Sandra Basgall

Senior M&E expert with 30+ years of experience in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas where worked on long term projects and as a consultant in the areas of Agriculture, Food Security, Democracy and Governance, Education, Gender and SGBV, Health, HIV/AIDS, OVC, PLWHIV, MicroFinance, Training, WASH, and Youth for a wide variety of donors including USAID, OFDA, PRM, World Bank, DFAT, ECHO, EC, DFID, CIDA, Sida, WFP, FFP, UNESCO, UNICEF and other UN organizations, Gates Foundation, Buffett Foundation, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and others. I have project experience working as the Chief of Party on the USAID/Iraq Performance Management and Support Program, M&E Manager of the USAID NEI Plus education project in Nigeria and the Feed the Future agricultural project in South Sudan. I was the Chief of Party in Bangladesh responsible for evaluating USAID projects in Democracy and Governance. I worked in Central Africa as the M&E and Gender Regional Technical Advisor for Catholic Relief Services for the country offices in Nigeria, Central African Republic, Chad, Cameroon, DR Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi. I have worked as a consultant for DevTech as the team leader for the mid-evaluation for the USAID/Nigeria Feed the Future Agricultural Policy Activity; and for Coffey International in Indonesia as an educational consultant on the Australian Awards scholarship graduate school scholarship program funded by DFAT. I had a consultancy with DAI in Afghanistan with an agricultural finance project funded by USAID. I was the team leader for the final evaluation of the education portion of Oxfam Great Britain Indigenous Leadership Project in Bangladesh which provided pre-primary and secondary bilingual education to the indigenous communities. I was the team leader for the final evaluation of the UNICEF Bangladesh’s Hard to Reach Urban Working Children Education project in Bangladesh which has a strong gender component. In Hanoi, Vietnam, I did baseline research on gender roles in the media, specifically television and print media, for UNESCO out of which was developed a literature and workshops to train government officials and media professionals about gender equality so as to work with the Ministry of Information to develop and creating gender equity in Vietnam. I headed up an evaluation on the International Rescue Committee ECHO-funded Income Generation project in the Northern Caucasus State of Chechnya in Russia which targeted returning refugees who fled during the two earlier wars. I earlier worked with BRAC in Bangladesh on agricultural, food security, gender equality, education, emergency capacity building, and micro credit programs. At the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, I work on the Jamaica-St. Lucia National Rural Migration Survey and Jamaican-Dominican Republic Integrated Rural Development Project for the Pan American Health Organization and the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute which resulted in one of the early studies looking nationally at the role of women agriculturalists economically and socially. I did a feasibility study in Burundi for a project in women’s rural farming and extension for USAID. I worked with the USAID-funded projects in Egypt, Yemen, and Nicaragua while at New Mexico State University where I was the Women in Development Compliance Officer. I have also engaged in a number of policy and M&E consultancies in South Korea and the United States.