Dr. Mohamed Abu-El-Magd is an international management consultant specializing in project design and delivery, applying the Results-Based Management (RBM) approach for project assessment, and monitoring & evaluation of development projects. He has over 20 years experience as a senior Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) consultant with large multidisciplinary projects funded by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), UNFPA, UNDP, British Aid, Dutch Aid and the European Union. He participated in developing a new program approach for monitoring and evaluating CIDA’s social and economic reform theme projects in Egypt. In addition he was the Senior M&E consultant to CIDA program in Egypt. He has extensive experience working on the program level as well as the project level. His experience includes all aspects of capacity building, institutional strengthening, monitoring & evaluation, qualitative and quantitative research methods, organizational development, and Results Based Management concepts with focus on cross cutting issues such as gender, environment and governance. He has long experience in monitoring and reporting on results for several development projects in Africa and Asia.

Mohamed Abu-El-Magd
Founder, International Consulting Bureau

Mark Ampah is a senior development professional specialised in SME support and monitoring and evaluation of sustainable economic growth programming in North America and sub-Saharan Africa. During the past 18 years, he has worked for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group, first as the Project Manager (PM) for the Enterprise Support Services for Africa (ESSA), a project jointly funded by the IFC and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Mark later worked as an Operations Evaluation Officer/Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist-Sub Saharan Africa for the Africa Project Development Facility (APDF), a facility of the IFC. More recently, Mark worked as the Regional Head, Results Measurement Specialist for the Private Enterprise Partnership Africa (PEP Africa) for the Sub-Saharan Region and Senior Results Measurement Specialist for the Public Private Partnership Advisory Services Unit for IFC in Sub Saharan Africa. Prior to that he worked as an Executive Consultant with the George S May International Company, Chicago - providing consulting services to SMEs across Canada and as a Commercial Account Manager with the Toronto Dominion Bank, Canada. Mark has been associated with PSI for many years.

Mark Ampah
Senior Associate

Jean-Joseph Bellamy has spent most of his professional life in international development. He started his career with a 2.5-year stay in Niger, West Africa as a volunteer some 33 years ago where he learned to speak Hausa and ride a camel! Using the volunteer network, Jean-Jo then crisscrossed North, West & Central Africa for about 1.5 years before getting his agricultural engineering degree. In 1984, Jean-Jo became the co-manager of a small French NGO ("Association Bois de Feu"), where he was in charge of domestic energy projects in West Africa. In 1987, he was offered a position as Technical Advisor to lead the establishment of a Domestic Energy Bureau in Niger, the first such institution in West Africa. Jean-Jo immigrated to Canada in 1988 and got his MBA from the University of Ottawa in 1991. He returned to international development working as a Senior Consultant coordinating large international projects until 1998, when he moved to Kingston, Jamaica where he was the Program Manager of ENACT, a capacity development in environment program funded by CIDA and the Government of Jamaica. Since 2005, he has worked as an independent Senior International Management Consultant, engaged primarily with UN organizations for projects and programs funded by the GEF and implemented by UNDP, UNEP, FAO and other UN Agencies. His career to date has taken him to over 40 developing countries. As a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) he provides consulting services to international development programs and projects focusing on environmental management frameworks and related capacity development needs. Jean-Jo has known the PSI team since 2005.

Jean-Joseph Bellamy
Senior Associate

Dr. Leslie Casely-Hayford is the Director and Principal Consultant of Associates for Change (AfC), a research and consulting firm based in Ghana, West Africa. Dr Casely-Hayford has been conducting evaluations and research studies for the last 20 years across Africa and Asia. She has led several multi sectoral evaluations, programme design and research studies for governments, donors and civil society agencies in the south particularly across the education and social sectors. Her work has focussed on using mixed method, results based management and gender equity approaches. She has led large scale, cross cultural teams for WFP, DFID, USAID, CIDA along with several civil society partners including CARE, Action Aid, Concern, and CCFC. She has led several research studies on basic education, gender equity, social policy, decentralisation and public sector reform. Associates for Change and Dr. Leslie Casely-Hayford have been associated with PSI for over 15 years.

