Miranda Hungerford
Miranda was Triple Line’s first recruit and worked with us from 2002 to 2012 and is now a key associate of Triple Line. She has extensive experience in the implementation of grant programmes for DFID, working with a range of projects and civil society and private sector beneficiaries; she was project manager for the Civil Society Challenge Fund between 2002 and 2005, has provided technical inputs to the African Enterprise Challenge Fund, Governance and Transparency Fund (2007-2009) and Global Poverty Action Fund. Miranda was managing the Development Awareness Fund in 2010-11. She has experience of establishing and implementing different performance assessment approaches for grant programmes. Miranda has extensive experience of project cycle management and has undertaken many monitoring and evaluation assignments. In recent years her monitoring and evaluation work has chiefly been carried out through different grant programmes, but she also has experience of programme and project evaluations for other clients (EC, IFC, CFC) and sectors, particularly agriculture and private sector development.
Adam Platt
Adam is a development professional with over 30 years international experience. He has supported and managed institutional change and development processes for civil society organisations, strategic planning and resource management plans and budgets. He has undertaken evaluations of government and civil society programmes for bilateral and international donors and UN agencies. He has significant experience in social protection. He has worked on social development analysis and assessment and the provision of rehabilitation and livelihood services, often in post conflict situations. He has worked and lived in developing countries for a total of 20 years and worked for 10 years on policy development and practice with the Intermediate Technology Development Group and 5 years with HelpAge International as International Director.
Judy El Bushra
Judy El-Bushra has 35 years’ experience of management, research and training in social development and peacebuilding. Most recently she has been in senior-level management positions – with ACORD, as Director of the Research and Policy Programme, 1999 – 2002, and with International Alert as Regional Programme Manager, Great Lakes, 2006 – 2011, while in between undertaking fragile state-focused consultancy work, including five evaluations/project reviews for Triple Line in the Great Lakes Region. Her main thematic area is gender in conflict analysis and peacebuilding, with focus on social exclusion analysis, sexual violence, and HIV and AIDS. She is experienced in strategic and programme management; research and research planning/management; programme design, monitoring and evaluation; and training, facilitation and materials design.
Alison Lochhead
Alison has over 25 years experience in international development working in social development and governance. She has worked in the Middle East and Africa; with her main expertise in access to justice, women’s rights and working with civil society on increasing equality of voice, involvement in decision making and state and non-state responsibilities and accountability. Gender is integral to Alison’s work. She has worked as a key associate with Triple Line since 2002 and is a key member of the team on many of our larger projects including our work in Sierra Leone in relation to gender and access to justice.
Sara Methven
Sara is an independent governance and social development specialist. She has 15 years of experience advising NGOs and donors institutions on civil society government relationships including voice, accountability and empowerment strategies. Her skills include: programmatic and strategic advice; reflection and learning; mid-term reviews; evaluations and impact assessment. In her work she focuses on identifying opportunities for improving inter-organisational and institutional relationships as a route to better performance and accountability. She has designed and supported grant schemes for Non State Actors and has worked as an assessor with Triple Line on the CSCF and GPAF programmes.
Simon Armstrong
Simon is a private sector and regional development specialist with over 30 years international experience in more than 40 countries. He has acted as team leader on over 50 assignments: many complex, multi-disciplinary projects. Simon specialised in strategic planning (where he has supported the preparation of the National Development Plans for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary and Malta, the national SME development strategies for Bhutan, Vietnam and the national regional development plans for Albania, Croatia and Romania) and evaluation (ex ante, mid-term and ex post). He has carried out major programme designs and evaluations for a range of bilateral and multilateral donors (Asian Development Bank, AusAID, Danida, EC, UNDP, UNIDO). He has completed a number of major assignments with respect to implementing the global aid harmonization agenda and the development of the strategic planning and evaluation capacity of aid donors. Simon is a former Chief Executive of the UK’s West Midlands Development Agency and founding General Manager of the Falkland Islands Development Corporation.
Sarah Herbert-Jones
Sarah has over 25 years experience in international health and social development. Her skills include community mobilisation and education for primary health care, behaviour change communication, participatory appraisal, community systems strengthening, advocacy and accountability, vulnerability and equity analysis, understanding patterns of health-seeking behaviour and barriers to accessing health services, and health systems strengthening. She has applied these mainly in the field of sexual and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, TB, and malaria. She has worked with Triple Line since 2002 as an assessor on the DFID-CSCF, GTF, GPAF, and BIG Lottery programmes.
Mihaela Balan
Mihaela Balan has over 17 years’ experience in the design of monitoring and evaluation systems. She has provided technical assistance for results measurement in Private Sector Development, socio-economic and governance programmes, working in Asia, the Pacific, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Mihaela has been a key member of the Triple Line-GRM Independent Monitoring team for the AusAid funded Enterprise Challenge Fund since 2008. She has key expertise in programme identification and design, program implementation, monitoring, review and evaluation including for PSD and Making Markets for Poor(M4P) projects; use of Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) approach to results measurement on market development and PSD programs; extensive training and M&E advisory experience; including the design of M & E training plans and training sessions on programmes funded by major multilateral, and bilateral donors. Having completed the advanced training on the DCED Standard, Mihaela is assisting programmes such as the Growth and Employment in States Strengthening Business Environment (GEMS3), African Enterprise Challenge Fund, Cocoa Livelihood Improvement Project in Solomon Islands and Access to Markets for the Poor in Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Swaziland, supporting the programmes’ move towards DCED compliance. Mihaela speaks English, French, Italian, Bislama and Romanian.