The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Team
The MEL Team is responsible for creating and managing a framework of key indicators that will demonstrate the impact of the pilot program. This will include creating a baseline for the situation at the start of the program, contributing to the design of the training curriculum so that the farmers understand the goals of the program and can fully participate in data collection and provide feedback on the changes that they experience as the program unfolds, analysis of the data collected, and independent evaluation to ensure that the data-set is robust and that the conclusions of the evaluation are fully validated.
Contact the team
Contact the team
Sheena Shah is a member of the Project Board, and leads the MEL team’s work to document the impact of the program, and build the project knowledge base, as well as leading on curriculum development. Born and raised in Nairobi, Sheena taught in schools before joining PRI Kenya in 2012 to manage their Executive Education Programme, with more than 6,500 people trained in Permaculture Design and three International Training of Trainers certified courses. She was Executive Director from 2016 to 2018, responsible for overall management, field operations, programme delivery, partnerships and communications.
Sheena is now an independent consultant, and continues her focus on regenerative business, using solutions and principles to level up and ensure long-term sustainable development to shift the paradigm in small-scale projects and markets. She is also coordinating a team of consultants to develop the African Permaculture Association. |
Paul Omolo is C-MRA’s representative for Phase 3 of the permEzone pilot program in Kisa West, having previously led the team that successfully delivered Phase 1 in Asumbi. He is a key member of the MEL team for research and data collection in the field. Paul has a BSc in Horticulture from Moi University, Eldoret and has successfully completed a Professional Certification Course in Program Monitoring and Evaluation with The Kenya Institute of Management.
He took his Permaculture Design Certification (PDC) course in Laikipia Permaculture Centre. Previously, as a member of the Permaculture Research Institute, Kenya's projects team, he worked for the USAID Kenya Horticulture Competitiveness project, initially as a Field Agronomist and then as Project Coordinator in Migori County. He has also worked as a Field Assistant (Horticulture) at Sauri Millennium Village, and as a Sales Agronomist for East African Seed Company. |
Elin L Duby was a founding member of the Project Board, and took the lead in developing the MEL framework with its emphasis on participatory processes to determine indicators of change, drawing on her experience developing a monitoring tool for Resilience Design- a permaculture based tool developed by the USAID TOPS team, led by Mercy Corps. Elin is a development consultant, who previously served as Director of the Permaculture Research Institute, Kenya. She studied at the University of Sussex and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), trained in Permaculture in the UK and did her teacher training with Rosemary Morrow in Malawi. Her skill-set includes strategic planning, organizational development and project development for grassroots development projects; research on natural resource management, resilient food systems, food sovereignty, gender and women’s empowerment and facilitation of trainings and strategic planning workshops. Elin has recently co-facilitated Resilience Design trainings and Permagarden trainings in Uganda, Niger and Nepal.
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Georgina McAllister was co-founder and Programmes Director at UK non-profit Garden Africa. Her experience spans both humanitarian and development sectors in Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia, Pacific and sub-Saharan Africa. With a BA Hons in Peace Studies and a Masters in Post-War Reconstruction & Development, she is currently undertaking PhD research in Zimbabwe (under the Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience at Coventry University), exploring the extent to which agroecology, with its emphasis on strengthening knowledge and social networks for collective natural resource management, builds cohesion and trust as articulated through farmers' everyday experiences.
George is interested in creating more inclusive and sustainable forms of community engagement which view environmental regeneration as part of the long-term solution, and in developing innovative plant-based livelihoods approaches which stimulate localized economic opportunity while navigating eco-social change. |
David Yisrael-Epstein HaLevi is Academic Coordinator at The Systems Center at The University at Albany, and a researcher for Professor Aaron Benavot working on projects related to climate policy and climate change. Life experiences that helped convince David of the potential for education to be a driver for peace and sustainability, includes helping to organize sustainable farming villages in Israel, and teaching at the Anglican International School, with students from all over the world, including many Palestinians and Israelis. Publications include three book chapters, and journal articles on many topics including eco-social resilience using alternative development methods such as permaculture. As of 2020, he is conducting research with farmers who participated in the permEzone pilot in Asumbi which will feed directly into his PhD in Educational Policy and Leadership with a focus on eco-pedagogy, as well as informing the continuing development of the permEzone service model.
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