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Florence Randari

Kenya

Florence Randari Member since 19/09/2023

Learn Adapt Manage (LAM)

Advisor on Organizational Learning and Evidence-Informed Strategy
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Florence Randari is a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) specialist with 10 years of experience supporting development and humanitarian programmes across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Her work focuses on evaluation design, learning-oriented MEL systems, and strengthening the role of evidence in decision-making.

She has led and supported evaluations across sectors, including livelihoods, youth employment, and climate resilience, with a particular interest in evaluation use and influence. Florence currently advises programme teams on integrating evaluation findings into decision-making processes and facilitating structured sensemaking.

She holds a Master’s degree in International Development from SOAS, University of London, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Reed College.

She is also the founder of Learn Adapt Manage (LAM), a practitioner-led initiative focused on strengthening learning cultures and evidence-informed practice in development. Through LAM, she contributes to advancing thinking and practice on evaluation use, influence, and organisational learning.

My contributions

  • Blog

    Why technically strong evaluations still fail to influence Decisions

    Over the past two decades, the evaluation field has significantly strengthened its technical quality. Methodological standards have improved, mixed-methods approaches are now widely used, and expectations around rigor and transparency have grown. Yet one challenge continues to surface across the evaluation field: even technically strong evaluations, built on solid methods and careful analysis, continue to have limited influence on decision-making. Across development, humanitarian, and environmental programming, evaluation reports are delivered, formally acknowledged, and sometimes even praised...
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