Armen Melkumyan has had over 25 years of work experience, of which 20 timewise (since May 2003) – in monitoring, evaluation, programming, mainly for the EU, and occasionally for other international development partners, such as DANIDA, SDC/SECO, UN family organisations, DFID and USAID. He has had over 15 years of cumulative experience in EU Results-Oriented Monitoring, strategic evaluations and as a technical cooperation consultant for coordination and capacity building. Overall, Armen has assessed and evaluated 205projects in 16 sectors and 22 countries, all management modes and aid modalities (TA/TC, Twinning, TAIEX, SIGMA, indirect management with pillar assessed organisations, Blending, Budget Support, joint programmes, TEI). Since 2014 Armen has been working as an expert to the SQ2M, DG INTPA D04 (DEVCO Unit 06 in 2014), where he, first, piloted the EU Results Framework in 2014, and then worked as QC expert for annual results data collection (over 200 country, regional, thematic results reports) and as an expert for QA of intervention logics and logframes of 221 Commission decision-level Action Documents. Armen led and authored evaluation reports on Twinning instrument in Armenia, Georgia an EU-funded Accelerate Prosperity intervention in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; and participated in other 5 country, regional programme and funding instrument-based evaluations, by undertaking and authoring specific components. He also worked as a programming and design expert for formulation of Action Documents and Twinning Fiches.
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Development Effectiveness
EU Internal Procedures
Budget support
Capacity Development
Intervention Cycle Management (Project/Program Cycle Management)
Development Policy
Economics & Public Finance
Education
Governance & Corruption
Human Rights
Knowledge Management
Migration & Forced Displacement
Monitoring & Evaluation
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation
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