Professional Experience:
A specialist independent consultant with 25+ years of applied experience across international development and humanitarian response, working with UN agencies, bilateral donors, and international NGOs across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe.
Since founding Jumladee Change Management Ltd. in 2020, engagements have spanned institutional capacity assessment, mixed-methods research and evaluation, strategy development, and policy design — for clients including WFP, IOM, UNICEF, UNDP, Danida, Start Network UK, Development Pathways UK, and the Global Logistics Cluster. Recent work includes a comprehensive review of anticipatory action readiness for Start Network UK, five institutional capacity assessments across Jordanian social protection ministries for the Shamil Initiative, regional strategy development for WFP Asia-Pacific, and the integration of new capacity development approaches into Denmark's Strategic Sector Cooperation Guidelines — now used by Sector Counsellors globally.
Prior to independent practice, a five-year appointment as Senior Capacity Strengthening Advisor and Corporate Technical Lead at WFP HQ (Rome, 2014–2019) provided the institutional grounding for much of what followed. This role involved building WFP's approach to country capacity strengthening from the ground up — developing the organisation's first comprehensive conceptual framework, growing a team from one to six, and supporting 30+ country offices across five regions. This work directly shaped the 2022 WFP Corporate Capacity Strengthening Policy Update.
Earlier career experience across 15 years spans survey design, vulnerability and food security analysis, gender-responsive programme design, programme evaluation, and results-based management — with clients including UN Women (UNIFEM), UNV, WFP, and the UN Economic Commission for Africa. This period established the research and analytical rigour, thematic depth, and multi-country contextual knowledge that underpin all subsequent advisory work.
Thematic expertise covers institutional capacity development, social protection, food security and nutrition, humanitarian logistics and supply chain, disaster risk reduction, gender and intersectionality, anticipatory action, and migration management.
The country portfolio spans 35+ countries across five regions: Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bhutan, Burundi, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Pakistan, Peru, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe — the majority through sustained in-country engagement combined with longer-term remote follow-up, rather than short-term visits. This global footprint is grounded in lived experience across multiple regions: having resided in Afghanistan (2004–2005), Kenya (2005–2014), Italy (2014–2018), and Sweden (2018–2023) before settling in Kent, England, the cross-cultural fluency this brings is both professional and personal.