Learning and Adapting during COVID-19 Series | Webinar 1: How are International Development Implementers and Donors Responding in this Challenging Time?

Sonia Moldovan is a development practitioner with more than a decade of experience implementing MEL systems, developing learning agendas and managing evaluations. At Mercy Corps, Ms. Moldovan leads the MEL team, provides technical assistance to program teams, conducts annual CLA workshops and contributes to thought leadership on resilience measurement and adaptive management. Ms. Moldovan also worked as a MEL Director on USAID and DFID-funded programs in Afghanistan, South Sudan and the Sahel and trained teams on qualitative data collection approaches including outcome mapping and Most Significant Change. She holds a Master of Economic Development and is an adjunct professor at George Washington University.

Access downloadable COVID-19 Remote MERL Guidance document, produced by Mercy Corps.

Stacey Young, PhD. became USAID’s first Agency Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning Officer in November 2019, leading Agency-wide knowledge and learning approaches and architecture. Dr. Young also co-chairs the Multi-Donor Learning Partnership, a group of nine major donor organizations working to advance organizational learning and knowledge management in international development. She previously served as the Senior Technical Advisor for USAID’s first Agency-wide learning agenda, on the Journey to Self-Reliance; and, from its inception through 2019, she led USAID's Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) work to integrate a holistic approach to knowledge and learning across USAID’s country programs. Part of a long-term Agency effort to more firmly anchor USAID programs in strong evidence and local leadership, CLA is acknowledged as leading the field in learning and adaptive management for international development.