Experience

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  Ded

  Aug 2000 - Dec 2002

  Advisor to civil society organizations, nampula, mozambique

  • Conceptualized and conducted a study on “Adaptability of traditional civil society organizations to the requirements of development partners”; • Developed the support strategy for CSOs and designed and executed adequate training and coaching measures; • Administered a local grants fund (25.000 € p/year).

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  Giz german international cooperation

  Dec 2002 - Dec 2005

  Project manager “combating gender based violence project”, lilongwe, malawi

  • Managed the programme’s implementation;• Assisted technically and financially (through grants) the Ministry of Gender and the secretariat of the ‘NGO Network against Gender Based Violence’ • Elaborated and implemented a participatory impact monitoring system capable of measuring changes in social norms; • Conceptualized a base-line study and several researches on local perceptions of global problems and raised co-funding for their realization;

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  Snv

  Jan 2006 - Dec 2007

  Senior advisor for decentralization and gender, luanda, angola.

  • Developed a clients’ portfolio in the area of decentralization and gender; • Managed contracts with clients; • Assessed 12 partner organizations’ technical, managerial and organizational capacity building needs, developed tailored capacity building material and delivered the trainings; • Conducted base-line study about mechanisms of gender-specific participation in municipal decision-making processes; • Developed an impact-monitoring scheme capable of tracing changes in attitude and behaviour related to social norms. Show less

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  Unicef

  Sept 2009 - Nov 2009

  Team leader / senior m&e specialist for the education programme

  Evaluated the pilot phase of the “Accelerated Learning Programme”, developed recommendations for upscaling.

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  Cowi belgium

  May 2011 - Jun 2011

  Senior governance and m&e specialist

  Evaluated the 3 years’ pilot phase of the EU financed “Support Programme to Non-State Actors”.

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  Department for international development (dfid)

  Jun 2011 - Jul 2011

  Team leader / senior child rights and m&e specialist

  Conducted the “Project Completion Review” of DFID’s contribution to the “UNICEF / Accelerated Child Survival and Development Programme”, developed suggestions for the remaining period of implementation.

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  Unicef

  Oct 2011 - Nov 2011

  Team leader / senior child rights and m&e specialist

  Led the evaluation of the UNICEF co-funded program and orphanage whose objective was the reintegration of street-children in families, schools and society.

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  University of the witwatersrand

  Mar 2012 - Dec 2015

  Research associate

  Supported the Department to increase its research output through conceptualizing research projects and training students on research methods and systematization of the results.

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  Department for international development (dfid)

  Oct 2012 - Dec 2012

  Senior gender-specialist

  Realized a gender audit of the institutions involved in the water sector, conducted a research in 2 Mozambican Provinces and developed the Gender Strategy for the Water Sector.

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  Gfa consulting group gmbh

  Feb 2013 - Jan 2014

  Programme manager of the “support to non-state actors” programme, paane

  • Managed the programme’s technical and financial implementation with a budget of 5 Mio Euro. • Responsible for all staff-related decisions, • Technical support the NAO and CSOs in the area of an “Education for Citizenship” Campaign and a “Dialogue Initiative”, • Conceptualization and and supervision of a baseline survey and logframe development.

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  Independent consultant

  Feb 2014 - Sept 2023

  Policy advisor, researcher, writer, trainer and facilitator
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  Trócaire

  Mar 2014 - Apr 2014

  Team leader / senior human rights and m&e specialist

  Led the end-term evaluation of two interrelated Programmes in the area of Human Rights, CSOs and resource extraction at the same time.

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  Cowi belgium

  Jul 2014 - Aug 2014

  Team leader / senior gender and m&e specialist

  Led the mid-term evaluation and strategic re-planning of the “Protection and promotion of social and economic rights of women in rural areas of Cabo Delgado".

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  Linpico sarl

  Sept 2014 - Oct 2014

  Senior development specialist

  Trained multiple stakeholders on the application of PRAG, the EU set of administrative rules

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  World bank group

  Feb 2015 - Nov 2016

  Leader of the “change management/coaching” component

  • Elaborated the implementation strategy; • Trained, coordinated and supervised 4 international coaches and 22 local facilitators; • Conceptualized and implemented a monitoring scheme for the coaching component that proved that 2 line Ministries (Health and Education) achieved additional performance based indicators due to the inputs of coaches and facilitators; • Coached and mentored directors to the Financial Institutions responsible for the implementation of the Reform.

