At Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Gates is a program associate on the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) and Cross-Programmatic Efficiency Analysis (CPEA) teams. In this role, she assists in program management, country engagement and the facilitation of collaborative learning. She also works with R4D’s coaching team on management of the Experts Database.

Prior to joining R4D full-time, Ms. Gates interned with the R4D-led Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator (Accelerator), the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI) and R4D’s Frontier Health Market (FHM) Engage team to provide support in program management and day-to-day responsibilities.

Ms. Gates holds a BS in public health with an emphasis in environmental/occupational health and a minor in international development from Brigham Young University.

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At Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Handigol is a senior program associate on the evaluation & adaptive learning team. She executes project management and collaboration with the Tanzania Ministry of Health to test innovative solutions to improve health provider diagnosis and prescription for childhood pneumonia. She also conducts qualitative research and coordination for programs funded by USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation focused on health systems strengthening, evidence uptake and resiliency-building in the face of civic space closures with partners across Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia and Eastern Europe. 

Prior to joining R4D, Ms. Handigol served as Princeton in Asia Public Health Fellow based in Hồ Chí Minh, Việt Nam where she worked on HPV and cervical cancer prevention, education and access to testing. As a Fellow, Apoorva also served as a Senior Analyst with Tractus Asia, supporting global businesses on their market entry and investment strategy in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Previously, she conducted healthcare integration project management at El Camino Hospital, working on quality metric analysis to increase Medicare reimbursement for El Camino physicians. 

Ms. Handigol holds a BA in sociology & anthropology from Carleton College. She is a native English speaker and is conversational in French, Vietnamese, and Kannada. 

Additional Resources

• Translating Modeled Evidence for Decision Making – Webinar 

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Ms. Yayi Bondje is a program associate on the Evaluation and Adaptive Learning team. She is currently working with the RF MERL project, co-creating and co-designing development solutions that innovate on traditional monitoring and evaluation approaches, in order to support governance and accountability mechanisms for community health systems in Mali. She is also working with the Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator program to support community health workforces in Côte d’Ivoire.

Prior to this role, Ms. Yayi Bondje interned with R4D’s Evaluation and Adaptive Learning (EAL) team and the Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption (LTRC) project.

Before joining R4D, Fanny was a fundraising and grant research assistant for a non-profit organization where she generated and implemented various fundraising strategies and cultivated donor relationships.

Ms. Yayi Bondje holds a master’s degree in humanitarianism, aid, and conflict from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and a BA in politics, human rights, and development from New York University.

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At R4D, Ms. Singh works as a senior program associate on the Evaluation and Adaptive Learning team. In this role she provides technical and operational support around program management, partner and stakeholder management, and research design, implementation and dissemination. Currently, she splits her time between the Frontier Technologies program – an R4D-led consortium focused on testing cutting-edge technology solutions for the development sector and increasing capacity within FCDO – where she supports evidence generation and dissemination and INSPIRES (Illuminating New Solutions and Programmatic Innovations for Resilient Spaces) – a USAID project focused on generating learning on the drivers of closing and political space across the globe– where she supports MERL efforts focused on generating learning on civic space closures and strategies to address them.

Prior to joining R4D, Ms. Singh worked as a research associate at the Centre for Policy Research – a non-partisan public policy think tank in India. Her work primarily focused on education policy and administration, with a particular emphasis on interventions introduced since 2015 in Delhi’s government school system – supporting a three-year study aimed at understanding the rollout and embedding of systemic reform. She was also part of the team that worked on UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report 2021, supporting the mapping and analysis of non-state actors in education in India.

Ms. Singh has a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Delhi. She is a native speaker of English and Hindi.

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Before joining R4D, Ms. Mubangizi worked for the University of Cape Town coordinating research on the long-term effects of HIV medication on adolescents born with HIV. In addition, she is the CEO and founder of her own business that distributes fast-moving consumer goods in Dar-es-Salaam. She also served as a public health intern for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees where she supported coordination and monitoring of refugee health services in rural Northwestern Tanzania.

Ms. Mubangizi has a master’s degree in public health focusing on epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Cape Town, and a BSc in public health with a minor in maternal and child health from the University of South Florida.

