technical assistance to increase the availability of appropriate and affordable
Integrated Soil Fertility Management technologies to sustainably improve agricultural productivity in northern Ghana. Also he is currently the head of the farming
system research team based in the Upper West region of Ghana.
Lee Cando-Noordhuizen joined the GEF Independent Evaluation Office as a
consultant in March 2015. She has worked for various UN agencies including the
Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, UNDP, UNICEF and UNFCCC in
the fields of climate change (mitigation, adaptation, finance, development impacts)
and sustainable development. Recently, Lee was posted in Indonesia where she
worked as a Climate Change Communications Coordinator for the Center for
International Forestry Research (CIFOR), and as a Senior Advisor to the German
International Cooperation’s (GIZ) ASEAN-German Programme on Response to
Climate Change.
Michael Carbon has joined the Evaluation Office of UNEP in Nairobi in April
2010, after working as an Evaluation Officer for IFAD in Rome since 2005.
Michael led and contributed to a great variety of ex-post evaluations, including
evaluations of rural development projects, environmental projects, country
programmes and cross-cutting themes. Before he became an evaluation professional, Michael worked in northern Vietnam, as a technical assistant and later as a
project coordinator in the field of rural extension and farmer organization, and
conducted agri-systems research in Guine ´e-Conarky, El Salvador and Cuba. On
01 February 2016, Michael returned to the Independent Office of Evaluation of
IFAD as a Senior Evaluation Officer. Michael holds a MSc in Bio-engineering,
specializing in Forestry, Nature Conservation and Tropical Agriculture from KUL
(Leuven, Belgium), an Engineering Diploma in Tropical Agronomy from
CNEARC (Montpellier, France) and a PhD Preparatory Studies Degree in Geography and Development Practice from INA-PG (Paris).
Joanne Chong is a Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures,
University of Technology Sydney. Joanne leads collaborative, transdisciplinary
research projects that focus on improving people’s resilience to drought, extreme
events and other impacts of climate change. Joanne’s research addresses policy,
institutional arrangements, planning and incentives in the water resources sector
and for cross-sectoral local and regional development. As a monitoring and evaluation specialist, Joanne works in partnership with communities, businesses, governments, civil society and donors to investigate and apply practice learnings at
local to global scales. Joanne holds qualifications in economics, engineering and
environmental law.
Monika Egger Kissling was educated as an economist at the University of
St. Gallen, Switzerland. From 1984–1996 researcher at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. More than 15 years of
experience in evaluation and consultancy in development cooperation as an
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Integrated Soil Fertility Management technologies to sustainably improve agricultural productivity in northern Ghana. Also he is currently the head of the farming
system research team based in the Upper West region of Ghana.
Lee Cando-Noordhuizen joined the GEF Independent Evaluation Office as a
consultant in March 2015. She has worked for various UN agencies including the
Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, UNDP, UNICEF and UNFCCC in
the fields of climate change (mitigation, adaptation, finance, development impacts)
and sustainable development. Recently, Lee was posted in Indonesia where she
worked as a Climate Change Communications Coordinator for the Center for
International Forestry Research (CIFOR), and as a Senior Advisor to the German
International Cooperation’s (GIZ) ASEAN-German Programme on Response to
Climate Change.
Michael Carbon has joined the Evaluation Office of UNEP in Nairobi in April
2010, after working as an Evaluation Officer for IFAD in Rome since 2005.
Michael led and contributed to a great variety of ex-post evaluations, including
evaluations of rural development projects, environmental projects, country
programmes and cross-cutting themes. Before he became an evaluation professional, Michael worked in northern Vietnam, as a technical assistant and later as a
project coordinator in the field of rural extension and farmer organization, and
conducted agri-systems research in Guine ´e-Conarky, El Salvador and Cuba. On
01 February 2016, Michael returned to the Independent Office of Evaluation of
IFAD as a Senior Evaluation Officer. Michael holds a MSc in Bio-engineering,
specializing in Forestry, Nature Conservation and Tropical Agriculture from KUL
(Leuven, Belgium), an Engineering Diploma in Tropical Agronomy from
CNEARC (Montpellier, France) and a PhD Preparatory Studies Degree in Geography and Development Practice from INA-PG (Paris).
Joanne Chong is a Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures,
University of Technology Sydney. Joanne leads collaborative, transdisciplinary
research projects that focus on improving people’s resilience to drought, extreme
events and other impacts of climate change. Joanne’s research addresses policy,
institutional arrangements, planning and incentives in the water resources sector
and for cross-sectoral local and regional development. As a monitoring and evaluation specialist, Joanne works in partnership with communities, businesses, governments, civil society and donors to investigate and apply practice learnings at
local to global scales. Joanne holds qualifications in economics, engineering and
environmental law.
Monika Egger Kissling was educated as an economist at the University of
St. Gallen, Switzerland. From 1984–1996 researcher at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. More than 15 years of
experience in evaluation and consultancy in development cooperation as an
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About the Authors