Monitoring and evaluation should be a helpful tool for conservation practioners. This is why all my M&E programmes and frameworks are designed with the project staff and existing project/protected area activities in mind. This ensures maximum effectiveness with minimum added burden on resources.

Experienced in designing, implementing and preparing donor funded projects for evaluation, including  EU, KfW, GEF and DFID grants. I have working knowledge in a variety of M&E tools such as theory of change, result chains, result based management and METT. I can carry out mid-term and terminal project evaluations with a genuine understanding of implementation challenges on the ground and how to ensure that despite these, conservation outcomes will still be achieved.

Adaptive management/Knowledge Management is a core ethos of all my practical conservation work. As such designing and building in-country capacity for user-friendly, management relevant and sustainable databases and feedback mechanisms is a critical part of my M&E work. Appropriate feedback mechanisms are crucial for organisations and stakeholders to retain institutional knowledge, so that information can be used and understood by all, in order to achieve effective decision making, planning and participation.