Dr. Leslie Casely-Hayford
Founder, Associates for Change

Philip Cox specializes in performance management of international and Canadian social development. He applies participatory approaches to monitoring and evaluation; and to training in results based planning, management and reporting. Since 1990, Phil has evaluated more than twenty-five separate projects in health, income generation, vocational training, water and sanitation, institutional strengthening and community development. Phil's approach is to engage project stakeholders as co-evaluators, rather than subjects. "The most successful evaluations allow people from many walks of life to exchange views in an environment of trust and in the knowledge that good reflection can lead to better results." Philip Cox and Plan:Net have been associated with PSI for over five years.

Philip Cox
Executive Director, Plan:Net

Rob Lothian BA, LLB is a consultant in policy and program analysis, specializing in environmental and natural resource management, environmental law, policy, and regulatory regimes, and institutional strengthening. He is the President of IRIS Environmental Systems Inc., a niche firm that has provided environmental management services domestically and internationally for over 25 years. This firm is also the junior partner of a First Nations Joint-Venture, Harmony Walkers Inc., operating in Western Canada for the past ten years. He is highly experienced in program and project design and implementation, evaluation, monitoring and performance measurement. He is well acquainted with international development issues, having begun his international career in the Canadian Foreign Service (Aid Stream) in the 1980s. In addition to his domestic experience in western and northern Canada, he has worked in over 25 countries providing expertise in environmental protection and management to private individuals, corporations, government agencies, and international development institutions by way of well-informed, science-based, reliable, creative and cost-effective solutions to environmental problems. PSI and IRIS have worked together for over 20 years.

Robert Lothian
President, IRIS Environmental Systems

Dr. Mary Lynch is a senior consultant specializing in sustainable economic growth. She has worked internationally on growth issues for over 30 years including undertaking project planning, program planning, policy and strategic reviews, providing policy advice, project implementation, monitoring and evaluation. This work has been with a range of donor organizations, international financial institutions, NGOs, government agencies and the private sector. She has worked in over 40 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, Middle East, Europe, Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Some of her recent work has focused on areas such as blended finance, innovation and small and medium enterprise development.

Dr. Mary Lynch
Founder, MM Lynch Consultants International

Mr. Alfred Ojwang is a Kenyan and a co-founder Director of MICRODE CONSULT; and the Principal Consultant Development Education at MICRODE CONSULT. He has been a high school teacher (a science and agriculture), curriculum developer and educational media specialist at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, and a Project Manager with an international NGO CARE for several years. Over the last 19 years, Mr. Ojwang has been a full-time consultant at MICRODE CONSULT where he has successfully carried out many consultancy assignments including in Evaluations, Organizational Development and Systems Strengthening, Teacher Professional Development and Management, Life Skills Development, IEC/BCC Materials and Curriculum Development, Program Design and Management, Advocacy and Policy Influence. Some of the clients he has served include Government Departments (Kenya, Rwanda, and Somaliland), Donor agencies (DFID, USAID, World Bank and DFATD), UN agencies (UNESCO, UNICEF) and international NGOs (FHI360, Aga Khan Foundation, WaterAid, CRS, ActionAid, and CARE International among many others). His geographic experience includes Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Puntland, Rwanda, Somaliland, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Mr. Ojwang has authored several academic and non-academic books. Mr. Ojwang and MICRODE CONSULT have been associated with PSI for over 15 years.

Alfred Ojwang
Founder, MICRODE CONSULT

Gervase Odiko has over 20 years experience in small enterprise development and micro finance sector in which he has gained both practical programme management and technical advisory service provision. Odiko has successfully carried out many consultancy assignments in Kenya and in neighbouring countries. The assignments have included, although are not limited to: programme evaluations and technical reviews, programme design including development of policies and service delivery procedures, training in business management, management of micro finance programmes and strategic planning. These consultancy assignments were commissioned by different international development agencies including CARE Somalia, SNV (Netherlands Development Organisation), MicroPED, CRS Sudan Program, International Rescue Committee (IRC) Somalia and Kenya Programmes, VSF Belgium (Southern Sudan), and Oxfam GB Southern Sudan Programme. Mr. Odiko and Microde Consult have been associated with PSI for over 15 years.

