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technical assistance to increase the availability of appropriate and affordable IntegratedSoil FertilityManagement technologies to sustainably improve agricul- tural productivity in northernGhana.Also he is currently the head of the farming system research teambased in theUpperWest regionofGhana. Lee Cando-Noordhuizen joined the GEF Independent Evaluation Office as a consultant inMarch 2015. She hasworked for variousUNagencies including the ExecutiveOffice of theUNSecretary-General,UNDP,UNICEFandUNFCCC in thefieldsof climatechange (mitigation, adaptation,finance,development impacts) and sustainable development. Recently, Lee was posted in Indonesia where she worked as a Climate Change Communications Coordinator for the Center for International ForestryResearch (CIFOR), and as a SeniorAdvisor to theGerman International Cooperation’s (GIZ) ASEAN-German Programme on Response to ClimateChange. Michael Carbon has joined the Evaluation Office of UNEP in Nairobi in April 2010, after working as an Evaluation Officer for IFAD in Rome since 2005. Michael led and contributed to a great variety of ex-post evaluations, including evaluations of rural development projects, environmental projects, country programmes and cross-cutting themes. Before he became an evaluation profes- sional,Michaelworked innorthernVietnam, as a technical assistant and later as a project coordinator in the field of rural extension and farmer organization, and conducted agri-systems research in Guine´e-Conarky, El Salvador and Cuba. On 01 February 2016, Michael returned to the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD as a Senior Evaluation Officer. Michael holds aMSc in Bio-engineering, specializing inForestry,NatureConservation andTropicalAgriculture fromKUL (Leuven, Belgium), an Engineering Diploma in Tropical Agronomy from CNEARC (Montpellier, France) and a PhDPreparatory Studies Degree inGeog- raphy andDevelopmentPractice from INA-PG(Paris). Joanne Chong is a Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney. Joanne leads collaborative, transdisciplinary research projects that focus on improving people’s resilience to drought, extreme events and other impacts of climate change. Joanne’s research addresses policy, institutional arrangements, planning and incentives in the water resources sector and for cross-sectoral local and regional development. As amonitoring and eval- uation specialist, Joanneworks in partnershipwith communities, businesses, gov- ernments, civil society and donors to investigate and apply practice learnings at local to global scales. Joanne holds qualifications in economics, engineering and environmental law. Monika Egger Kissling was educated as an economist at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. From1984–1996 researcher at the Institute forDevelop- ment Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. More than 15 years of experience in evaluation and consultancy in development cooperation as an 344 About theAuthors