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Latin America and the Caribbean

Gäelle Simon

Expertise:Gäelle Simon is practice area lead for education with 13 years of experience in planning, managing and evaluating international education projects. She has worked extensively with USAID and other donors, Ministries of Education and contractors to design and implement education projects, learning assessments and monitoring systems in Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East and South […]

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Gustavo Castillo

Expertise:Gustavo E. Castillo is a technical associate with over five years of experience in program management, monitoring and evaluation, and research in international development and education programs. Currently, he provides technical support for the USAID-funded Data and Evidence for Education Programs (DEEP) and early grade reading assessment (EGRA) in Zambia. Prior to joining MSI, Gustavo

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Tim Shifflett

Expertise:Tim Shifflett leads MSI’s Client Solutions team focused on applying technology to tackle difficult problems for development projects in the areas of data collection, management and reporting. Tim specializes in mobile data collection, usually in conflict zones, and geospatial analysis. Prior to his work at MSI, Tim worked for a large non-profit international organization and in

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Aekta Desai

Expertise: Aekta Desai is a Technical Manager in MSI’s Rule of Law and Government Accountability practice area. She has over 10 years of experience as a development practitioner focusing on USAID and Department of State-funded rule of law, good governance, anti-corruption and counterterrorism projects in the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Caribbean.

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Christy Martins

Expertise:Christy Martins is an international development practitioner with 18 years of experience, including eight years overseas. Her technical area of focus is stabilization and peacebuilding, and she has experience working on USAID programs globally. In her current role as practice area lead, she provides leadership and guidance to MSI’s peace and stability initiatives and oversees

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Kalinda Magloire

Expertise: Kalinda Magloire is a technical director and governance specialist with over 15 years of experience leading development projects. An expert in contextual analysis, her areas of focus include programming in rapidly changing transitional environments, civil society strengthening, public service provision, and gender. Kalinda led the USAID/OTI Regional Programming Option in Haiti, where she oversaw

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Cecilia Real

Expertise: Cecilia Real is Chief of Party for the USAID/Mexico Por la Protección de los Defensores y Periodistas (Defenders and Journalists Protection) Activity, and a rule of law and human rights expert with over 18 years of experience, including more than seven years working on USAID-funded projects. She brings extensive experience in the areas of

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Strategic Communications

We work in partnership with governments and donors in numerous challenging environments to develop strategic approaches to communications and outreach. Using a combination of approaches and tools – social media, innovative direct outreach such as films and theater, and television, radio and print media – our desire is to help our clients engage with citizens

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Training

We work with clients in the private sector, NGOs and donors to support every stage and range of training needs. We have helped to design, deliver and plan curriculum for more than 1,500 courses, involving all levels of staff and offered in remote global locations and in the U.S. For more than three decades, we

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Rule of Law and Government Accountability

MSI is a leader in implementing sustainable development projects across the globe that help citizens, organizations, and governments to establish the rule of law and combat corruption. MSI supports the development of more peaceful, just, and inclusive societies by offering our clients a comprehensive approach to improving justice sector delivery and fighting corruption. Our approach

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Peacebuilding and Governance

As development gains are hard to achieve amidst conflict and fragility and in its aftermath, we promote peace and stability, creating, in turn, a tenable environment for sustainable development progress. We provide services in the following areas: Countering Violent Extremism (CVE): We analyze the drivers of violent extremism, and design and implement development programs to

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Democracy and Governance

We empower local partners to build the skills, systems and institutions that underpin democracies founded on human rights and inclusion—that are representative, accountable and effective. By helping lay this foundation, we catalyze inclusive economic growth, social development community resilience and stabilization. Our experience spans environments affected by conflict, state fragility, corruption, criminal violence and violent

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Strategy, Evaluation and Analysis

STRATEGY, EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS From providing performance monitoring services in non-permissive environments like Afghanistan, Yemen and South Sudan to assisting USAID with robust strategic planning, we help our clients have the data they need at their disposal and use it to make smart programming decisions. By mindfully connecting these processes, projects efficiently deploy resources, make

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