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Kristen McCollum

Italy

Kristen McCollum Member since 09/01/2020

World Food Programme

Impact Evaluation Analyst
Kristen is an impact evaluation analyst at WFP, coordinating the cash-based transfers and gender window of work, as well as gender-related analysis in the overall impact evaluation portfolio. She received an MSc in Impact Evaluation for International Development at the University of East Anglia. Prior to WFP, Kristen conducted research with the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and Oxfam GB, where she co-published a meta-analysis of Oxfam’s impact evaluations on women’s empowerment.

My contributions

  • Blog

    Cash-based transfers in crisis: Why more evidence is needed to support women in crisis, and what we’re doing about it

    [1] These disasters carry particular consequences for women and girls, who are more likely to experience gender-based violence, assume additional care and labour burdens, or adopt negative coping strategies as a result. Meanwhile, cash-based interventions are rising in popularity as a preferred option of humanitarian aid delivery. Cash-based transfers have long been a focus of study, starting when Mexico’s Progresa and its experimental evaluation design first made waves in the late 1990s. Since then, evidence has been building almost as rapidly as cash-transfer programmes have expanded...
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  • Blog

    Five Myths about Impact Evaluation in the Humanitarian Space

    Humanitarian contexts are too difficult for impact evaluations Yes, conducting an impact evaluation becomes particularly challenging in crisis- and conflict-affected settings, but it can be done. The evaluation of Impacts of the World Food Programme’s interventions to treat malnutrition in Niger found that children who received both food for assets (FFA), and treatment and prevention assistance were 20 percent less likely to suffer moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) than children receiving no assistance. The World Bank’s impact evaluation of Afghanistan’s National Solidarity Programme – with...
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