Monitoring Evaluation Research and Learning

The MERL Lead will be responsible for developing and managing MEL activities for a high-quality, results-oriented, counter trafficking-in-persons (TIP) project in Nepal that covers the “four Ps”: prevention, protection, prosecution, and partnerships. The MERL Lead will oversee the implementation of all of the program’s MERL activities, data reporting requirements to USAID and directly manage two MERL staff (including a MEL Specialist and an MEL Officer).
The MERL Lead will also provide strategic and technical direction and oversight to policy and action-oriented monitoring and research by project staff, grantees, CSOs and international partners to strengthen local capacity to inform policy around counter trafficking in persons (CTIP) efforts in Nepal. The MERL Lead will manage the project’s learning agenda and implement international and local level research to contribute to evidence-based policy advocacy and global learning. The MERL Lead will also provide oversight for the management of the MERL system to ensure data quality and collaborative learning and adaptation throughout implementation sharing learning and providing evidence to drive the project forward to achieve meaningful and sustainable impact that reduces human trafficking.
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