In September 2018 we launched AVANTI’s Advisory Board (AB) a group of senior development, evaluation and policy experts who will provide advice and support as we seek to foster agricultural monitoring and evaluation capacity around the world.
Members of the AB will engage with the AVANTI implementing team in a variety of ways, such as providing advice on our overall strategy, contributing to research and learning into rural development and results-based management, or supporting our stakeholder outreach. Their insight and networks will be invaluable as we seek to implement and scale up the initiative.
We look forward to working together with the AB over the course of the initiative to strengthen monitoring, evaluation, reporting and learning within agricultural development.
Our board members, in alphabetical order, are:
Larry Cooley, Developer of CAP-Scan Methodology and President Emeritus, Management Systems International (MSI)
Samantha Custer, Director of Policy Analysis at AidData.
Ellen Goldstein, World Bank Country Director for Myanmar, Cambodia and Lao PDR, East Asia and Pacific.
Cheryl Gray, former Director, Office of Evaluation and Oversight, Inter-American Development Bank.
Annette Kolff, Director, International Programmes, HELVETAS.
Veronica Olazabal, Director, Measurement, Evaluation and Organizational Performance, Rockefeller Foundation.
Bernard Woods, Director, Results Management and Aid Effectiveness Division; Strategy, Policy and Review Department, Asian Development Bank.
We also have two observing board members from IFAD, Bernard Hien and Lisandro Martin.