Mònica  Lomeña-Gelis

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Senior Evaluation Officer

Dr. Mònica  Lomeña-Gelis

Spain

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PhD Sustainability Universitat Politècnica Catalunya, Spain

M.Sc. Environment and Int. Dev University of East Anglia, UK

Bachelor in Environmental Sciences Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain

Monica is an environmentalist and evaluator with several years of experience in Latin America and Africa. Before joining IOE, she worked as Principal Evaluation Officer at the African Development Bank (2017-2019). Previously, she did evaluation consultancy for IFAD, coordinated development projects in the Sahel and worked as Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for United Nations Capital Development Fund from Dakar (2010-2016). She started in evaluation as a Research Fellow at the Independent Office of Evaluation and Oversight of the InterAmerican Development Bank (2007-2010). She also worked in the NGO sector in Bolivia (2002-2005) and in the environmental private sector in Spain (2000-2002).

Professional affiliations and distinctions Prize to the best PhD candidate presentation at the European Evaluation Society Conference, 2012 Volunteer for the Senegalese Evaluation Network (SenEval) since 2010 Engagement since PhD research (2010)

21 years experience in international environmental development

14 years experience in evaluation.

2019 Rome, Italy

2017 Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

2015 Rome, Italy

2010 Dakar, Senegal

2007 Washington DC, USA

2002 Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

1999 Barcelona, Spain

Senior Evaluation Officer Independent Office of Evaluation IFAD

Principal Evaluation Officer Independent Development Evaluation African Development Bank

Project Coordinator Global Mechanism UNCCD

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Regional Office of West and Central Africa UNCDF

Research Fellow - Evaluator Office of Evaluation IADB

Country Coordinator Field Office Centro de Estudios Amazónicos

Environmental Consultant SME Department Bureau Veritas

Publications

Blogs

Presentations

Meta-evaluation of Sustainable Land Management initiatives in Senegal, PhD dissertation in open access and summary for Francophone policy-makers (available on demand)

Lomeña-Gelis, M. 2015

Evaluation development in Senegal, African Evaluation Journal. 1(1), Art. #23. Diop, M., Faye, S.S., Hopwood, I., Kinda, O., Lomeña, M., Boumas, G. et al., 2013, SenEval - A Decade of Advocacy and Action for Evaluation in Senega

Lomeña-Gelis, M. 2013

SenEval - A Decade of Advocacy and Action for Evaluation in Senegal.

Diop, M., Faye, S.S., Hopwood, I., Kinda, O., Lomeña, M., Boumas, G. et al. 2013

Stakeholders' vision of the fish farming development project in Moxos (Bolivia).

Centro de Estudios Amazónicos 2007

Monitoring and evaluation in the agriculture and rural development sectors ‒ reflections on the NEC Conference

Mònica  Lomeña-Gelis and Renata Mirulla 2022

Facing new challenges in the field of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) requires innovation

Kouessi Maximin Kodjo and Mònica  Lomeña-Gelis 2022

Thematic Evaluation of IFAD’s support to gender equality and women’s empowerment

Dr Mònica Lomeña-Gelis 2024