Gervase Odiko
Founder, Microde Consult

Keith Ogilvie is a senior consultant with over 35 years of experience advising various departments of the Canadian government, international organizations and governments of other countries. For the last 25 years, Mr. Ogilvie has worked mainly in the fields of governance and economic development, much of it internationally, in more than 30 countries in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Middle East and Eastern Europe. He is an experienced project manager, including having taught IT Project Management at the Canada School and acting as Field manager for projects in governance capacity building and engagement of civil society in democratic processes in new democracies. He also held the position of Senior Advisor, International Relations in the Government of BC for 5 years. In his more recent consulting practice, Mr. Ogilvie has worked in all areas of development project and program management from planning to monitoring, review, evaluation and assessment of results using Results-Based Management techniques. He is experienced in multidonor, program-based/sectoral initiatives and with institutions working at regional level. He has carried out a variety of program and project evaluations, management audits and special studies including several program and project planning studies.

Keith Ogilvie
Senior Associate

Keith Phillips has spent the last 10 years building and deploying cloud based systems for monitoring evaluation and continuous improvement of organisations and communities. Prior to this he has an International Business career with Unilever, Gillette and Apple computers spanning Africa, Middle East, Europe and Asia. Growing up in Zimbabwe and working in Africa, Middle East and India, he has in particular developed empathy for development and developing countries. It was with Apple as CEO of the UK and then as senior executive in the USA that he developed a passion for technology and how it will change the way we do development. Keith now has his own company QLBS (Quantum Leap beyond spreadsheets) that has built a cloud based platform for M&E. Deployments have included, community building across the Pacific, Skills Development in Tourism, Microfinance Organisational Assessment, Institutional Capacity Assessment in E Europe, Africa and China. Amongst other Heads of State he has advised Helen Clarke (UNDP) in Innovation when she was Prime Minister of NZ.

Keith Phillips
CEO-President, QLBS.com

Miguel Salas has extensive senior experience in both national and international government and private sector organizations and has been an effective team member of a wide variety of major consulting projects, involving multi-million dollar programs. His field of expertise includes: corporate policy development and analysis; institutional capacity building; and private sector development. He has a high level of proficiency with all phases of the project management cycle, from project identification and design to project implementation and follow-up. His areas of expertise include the full range of program/project monitoring and evaluation techniques; program/project design, planning and implementation; institutional analysis; performance review and assessment; and risk assessment, priority, and exposure; able to conduct of operational and compliance audits of different type of organizations. Mr. Salas works in English, Spanish and French.

Miguel Salas
Senior Associate

Dr. Gaye Thompson holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and has a broad experience of participatory programming and management systems particularly in the context of decentralisation, basic service provision and impacts in communities. She has comprehensive informal and formal research and survey experience in rural socio-cultural and economic change, resource use, social impact assessment, household security and access to services. She has designed, planned, managed and facilitated policy operationalization, strategic social assessment, social impact assessments, process and resettlement policy frameworks, resettlement action plans, community development plans, public participation plans, feasibility studies, has carried out various key energy sector social assessments starting with the strategic social impact assessment and mitigation and capacity development recommendations. She contributed to the electricity master plan produced for EDM in 2004 and the update in 2011-13. In 2005 she contributed to the transmission development study for UTIP, mainly in the assessment of social impacts and developing costing's for compensation along the alternative line routes. In 2008 she has participated in the social inputs to the energy generation master plan for Mozambique, in 2010 through to 2012 the ESIA and RPF for CESUL and since 2011, the social and resettlement components of ESIAs for new transmission lines in Gaza, Inhambane, Zambézia and Nampula. She has provided social development advisory and supervisory services for social monitoring and impact evaluation of women's employment and participation in the roads sector and of resettlement planning and implementation by the public and private sector in Mozambique.

Gaye Thompson
Managing Director at SCDS Consultoria em Desenvolvimento Social Lda

Pamela Branch has almost 30 years of professional experience in the field of international development, including over 30 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Her consulting practice reflects her strong commitment to economic growth and governance as key inputs to development, and much of her work in institutional and capacity development is to promote those aims. With degrees in accounting and economics, she has developed solid international experience in private sector development, including three years in Ghana managing a technology transfer project to support small scale industry with 10 offices and 300 staff nationwide. She is a strong manager who can deliver results and has the ability to work across sectors, bringing in outside expertise as needed. Ms. Branch has worked on all aspects of performance review and measurement, including internally as a project manager, and as an external monitor, evaluator, auditor and reviewer. She has also worked on developing results-based management systems and tools for a variety of clients including needs assessments, system development and training.