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Quality classroom instruction is one of the most critical system components needed for learning. This brief shares evidence from Senegal about models for delivering instructional coaching — an important intervention to support teachers in implementing reforms.

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Ensuring children have the treatment they need to fight pneumonia

Learn how R4D's market shaping approach helps pneumonia treatment reach children in need.

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Since 2015, Results for Development has been supporting the government of Tanzania in implementing a holistic market shaping program focused on increasing access to Amox DT in the public and private sectors, by utilizing holistic market shaping approaches as well as evaluation and adaptive learning modalities to address the identified barriers to access to Amox DT.

These briefs summarize key findings from analysis and interventions undertaken in the program so far as well as recommended further action.

Key actions on the public sector to date include: (i) Establishing an aligned policy environment to ensure Amox DT is included on national medicine lists and all relevant treatment guidelines; (ii) Strengthening ownership and sustainability of procurement processes by supporting the transition from an external procurement agency to the country’s national procurement agency; (iii) Sourcing and administration of catalytic financing complemented by government-led resource mobilization through the implementation of co-financing agreements and (iv) Strengthening quantification and supply planning methods to accurately account for Amox DT needs in the country. These activities have contributed to a marked increase in availability of Amox DT across public health facilities from 25% in 2016 to 90% in 2022 as well as a corresponding decrease in Amox DT stockouts, from 59% in 2017 to 14% in 2022.

On the private sector key actions to date include ensuring a well-enabled policy environment; developing a holistic Pediatric amoxicillin market view which has been shared broadly with partners to increase transparency across the supply chain; and piloting the impact of ADDO (Accredited Drug Dispensing Outlet) sensitization efforts on improving knowledge, stocking, and dispensing behaviors. These activities have resulted in an increase in the number of registered Amox DT suppliers from one to eight since 2014, and a 6-fold increase in import volumes of Amox DT from 2016-2020 in the private sector.

R4D Staff who contributed to the briefs

Private Sector Policy Brief: Cammie Lee, Nelsha Haji, Yangzom Tshewang, Sarah Wangilisasi, Kimberly Churchwell, Pili Mmbaga

Public Sector Policy Brief: Cammie Lee, Aalia Chatur, Yangzom Tshewang, Taylor Salisbury, Sarah Wangilisasi, Kimberly Churchwell

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At Results for Development (R4D), Mr. Gjyla is the research finance manager for the EdTech Hub where he is responsible for developing budgets for research studies, developing and reporting on research finance data and performance to the research directors and core delivery team.

Prior to joining R4D, Mr. Gjyla was an independent consultant providing accounting and financial management support to NGOs, companies, and sole traders.

Mr. Gjyla has an MSc in finance and accounting from the University of Westminster, UK, is an ACCA candidate, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK, and has a BSc in finance from the University of Tirana, Albania.

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As an associate director at Result for Development’s (R4D) evaluation and adaptive learning (EAL) practice, Ms. Rosapep provides technical and strategic leadership to EAL’s flagship initiatives. She also leads processes to review and analyze evidence to inform priorities for action and facilitates collaboration with consortium partners, USAID representatives, government stakeholders, and local implementing partners. In addition, she supports the growth and strategy development for the practice.

In her career, Ms. Rosapep has helped government and non-government stakeholders identify ways to improve in-service training for health care workers, expand service availability and accessibility to people living with HIV, pinpoint weaknesses in TB treatment initiation protocols, help community-level drug shops relay health messaging more effectively to their customers. By using iterative and participatory evaluation approaches she helped to adapt a peer sexual-health education program and explore the implications of modifying staffing configurations for early education interventions.

Before joining R4D, Ms. Rosapep was a Senior Associate at Abt Associates where she served as the senior administrator on Abt’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) and was a Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Lead on the USAID-funded Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector Plus (SHOPS Plus) and Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) projects.

Outside of work, Ms. Rosapep serves in the Washington, D.C. chapter of Back on My Feet, a nonprofit organization that combats homelessness through the power of fitness, community support, and essential employment and housing resources.

Ms. Rosapep holds an MA in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

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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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