Invited Talks and Presentations
February 2012. “Improving Health through Social Protection.” Presentation at the open symposium "Social protection interventions for TB control" lead by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Funded by Gates Foundation, UNDP, and WHO. London.
February 2012. “The Evaluation of Yekokeb Berhan.” Webinar to explain the study design, present study instruments and illicit stakeholder feedback. Open webinar for stakeholders at Pact Ethiopia, USAID Ethiopia and Headquarters, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, Orphans and Vulnerable Child Interagency Working Group, and the Office of Policy, Planning and Learning.
January 2012. “The Karnataka Cash Transfer.” Presented at the “Dissemination Meeting: India’s Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Generating Evidence for Policy and Practice.” Hosted by CGHD in Delhi India. Stakeholders from the Government of India, USAID India, USAID Washington, Karnataka Health Promotion Trust and others. *I prepared the presentation, which was delivered by Troy Cunningham of Engender Health.
December 2011 “Utilizing Evaluations to Improve Project Performance; and Partnering with external evaluators”. Women for Women International Conference for Hilton Humanitarian Prize Laureates. Washington.
October 2011 “Evaluation of the Child Status Index Tool: A Validation Study” part of larger session on "Evaluating OVC Programming: The Results of a 3 Year Applied Research Program" American Public Health Association. Washington DC.
August 2011 “Proposal for the Women for Women International Direct Aid Evaluation” presented to stakeholders at Women for Women International. Washington DC.
July 2011 “The Karnataka Cash Transfer.” Presentation distributed to stakeholders in the Government of Karnataka, the Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Engender Health, USAID India and Washington.
April 2011 “Social Protection for Africa: A defining force in the 21st century.” Presented at the CGHD Forum. Center for Global Health and Development. Boston, MA.
April 2011 “Monitoring and Evaluation of Programs and Policies to improve Child Health Globally.” Global Fellows Program. Hartford Children's Medical Center. Hartford CT.
June 2011 “Perceptions of Per Diems in the Health Sector: Evidence from Malawi and Uganda and Implications for Donors.” John Snow International (JSI). Cambridge, MA.
December 2010 Panelist for “The Hidden Epidemic: AIDS, Human Rights, and Vulnerable Populations” to commemorate World AIDS Day and Human Rights Day. Management Sciences for Health. Cambridge, MA.
December 2010 “Cash Transfers in Africa: Early evidence of poverty reduction and human capital development.” Harvard Africa Research Seminar. Weatherhead Center. Harvard University. Cambridge MA.
June 2010 “Yes they come. The economic impacts of the Malawi Cash Transfer.” BUSPH Department of International Health. Scientific Meeting. Boston MA.
March 2010 “The Economic Impact of the Mchinji Cash Transfer.” International Food Policy Research Institute. Washington DC.
June 2009 “Economic Evaluation of the Mchinji Cash Transfer”. Conference on “Using market-based approaches to respond to seasonal food insecurity in Malawi.” Lilongwe Malawi.
May 2009 “Evaluation of the Mchinji Cash Transfer.” World Bank, Washington DC.
February 2009 “Evaluation of the Mchinji Cash Transfer.” Technical Consultation on young women, cash transfers and HIV prevention. Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg, South Africa.
October 2008 “Behind the curtain: The operations evaluation of the Mchinji Cash Transfer.” BUSPH Department of International Health. Scientific Meeting. Boston MA.
January 2007 “$13 a month for half a year in Malawi”. Boston University School of Public Health Department of International Health. Scientific Meeting. Boston MA.
September 2007 “Examining Malawi’s Social Cash Transfer.” Center for International Health and Development, Boston University, Boston, MA.
November 2006 “Social Welfare Policies to support orphaned and vulnerable children in Africa.” UNICEF and The Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA), New School University. Children and Poverty:
April 2006 “The situation of orphans and households in Southern Africa: Moving the research forward.” Center for International Health and Development at Boston University.
High-level Stakeholder Meetings
February 2012 Expert consultation on Social Protection for Health lead by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and funded by Gates Foundation, UNDP, and WHO. Chatham House, London. (Invited)
November 2011 “Baseline Results: The wellbeing of OVC and their households in four districts of Mozambique.” Presented to the Ministry of Women and Social Action (MMAS) and other government stakeholders, USAID Mozambique, UNICEF Mozambique and other partners. Maputo. *Presentation delivered by Biemba and Reves, I developed of materials.
October 2011 Presented “Evaluation of USAID/Pact Program for Highly Vulnerable Children Yekokeb Berhan” to stakeholders at USAID at Pact Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.
October 2011 Presented “Evaluation Framework” and “Evaluation of Yekokeb Berhan” at large Ethiopia Stakeholder meeting including past implementers, UNICEF, USAID, and Pact Ethiopia, representatives from the Government of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa.
October 2011 Presented “Preliminary Findings from the Evaluation of the Liberian Social Cash Transfer” to Government of Liberia, UNICEF Liberia and the Liberian Institute of Geo-Information Services. Monrovia.
September 2011 “Evaluating the Liberian Social Cash Transfer Pilot.” Presentation to Government of Liberia, UNICEF Liberia and the Liberian Institute of Geo-Information Services. Monrovia.
April 2011 “Consultation of the CSI Usage”. Provided input to USAID Washington, Measure Evaluation based on the CSI evaluation study. Washington DC.
