Marina Apgar is co-director of the Centre for Development Impact and has led evaluation research in a number of large participatory research programmes, including the CLARISSA systemic action research programme focused on the worst forms of child labour, the Tomorrow’s Cities GCRF Interdisciplinary Research Hub and the Vestibule de la Paix peacebuilding programme.

She is a human ecologist and interdisciplinary researcher, with expertise in complexity theory and action research methodologies. She works on equitable and sustainable pathways to development through her methodological innovation and evidence building for systemic and participatory programming that responds to complex challenges.

She has edited volumes on participatory monitoring and evaluation, convenes professional development courses on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for Learning, Contribution Analysis for Impact Evaluation and Assessing the Strength of Evidence for IDS and the UK Evaluation Society. She leads the Causal Pathways initiative’s work on participation, rigour and quality and is a member of the Inclusive Rigour Co-Lab. As well as her research and teaching she accompanies local, international non-governmental and philanthropic organisations working on social equity as they build, test and use meaningful monitoring and evaluation systems.

Languages: English; Greek; Spanish; Guna