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  Gfa consulting group gmbh

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Gender and conflict management specialist

  Member of a team to conduct the Feasibility Study on livelihood restoration in the Limpopo National Park. Analysed women’s role in the local economy and political life, developed tailored, concerted and harmonized measures for an improvement or restoration of their livelihoods during the resettlement programme.

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  Unicef

  Sept 2017 - Nov 2017

  Senior researcher on the socio-cultural background of early pregnancy

  • Assessed institutions’ approaches and policies related to early pregnancy, • Conducted a qualitative and quantitative research in different regions, involving male and female adolescents, men and women as well as relevant local influencers, • Elaborated a multi-sectorial national strategy to combat early pregnancy

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  Undp

  Oct 2017 - Dec 2017

  Senior consultant for the undaf outcome 6 evaluation

  Evaluated UNDP Mozambique’s support to UNDAF 2012-2016 OUTCOME 6.

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  Niras international consulting

  Feb 2018 - May 2018

  Senior governance and organizational development specialist

  Assessed AFROSAI-E’s activities and strategic plans according to the DAC-criteria, formulated recommendations as an input for Swedish decision-making on future support to AFROSAI-E.

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  Unicef

  Jul 2018 - Oct 2018

  National lead researcher

  Coordinated the field work of the research project on migration patterns and protection needs of children and adolescents migrating in the Southern African region.

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  Finnish overseas consultants (finnoc)

  Sept 2018 - Sept 2019

  Team leader / hiv expert

  Led the project on reduction of STIs/HIV/AIDS, malaria and other communicable diseases during the road construction of the Chinsali - Nakonde road rehabilitation in Zambia.

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  United nations population fund (unfpa)

  Nov 2018 - Feb 2019

  Adolescent sexual and reproductive rights specialist

  Review and evaluated the current status of implementation of the “Action for Girls and Young Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Mozambique” programme and developed suggestions for innovative approaches to be tested in 2019.

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  Un women

  Feb 2019 - Mar 2019

  Senior gender consultant

  Elaborated of the Reference Documents for the Mozambican Delegation to the Commission on the Status of Women, including discussion papers and draft talking points for the Minister of Gender on "basic social security, women’s empowerment and women’s legal status, experiences from Mozambique".

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  Ibf international consulting

  Jun 2019 - Jul 2019

  Civic participation, accountability and human rights expert

  Participated in the ex-post evaluation of the performance of the EU-funded Democratic Governance Programme in Malawi.

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  United nations population fund (unfpa)

  Jul 2019 - Sept 2019

  Senior gender and sexual and reproductive health and rights specialist

  Developed the Mozambique supplement of the 2019 Global State of the World Population Report. It presents the main findings from the national context on advancing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and, at the same time, reflects upon the challenges that women face in exercising their reproductive right.

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  Mozambican ministry of state administration and public administration

  Nov 2019 - Mar 2020

  Senior decentralization and gender expert

  Designed, implemented and presented an analysis and evaluation of the legal environment and existing models of interface between municipal administration and citizens as well as the integration of the gender perspective in the World Bank funded "Urban Development and Decentralization Project" design and in the municipal decentralization and budgeting processes

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  Mundi consulting

  Nov 2019 - Jun 2020

  Senior gender research specialist

  Co-conducted a study on "Study on the Access to Justice in Mozambique" on behalf of UNDP Mozmbique

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  Palladium: make it possible

  Jul 2020 - Mar 2021

  Senior srhr consultant

  Development of the landscape analysis for the Costed Implementation Plan (CIP) for Family Planning in Mozambique

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  Gfa consulting group gmbh

  Sept 2020 - May 2021

  Lead researcher

  Conceptualized and conducted a qualitative research for the Global Fund on the patient-related reasons why some patients continue with ARV-treatment while others either stop completely or interrupt the medication

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  Mundi consulting

  Dec 2020 - Feb 2021

  Evaluation team leader

  Conceptualized and conducted a quantitative and qualitative research on the outcomes of the Linking Agriculture and Nutrition Project, implemented by Save the Children.

