Prior to R4D, Mr. Rogers was a logistics coordinator for Transaver LLC working primarily with its francophone client in Quebec to facilitate their logistical and transportation needs. He also volunteered with the Alliance for Citizen Engagement (ACE) where he assisted in guiding the research wing of the organization, published research briefs covering global health, the World Health Organization, the US role in international development, and the impact of climate change on health. He presented on climate change and health at ACE’s Climate Migration 2022 Conference.

Mr. Rogers studied public administration, international relations, and global health while working full-time in the logistics industry. He holds a graduate certificate in global health studies and a master’s in public administration from the State University of New York at Albany. He has a BA in history from St. John Fisher College. He is a native English speaker, speaks fluent French and conversational Spanish.

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At Results for Development (R4D), Mr. Chekole is a program officer providing technical and program management support to health financing activities in Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique and Nigeria. Mr. Chekole contributes to strategy, project management, and analytic activities to finance health systems and accelerate improvements in coverage, quality and equity of health services.

Mr. Chekole has managed projects from inception to delivery, including budgeting, planning, surveys and evaluation. He has served in the national technical committee for health and WASH programs in Ethiopia. He led and developed Ethiopia’s 10-year WASH master plan and 5-year WASH strategy and strategic action plan and guidelines.

Prior to joining R4D, Mr. Chekole was a team leader and senior public health advisor for the One WASH National Program (OWNP-CWA) where he worked with national ministries (Water, Health, Education and Finance), local and international non-governmental organizations, consulting firms and donors. He managed and directed WASH and other public health projects and programs funded by donors and international organizations including the World Bank, UNICEF, African Development Bank, DFID, Water Aid Ethiopia and John Snow Inc. He has also served as national health and WASH technical committee member and in a think tank for the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia. He is active in Ethiopian public health and Red Cross society associations.

Mr. Chekole holds master’s degree in public health from Gondar University and a BSc degree in environmental health from Haramaya University. He is a native speaker of Amharic and speaks English.

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As a program officer at Results for Development, Ms. Pastor provides technical and program management assistance for Frontier Health Markets Engage (FHM Engage). Within this role, Ms. Pastor leads core work activities, working with local partners on aligning understanding and building sustainability and capacity in the market development approach (MDA) and expanding existing knowledge on regulation on family planning and maternal and child health to align MDA. Areas of expertise include qualitative research, health financing, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), collaborative learning and health systems strengthening .

Prior to joining R4D, Ms. Pastor was a program associate at International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI) where she supported two projects. The first centered on post-EVD Ebola recovery response activities with a goal of supporting countries building back economic and social systems after the outbreak. The second identified priority behaviors and solution pathways for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and its partner countries to design new interventions related to energy, education, WASH and education. Before joining IBTCI, Ms. Pastor worked on her master’s thesis on commercial complementary foods among food insecure countries in Latin America.

Ms. Pastor holds a master’s degree in global health from ISGlobal-University of Barcelona and a BS in Kinesiology with a concentration in Public Health and a minor in Anthropology from The College of William and Mary. She is a native speaker of English and Spanish and speaks conversational French and Italian.

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Ms. Tsegaye has worked as finance and procurement officer for the Addis Ababa City Roads Authority and an administrative assistant for Habitat for Humanity Ethiopia.

Ms. Tsegaye graduated with BA in management from Hawassa University and has a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Unity University.

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At Results for Development, (R4D), Ms. Nelson supports the nutrition team’s Strengthening Systems for the Treatment of Acute Malnutrition (SSTAM) project as a program associate. In collaboration with UNICEF, the team will create a dynamic and action-oriented toolkit to help countries approach the integration of severe acute malnutrition treatment into existing health systems.

Before joining R4D, Ms. Nelson worked in global health at the National Institutes of Health-Fogarty International Center and Sabin Vaccine Institute. At the NIH-Fogarty International Center Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, she conducted data analysis for the Water, Sanitation, Health, and Hygiene Initiative (WSHHI), that occurred in Oshikandass, Pakistan to improve the surveillance of and treatment for children suffering from communicable diseases. She helped to define the cohort’s population and evaluate the associations between disease status, viral carriage, and health outcomes among pneumonia diagnosed children. She synthesized findings into a master’s thesis and working manuscript.

At the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Ms. Nelson researched topical areas across the scientific landscape to support the organization’s work to promote universal influenza vaccine innovations. She wrote syntheses exploring the use of artificial intelligence and immuno-oncology as they apply to universal influenza vaccine development and helped identify key stakeholders.

Ms. Nelson received a master’s in public health (MPH) in epidemiology from George Washington University. Her studies emphasized data management, nutrition, and infectious diseases.

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As a senior program coordinator at Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Amoateng provides a broad range of coordination and administrative support to the Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator project in Ghana. She supports the development and maintenance of stakeholder relationships both internal and external. She supports routine business processes and the monitoring of progress on the workplan and the activity budget.

Ms. Amoateng’s previous experience include coordinating and facilitating health and educational project assessments. As education technology project support officer at Edify, she led an early grade reading assessment in Ghana and Liberia in 2017. She created monitoring and evaluation documents and developed literacy and training reference materials to aid teachers and students across the eastern, southern, western and central parts of Ghana and maintained and created relationships between organization and partners.

Ms. Amoateng holds an executive masters’ degree in project management from the University of Ghana Business School and BSc degree in mathematics education from the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana. She is a native speaker of Twi, speaks fluent English and has a basic knowledge in French.

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Prior to joining R4D, Ms. Coleman was a Peace Corps education volunteer in Liberia where she taught middle school math and science and started a women’s group in the community. Ms. Coleman then became a program associate at a community-led development NGO in Sierra Leone.

Ms. Coleman holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Creighton University.

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There were two primary goals to this work: 1) to provide learning resources and opportunities to help implementing organizations overcome the challenges they identified; and 2) to better understand how the
learning process works, from the birth of or exposure to an idea to the implementation of that idea, and to share lessons and recommendations to improve the way all stakeholders participate in this process. To accomplish this second goal, we integrated an action research methodology into our activities. Over the course of our engagement with the WASH Impact Network, we conducted 60 individual interviews, five focus group discussions and one survey. Responses from all sources were recorded, categorized, coded, and common themes were then extracted to draw the conclusions laid out in this report. We present those findings in the pages that follow and offer recommendations for funders, partners and implementing organizations

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