Before retiring from the civil service in 2017, Temitope was a deputy director at the Federal Ministry of Water Resources facilitating development cooperation with bilateral and multilateral agencies including African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW), Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA), United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF),UN-Habitat, and China’s Department of Foreign Aid of the Ministry of Commerce (Now China International Development Cooperation Agency).

Previously, Temitope held various management positions in the Nigeria government at the Federal Ministry of Education; Head of the Civil Service of the Federation; Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development; and the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. At these government ministries, she focused on designing and developing sector wide strategic papers, and providing technical support in program planning. During her career with the Nigerian government, she was a member of several inter ministerial committees which included – Development of the National Strategy for Public Service Reform; Infrastructure and Finance Mechanism Committee of Lagos-Ogun Megacity Authority; National Gender Data Bank; Development of NEEDS II ( National Economic Empowerment Development strategy) and a list of others. Her early days working with the Nigerian government was spent as a Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Water Supply and Quality Control.

Jody’s focus is on the practical use of tools, and other diagnostic instruments to support resource and strategic planning for national development or for program planning. She was a retired advisor and thought leader at the World Bank on results based management and co-designed the first model used for country assistance strategy planning, and project assessment. Jody has worked in over 46 countries, in Africa, the Middle East, East and South Asia, Central Asia, and Central America. She continued her work as Adjunct Professor of International Public Policy at the University of Maryland, in the USA and lecturer at the University of Witwaterstrand in Jonannesburg, South Africa. Jody is retired but continues to support private sector organizations in Africa in their efforts to help governments improve program planning and strategy planning.

Before retiring from the Nigeria public service in early 2019, Mallam Babagana was a Director at the Post Transaction Management Department of the Bureau of Public Enterprises where he was able to set up a results-based monitoring and evaluation framework for the post-privatization monitoring of privatized enterprises.

Previously, Mallam Babagana held various management positions in the public service at the Bureau of Public Enterprise, focusing on capital markets, post transaction risk management, and labor issues. He started his working career with the University of Maiduguri, where he taught sociology for 12 years, before he joined the services of the then National Electricity Power Authority as a senior manager in recruitment.

His current private consulting work focuses on governance in the Power sector of Nigeria

Beatrice has spent most of her career in Africa – Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, and Ghana, but has also worked in Central America and Palestine. She has mainly worked on the topics of youth employment as well as promotion of business start-ups and SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) in the context of local economic and market systems development. She is currently the project manager for GrEEn, a four year joint project implemented in the Ashanti and Western regions of Ghana by the European Union, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ghana, the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and SNV.

Previously, Beatrice held various consulting positions at the European Commission, GIZ, Adam Smith International, Austrian Development Agency, and most recently as Team Leader with GOPA Consultants on the Nigeria SEDIN (Pro-poor Growth and Promotion of Employment) program, focusing on SMEs and startup development.

Beatrice holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics from the Vienna University of Business and Economics in Austria and a Master Degree in Business Administration from the University of Münster in Germany.

Before joining Cloneshouse Nigeria in early 2015, Katie worked with the Department of City and Regional Planning at North Carolina. Previously, Katie held various technical positions in Philadelphia at Hawkson Studios, focusing on geometry editing and topology validation tools. She has also worked as a senior geo-spatial analyst consultant to the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), and the United Nations High Commissioners for Refugees (UNHCR).

At Cloneshouse Nigeria, she leads the design and development of location based monitoring and evaluation tools that are used for creating real time situation awareness, and analysis.

Before committing his time to Cloneshouse Nigeria, Oludotun was the Country Director of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Earth Hour project in Nigeria, and also the co-founder of Connected Development (CODE). Previously, Oludotun held various analytics positions in Lagos at Pfizer Incorporated, and at Internews, USA focusing on product quality control and data mining respectively. He has also worked as a research scholar fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC, USA.

At Cloneshouse Nigeria, Oludotun leads multi-sector monitoring and evaluation activities from pre-design to evaluation use stage. In the past 10 years, he has been involved in development evaluation of programs with the Japan International Corporation Agency, European Union Commission, GIZ , and Department for International Development (DFID).

Oludotun is a Stanford University Draper Hills Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Fellow; a member of the Nigeria Evaluation Association; the American Evaluation Association and the Institute of Management Consultants.

Since 2016, she held a management position responsible for developing development cooperation policies, operations, administration, and management of staff resources and training. She was responsible for international liason on Cloneshouse Nigeria’s German Development Cooperation (GIZ), European Union and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) projects at the design and tendering stage.

Noelle has worked on reviews and feasibility studies on public enterprises; financial technology; micro, small, and medium enterprises; polio interventions, basic education in a number of countries in Africa, including projects of the Department for International Development (DFID); Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA);, European Union (EU);, and the German Development Cooperation (GIZ).

She is a seasoned human capacity development enthusiast, leading the various training programs at Cloneshouse Nigeria. Over the years, she has focused on helping diverse organizations equip their A-Teams to deliver cutting edge solutions that tally with their goals. She recently facilitated the planning and execution of a Pan-African professional training for development specialists attending from within and outside Nigeria.

At Cloneshouse, he shows paramount efforts in maximizing performance of financial operations with emphasis on strategy formulation, policy and procedure development, cost reduction, and profitability improvement.

Adewale has demonstrated keen expertise in client finance compliance including projects of the Mastercard Foundation, United States Agency for International Development (USAID); Department for International Development (DFID); Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA);European Union (EU); and the German Development Cooperation (GIZ).

