The Dark Side of M&E

Speakers

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  Andrea Coleman

  Founder and President, Riders for Health

  Andrea Coleman has always a gimlet focus on 'closing the distance' to enable access to goods and services for health care at the last mile. Her emphasis is on the woefully overlooked issue of transport and mobility for real access to the last mile. This requires behavioral and systems changes and the outcome is efficiency, transparency and predictable and traceable delivery. Andrea Coleman is co-founder of Riders for Health and President of Riders for Health ll. Riders for Health has played a vital role enabling public health information, contact tracing and sample transport for rapid diagnosis during the COVID crisis. The need for appropriate, reliable transport with experienced riders and drivers will increase as vaccine distribution becomes necessary. Andrea founded Two Wheels for Life in 2016 to create nimble funding streams for Riders for Health's work in Africa. She has recently co-founded the Transport and Mobility Alliance together with Susan Bornstein from World Bicycle Relief. Andrea's focus is on institution transport and mobility for health while Susan brings the issue of individual mobility particularly for women and girls in education and agriculture. Their goal is to raise the profile of the crosscutting issue of transport on the UN SDGs. Andrea is also a founding member of The Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs. Her organisational guiding principles: Working with government, other partners and collaborators Collaborative systems change African leadership Gender balance Environmental awareness

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  Carlos Miranda

  Chief Executive, I.G. Advisors

  Carlos is the Founder and CEO of I.G. Advisors, a strategy consultancy working for the social impact space. I.G. focuses on providing philanthropy, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and fundraising consultancy. I.G.’s clients include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Old Vic, the Guardian Media Group, Riders for Health, and St. Paul's Cathedral. Carlos is also the Founder of Social Misfits Media, I.G.'s sister company. Social Misfits Media advices charities and social enterprises on how best to use social media to interact with those critical to their success. Social Misfits creates dynamic social media strategies for marketing, campaigning, and fundraising purposes. The company also publishes widely used guides to social media. He is a Trustee of Vital Regeneration (a charity working to improve the lives of people living in some of London's most disadvantaged communities) and of the H Club Foundation (the corporate foundation of the Hospital Club, a private members club in London). Carlos is also a member of the Guardian's Voluntary Sector Network Advisory Panel and of the London Children's Museum Digital Advisory Group.

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  Ehren Reed

  Director, Analysis & Insight, Skoll Foundation

  As Director of Analysis & Insight for the Skoll Foundation, Ehren Reed is responsible for assessing the impact and effectiveness of the foundation’s efforts in order to support ongoing learning and evidence-based decision making. He was previously a Director of Innovation Network, a Washington, DC-based evaluation consulting firm. He brings over ten years of experience managing research and evaluation projects for grantmakers and grantees in the fields of human services, human rights, and advocacy. He is a diehard promoter of evaluation use and a firm believer in the power of evaluation and learning as a support for effective strategy. He speaks frequently on emerging trends in evaluation and has presented at many sector conferences including Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the Council on Foundations, Grantmakers in Health, the American Evaluation Association, and the Communications Network. Ehren earned both a B.A. and M.S. in Education from the University of Connecticut. He is an avid fan of craft beers and Nationals baseball, especially when combined.

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  Martin Fisher

  Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, San Francisco, KickStart-International

  Martin Fisher is an award winning engineer and social entrepreneur who led the way in showing how social business models can be used to solve global poverty. Martin received his BSc at Cornell University, and his MSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. In 1985 he went to Kenya on a Fulbright scholarship and in 1991 co-founded KickStart International (originally called ApproTEC), a non-profit social enterprise with a mission to enable millions of people across sub-Saharan Africa to earn a lot more money and climb out of poverty. KickStart works by designing and promoting low-cost technologies that poor but entrepreneurial individuals purchase and use to establish highly profitable businesses. Starting in 2000 KickStart has concentrated on the development and promotion of small-scale irrigation technologies. And to date over 350,000 smallholder farmers have used KickStart’s very low-cost irrigation pumps to grow and harvest multiple cycles of high value crops year-round, adapt to climate change and turn their subsistence farms into highly profitable enterprises—enabling over 1.3 million women, men and children to take a major step out of poverty. There is very little irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa, and millions more farmers there can use irrigation to gain sustainable income and food security, and feed the continent. Today KickStart partners with hundreds of development players to promote smallholder irrigation technologies in 16 sub-Saharan African countries, innovates new lowest-cost irrigation tools, and advocates to catalyze a movement to Irrigate Africa. Martin and KickStart have won numerous awards and accolades for their pioneering work including being named a; Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year; Skoll Foundation Social Entrepreneur; Design News Engineer of the Year; Stanford Engineering Hero; and most recently a member of the Millions Lives Club.

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