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  Mundi consulting

  Jun 2021 - May 2022

  Evaluation and co-development of the “Implementation Strategy for the Establishment of Local Functional Disaster Risk Management Committees in Mozambique” commissioned by the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) Evaluated Diakonia's, a Swedish CSO, 2015-2020 programme aimed at strengthening 20 Civil Society Organizations to advocate for human rights and a more responsible and inclusive governance.

  • Strategy development and gender expert

    May 2021 - May 2022

  • Evaluation Team Leader - Governance Expert

    Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
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  Niras international consulting

  Oct 2021 - Mar 2022

  Expert audit institutions and governance

  Evaluated Sida’s support to AFROSAI-E, the African Organisation of English-speaking Supreme Audit Institutions, and the impact it had on the 26 member organizations over the past 30 years

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  Gfa consulting group gmbh

  Dec 2021 - May 2022

  Evaluation coordinator

  Assessed the quality and effectiveness of the Global Fund’s principal recipients’ strategies and activities to implement projects related to removing Human Rights-related barriers to access to HIV and TB services with special attention to key populations (Female sex-workers, men having sex with men and adolescent girls and young women).

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  Fcg finnish consulting group

  Apr 2022 - Jun 2022

  Senior consultant

  Identification of a Programme on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for adolescent girl and young women for Finland ́s Country Programme for Mozambique 2021-2024

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  Pathfinder international

  Jun 2022 - Jan 2023

  Senior strategy development specialist

  Development of the Costed Implementation Plan for Family Planning for the Mozambican Ministry of Health

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  Niras international consulting

  Jul 2022 - Mar 2024

  Learning Evaluation of the Gender Approach of Olof Palme International Center (OPC). Using a theory-based approach, the team assessed how OPC’s strategies for gender equality are put into practice in organisational development processes at partner-CSO level and in project implementation within target countries, using outcome harvesting and contribution analysis for the formulation of the questionnaires and the analysis of the data. Co-evaluator of the end of Project Evaluation of the SIDA-funded Ipas program on Access to Safe Abortion in Mozambique

  • Regional Gender Expert Southern Africa

    Dec 2022 - Mar 2024

  • Senior SRHR expert

    Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
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  Gfa consulting group gmbh

  Nov 2022 - Jan 2023

  Senior consultant

  Assessed the relevance, quality and implementation fidelity of the Global Fund's principal recipient's intervention package targeting AGYW as well as the adequateness of the M&E system.

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  Finnish overseas consultants (finnoc)

  Apr 2023 - Oct 2023

  Regional hiv/gender expert

  Consultancy Services for Sensitization of Communities on HIV & Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STl's), Gender / GBV Empowerment and Road Safety Awareness Campaigns for the Development of Manzini Golf Course Interchange

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  Instituto de estudos sociais e económicos

  Aug 2023 - Nov 2023

  Senior consultant

  Evaluation of the governance of the Programme for Social Cohesion in the Northern Provinces of Mozambique, implemented by a consortium of three CSO and funded by the Swiss Development Cooperation.

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  Ministry of state administration and public administration

  Feb 2024 - Jul 2024

  Evaluation leader

  Leading the mid-term evaluation of the Urban Development and Decentralization Project. The evaluation focused on several aspects: the implementation status of (1) the programme’s construction component in the municipalities and (2) the legal decentralization reform process; (3) the financial administration and intra-governmental financial processes and (4) the governance of the programme.

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  Pemconsult a/s

  Feb 2024 - Apr 2024

  Hiv- and senior evaluation specialist

  Midterm Review CISU-funded Programme HIV Prevention, Resilience & Well-being among Key Populations in Malawi & Uganda 2022 – 2025. In addition to an overall review of the implementation status, budget, impact and relevance of the programme, the team provided an in-depth analysis of the necessity of introducing climate mainstreaming into the programme, as well as evaluating the on-going income generating activities.

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  Afrikagrupperna

  Apr 2024 - Aug 2024

  Senior researcher srhr

  The purpose of the assignment was to research into the “anti-SRHR organizing” in Mozambique so that Afrikagrupperna and its partners (1) do gain a better understanding of the context and (2) are better able to develop counterstrategies against the conservative backlash.