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Della McMillan

Dr. McMillan is a Courtesy Scientist in the Department of Anthropology

Women in Development

Women in Development (WID) Highlights

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  • Women in Development (WID) strategy development for country programs and development projects
  • Design of training and reporting modules to build staff and local community capacity on the special opportunities and challenges faced by women on donor-funded projects
    • Publication: 4.2
  • WID Expert on 10+ Evaluation and Design Missions and 10+ environmental assessment and evaluation missions
  • Articles and technical papers on WID issues (20+)
  • Development of WID issues in development policy document for OCP river basin development
    • Publication: 9.5
  • Experience with the design and evaluation of projects to promote women’s issues in post-conflict settings (Iraq and Angola)
    • Publications:
      • Other Documents Produced for USAID and USAID-Funded Projects and Programs: 3.4.1, 3.4.2
      • Articles: 8.5
  • WID Consultant MCC/Burkina Faso, 2009-2012

 

Topic/Sector/Donor Activity Countries Agency
WID Integration Strategies and Sector Reviews for Projects and Programs
Integration Plan With I. Kabre co-produced MCA-BF’s first WID Integration Action Plan (PAIG) (2010) Burkina Faso MCC-BF
Sector Reviews
Agriculture, Roads, Rural Land Governance		 With I. Kabre co-facilitated WID focal points associated with each sector intervention producing a baseline WID diagnostic of the MCA Compact Agreement (2011) MCC-BF
Sector Reviews
Rural Land Governance		 Led three-person national team charged with increasing the capacity of ongoing and new World Bank funded programs in Burkina to address WID issues (1992) Burkina Faso World Bank Office and UNDP
Resettlement and New Lands Settlement Planning
OCP River Basins Policy paper  on WID issues in OCP settlement and development (1994) 11 countries of West Africa World Bank
  Longitudinal research on the direct and indirect impacts of sponsored and spontaneous settlement in the OCP River basins on women and their families (1980-2000) 11 countries of West Africa with the strongest emphasis on Burkina followed by Mali, Togo and Ghana World Bank
MCA-BF (Millennium Challenge Account of Burkina Faso) (1) Routine monitoring of the WID issues in the Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs) for Burkina’s Compact agreement with the US government through MCC (2009-2012)
(2) Design of an internal training module on WID issues and resettlement, based on MCA-BF experience (2012)		 Burkina Faso MCC-BF
MCA-Mali Member of three person team responsible for advising MCC and the Mali government on the key issues what would need to be considered in the evaluation of a MCC-funded irrigation and resettlement scheme with a special focus on women’s issues (2007) Mali ABT Associates for MCC-Mali
Office du Niger WID review of the Environmental Assessment of a proposed loan for the rehabilitation of the Office du Niger and development of new small irrigation perimeters (2000) Mali Buursink International Consultants for the World Bank
Project and Program  Designs
  Participated in initial design of World WID Fellowship Program for USAID based at the University of Florida that sponsored internships for US professionals in US funded NGO and non-NGO initiatives (1996-1997) World Wide University of Florida
Facilitated the development of programs to promote social equity in agricultural research and extension programs in areas characterized by semi-arid agriculture in Africa’s Horn (2000) (1) Direct Fieldwork: Uganda, Kenya, Eritria, Ethiopia
(2) Based on literature review and interviews: Somalia, Sudan, Djibouti		 INTSORMIL for IGAD (Inter-governmental Authority for Development) and USAID
(1) Preparation of a Keynote Presentation on Extension and Human Resource Issues (with an emphasis on WID) associated with semi-arid agriculture in the Seven-Country IGAD country Zone in East Africa’s Horn
(2) Preparation of two draft proposals for USAID from IGAD for a regional human resource development project (with a emphasis on WID) and a second focused on the national extension services (INTSORMIL and IGAD for USAID) (1999-2000)		 Kenya for the IGAD region (Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti)
Designed the rural component of a “National Program for Improving Living conditions,” and two special programs focused on rural and urban women as part of the eight-person team that designed Burkina Faso’s National Action Plan for the Environment (NEAP) (1990) Burkina Faso Buursink International Consultants for the World Bank
Post-Conflict Transition and Redevelopment Programs
Participated in four person team to identify ways that WID issues could be better addressed in USAID’s post-conflict strategy and programming in Angola (1997) Angola DAI for USAID
WID analysis associated with final report on the Community Stabilization Programme (2009-2010) Iraq IRD for USAID
Due Diligence Assessments of Program Proposals and Strategies
WID specialist on six-person team for social and environmental assessment for Inter-American Development Bank Agriculture and Trade policy loan (1998) Suriname Buursink International Consultants for the Inter-American Development Bank
Preparation of annotated bibliography and CD based library of all WID due diligence on the MCC Compact Agreement with Burkina (2010) Burkina Faso MCC-BF
WID specialist on three-person mid-term assessment team of the three principal contracts associated with USAID/Mali’s Accelerated Economic Growth (AEG) strategic objective (2005) Mali USAID/Mali
Review and revision of the Environmental Assessment of a proposed loan for the rehabilitation of the Office du Niger and development of new small irrigation perimeters (2000) Mali Buursink International Consultants for the World Bank
Primary responsibility for WID, NGO and extension analysis, shared responsibility (with Eliud Omolo and John Sanders) for design and execution of a six-country field study of and opportunities for extending higher yielding crop technologies into semi-arid areas of East Africa (1999-2000) Uganda, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Sudan,
Djibouti		 IGAD and USAID
Led four-person team charged with evaluating World Bank assistance for health and education development and urban infrastructure sectors in Burkina  as well as Bank-wide initiatives to reduce poverty and WID inequality as part of the Burkina Country Assistance Review (CAR) Burkina Faso World Bank
 Training  and Module Development
Senior Training Facilitator for the MCC Capacity Building in Social and WID Integration for MCA-Accountable Entities and Implementing Partners Project (2010) All MCC Countries in Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe,Asia MCC
In collaboration with F. Bacye developed a training module on strengthening the consideration of women’s special opportunities and constraints in reporting and co-facilitated training session on this topic for MCA-BF  (March 2011) Burkina Faso MCA-BF
Routine Technical Assistance for Programming
Routine technical assistance and support to the MCA-BF WID and Social Manager for document review and revision and technical assistance to projects and project consultants for program execution (2009-2012) Burkina Faso MCC-BF
Program Evaluations
WID specialist four-person multidisciplinary team person team that evaluated the USAID-funded Africa region PARTS Project (USAID) that supports multi-disciplinary, comparative research in agricultural and natural research management in Sub-Saharan Africa (1994) US Tropical Research and Development for USAID
WID specialist on three-person mid-term assessment team of the three principal contracts associated with USAID/Mali’s Accelerated Economic Growth (AEG) strategic objective (2005) Mali USAID/Mali