• Highlighted session: Impact Bonds for Education: Does innovation in financing address equity and quality challenges?
  Sunday, February 19, 2:45-4:15 pm EST
  Featuring R4D Senior Fellow Nick Burnett
• Highlighted session: Blended continuous professional development for educators: Case studies from the Global South
  Sunday, February 19, 2:45 to 4:15 pm EST
  Featuring members of EdTech Hub
• Building an innovative and integrated data system to drive decision making and deliver quality, equitable education in Sierra Leone
  Sunday, February 19, 6:30pm – 8:00 pm EST
  Featuring members of EdTech Hub
• How might we use education networks to better support schools and teachers across contexts?
  Tuesday, February 21, 4:45 – 6:15 pm EST
  Featuring R4D Senior Program Officer Laurel Schmitt
• Language and Belonging: Equity and indigenous language education: Localising resources
  Wednesday, February 22, 2:45-4:15 pm EST
  Featuring members of EdTech Hub
• Moving from research to action: What works, what doesn’t, and why?
  Wednesday, February 22, 1:30 – 3:00 pm EST
  Featuring R4D Education Practice Co-Lead Mark Roland
• Strengthening ECD systems, financing and accountability
  Wednesday, February 22, 3:15 – 4:45 pm EST
  Featuring R4D Senior Fellow Michelle Neuman

For the full program, click here.

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At Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Tanweer is a program associate on the education team working on the EdTech Hub, a global research partnership that seeks to empower people to make informed decisions about technology in education. In this role, she serves as a learning lead, working with implementing partners in Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, and Kenya to collect and utilize data to iterate on project design.

Before joining R4D, Ms. Tanweer interned with R4D’s evaluation and adaptive learning team and the Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption (LTRC) project. She also interned with other organizations such as the Near East Foundation and Aythos, supporting business development, operations, communications, and monitoring and evaluation.

Ms. Tanweer holds a BA and MA in international relations from Syracuse University.

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Dr. Djimeu is an associate director in evaluation and adaptive learning at Results for Development (R4D) where he leads innovative monitoring, evaluation, research and learning approaches to improve the performance of health, education, and nutrition systems. He leads the Rapid Feedback Monitoring Evaluation Research and Learning (RF MERL) project in Mali and supports monitoring evaluation learning activities (MEL) for the HSS Accelerator, a global USAID-funded health system strengthening program. In addition, he collaborates with other programs and lines of work at R4D.

Dr. Djimeu’s career has focused on generating and adapting evidence to enhance performance of social development outcomes. Prior to R4D, Dr. Djimeu worked at GAIN as a senior technical evaluation specialist where he set up a system for conducting evaluations and led the evaluation of major nutrition programs. Prior to GAIN, he worked at 3ie where he designed and led seven research projects on HIV self-testing in Kenya and six impact evaluations. He has promoted evidence generation and their use in designing interventions to enhance effectiveness of programs across different sectors including nutrition, health, education, infrastructure, and agriculture. He has conducted capacity building activities to train young researchers, policymakers and stakeholders in evaluation methods and techniques and the use of evidence to inform policies.

Dr. Djimeu has published more than two dozen journal articles. His research spans multiple specialties, including impact evaluations, empirical methodologies, replication research, evidence review, cost effectiveness analysis, and macroeconomic analysis. He holds a PhD and master’s degree in economics from the University of Auvergne Clermont-Ferrand I in France and a BA in economics from University of Yaoundé II. He is native speaker of Ghomala and French and speaks fluent English.

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Ms. Wyss has spent her career focused on mitigating inequality. She started at the UC San Diego Center on Gender Equity and Health supporting research on early marriage, reproductive health, and health education. She later transitioned to research focusing on gender and girls’ education, climate change education, teacher practice, and international education policy. She has also supported gender equity and education research at the Brookings Institution, CARE International, and the Population Council.

Ms. Wyss got her master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s department of educational policy studies where she concentrated in comparative and international education. Her graduate training included a specialization in education-focused qualitative methods. She also has a BA in global health from the University of California, San Diego.

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At Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Opoku-Agyeman is a program officer on the Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator project. She supports the work of the HSSA in Ghana by developing technical tools, concept notes, briefing materials, and other products as well as engaging stakeholders, planning and implementing activities.

Before joining R4D, Ms. Opoku-Agyeman consulted for the HSSA project, facilitating its support to Ghana’s COVID 19 response. She coordinated advisory cells formed by the presidential coordinator of the program, facilitated meetings with stakeholders, conducted research and developed briefing notes.

Ms. Opoku-Agyeman started her career in program coordination, generating data and reports for monitoring and evaluation. After completing her graduate studies, she helped implement a project on HIV. She has volunteered for the women’s mentorship program of Vital Voices in Ghana. She has also volunteered in to promote reproductive and sexual health among Ghanaian teenagers.

Ms. Opoku-Agyeman holds a master’s degree in public health from Umeå University in Sweden, and a BSc in biological sciences from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She speaks fluent English, and is a native speaker of Twi, the Ghanaian language.

