and contributing to annual and semi-annual reports, and reviewing theory of change and logframe, etc. Forest Governance Campaign programme, FERN, Africa/Asia, Independent Monitor, Team Leader The main focus of work is to: i) support FERN to have a monitoring framework/process, including revision of logframe in line with DFID FGMC, refining the FGC theory of change and results chain, ii) develop tools useful for tracking progress and changes, and build the M & E capacities of FERN, and iii) undertake annual assessments, and support FERN to distil learning 2012 Global Poverty Action Fund, DFID, Core Team Evaluator & Quality 2010-present Assurance Responsible for grant screening and appraisal of applications, quality assurance and training of assessors present Civil Society Challenge Fund, DFID, Core Team Evaluator & Quality Assurance Responsible for grant screening and appraisal of applications, and performance assessment of reports and evaluations of UK and South Civil Society groups on a range of capacity building and advocacy issues and quality assurance. Since 2012, active management/monitoring of some CSCF projects and collating learning through project visits (Ethiopia and India) 2011 Participatory Community Mapping, Rainforest Foundation, Evaluator Congo Basin Region End of programme evaluation of the Participatory Community Mapping project in the Congo Basin (Gabon, Congo & Central African Republic) this included field visits and consultations with indigenous and local forest communities and interviewing ministries, national park authorities and organisations in charge of 2

3 forest and natural resources management plans & CSOs (forest governance/ rights) Governance and Transparency Fund, DFID, Programme Advisor Responsible for performance assessment of projects. Providing advice on reporting and M&E guidelines to grant-holders to measure change and impact from proposed governance interventions Common Funds for Commodities (UN), Evaluator Global, Tanzania Mid term Review of the Five Year Action Plan this included portfolio analysis of agricultural projects, stakeholder consultations and site visits (2 case studies) in Tanzania Additional Support to Civil Society, DFID, Quality Assurance Responsible for screening proposals for funding and quality assurance of assessors work Development Awareness Fund, DFID, Core Team Evaluator & Quality Assurance Responsible for grant screening and appraisal of concept notes and applications, performance assessment of reports and evaluations. Quality assurance and training of assessors. Monitoring and Evaluation, World Intellectual Property Organization, 2009 Evaluation Guidelines Consultant Helping WIPO to prepare their evaluation guidelines based on best practice, and the survey findings Women Rights and Citizenship Programme, IDRC, Team Member Global Review of Women Rights and Citizenship Programme- looked at the progress made in the three programme objectives: research quality, capacity building and policy influence and made recommendations. This involved travelling to W. Africa and desk based research Private Sector Development, Africa Challenge Fund, Team Evaluator Africa Screening applications & assessment business plans for a $100mn fund to support systemic change and pro-poor development with private sector enterprises in Africa Annual reviews, Anti Slavery Int l, Evaluator, Team Evaluator Mali & Mauritania Annual reviews of the programme which challenges descent based slavery in West Africa. The review looked at advocacy outcomes and capacity building, such as, i) legal reform to criminalise slavery, ii) national dialogue leading to the establishment of observatory/body & National Action Plan, iii) strengthening of CSOs Governance and Fragile States, Rainforest Foundation, Evaluator Cameroon Evaluation of a project which aims to improve access to civil rights and the use of forest law by forest communities through raising awareness of entitlements & rights and advocacy Governance and Human Rights, Rainforest Foundation, Facilitator/Assessor Congo 2006 D.R. Congo Evaluation of the work undertaken by OCDH pour le Droit de l Homme, on promoting and protecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples through elaboration of a specific law. Forest governance and civil society engagement, Rainforest Foundation, Facilitator/Assessor Evaluation of the work on forest governance and civil society engagement in national decision making and on the establishment of local mechanisms and precedents for the achievement of basic civil and land tenure rights by forest communities M & E Framework, SOS Kinderdorf Int l, Monitoring Expert Global Set up M & E Framework for SOS Family Strengthening Programme & Planning Impact Evaluation. 3

4 Impact Assessment of a project on Women s Health, CAFOD & Caritas Italiana, Evaluation Expert Eritrea Impact Assessment of a project on Women s Health and Micro Finance as well the HIV/AIDS programme. This involved training of stakeholders on impact assessment methodology and data collection tools. Programme, Financial and Organisational Review of Women Organisation, Access 4, Team leader 2004 Programme, Financial and Organisational Review of Women Organisation and Uganda the impact of their programme on women s livelihoods and their capacity to manage and sustain their organisation Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, Global External Grants Assessor Global Grant assessment for applications within Rehabilitation Programme Comic Relief, External Programme Appraiser Global Grant assessment for applications for International Grants Programme and Africa Programme, as well as desk grants review on Children and Young people Education & Capacity Building Programme, CAMFED International, Evaluator Global Strategic evaluation of a 10 year Education & Capacity Building Programme for girls and women Grant assessment for civil society applications, Comic Relief, Grants Assessor Africa & Grant assessment for civil society applications within People Affected by Global Conflict, Women and Girls, Children and Young People programmes Assessment of Grants, Comic Relief, Reviewer Global Assessment of Grants and the issues surrounding Poor Urban Children at Risk, with emphasis on Street Children in Africa, with an objective to inform the donor the impact the grants have made on the lives of poor urban children at risk (PUCR) and identify best practices ODG University of East Anglia, CARE Int l - Stakeholder Analysis Consultant Ghana In addition training of staff on how to undertake stakeholder analysis Design of monitoring and evaluation plan, CARE Int l & DANIDA, Team Leader Ghana Design of M&E plan and baseline survey for the joint forest management project. Training of staff on monitoring and evaluation methodologies and tools Emergency needs assessment, CARE Int l USA. Team member Eritrea For internally displaced populations in Eritrea due to the war, with special focus on the needs of women and children in areas of health and food. Grant assessment for civil society applications, The Big Lottery, External Grants Assessor Global Grant assessment for civil society applications in sustainable resource management, livelihood security, and primary health care/watsan Projects Monitoring and Evaluation, Christian Aid, Team Leader Sierra Leone Evaluation of a Relief and Rehabilitation agricultural and community infrastructure programme. Management Plan for the Riverine Forests, SOS Sahel UK & Ministry of 1999 Agriculture, Facilitator Eritrea Workshop- Presentation of the Management Plan for the Riverine Forests. The objective of the Management Plan is to ensure that forests continue to provide resources essential for the livelihoods of the populations in the region Feasibility Study, GIBB Ltd Engineering, Socio-economist /Team Member Bangladesh Emergency needs assessment for internally displaced populations in Eritrea due to the war, with special focus on the needs of women and children in areas of health and food. Socio-economic assessment, SOS Sahel UK & Ministry of Agriculture, Consultant Eritrea Socio-economic assessment on the role of the riverine forests on people s livelihoods. The study fed into the Management Plan for the riverine forests. 4

