IMPAKT ApS Denmark - provides consultancy services in organisational change management, organisational capacity assessment, human resources development and management, CSR, impact monitoring and reporting, gender analysis, skills development and leadership training.

CV Andrea Mestrov


Mrs. Andrea Mestrov has 20 years of international work experience as a socio-economist, monitoring and evaluation specialist, and financial analyst and administrator.  Highly-developed, functional and analytical skills in results-based, gender responsive, community-driven programme monitoring and evaluation (M&E), policy and programme design, strategy and partnership development, project management and performance reporting that emphasise sustainable and participatory responses to poverty-alleviation and humanitarian emergencies.  Extensive multiple governmental stakeholder, community and international aid donor engagement. Sound knowledge links to corporate social responsibility, triple bottom line and international integrated reporting.

Specialised skills and competencies in:
  • Developing results-based, non-financial performance systems and gender-responsive, community-based and ethnically-sensitive monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks
  • Developing quality assurance frameworks to improve the external communication of development outcomes and stories of impact.
  • Assessing governance structures of bilateral and multilateral partnerships and community-driven development projects
  • Strategy development through stakeholder mapping, engagement and research
  • Aligning operational, non-financial indicators, targets and success criteria to programme strategies and operations
  • Baseline surveys, output and outcome evaluations, reviews and impact assessments of large scale development programmes, complex consortium projects, multilateral trust funds, local pilots, community-based projects, and partnerships.
  • Designing participatory, inclusive methodologies and institutional arrangements to collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative non-financial data for stakeholder accountability, knowledge management, organisational learning, innovation and evidence-informed policy making.
  • Harmonising M&E systems with other internal business processes, partner-based frameworks, country systems and universally accepted principles
  • Assessing public sector organisational capacity to manage funds, monitor and evaluate program implementation, report performance and communicate results.
  • Developing management guidelines and tools for corporate accountability and learning ensuring greater transparency and credibility of the reporting functions and decision-making processes as part of a communication strategy
  • Programme design and feasibility using the Logical Framework Approach (LFA)
  • Project-based financial management
  • Comprehensive report writing, workshop management and high-level meeting coordination
  • Underprivileged and vulnerable target populations with poor access to healthcare, including widowed refugee women, migrant and mobile infrastructure workforce and accompanying comfort services, indigenous child-bearing women, illiterate rural women, corresponding healthcare service providers; school children and adolescents from well-educated families leading unhealthy lifestyles.
Extensive technical knowledge of Gender analysis and mainstreaming, Organisational capacity development.  HIV/AIDS and Infrastructure, Corporate good governance and safeguard policies, Participatory approaches to democratic governance, Microenterprise and microfinance, Primary and maternal child health, Population and family planning, Fragile States, Aid effectiveness, Emergency relief and Refugee rehabilitation.

Familiarity with media-policy interface; health promotion and gender- related awareness campaigns; trends in universally accepted principles of human rights, working conditions, environment, anticorruption/ business ethics, and responsible investment; Biodiversity conservation and climate change; Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability guidelines, UN Global Compact; International Integrated Reporting, Accountability Standard AA1000, UN MDGs

Main work experience from UN and bilateral aid system; Multilateral Development Banks; International and humanitarian NGOs; Rights-based, grassroots civil society groups/partnerships; developing-country public sector and research institutes; multinational oil and gas, banking and professional accounting corporations.


Countries of work experience: Afghanistan, Australia, Bolivia, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Laos PDR, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Rwanda,Vietnam, UK and USA


Languages:
English (mother tongue), Spanish (Good), Danish (Basic)
Career Record:
2010 - to date Senior Consultant, IMPAKT ApS, Denmark
2010   Committee Director, UNIS School Community Council, Vietnam
2009 - 2010 Team Leader & Capacity Development Specialist, UNIFEM, Vietnam
2008 - 2009 Independent M&E and Gender Consultant, ADB, Vietnam/ Cambodia/ Laos
2006 - 2008 Evaluation & Policy Manager, Office of Development Effectiveness, AusAID, Australian
Department of Foreign Affairs
2005    Finance Administrator, World Health Organisation, Denmark
2000 - 2005 Evaluation, Design and Feasibility Consultant & Technical Adviser for, Danida (Bolivia); Carl Bro Int. (Bolivia, Central America, Denmark), REBOHUPAN & USUYIRI (Bolivian NGOs)
1998 - 2000 MSc International Community Economic Development Student, Graduate Assistant in Accounting and Financial Management, University of Southern New Hampshire, USA
1996 - 1998 Senior Project Officer, SAGRIC International, Papua New Guinea
1996 Financial Analyst, SA Department of Information Industries, EDS Project Team, Australia
1995 - 1996 Finance and AdministrationCoordinator, CARE Australia-Zaire/Rwanda
1993 - 1994 Report and Proposal Officer, Australian Volunteers International, International Rescue
Committee, Afghan Women´s Resource Centre, Afghanistan/Pakistan
1993 MSc Student, Economics of Development, Australia NationalUniversity
1989 - 1992 Contract Accountant and Financial Analyst, SAGASCO Resources Limited (Aust); Esso
Exploration & Production Ltd (UK); Shell UK Limited (UK); Chase Manhattan Bank (UK);
Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte (UK); Price Waterhouse (NZ).
1987 - 1989 Credit Analyst & Loan Coordinator, Standard Chartered Bank Australia Limited, Australia

Please contact Mr. Jørgen Skytte Jensen for a complete list of consultancy ssignments: jsj.impakt@gmail.com
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