Isha, As address myself an independent elevator working for various organizations nearly 20 years and presently appointed to the Board of Directors and CEO of Agromart outreach foundation (establish 1989). well experiences with fully pledge NGO and programme management and evaluations with a strong management skills , monitoring skills, also as a visiting lecture, trainer and facilitator working in the field of INGO, Government , private sector, development and in the humanitarian filed. I have been trained and worked as team leader many years exclusively selected lies in the conceptions the most difficult situations and embrace complexity process, has an ability, stability and control, and instinctively resolve problems rapidly sometimes before they fully understand a problem’s significance. An effective trainer bring many experienced to the table also willing to share the knowledge. Notable expertise are Gender and Women empowerment, SDGs and CSO, Public Private Partnership and Governance enhancements.
Member of Associations and Professional Bodies;
Sri Lanka: Current
- Member SDG’s People’s Platform Volunteer People’s Review- Sri Lanka
- Visiting lecture , Trainer and Facilitator: Sri Lanka Institute of Administration and Development
- (Government Civil Service)
- Visiting lecture University of Kotalawala Defence Academy of Sri Lanka - Post graduate studies
- Member Government National Evaluation Policy Development Technical Committee-DPMM of Ministry of Finance of Sri Lanka
- National SDG’s VNR Review committee –Ministry of Sustainable Development of Sri Lanka
- Member of the Board - Sri Lanka Evaluation Association(SLEvA)
- National Committee Member - Sri Lanka Micro Finance Forum
- Member of the Board – Agro Mart Outreach Foundation
- Member – Gender Women Empowerment Sri Lankan Major Group – SDG 5 and 10
- Adviser on Gender and women empowerment – NGO consortium of CHA
Internationally:
- Member world forum of SDG 16 , 5 10
- Former Board Secretary - Asia Pacific Evaluation Association.(APEA)
- Member – American Evaluation Association –(AEA)
- Member – Community of Evaluators –(COE-South Asia)
- Member -Technical Advisory Evaluation Committee –UNFPA-New York
EvalPartners: Member of the Eva partners working sub-group: Eval SDGs
Isha Miranda
Visiting Lecturer and Independent Evaluator Independent ConsultantDear Mallika
I am so proud of you that you brought this topic openly. We as evaluators always performed neutrality and impartiality. But many organization such as UN, WB, ADB etc. (as Abubakar says "Most often Evaluators are selected due to some connections and when selected they hope to be selected again in the future") get into a comfort zone with some sets of evaluators or evaluations companies over and over.
I have review many evaluation reports and found deterioration of professionalism in evaluation reporting, either because: a) very biased, b) lacking of synergies between findings vs. recommendation vs. conclusion, c) large reports of nearly 100s pages, without productive analysis, lack of productive data collection, less professionalism in data collections as well as questionnaires. These are few of my observations.
I think time is up now to raise a voice on this also pushing for evaluation professionalism given priorities above, in order to save this profession.