Before joining Cloneshouse Nigeria in late 2016, Samuel was a Senior Research Assistant at Renewable Energy Program, of the Federal Ministry of Environment where he actively headed the Research & Development activities of the department. His roles evolved from the development of the Rural Energy Access Program (REAP) which was aimed at ensuring affordable and sustainable clean energy access to the rural poor and reducing black carbon emissions to being actively involved in the Rural Women and Energy Security where over 1 million rural women in Nigeria were equipped with clean energy technologies/alternatives.

He was involved in preparing the first policy document on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency as well as the Action Plans for its implementation in Nigeria. prior to working at the Federal Ministry of Environment, he worked as an Environmental Consultant to Ravenwell Power Nigeria Limited where he assisted in registering and initiating all processes involved in establishing independent 50-100MW of solar plants across different states in the Northern part of Nigeria through the regulatory agencies involved.

At Cloneshouse Nigeria, Samuel has led multi-state evaluations in the area of Water, Health; and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. Samuel is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences of the Faculty of Health, at the University of KwaZulu Natal South Africa, where is major area of study is on on computational aided drug design and simulations.

Before joining Cloneshouse Nigeria in late 2019, Benita started Girls Green Power Initiative (GGPI). GGPI empower and tell stories from the water pot on how women and girls cope with lack of access to potable water supply and advocate for a sustainable source of water supply. Previously, Benita held a management position at the secretariat of the Nigeria Environmental Society (NES), and she is a member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, United Kingdom, where she holds an associate membership (AIEMA). Focusing on research, and environmental risk assessment. She has provided her research expertise in the area of environmental management to non-government organizations in Nigeria, England and Germany. She is currently a PhD candidate at Northumbria University, Newcastle United Kingdom, where she previously concluded a masters degree in International development.

Onochie is a senior expert with extensive experience in technical assistance and capacity building programmes. He has competently implemented development evaluations of the health, power and education sector, in cooperation with government authorities, agencies, line ministries, and donors: EU (DEVCO & ECHO), JICA and DFID) in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa regions.

He is highly regarded for his experience with developing M&E Plans, data collection and analysis of large scale civil society programmes, notably OXFAM, Palladium, Amnesty International and The Girl Generation. He has worked on Food Security Assessments in North Eastern Nigeria, Nutrition Response Analysis for FAO Nigeria and earlier large scale nutrition surveillance surveys for Save the Children in Nigeria. He is an alumni of CLEAR AA (Centers for Learning, Evaluation and Research) and MDF West Africa.

Prior to joining us in late 2017, Thelma worked as a researcher in think tanks and research organisations across Canada and Nigeria, and has spearheaded research funded by large donor organisations. Outside of research, she has taught economics at the undergraduate level in Canada, and at the high school level in public schools in Nigeria.

In 2019, she authored the Nigeria Readiness Assessment (NRA), an assessment of federal ministries in Nigeria for Results – Based Monitoring and Evaluation.

Steven has worked in Nigeria and Ghana on different areas of international interventions such as Education, Health (HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, Nutrition), Agriculture, WASH Peace and Governance with organizations such as the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA); Malaria Consortium; DevTech System by PEPFAR (The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief); CAMRIS Int’l by USAID; Mott Mac Donald – TDP (Teachers Development Program) and UKAID Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN).

Steven is an adept team leader capable of prioritizing complex tasks in fragile, post-conflict settings while moving multiple objectives forward to completion, roadmap for project institutionalization and sustainability with consideration to partner capacity and constraints. He is an expert in data management using different tools such as Excel, Smartsheet, SPSS, Access, Share-point, PowerBI, ODK, Commcare, SurveyCTO, SORMAS, Tangerine, Google form, Tableau, MAXQDA, Infogram, GIS, NVIVO, R, GHSMA-DATIM, CSpro, STATA, SAS, Python, FastField, SQL, Eview, DHIS2, ATLAS. He leads and coordinates training with field enumerators from mid size to large size projects.

Prior to joining Cloneshouse, she has been responsible for coordinating accounting reporting systems at the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), EchoLab Radiology, and for the DFID GEMS4 project. She has spent the last 4 years developing financial reporting systems compliance with auditing systems of major auditing companies in Nigeria including PWC, Ernst & Young, PriceWaterCooperhouse and a list of others.

Before joining us in early 2019,  Olusegun held various communications positions at Basic Rights Watch and Connected Development, focusing on web management and online communications. Previously, he had an 8-year stint working in the print media, notably -The Nations Newspaper.

At Cloneshouse Nigeria, He provided data gathering support to our work with the Center for Evaluation, Germany; Global Integrity USA; and the DFID Enhancing Financial Innovation and Accessing (EFInA); He also successfully carried out monitoring activities for ANEEJ’s Monitoring of Recovered Assets in Nigeria through Transparency and Accountability (MANTRA) project with support from DFID. Olusegun is a Transparency and Accountability practitioner, trained by Partners West Africa and Partners Global under the Knowledge Building Component and Skills Building Component of the FAIR (Facilitating Accountability, Integrity & Resiliency) program.

Before joining us in early 2021, Bilikis held various Mandarin language and administrative assistance position and embarked on a result-based Monitoring and Evaluation training with Cloneshouse Nigeria in Abuja, Nigeria.