Janet Wildish has been working in the development sector for 30 years on a wide range of social and developmental issues, including governance (mainstream and post-election), livelihoods (arid and semi-arid), health (resilience and HIV), formal education (primary, secondary and tertiary), natural resource-based conflict resolution and gender equality/gender-based violence. Most of this work has taken place in Africa and has had a strong behaviour change focus. She has been a member of the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Evaluation Office for the past 10 years. In her former role as Senior Evaluation Manager, she managed and oversaw more than 50 project/complex UNEP evaluations of multidisciplinary projects implemented at global, regional and country levels.
Before taking on a specialist role in evaluation, Janet designed, secured funding for, implemented and monitored projects in partnership with many funders, including the Electoral Commission, Department for International Development (replaced by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), Danish International Development Agency, World Bank and Comic Relief. She has also worked for several international organisations as an external evaluation consultant. Within the NGO sector, she demonstrated repeated success in achieving agreed results, including through a 6-year randomised control trial in Kenyan schools. Having held senior leadership roles at country and regional office levels, Janet brings a combination of deep technical and mature management skills to the Evaluation Office.
Janet holds a PhD in International Policy for Development from the University of Maryland, USA; MSc in Impact Evaluation for Development from the University of East Anglia, UK; MA in Children's Literature, University of Surrey, UK and a first degree in Economics, University of Keele, UK.
Staff Position Level: D1
Region: Western European & Others