Pamela Branch
Founder, Senior Consultant

Bjorn Johansson is an economist and consultant in trade economics and enterprise development, specializing in small and medium enterprise development and financing, including venture capital, equity and debt mechanisms, and entrepreneurship development, including advisory services and business management training. Solid international experience in all aspects of private sector development including micro-credit, employment and job creation, labour force adjustment, economic forecasting, business incubators, and enabling environments. Strong research and writing skills, as well as substantial management expertise.

Bjorn Johansson
Founder, Senior Consultant

Dr. Hubert LeBlanc is a specialist in the international field with 30 years experience in more than thirty countries, including 10 years residence in Africa. He is a Senior Consultant and Manager, with a core competence in monitoring and evaluation, Law and Development, capacity development in the environment, local governance, partnering and participation, good governance, regulatory frameworks and communications, peace building and human rights, especially the rights of the child in labour markets and war torn societies. Proven expertise in all aspects of the project development cycle including design, appraisal, feasibility, inception and management plan formulation, implementation and field management, technical advice, team building, problem solving, monitoring and evaluation. Proven leadership ability and excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and French.

Hubert LeBlanc
Senior Consultant

Elaine Ward has been working in the field of international development for at least 25 years, mainly in East Africa, Latin America and East Asia, as well as domestic consulting with First Nations communities in Canada. Her specialties include gender equality and diversity; project management; human rights and the environment; results-based management, monitoring and evaluation; strategic planning; socio-economic impact assessments; promotion of indigenous peoples’ rights; stakeholder engagement, consultation and accommodation; institutional-strengthening around effective governance, ethics and corporate social responsibility; as well as capacity-building in terms of training, coaching, and mentoring. Elaine's modus operandi includes appreciative inquiry, participatory methodologies and a rigorous rights-and-responsibilities-based approach to organizational governance, management and operations within civil society, public and private sectors. She is a seasoned professional with a unique blend of skills, personal traits and education, including a Master of International Law from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University in Sweden. Elaine has been affiliated with PSI for over a dozen years as a gender and governance consultant.

Elaine Ward
Senior Consultant

Dr. Asif Chida is an inclusive economic growth and private sector development specialist with particular expertise in policy formulation, institutional capacity building and training for private and public sectors, facilitating public-private partnerships, improving business enabling environment, trade and investment promotion. Solid international experience identification of business opportunities and skills gaps, entrepreneurship training programs to support business development, employment and job creation, technical assistance to develop MSME sector, programme and project evaluations, strengthening SME competitiveness, financial and advisory services. Solid understanding of inclusivity and equity, including gender equality and women’s economic empowerment. Dr. Chida is a proven leader and manager with excellent communication and inter-personal capacity, strong research and writing skills.

Asif Chida
Senior Consultant

Associates for Change
1 Subukwe Close (Off Farah Avenue)
Accra, Ghana
Phone: (233) (3020) 245 612/3 or 0244 255 170
www.associatesforchange.org

IRIS Environmental Systems
Suite 700, 640 - 8th Ave. S.W.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 1G7
Phone: 403-543-4455
www.irisenvironmental.ca

ET Jackson & Associates LTD.
6 Beechwood Ave., Suite D
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1L 8B4
Phone: (613) 230 5221
www.etjackson.com

International Consulting Bureau (ICB)
24 - 2410 Woodward Ave.
Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1T9
Phone: (289) 707 0777
www.icbconsulting.ca

Microde Consult
2nd Floor, Titan Complex, Chaka Road
Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: +254 (20) 271-4427
www.microdeconsult.com

MM Lynch Consultants International
19 Pineglen Crescent,
Ottawa, Ontario Canada K2E 7J5
Phone: + 613-226-7661, Fax: (613) 226-1534

Plan:Net Limited
Suite 201, 1225A Kensington Road, NW.
Calgary, Alberta, CANADA T2N 3P8
Phone: (403) 270-0217
www.plannet.ca

QLBS.com
3/51 William Pickering Dr, Albany
Auckland 0632, New Zealand
Phone: +64 9 414 5030
www.qlbs.com

SCDS
Maputo, Mozambique
Phone: +258 823 28 7320

Universalia
245 Victoria Avenue, Suite 200
Westmount, Quebec, Canada
H3Z 2M6
www.universalia.com