JEREMY HOLLAND
Principal Consultant
Evaluation, Strategy & Learning
Jeremy is co-founder of Collaborative Impact and brings 30 years' in international development research on poverty and social inclusion, women’s empowerment, gender equality, rural development, participatory governance, policy & advocacy, and political economy. He has a long track record of supporting and facilitating evidence-led strategic reflection and learning, drawing on his expertise in mixed-method, participatory and gender-responsive developmental evaluation to understand complex change. Jeremy has provided support to monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) frameworks and systems across a wide range of organisations, programmes and sectors. He helped design and pilot our Participatory Impact Assessment and Learning Approach (PIALA) in Vietnam, and has led large multi-country evaluations and global strategy reviews using Participatory Statistics and story-based methods such as SenseMaker as part of a PIALA-based multi-case study design.
He has worked with a range of clients, including Nordic donors, DFID, UN agencies, the World Bank, the Commonwealth Foundation, CGIAR and IIED. Between 1996 and 2004, Jeremy was a lecturer and consultant at the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Swansea. In 2004 to 2005, he worked with the World Bank's Poverty-Reduction Group on conceptualising and operationalising the Bank's approach to measuring empowerment. From 2006 to 2009, Jeremy established a Social Development Team at Oxford Policy Management. During 2010-12, Jeremy was a Visiting Fellow with the IDS Participation, Power and Social Change team.