Fiorina Mugione is a highly accomplished professional with a wealth of experience in development cooperation. Her previous role as Chief of Entrepreneurship at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development involved policy advice, training, mentorship, and coaching to entrepreneurs, women leaders, and young diplomats. In addition to her coaching and consulting work at GDSI and other firms, Fiorina is a Board of the Organisation of of Women in International Trade (OWIT) working on women's economic empowerment. As a Board Member of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), focusing on education and entrepreneurship, she actively supports initiatives that empower individuals and communities. Furthermore, as a Board member of Accelerate Africa, she plays a strategic role in driving the organization's mission of fostering economic growth and development in Africa. She also regularly work as expert advisor and Master Coach. She currently serves as an Ambassador for the European Union Capacity4Development program, where she contributes to promoting sustainable development through capacity building.

Mr. Ian Davies advises on corporate governance and executive management, with a focus on sustainable development and evidence-informed support to boards, executives, and political decision makers. He has held senior and executive positions in government such as Advisor to the Treasury Board of Canada; Advisor to the European Union Commissioners for Budget and for Financial Management; Advisor to the European Court of Auditors; Director at the Office of the Auditor General; Director at the Ministry of Health.

More recently Mr. Davies has been Lead Evaluator of the Joint SDG Fund for the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General; Chair of the Independent Review Panel on Performance and Evaluation of the Inter-American Development Bank; Advisor to the Minister of Budget and National Planning of Nigeria on National Performance; Independent Evaluator of the Macro-Economic Policy Division of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific; External Reviewer of the International Trade Centre and Enhanced Integrated Framework Fund, on the sustainability of agriculture and export programs. Mr. Davies has worked on a variety of export trade initiatives and innovation funds globally for both multilateral, e.g., World Bank, and bilateral, e.g., UK, funders and commissioners. He also advises private sector firms on corporate governance, risk assessment, due diligence and sustainability.

Mr. Davies' professional experience includes climate-related assignments. He has undertaken climate-financing analyses for mitigation of, and adaptation to, the effects of climate change in Latin America;
conducted evaluability assessments and quality assurance on evaluations of the Global Network of Climate Technology Innovation Centres; BRACED (Building resilience and adaptation to climate extremes and disasters); Climate Smart Agriculture in Zambia; Climate Smart Development in Nepal; the UK Climate Investments pilot programme. He has just completed a two-year continuous developmental evaluation of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative on governance of climate altering technologies with a focus on global governance of Carbon Dioxide Removal and Solar Radiation Management.

Mr. Davies engages effectively at the highest levels of governments and organisations. He has successfully coached and advised parliamentarians, ministers, commissioners, boards and directors of national and multinational institutions on governance, leadership, reform, policy formulation and implementation, and accountability. He brings a unique combination of hands-on knowledge and experience of organisational governance and management at national and international levels, strong leadership, conceptual and analytical skills, a demonstrated ability to work meaningfully across different cultures stemming from his personal background and social training as well as the ability to work seamlessly in English, French and Spanish.

Mr. Davies holds a post graduate degree in Public Administration. His educational background also includes mathematics, social science research, economics and public financial management.

He is a Credentialed Evaluator (CE), member of the Credentialing Board of the Canadian Evaluation Society, former President of the European Evaluation Society, former chapter President and Board member of the Canadian Evaluation Society, founding member of the International Evaluation Academy. Mr. Davies is a frequent speaker at professional conferences, university lecturer and researcher.

For further information please contact Mr. Davies directly by email idavies@capacity.ca or by telephone +33 6 89 40 88 38

Marie Körner is a senior Socio-economist and M&E specialist with over 30 years of experience

in all aspects of project cycle management from assignments in Africa, Asia (including Vietnam),

Europe and the Middle East. She has worked for different clients including UN agencies,

multilateral and bilateral donors, NGOs, IFIs, and the private sector. Ms. Körner is a skilled

evaluator with extensive experience in designing and implementing formative and summative

evaluations of development projects and programs using participative qualitative and

quantitative methods. She is also skilled in the planning, organization and implementation of

socio-economic surveys and in setting up monitoring systems. Her particular interest is the

sustainability and continued benefits from development interventions

Joaquin, director of To the core of things, is a monitoring, evaluation, researcher and programme manager of multimillion regional programmes and projects specialised in human rights, media, gender, community tourism and children/youth.

As the director and principal consultant of To the core of things consultancy firm, I bring over two decades of experience in results-based management, monitoring, and evaluation of international development programs, with a deep familiarity with EU and UNEG norms and standards. Throughout my career, I have developed and refined evaluation systems, policies, and related guidance for various DGs, national authorities, international NGOs and UN agencies. My work spans multiple regions, including Africa, Latin America, and Asia, focusing on human rights, media, gender, and education and youth programs. Notably, I have led strategic consultancies for different EU instruments including EIDHR, the EU social fund and also outside the EU for UNESCO and OHCHR. These consultancies focused on monitoring, evaluation, and reporting functions of international organizations including the assessment of these functions of UN agencies, OECD, the Council of Europe and the European Union.

My methodological expertise includes mixed-methods approaches and quasi-experimental designs that emphasise client and partner ownership, coherence with learning curves, and pragmatic solutions. These tools, developed under the Creative Commons IP from To the Core of Things, include research guidelines, organisational capacity assessment, modular reconstruction and adaptation of theories of change, stakeholder network maps methodologies, case study guidelines and approaches, outcome harvesting through Most Significant Change stories and implementation of machine learning approaches to development cooperation programmes.

The principles I apply in all my works are ownership of the works and the processes by the client and partners (through a strong participatory approach); alignment with latest trends in the field (including ICT4D, statistical techniques and humanistic considerations); coherence with the learning curve of the clients, and; pragmatism, proposing solutions in line with the interests, philosophy and capacities of the clients and its partners.

Key relevant work that reflects this range of skills and passions include ROM reviews for multi-country EU programmes, consultancies for UNESCO (evaluaitons, periodic reporting consultancies or MEAL system TA). Also for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) I have developed as well another strategic consultancy assessing their in-house monitoring and reporting function plus other programme and country evaluations. Other donors, include USAID, with consultancies carried for US Internews setting up the methodologies, managing seven multicultural teams and producing seven research products for their Rooted in Trust programme and leading several programme evaluations. Some other relevant examples of my works are the evaluation of an agriculture cooperative based project in Ethiopia funded by NORAD, the evaluation of a community radios programme in Zambia funded by the Netherlands; the research manager position for ECORYS and also academic publications in the Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation.

For more information visit https://tothecoreofthings.consulting; check our track of projects.