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Jo Carpenter

Jo Carpenter

MEL Manager

Jo is a senior manager, communication for development (C4D) practitioner, and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) professional with over 20 years’ experience leading development programmes that seek to amplify marginalised voices, provide equitable access to information, build research-policy linkages, and strengthen public interest media. 

Jo has worked extensively developing MEL systems and frameworks for a range of actors and projects. She has a special interest in increasing the impact of development interventions using participatory approaches to MEL, working in collaboration with academics, governments, civil society actors, and media partners, often in fragile and conflict-affected countries. Her role sits within the Knowledge, Impact and Policy (KIP) cluster where she leads the MEL components of large Consortium research programmes including K4DD, Better Assistance in Crises and Countering Backlash. She also works with external clients such as GIZ, IDRC, SDC and FCDO to design and deliver accompanied learning work https://www.ids.ac.uk/learn-at-ids/learning-for-development/. 

Research

Project

HeatNexus: Heat Adaptation Research for Action

Heat adaptation interventions are critical to manage the health effects of a changing climate. IDS is providing support HeatNexus, a network of nine Wellcome-funded research projects focused on such interventions in various LMICs between 2024 and 2030.

Project

ACET – Learning Partnerships for increased policy uptake

IDS is working with the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) to integrate an accompanied learning partnership as part of their GIZ-funded “Country Economic Transformation Outlook” (CETO) pilot in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. The learning collaboration aims to strengthen partnership...

Programme

Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research

The intersection of conflict, displacement, and recurring climate shocks, combined with evolving humanitarian responses, poses challenges for effective social assistance in protracted crises. BASIC (Better Assistance in Crises) Research, funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development...

Project

Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) Knowledge Translation Support

This knowledge translation project aimed to increase the visibility, support and uptake of research generated by IDRC’s cohort of CORE research projects, to foster evidence-based policymaking for response to and recovery from the socio-economic impacts of Covid-19.

Publications

Publication

Monitoring Inclusion in Crises

K4D Inclusion in Crises Learning Journey

This Briefing Note from the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) Programme responds to key challenges articulated by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development (FCDO) staff in monitoring how, and the extent to which, programming, policy and humanitarian interventions in crisis...

12 September 2022

Jo Carpenter’s recent work