5 1998 CARE Canada and Care USA - Team leader and coordinator D.R Congo Rapid food and livelihood security assessment in S. Kivu Aid Effectiveness / Programme development, CARE Int l UK, Programme Policy Adviser based in the UK Global Played key role in refocusing its interventions (sectoral & geographic) and in identifying an enhanced role of the organisation in fulfilling its mission of reducing poverty Aid Effectiveness / Programme development, CARE Int l UK, Regional Manager Based in the UK East & Southern Africa Development of the programme portfolio, supporting COs in their strategic planning and project design, fundraising, and contract management etc. Rice irrigation and marketing project, CARE Int l USA, Project and sub-office Manager Chad Managed a rice irrigation and marketing project funded by USAID and also managing the CARE sub-office in the region. Agricultural Development, Policy and Research, CARE Int l USA) Agricultural Economist Chad Provision of technical support and training in agricultural marketing and in revolving funds for agricultural inputs & team leader in 3 studies: evaluation of the onion storage credit activity, economic viability of small scale irrigation & socio economic activities of farmers Social Development, CCFD, Socio-economist Sudan Socio economic study on refugees settled in reception centres and temporary camps in Eastern Sudan Social Development, OXFAM, Researcher Sudan Ghana Publications Field based research on the economic viability of the refugee land/agricultural settlements in the Sudan, and this involved extensive field research in 23 land/wage earning settlements. Agricultural Development, Policy and Research, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, Principal Research Assistant Evaluated the impact of large-scale land acquisition on the availability of suitable land for small-scale farmers/cocoa producers 2010 WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP - the IDRC Digital Library... idl-bnc.idrc.ca/dspace/bitstream/10625/4 pdf by Janet Mancini Billson, PhD, Shoa Asfaha, PhD, and Ranjita Mohanty, PhD. Survey administration and analysis. Megan Mullins, PhD STRENTHENING THE RIGHTS OF PYGMY PEOPLE IN CAMEROON, REPUBLIC OF CONGO, AND THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Evaluation by Dr Shoa Asfaha - funded by Baring Foundation, Book review of In Search of Cool Ground, edited by Tim Allen and published by UNRISD, James Currey & Africa World Press, in ORSTOM s Special Edition Autrepart: Les Communautés déracinées dans les pays du Sud, Cahiers des sciences humaines, Nouvelle série numéro 5, February 1998, Paris, France 1994 Critical Analysis of the Sudanese Government's Refugee Assistance Policy : the Case of Eritrean Refugees Living in Formal Settlements (in French) (Joint article with Dr Véronique Lassailly-Jacob - researcher at CNRS, Paris) in Refuge, Canada's periodical on refugees - Special issue on the Horn of Africa, April, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University - Ontario Canada 5

6 1992 Refugees' Habitat in the Sudan: the Agricultural Land Settlements (in French). in Espace Géographique, publication edited with the support of 'Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique' (CNRS),'Tome XXI, no4 1992, doin editeurs Paris 1988 Geographical Contribution to the Study on Refugee Assistance Policy : from Eritrea to the Sudan (Ph.D. Thesis dissertation unpublished and in Frenchhonors) - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. This study involved extensive field research - (547 pages) The Role of Small Scale Agriculture in the Ghanaian Economy (in French). EHESS, (DEA thesis dissertation unpublished) Paris (78 pages) 1980 Agrarian Structures and Rural Development in Eritrea (in French) EHESS, (MSc thesis dissertation unpublished) Paris (120 pages) Other relevant information Membership of professional bodies: Comic Relief - Programme Advisor on Women and Girls Programme - Mentor for Strategic Grants to date International Development Enterprise IDE - Member of the Board of Trustees IDE UK - Member of the Programme Committee of IDE International Board, 2004 to-date CARE International UK - Member of the Programme Committee of the Board African Foundation for Development AFFORD, UK - Vice Chair of the Organisation - Chair of Programme and Fund-raising Committee, Association pour la Formation/Réinsertion des Africains Migrants AFRAM, Paris France - Founder Member & Member of the Board of Trustees, Other skills: (e.g. Computer literacy, etc.) Spread sheets, Word processing, Power point and Graphics 6

Funding Single Initiatives. AfDB. Tapio Naula at International Single Window Conference Antananarivo 17 September 2013

Funding Single Initiatives. AfDB. Tapio Naula at International Single Window Conference Antananarivo 17 September 2013 Funding Single Initiatives African Development Bank Group AfDB Tapio Naula at International Single Window Conference Antananarivo 17 September 2013 AfDB Member Countries African Regional Member Countries