Keri Culver

Keri Culver is an Independent Evaluator and evaluation educator. She has evaluated in many sectors: private sector and trade; local governance; rural and urban livelihoods; education and youth; rule of law; security sector reform; policy reform; food security; and social safety nets. Gender has been a focus across these sectors. Ms. Culver has led multidisciplinary teams in 30 countries worldwide for DfID, USAID, UNICEF, USDA, NGOs, and MCC. She was Team Lead for a four-stage evaluation of $550m in multi-donor trade facilitation, women economic empowerment and poverty reduction programming in East Africa, and evaluating public-private sector use of "Big Data" for development. Previously Ms. Culver was Evaluation Manager for a contract with USAID/Colombia managing multi-sector surveys, data analysis and reporting across the Mission portfolio: victims' restitution, rural and urban livelihoods, land mine victim support, Afro-Colombian and indigenous programming, policy evaluation, and participatory evaluation with women Afro-Colombian leaders. Her experience extends to MEL planning, logframe and theory of change development, planning for adaptive management, and workshopping strategy and theory of change. She has taught evaluation at graduate level in Jordan, Pakistan and Colombia: design, data collection, ethics, analysis, reporting, and inclusion, with classroom and practical methods, and in both English and Spanish. Ms. Culver is adept in a range of methods, from quasi-experimental designs to evaluate Afghan traditional justice interventions and Pakistan's security sector; an impact evaluation (RCT) of social cash transfers in Zambia; and mixed-methods evaluations such as of decentralization (Tunisia).