Workshop Participants

From 1994 to 1997, she was the WFP Advisor for the Country Programme, Emergency and Refugee Operations for Kenya, based in Nairobi. During the 1991 to 1994 period, she was the WFP Advisor in Dhaka, Bangladesh. From 1985 to 1990, based in Nairobi, she was the WFP Project Officer assigned to Kenya and the southern Sudan programmes. In the early 1980s, she was the Development Officer for the Canadian International Development Agency (1981-1984) based in Ottawa, Canada, responsible for projects in the Caribbean.

She holds a B.A. degree in Development Studies and History from Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. As a Regional Programme Advisor she provided a range of guidance and advice to colleagues based in eastern Africa on topics such as: vulnerability analysis, project planning, gender, monitoring and evaluation and training. 

She focused on humanitarian operations including refugees and displaced people and development programmes in the fields of disaster mitigation, food security, primary education and nutrition and health. She has frequently used a participatory training method called 'Visualization in Participatory Programmes' (VIPP) to train staff. She has facilitated workshops for WFP staff working in complex emergencies in southern Sudan, Somalia, and Burundi, where participants were encouraged to learn from each other. 

Since September 2000, in the Office of Evaluation, she has assumed a normative function vis-à-vis project monitoring systems for WFP worldwide. In this position, she has prepared WFP's monitoring and evaluation policy and related guidance materials. Shortly, these materials will be posted on WFP's "Global Office" - an intranet site and CD ROM - for use by staff in over 70 offices in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Balkans.