ADINDA VAN HEMELRIJCK

Managing Director
Principal Consultant
Evaluation, Strategy & Learning

Adinda is the founder of Collaborative Impact and brings over 28 years' of research, strategy and evaluation experience in international development, fostering sustainable and equitable solutions. She has led and implemented portfolio, programme and project evaluations, institutional strategy reviews and evidence-based learning processes in areas such as: health and immunisation, agriculture and food, climate resilience, social justice and empowerment, governance and social accountability, and research to policy & practice. She pioneered the Participatory Impact Assessment and Learning Approach (PIALA) with the International Fund for Agricultural development (IFAD) aiming to enhance evaluation uptake and learning among diverse stakeholders and user groups in complex (often political) evaluation contexts.

Adinda is known for her breadth of knowledge of the methodological landscape and her expertise in combining rigorous analysis and evaluative reasoning with well-facilitated stakeholder engagements. She excels in forming and steering teams to help organisations and partnerships effectively navigate and measure their change pathways from start to finish. Her expertise and leadership have been instrumental in the success of intricate institutional and programmatic evaluations and strategy designs with various clients, including: ISOC Foundation, DFAT and Birmingham University, Results for Development, ICIMOD, Commonwealth intergovernmental institutes, Nordic Africa Institute, CGIAR, IFAD, IIED, Oxfam, UN Women, UNICEF and WHO, and more.

Publications

• Heinemann E, Van Hemelrijck A and Guijt I. (2017). Getting the most out of impact evaluation for learning, reporting and influence. IFAD Research Series (16).

• Van Hemelrijck A. (2017). Rising to the Challenges of Impact Evaluation. Chapter 19 in: Van Den Berg. Evaluation for Agenda 2030. IDEAS.

• Van Hemelrijck A and Guijt I. (2016) Balancing Inclusiveness, Rigour and Feasibility: Insights from Participatory Impact Evaluations in Ghana and Vietnam. IDS.

• Van Hemelrijck A. (2013). Powerful Beyond Measure? Measuring complex systemic change in collaborative settings. Chapter 2 in: Sustainable Participation and Culture in Communication. Intellect.

• Van Hemelrijck, A. (2000). Towards an evaluation framework for the qualitative assessment of development education programmes of Belgian NGOs. Research Centre Communication for Social Change, University of Brussels.