March 2010 Presented findings from the “Assessing the Child Status Index: A Validation Study in Malawi” to stakeholders from USAID and MEASURE Evaluation. Washington DC.
September 2009 Hosted the “Meeting on the Evaluation of Social Cash Transfer Schemes in Africa” in Washington DC. The meeting brought together evaluators, policymakers and representatives from international organizations in order to review existing cash transfer schemes and evaluations and begin the conversation on 1) how to improve the rigor of these evaluations and 2) better connect evaluation results to policymakers and donor agencies to assist in evidence-based decision-making on social protection policies. Meeting info online at http://childresearchpolicy.org/mchinjicashtransfer/evaluationmeeting.html
August 2008 Presented “Evaluation of the Mchinji Cash Transfer.” USAID Country Office, Lilongwe, Malawi.
August 2008 Presented “Final Results: The Impact, Operations and Targeting of the Social cash Transfer” to the National Social Protection Technical Committee, consisting of government, international and bilateral donors. Ministry of Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Lilongwe, Malawi.
December 2007 Presented “Targeting Evaluation and Round 2 Impact” to the National Social Protection Steering Committee, consisting of government, international and bilateral donors. Ministry of Ministry of Local Government, Lilongwe Malawi.
November 2007 “Update on the Mchinji Cash Transfer Evaluation.” Presentation to the Mchinji District Assembly, District Social Protection Committee. Mchinji Malawi.
September 2007 “Zimbabwe Vulnerability Study: Preliminary results from the Zim VAC, PASS, and OVC Baseline surveys. Working group presentation to UNICEF Zimbabwe and Central Statistics Office.
June 2007 “Zimbabwe Vulnerability Study: Improving data collection, analysis and dissemination in order to improve policymaking and service provision for Zimbabwe’s most vulnerable.” Presentation to the UN, Ministry of Social Welfare, Central Statistics Office, World Bank, and other stakeholders. Harare, Zimbabwe.
June 2007 “Baseline Findings of the Evaluation of the Mchinji Social Cash Transfer Pilot.” Presentation to the National Social Protection Technical Committee, consisting of government, international and bilateral donors. Ministry of Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Lilongwe Malawi.
March 2007 “Evaluating the Mchinji Social Cash Transfer Pilot.” Presentation to the National Social Protection Technical Committee, consisting of representatives from government, international and bilateral donor organizations. Ministry of Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Lilongwe Malawi.
February 2006 “Data disaggregation to support families affected by HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.” United Nations, Commission for Social Development. New York, NY.
February 2005 “Educational disparities among orphans and vulnerable children: An analysis of policies, systems and the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey.” Presentation of results to the Botswana Ministry of Education.
Capacity Strengthening Training and Workshops
February 2012 Training of Field workers from Karnataka Health Promotion Trust. Topics include an introduction to the study protocols, systematic review of study instruments, qualitative interview methods, mock interviews, pilot testing of instruments, Human Subjects Training and ethical guidelines, referrals in the case of problematic situations. Karnataka, India.
September 2011 Training of Field workers from Liberian Institute of Geo-Information Services. Topics include an introduction to the study protocols, systematic review of study instruments, quantitative and qualitative interview methods, anthropometric methods, mock interviews, pilot testing of instruments, data management overview, data tracking, data entry and security, Human Subjects Training and ethical guidelines, referrals in the case of problematic situations. Bomi County, Liberia.
March 2011 Training of Field workers from Global Surveys Corporation. Topics same as above. Maputo, Mozambique
October 2010 “Program Monitoring and Evaluation”. Five-day workshop to build capacity to monitor and evaluate programs for orphans and vulnerable children. Attendants included representative from local and regional government and non-governmental organizations. Maputo, Mozambique.
May 2010 World Bank African Region and the Human Development Network Conference: “Evaluating the impact of social protection policies in Africa.” Accra, Ghana. Moderator and Impact Evaluation Specialist providing technical assistance to Zambia and South Africa.
February 2009 “Qualitative data analysis using NVIVO.” Data Analysis Working Group. Center for International Health and Development. Boston University.
September 2008 CSPRO: Designing functional databases for data collection, cleaning, management and tabulation. For the Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, Zomba Malawi. (17 students)
June 2007 “Successful Statistical Analyses: Building local capacity to better analyze existing data”. Two-day workshop to build capacity for advanced data analysis of national datasets. Attendants included staff from UNICEF, the Ministry of Social Welfare, and the Central Statistics Office. Harare, Zimbabwe.
May 2007 “Multilevel Modeling for Puppies” Lecture for the Data Analysis Working Group (DAWG) at the Center for International Health and Development.
March 07-Apr 08 Four consecutive training of Field workers from Centre for Social Research. Topics same as above from Mozambique and Liberia. Mchinji Malawi.
December 2005 “The situation of orphans and vulnerable children: Moving the research forward.” Department of International Health and FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health.
November 2005 "Strengthening Social Welfare Systems to Respond to Children Affected by AIDS." Wilton Park and UNICEF; Sussex, UK.
April 2005 “The orphan epidemic in Botswana.” UNICEF and The Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA), New School University. Children and Poverty:
December 2004 Advanced Multilevel Modeling Applications, Wales, UK
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