Daniela Rink (She / Her)

Independent Consultant, regional economic development (RED), private sector engagement (PSE), and M&E at Daniela Rink, Rink-Consult

Master's DegreePhilipps-Universität Marburg

Germany

Summary

Daniela Rink has a passion for innovation in regional economic & private sector development. She is an experienced M&E and learning and institutional capacity advisor for collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA). She has 23 years experience, is independent consultant and works in assignments with EU, World Bank, UNDP, GIZ, USAID, DFAT, DANIDA, Millennium Challenge Corporation, and private sector consulting companies. Clients work with her for support in: • A private sector landscape assessment (PSLA) for USAID/Indonesia's private sector engagement under the new USAID PSE policy • Mapping of innovation and market systems (mapping of national innovation eco-system to streamline SME support for a national innovation and technology fund; stakeholder engagement perception survey for DFAT funded market systems development programme AIP-Rural, including PRISMA) • Improving the business enabling environment (BEE) (streamlining of investment processes under USAID SAIL; assessment of starting a business, paying taxes, employing workers/ TVET under USAID AgCLIR) • Monitoring & evaluation (M&E), collaborating, learning & adapting (CLA) (outcome assessment of USAID FinGAP pay-for-performance (P4P) grants for financial institutions for value chain financing; meta-analysis of 72 evaluations of 5-year portfolio of a World Bank Global Practice; MCC roads project evaluation; CLA lead for USAID/Nigeria's MEL Support Activity) • Balanced scorecard process (Norton & Kaplan) (for regional economic competitiveness in Myanmar for GIZ; for sector projects within a national poverty reduction strategy in Liberia for WB and UNDP) • Ideation, design of value propositions & business models (for new products for the bio-economy, TVET) • Starting technology business incubators in Germany, Slovakia, Thailand and Vietnam • Design & implementation of innovation strategies (at regional & sector-levels) • Building capacities to acquire funding for research, competitiveness, innovation, regional development She has worked in: Europe (Germany, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., Georgia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine); West-Africa (Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria) & South-/South-East Asia (Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam).

Experience

  • development
  • research & development
  • international development
  • project support
  • monitoring / evaluation
  • united states
  • germany
  • nigeria
  • thailand
  • indonesia
  • Sectors
  • Funders
  • Countries

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