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Join Results for Development colleagues virtually at the following events:

Education Outside: Exploring the family, parent and community role in education outside the formal system
Monday, April 26, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT, Zoom Room 117
Colleagues from Mathematica Policy Research will present findings from a randomized control trial evaluation, co-authored by R4D Senior Program Officer Arjun Upadhyay. The evaluation presents findings on community and parent engagement activities implemented as part of a major reading reform programming in Senegal launched in 2017 by the Ministry of Education and USAID to significantly improve early grade reading.

Rapid Impact Assessment for Adaptive Learning: Building rigorous research systems to support continuous program improvement
Monday, April 26, 9:15 to 10:45 am EDT, Zoom Room 121
R4D Senior Program Director Molly Jamieson Eberhardt chairs this panel discussion on work pioneering new techniques in evaluation: adaptive learning and rapid impact assessments. Each of the organizations involved will share how they used rapid impact assessments (RIA) and adaptive learning systems in their work.

 Education beyond the teacher – the role of ‘other’ educators in providing early childhood development at scale
Monday , April 26, 2:45 to 4:15 pm EDT, Zoom Room 112
During this panel discussion, R4D Senior Program Associate Denise Bonsu, Senior Program Officer Kavita Hatipoglu, Senior Program Officer Vidya Putcha and Senior Fellow Michelle Neuman present the Home Visiting Workforce Needs Assessment Tool which was developed as part of the Early Childhood Workforce Initiative (ECWI).

A new approach to research in education technology
Tuesday, April 27, 6:30 to 8:00 pm EDT, Zoom Room 110 – A
As part of a roundtable discussion, Ms. Jamieson Eberhardt presents on engagement as a critical element of new approaches to tech in education.

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Ms. Nyaku is the nutrition practice senior program director at Results for Development (R4D), where she oversees a diverse nutrition portfolio at the country, regional and global levels. She leads strategic development initiatives which delivers technical assistance emphasizing partnerships with local or regional institutions to facilitate and support country led change processes, promote regional learnings and technical support networks, and ensure that country and regional actors and evidence are prioritized or play a bigger role in global processes.

Throughout her career, Ms. Nyaku has supported countries build capacities of country change agents from government and civil society for the prevention and management of malnutrition.

Prior to R4D, Ms. Nyaku was the technical advisor with the Alive and Thrive Program at FHI360 where she worked with the Nigeria program to develop and launch the Start Strong behavior change communication program implemented in 11 states. Start Strong has since become a government national program being scaled up to other states. She also coordinated the USAID Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition Program in 12 African countries which resulted in the development and use of evidence-based approaches and tools for community and health facility-based nutrition services and strengthening of nutrition services in routine health systems.

Ms. Nyaku is currently a member of the American Society of Nutrition.

Ms. Nyaku holds a bachelor of arts degree in home science and sociology with the University of Ghana, and a public health graduate certificate with Tulane University, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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At Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Syah is a program officer providing direct health financing and strategic purchasing support to the SHP Indonesia portfolio with a focus on maternal and newborn health. Her work includes analytical and consultative activities in support of improving capacity for strategic health purchasing under the Indonesian national health insurance program.

Prior to joining R4D, Ms. Syah was a chief project officer in the Summit Institute of Development (SID) and led a team which implemented projects focusing on health and technology. These projects include: Technologies for Health Registers, Information, and Vital Events–Open Smart Register Platform (THRIVE-OpenSRP); Digital Tool for the Adoption of the World Health Organization’s Antenatal Care Recommendations user and field testing; Enhanced Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test Project with smart open reader digital platform; Knowledge Gateway by Online Knowledge Certification to improve midwives’ knowledge and healthcare quality through evaluation and training.

Ms. Syah also worked on Indonesia’s health insurance program for the poor and near-poor (JAMKESMAS) on the district level and as a certified midwife, led a community birthing center. She also led a team which won grants from Grand Challenge Canada (GCC) and Global Financing Facility (GFF) aiming to enhance the health system through utilization of on-time data and improve human resources capacity in the health sector.

Ms. Syah obtained a master’s degree in public health from Montclair State University where she received scholarships from USAID. She is a native speaker of Bahasa Indonesia and is fluent in English. Ms. Syah is part of the Alumni Association of Scholarship Program USA – Indonesia (ALPHA-I) management team.

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Prior to R4D, Mr. Tesfaye worked for 3 years in strategy consulting and market research for Fortune 500 companies. His work focused on understanding consumer and merchant behavior through quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Mr. Tesfaye also worked in the public sector. His work there includes expanding educational opportunities with the office of the Secretary of Higher Education in New Jersey, improving social protection programs with UNICEF, and preventing violent extremism in East Africa with Mercy Corps.

Mr. Tesfaye holds a master’s degree in public policy and international development from Princeton University and a BA in behavioral neuroscience from Colgate University. He speaks Amharic, Arabic, and English.

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