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Andrea Bina

Denmark

Andrea Bina Member since 02/04/2025

UNDP

MEL Specialist
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I work at the crossroads between innovation and sustainable food systems. 

Technical lead of the Systems Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation initiative. 

Currently based in Panama, I previously worked in Denmark, Palestine, and Georgia. I also worked on projects in Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Paraguay, Peru and Vietnam. 

Lead author of the Causality Assessment for Landscape Intervention (CALI) - https://www.undp.org/facs/causality-assessment-landscape-intervention

CALI was featured in the 2023 issue of the Veolia Institute FACTS report, accessible here: https://www.institut.veolia.org/en/publications/la-revue-de-linstitut-facts-reports/innovation-ecological-transformation

Other publications:
"How do we target deforestation in complex settings?" - https://www.undp.org/facs/blog/how-do-we-target-deforestation-complex-settings
"Defining Food Systems" in "Rethinking MLE for Food Systems Transformation" - https://medium.com/@UNDPfacs/rethinking-mle-for-food-systems-transformation-1-4-defining-food-systems-175a8083a01d
"Food Systems Change" in "Rethinking MLE for Food Systems Transformation" - https://medium.com/@UNDPfacs/rethinking-mle-for-food-systems-transformation-2-4-food-systems-change-acd02d979c47
"Documenting Food Systems Change" - https://medium.com/@UNDPfacs/rethinking-mle-for-food-systems-transformation-3-4-documenting-food-systems-change-3f47f656fe44
"Practicing what we preach: rethinking MLE in complex settings" - https://medium.com/@UNDPfacs/practicing-what-we-preach-our-experience-rethinking-m-e-in-complex-settings-6bdd682af343

My contributions

  • Blog

    Strengthening Systems MLE capacities in Indonesia

    This article relates the work and learning from one of the Systems MLE pilots. This article highlights the systems mapping pilot in Indonesia, the process and tools applied, key reflections on the experience and its broader implications. “Work to promote change requires nuanced local knowledge. It takes time, commitment and courage and local actors have the legitimacy, relationships and staying power required” ( Derbyshire et al., 2018 ). In Indonesia, the Systems MLE initiative partnered with the S ustainable Landscape Programme Indonesia (SLPI) to strengthen the systems thinking and working...
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