Mayank Sharma is a monitoring and evaluation specialist with around nine years of experience in the development sector in South Asia. He has earned a master’s in development evaluation degree from the University of Antwerp in Belgium.
He worked at the CGIAR International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the world’s premier non-profit organisation that aims to reduce global hunger and increase the income of smallholders in developing countries. As a monitoring and evaluation specialist in the Stress Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia (STRASA) project, he managed the strategic implementation of project monitoring, evaluation, learning systems and approach in South Asia to accelerate the desired impact. He also guided developing and refining project results frameworks, key indicators, data collection tools (quantitative and qualitative), project partnerships, programme delivery and learning processes for a twenty-million-dollar sustainable agriculture program operating in eastern India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Mayank has extensive experience working on and conducting impact assessment studies in South Asia, built on randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-experimental designs that enabled the policy and regulatory reforms that increase the space for enhancing agriculture productivity while ensuring the inclusion of socially marginalised groups. Mayank has a strong interest in developing innovative tools for programme evaluation focused on food security, climate change adaptation and human empowerment.
