Areas of Expertise

Applied Research and Evaluation

Applied Research to provide a better understanding of the contexts, barriers, opportunities, and needs of stakeholders. Baseline and action-oriented research. 

Evaluations to document the progress of interventions (mid-term review) and to assess the difference an intervention has made in people's lives (impact evaluation). 

Methodology Expertise

  • Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research/evaluation designs 
  • Participatory Action Research
  • Data analysis with NVivo and SPSS 
  • Specific evaluation approaches such as Qualitative Impact Assessment Protocol (QuIP), Most Significant Change (MSC) Technique, Outcome Harvesting (OH) and Contribution Analysis.

Thematic Areas of Work

I have conducted research & evaluations studies on the following topics and issues: 

  • Protection: Child protection (child labour, violence against children, community approaches to protecting children); Social protection for women, girls and the most marginalised people. 
  • Gender: Gender analysis, gender audit, gender mainstreaming, gender-based violence, traditional practices (FGM and Child marriage).
  • Health: Maternal and child health, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, family planning.
  • Education: Primary and higher education

Capacity-building 

  • Delivering training on gender issues, child protection, and intercultural competencies in international development for governments and international organizations or NGOs. Development of curriculum and training manuals. 
  • Training fellow researchers to improve their skills in research methods, research ethics, and qualitative data analysis with NVivo.  

Lecturing

  • Lecturer for two courses: " Family Structures, cultural dynamic and globalisation" (2016-2020);  and “Populations, Families and Health in the Global South (Africa)” ( 2021- present) - University of Liege, Belgium.
  • Striving to help students develop their critical thinking and assess their cultural and contextual awareness to better understand various issues of international development.

Speaking and Facilitation

  • Keynote speaker, facilitator of conferences/workshops, event/panel moderation.
  • Presentation of my work to practitioners, decision-makers and academics in 25 countries.

Expert Insights and Advice

  • Providing expert insights and advice to local and international organisations on the issues of female genital mutilation, child early/forced marriage, child labour and gender issues in the West African contexts. 
  • Peer reviewer for several Journals: International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Childhood, Autrepart,  Ethography.org;  Cahiers de la Recherche pour l'Éducation et les Savoirs, among others. 



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