MARTINA NICOLLS
 
This site is dedicated to my work as an aid development consultant.

 

 

 

Dr Martina Nicolls
Independent Consultant 

 

Citizenship(s)
• Australian
• British
 

 

 

 

What I Do
Dr Nicolls has 25 years experience in project management and the
implementation of international transitional and development projects. She has recently served in the post-conflict environments of Southern Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Liberia. In a recent assignment, as part of a team, she conducted the Final Evaluation of USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) peace-building activities in Southern Sudan (from 2003-2005) and a Final Evaluation of USAID's activities in Afghanistan (from 2002-2005). In Liberia, she provided specialist technical advice to the USAID Liberian Transition Initiatives Accelerated Learning Program, advising on monitoring and evaluation, teacher training, and curriculum development. She has also conducted an evaluation of USAID's Liberian Community Peace Building and Development Program, USAID's Governance and Democracy Program, and the European Commission's Institutional Support Program. In Liberia and Sierra Leone, she conducted an assessment of the United States Department of Labor's Countering Youth and Child Labor through Education program.

 

Dr Nicolls also spent ten months as Team Leader of the Accelerated Learning (AL) Program in Iraq, under the USAID-funded Revitalisation of Iraqi Schools and the Stabilisation of Education (RISE) Project. Under extraordinarily
difficult circumstances, she was able to achieve and exceed the project's goals. She registered forty per cent more students than the target; achieved a gender balance; registered an average attendance rate of 84% for boys and 91% for girls; and maintained a drop-out rate of only 12%. In Afghanistan, she has worked with staff at the University of Kabul, and in September 2007 conducted a mission as the Conflict and Stability Expert within a community development and governance program.

 

She has extensive experience in quality management, monitoring and evaluation, data quality assessments, database management and statistical analysis. She is particularly adept at leading evaluation teams for high levelchange management. Her skills include: strategic planning, facilitating participatory reviews, and devising planning procedures focusing on gender and cultural issues.

 

Dr Nicolls has worked predominantly in Muslim countries and in post-war
conflict situations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Botswana, China,
Kashmir, Liberia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Syria.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

1 Monitoring and Evaluation; Evaluation of Programs
2 Data Quality Assessments

3 Countering Child Labour Assessments

4 Conflict Mitigation and Stability 
5 Accelerated Learning and Multi-grade Teaching 
6 Vocational Education and Training (VET) 
7 Community and Regional Development 
8 Capacity Building and Institutional Strengthening 
9 Educational Administration

10 Report Writing; Editing

 

                                                    
 
 
For a current Curriculum Vitae/Resume refer to the Development Executive Group website:
     http://www.developmentex.com 

or email me.
 
     TO CONTACT ME 
     MARTINA NICOLLS
     PO BOX 1039
     CIVIC SQUARE (CANBERRA)
     ACT 2608 

     AUSTRALIA
     martina@iimetro.com.au
     http://www.martinanicolls.net