USAID India advancing the US-India Partnership Platform
Enhancing the integration of collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) throughout the design and implementation of USAID India’s activities to advance the US-India development relationship.
Sean O’Leary is the Team Leader of our Research and Evidence Practice, and former Director of OPM’s South Africa office.
Sean has over 15 years of experience in international development, with a focus on Monitoring and Evaluation. Sean’s core interests include the implementation of experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation, theory-based evaluation, process evaluation, mixed-methods approaches, and econometric modelling.
During his time at OPM, Sean has led a range of research, monitoring, and evaluation projects across Africa and South Asia, covering a broad range of themes including in education, health, resilience, poverty and social protection, job creation, water & sanitation, and energy.
In addition to his technical expertise, Sean has significant experience in working directly with policy makers, governments, donor agencies, and NGOs at all stages of the M&E process, from articulating the purpose and needs for M&E to supporting the understanding and use of evidence by key stakeholders to improve programmes, policies, and public services.
Enhancing the integration of collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) throughout the design and implementation of USAID India’s activities to advance the US-India development relationship.
The FCDO’s Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) supports up to 1.5 million of the world’s most marginalised girls to complete a full cycle of either primary or secondary education. The Discovery Project 2 (DP-2) was a GEC-funded project, implemented by Impact (Ed) in northern Ghana (Northern Region), northern Nigeria (Kano State), and Kenya (Kajiado, Kiambu, Machakos, Nairobi, and Wajir counties).
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is Pakistan’s flagship social protection programme, targeted at the poorest households across 149 districts in Pakistan.
Unemployment has remained at 25% in South Africa in recent years, and is particularly severe among young adults. In response, the South Africa Jobs Fund was created.
The Bumb’INGOMSO HIV prevention programme aims to reduce HIV vulnerability among young women aged between 15 and 29, focusing on key high-risk groups in South Africa.
Key insights into different cash transfer payment mechanisms in Malawi
Part of the Uganda government's Expanding Social Protection programme
Increasing the use of evidence by policy makers in Uganda, Ghana, and Pakistan for informed decision making.
We provided technical assistance and monitoring to the SENSA programme, which supported NGOs providing full cycle primary education to poorest children in Sindh, Pakistan
Our evaluation helped to understand the effectiveness of approaches to strengthen sub-national health systems through supporting district health planning and management