Olga Ponamarova

Regional Director, Partnership Fund for a Resilient Ukraine

Olga Ponamarova (she/her/hers) is a gender and social inclusion specialist with more than 10 years of experience in project management working with and within civil society organizations and humanitarian response and development projects in Ukraine. Olga has…

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Dr. Mette Bastholm Jensen

Consortium Deputy Director, Cross-Border Conflict, Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) Research Programme

Mette Bastholm Jensen has spent more than a decade working on and in fragile and conflict-affected environments. Combining a research background with extensive field and government experience, she has spent much of her career conducting and…

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Sarah Ahmed

Senior Vice President, Talent, Learning, and Development

Sarah Ahmed is a development professional with 17 years of experience in U.S. government-funded projects in democracy and governance, and peace, stability, and transition across the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. As senior vice…

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Luke Waggoner

Luke Waggoner is a former senior democracy and governance specialist at Chemonics.

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Politics and Gender: Maintaining Women’s Meaningful Participation in Afghanistan

Chemonics and the Pulte Institute for Global Development hosted a webinar to discuss the launch of a jointly developed policy brief, exploring recommendations for securing women’s rights and roles in Afghan governance.
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Niki Wood

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Practice Lead, Chemonics UK

Niki Wood is an award-winning mixed-methods Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) expert, specialising in weaving together behavior change theory, complexity science, and systems-thinking into accessible and participatory approaches for project teams. She is currently the MEL…

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Alejandro Ruiz-Acevedo

Chief of Party, Inclusive Justice Project

Alejandro Ruiz-Acevedo currently serves as the chief of party on Inclusive Justice project in Colombia, after concluding his stewardship of the preceding Justice for a Sustainable Peace project in Colombia. He is an experienced chief of…

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Trauma-Informed Approaches to Development

Development practitioners must consider how trauma affects the communities in which they work when designing and implementing programs. Chemonics shares a new resource that offers key principles and practical steps that development projects can use to ensure activities are trauma-sensitive at all stages of implementation.
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Sahar Tabaja

Global Practice Lead, Peace, Stability, and Transition

Sahar Tabaja is a conflict specialist with more than 15 years of experience designing and managing stabilization, governance, P/CVE, and peacebuilding programs in the Middle East. Her work has focused on exploring how youth, women, civil…

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Bilal Al Ayoubi

Task Order Director, Lebanon Community Support Program

Bilal Al Ayoubi is the Task Order 2 director of USAID’s Lebanon Community Support Program (CSP). He previously served as the senior program development specialist on the Chemonics-implemented Lebanon Civic Support Initiative and as senior transition…

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