ASEAN Secretariat MRE/IA Training

This training is led by Dr Valentine J Gandhi. He is a Senior M&E and Policy Advisor with over 18 years’ experience in Asia and Africa (including conflict zones such as Somalia) designing and developing evaluation, research and implementation projects for multiple donors, UN agencies, research institutions and governments. He is an expert in using ICT4D evaluation and use of mixed and innovative methods, particularly in designing, implementing and managing and analyzing complex and large-scale evaluations and datasets, (including large scale agricultural projects in India, Zambia, Somalia, Indonesia and Kenya). He is also a master trainer and capacity builder and facilitator. He is an expert in Economic, Geo spatial and Social Analysis tools and techniques, including software such as SAS, STATA, R, Python, SPSS, Arc GIS, OSM, Web GIS and Atlas TI. He has a PhD in Economics and Sociology. He is currently based in Jakarta and Nairobi setting up evaluation frameworks for multiple agencies, as well as organizing capacity building workshops in complex evaluations across Africa and Asia Pacific. His most recent assignment was for setting up a MEL Platform for USAID Indonesia’ next 5 year Plan (CDCS), Immediately prior to that he was involved in conducting baseline for DFID’s prosperity Fund, aimed at promoting local companies in 7 countries to promote trade, tourism and economic opportunity. He designed an online system for data capture among multiple stakeholders from the private sector. He also set up Smart Agriculture Program to cover nearly 1 million farmers in Vietnam and Cambodia. He developed a system to streamline their data sources both quantitative and qualitative into a commonly analyzable database that can track trends across all the country interventions with uniform indicators, which would directly contribute to the program strategy of the ministries of health in 28 nations. For a full list of his projects and assignments and experience, please refer to his full CV attached. He is fluent in English and can speak conversational Indonesian. He is a Senior Advisor within DevCAFE

Ms. Ida Ayu Cintya Yamaswari – Monitoring and Evaluation professional with more than 7 years of solid experiences in comprehensive M&E spectrum from M&E capacity assessment. Mixed methods analysis, developing theory of change and results framework; identify questions and measure/indicator, setting up national M&E methods, design, system/plan, and instrument; M&E capacity building and promotion of use; managing M&E at policy, program, project, and field level; QA/QC of activity/project proposal and collection of evidence. Practical experiences on prospective and formative evaluation design, and sound concept on summative. Most recently she supported the UKCCU-funded Papua spatial planning project as MEL Advisor, and Deputy Team Leader for UKCCU-funded Evaluation Management Unit to the Forest Land Use Governance (FLAG EMU) project. She served as Team Lead for multiple evaluations for GIZ Indonesia and was M&E Advisor the M&E division of USAID Jalin Project. Before that she managed the M&E team for KOMPAK – Governance for Growth (DFAT funded project). She has been in DevCAFE since June 2016 on consultancy mode. She did her MSc in Lund University Sweden and worked in Ethiopia on multiple agricultural projects. Please refer to CV for full details of work experience. She is fluent in English and Indonesian and will also support the lead consultant in training in local language as well as writing the reports in Indonesian. She is the Indonesia Country Programme Managing Director for The Development CAFE