Joanna Arulraj

International development professional with over 15 years of leadership, management and technical advisory experience in humanitarian, governance, peace and development programming in the South Asia, South-East Asia and East Africa regions. Worked with major donors including USAID, DFID, UN Agencies, BMGF among others, and multi donor and multi partner consortiums. A strong focus on programme strategy, quality, impact, and learning. Effective leadership and coordination skills demonstrated through consistently producing and implementing strategic systems and procedures over widely varied programmatic departments. Excellent training and hands-on capacity building and facilitation skills. Strength and passion in building standardized and automated systems and processes for institutionalization with linkages to operational efficiency and knowledge management. Driven to produce precise data and information to enable evidence-based decision making. Effective organizational, planning, coordination and communication skills; adaptable, reliable, with a quick learning curve and willing to take up responsibilities and challenges in relation to making M&E processes more effective and efficient. A belief in the most practical solutions for programmes to enable institutionalized learning through M&E/MEAL which is the key to effective programming.