Summer School on onitoring and Evaluation of International Development Programmes
7-12 June 2010

Trainers

Robert Nakamura, PhD
Prof. Nakamura (BA 1967, MA 1968 and PhD, 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley) joined the University at Albany faculty in 1984. Prior to that he taught at Dartmouth College for twelve years. His interest in policy implementation began as a student at Berkeley, and he has since conducted implementation studies of programs to improve urban education, promote American imports to Japan, assist the homeless, clean up Superfund sites, locate power plants, and deal with hazardous waste in Europe. Since the early 1990s, Prof. Nakamura has also been involved in legislative assistance programs. He has worked with parliaments in over two dozen countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the South Pacific for the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.K. Department of Foreign and International Development, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank Institute and others. This work has included parliamentary needs assessments, the planning of assistance programs, implementation of technical assistance efforts, and assessment of the effects of assistance efforts. He has also served as the National Democratic Institute’s Country Director for Nigeria and Director of the Rockefeller College’s Centre for Legislative Development.

Pier Giorgio Ardeni, PhD
Pier Giorgio Ardeni has an extensive experience with poverty assessments and poverty statistics in various countries, as well as with nation-wide household surveys. Pier Giorgio Ardeni is Full Professor of Political Economy and Development Economics at the Department of Economic Sciences, University of Bologna. Prof. Ardeni holds a PhD in international development and an MA in Statistics, and has 20 years of experience as advisor/consultant in developing and transition countries in statistical development and capacity building projects, household surveys, PRSPs and MDG indicator monitoring and evaluation, policy advice. He has been an advisor for the World Bank, for important NGOs like OXFAM, for the Department for International Development (DFID)of the UK Government, for the International Development Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for several development assistance programmes funded by the European Commission, Eurostat, and Istat, in several countries like: Afghanistan, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yemen. He has also being working as an economic advisor for the European Commission Delegation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is presently President of the Centre for International Development (CID).

Mark Schacter, MBA
Mark Schacter has en extensive experience in monitoring and evaluation and in training M&E tools. Mark Schacter has a BA (philosophy) from Yale University, an LL.B. from Oxford University, and an MBA from the University of Ottawa. Since 1990 he has advised and supported governments, international agencies and private corporations grappling with practical and policy issues in governance, accountability, institutional development and corporate social responsibility. His work has ranged from the nuts and bolts of results-based management, to the nuances of managing accountability relationships within governance arrangements, to trends and practices in corporate social responsibility, to the governance challenges of international development assistance. Mark Schacter has an eclectic professional background having served as: 1) Director for Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility at the Confernence Board of Canada, where he managed a team of researchers and spearheaded the development and launching of The Directors College, Canada's first comprehensive program of professional development for corporate directors; 2) Director at the Institute on Governance where he built a practice in governance, accountability, public-sector performance measurement and corporate responsibility and he organised training courses on programme monitoring and evaluation; 3) Institutional Development Specialist at the World Bank, where he worked to support the strengthening of public sector institutions in developing countries.

Terry Smutylo, MA
Terry Smutylo created the Canadian IDRC‘s Evaluation Unit in 1992, serving as its Director, until his retirement four years ago. He specializes in methods that empower stakeholders, promote learning, and focus on outcomes in project, program, and strategic evaluations. While with IDRC, he led teams that developed several internationally recognized methodologies, including organizational selfassessment and outcome mapping. He has conducted evaluations, provided training, and facilitated organizational development for development organizations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Since leaving IDRC, he has worked as a Special Advisor to IDRC, as a faculty member of Carleton University's International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) and as an independent evaluation consultant. He works in Canada, United States, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, with civil, governmental, national and international organizations, conducting evaluations, providing training and facilitating organizational development. He holds a Master's degree in African studies from the University of Ghana and an undergraduate degree in sociology from the University of Toronto.