Country Experience: Asia and the Pacific – Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Pakistan, Malaysia. Middle East, Northern Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia – Lebanon, Jordan, Georgia, Armenia, Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Ukraine, Hungary, Tunisia. West and Central Africa – Gambia, Guinea, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Niger, Cote D’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Chad. Eastern Africa – Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda. Southern Africa – Malawi, Botswana, Madagascar, Mozambique. Latin America and the Caribbean – Honduras, Haiti, Turks & Caicos. Remote evaluations of – Somalia, South Sudan, and Hungary.
Sharon is a cross-disciplinary consultant with extensive experience with senior team leadership of large-scale, multi-agency strategic reviews and evaluations for donors, respected international agencies, UN, Red Cross and NGOs (ACF, DFID, ECHO, FAO, WFP, World Bank, CaLP, IRC, Save, Oxfam, IFRC, American, British & Irish Red Cross and others). With technical qualifications (MSc Land & Water Management, First Class BSc in Development Studies & Natural Resources, Post Graduate Certificate in Education) and published theoretical work that is supported by extensive implementation, technical design, review and evaluation, training design and facilitation experience. Sharon has almost 30 years in the natural resources, food security and sustainable rural livelihoods sectors and has experience across the emergency relief, recovery and development continuum and nexus in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Latin America and the Caribbean. Specialising in household economic security (HES & HEA), cash transfer programming and coordination, market analysis (EMMA), climate change adaptation and resilience approaches in rural and urban contexts and has a detailed knowledge of M&E, KAP assessment methods, gender mainstreaming, nutrition (HDDS/IYCF) and PHAST. I am a CaLP Certified Trainer.
Sharon also runs a global cooperative network of over 150 experienced independent humanitarian consultants.
Sharon speaks English, French, and Spanish.