Svetlana Negroustoueva

Ms Svetlana Negroustoueva leads Independent Evaluation Function at CGIAR, which deliver science and innovation that advance the transformation of food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis. Svetlana has 20+ years of experience working with the World Bank (GEF and CIFs), the African Development Bank (link), several UN agencies, NGOs, and bilateral agencies (USG and DFID). She has worked on M&E activities at the intersection of R4D, sustainable landscapes, energy, health, food security, gender and social inclusion, and has been an active member of evaluation associations (AEA, EES). At CGIAR, she lead the development of the evaluation guidelines on evaluating Quality of Science, which are currently being applied to the evaluations of three science groups. She represents CGIAR on a Steering Committee of EvalFoward. Svetlana has a passion and expertise is in the domain of gender and evaluation; she was a co-chair of EvalGender+, the global partnership to promote the demand, supply and use of Equity Focused and Gender Responsive Evaluations.