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David Rider Smith

United Kingdom

David Rider Smith Member since 20/10/2025

Freelance

Senior Evaluation and Strategy Adviser

 

  • Climate Adaptation, Resilience & Finance: Designing M&E systems and results frameworks for climate-smart agriculture, resilience to climate extremes, sustainable ecosystem management, renewable energy investment, and private climate finance.
  • Rural Development & Value Chains: M&E for agricultural research, natural resource management, food security, and rural livelihood programmes.
  • Strategic Evaluation Leadership: Developing evaluation policies, strategies, and quality assurance systems for major international organizations.
  • Methodological expertise: Mixed-methods evaluation, RCTs, quasi-experimental designs, outcome harvesting, contribution analysis, performance measurement frameworks (theory of change, RBM), data quality assurance, survey design, and evidence synthesis.
  • Evaluation Capacity Development: Building and strengthening national and institutional M&E systems.
  • Stakeholder engagement (donor relations, FCDO, World Bank, EU, UN), Government advisory expertise and high-level policy dialogue; team leadership, evaluation leadership, strong and collaborative team member. Innovator, self-starter and active networker around delivery