Chief Executive and Director of Business Development: Inayat Rahman
Mr. Rahman is the Chief Executive and Director of Business Development at RSI Consulting. He is a native Afghan research and evaluation specialist with more than 12 years of experience. Under his leadership, RSI has grown into an advanced technology based Monitoring and Evaluation firm for development interventions.
Prior to working with RSI, Mr. Rahman served as the M&E Director For Mercy Corps Afghanistan, and before that, an M&E Manager for a $150-million USAID-funded agriculture program.
As founding partner of RSI Consulting in 2010, Mr. Rahman has served in various consulting and management roles, and as senior director for business development. From August 2013 through Feb 2016, he also served as the Deputy Chief of Party for RSI’s prime contract with USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives—the Independent Monitoring Unit (IMU).
Mr. Rahman done analysis for large field studies with fieldwork of 6,400+ respondents for USAID programs including SHAHAR (8,000 sample size), PROMOTE (6,400 sample size), IDEA-NEW (many case studies and surveys over five years), ADP/E, DAI/ASI-E, AECOM/SIKA-E and others. Mr. Rahman speaks fluent Pashto and Dari, has strong knowledge of primary research techniques tailored to the Afghan context as well as SPSS and STATA software. He also understands common data quality pitfalls in Afghanistan, and is well adept at managing all kinds of M&E staff to yield high-quality results. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Peshawar University in Pakistan and a Master’s degree from Brandeis University in Boston, MA in the area of Sustainable International Development, which he earned on a Fulbright Scholarship.
His Master’s Thesis was titled: Effects of Unconditional In-kind Transfers on Individual’s Expenditures: Results from Randomized Control Trial in Amazon, Bolivian Panel Survey: 2008 & 2009. Data was from a Randomized Control Trial design; the research used “difference-in-difference estimates” to see the effects of unconditional in-kind transfers on individual’s expenditures.
Director of Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support Team: Margaret Orwig
Ms. Margaret Orwig works as the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support Team at RSI. Ms. Orwig has sound expertise in research, monitoring and evaluation for more than 13 years. She has field experience in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nicaragua, Kenya, Liberia and Southern Sudan.
Her expertise includes monitoring and evaluation, primary research, methodological design, analysis, writing and reporting for international development projects, primarily USAID programs. Ms. Orwig has worked in Afghanistan since 2008, advised the design and implementation of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems for a number of USAID’s projects in Afghanistan, and has sound knowledge of instrument design, methodologies, project management, quality control, data analysis and reporting, as well as advanced understanding of USAID policies, priorities and regulations.
Ms. Orwig served as the Chief of Party for RSI’s prime contract with USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) – the Independent Monitoring Unit (IMU)—from August 2013 through February 2016. In this role, she oversaw 65 full-time staff, and provided technical as well as compliance and financial oversight for the contract. She oversaw the implementation of more than 800 field-monitoring visits, as well as additional field visits for 12 in-depth, outcome/impact-driven case studies.
Under her leadership, RSI’s Contractor Performance Assessment Review (CPAR) from the federal government was rated as Exceptional two years in a row, and very good value for money. She built systems that enabled RSI to pass a stringent USAID post-award survey and two external audits. She also pioneered technology solutions for the contract, managing the development of a smartphone-based App for use in some of the most insecure areas of Afghanistan.
Since 2010 with RSI, she has also served in the capacity of advisor for monitoring, evaluation, and related research, written and analyzed many case studies, impact evaluations, research reports and numerous M&E plans for USAID, Dfid and EU-funded projects. She regularly advises M&E teams on tools, methodologies and approaches tailored to the Afghan context. She has conducted analysis on a range of themes, including those related to gender, stability programming, agriculture, livelihoods, vocational activities and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Prior to working with RSI, she acted as the Knowledge Management Advisor for two $100 million+ USAID agriculture programs: ADP/E and IDEA-NEW projects from 2008-2010, where she managed all M&E and Communications-related activities.
Ms. Orwig is a U.S. citizen with a BA in International Development from Grinnell College, as well as significant training in several research areas from California State University, Northridge where she studied at a Master’s Degree level. She speaks basic Dari, and possesses a USG secret-level security clearance.
Senior Associate of Application Development and Management Information System: Jamil Rehman
Mr. Jamil Rehman is an Afghan expert with sound expertise in computer science and information technology, with a particular focus on data management systems. Mr. Rehman works with RSI as Senior Associate of Application Development and Management Information Systems (MIS). In this capacity, he has developed several basic-to-advanced applications along with the processes for data collection, administration, and quality assurance for a number of USAID projects including the PROMOTE baseline data collection. Mr. Rehman is well adept in designing, reviewing, and implementing MIS system along with the Data Quality Control (DQC) system and process to ensure compliance with protocols related to data security.
Mr. Rehman ensures that the designed application for a particular project is programmed with the right source code, tailored to the unique requirements of that project, and is the right M&E solution to streamline the data flow from the field to the interactive dashboard. Since 2015 with RSI, Mr. Rehman has led and supported the application and management information system for more than a dozen USAID projects; to name a few: USAID/RADP-N, USIAD/SHAHAR, USAID/PROMOTE, USAID’s OTI-funded IMU. Mr. Rehman has expertise with technology as well as with paper data management and cleaning.
Senior Associate of Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support Team: Muzhda Qaderi
Ms. Muzhda Qaderi works as a Senior Associate of Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support team at RSI. She is an Afghan Citizen with more than eight years of professional working experience in the capacity of monitoring and evaluation with different humanitarian organizations. Ms. Qaderi supports the initial design, pilot testing, and subsequent implementation of the M&E system for various projects. Her support includes working with the client’s M&E team to review and tailor the performance management plan (PMP), and activities of the project to RSI’s innovative technology based M&E solution. She also serves as a primary focal point between the client’s M&E team, and RSI’s application development team. She is also integral to the independent third party monitoring of USAID’s funded projects, where she reviews field monitoring reports, findings, and recommendations by field teams to project management and USAID.
Before her work with the RSI, she worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation specialist and then Data Quality Control team leader with a number of USAID funded projects, including USAID’s Stability in Key Areas (SIKA-E), implemented by AECOM. She has conducted more than a dozen Data Quality Assessments (DQAs) using ADS 203 standards. In addition, she remained a key team member in designing the Monitoring and Evaluation System for many USAID projects. Ms. Qaderi is energetic with significant writing abilities to accurately convey the message to the readers. Ms. Qaderi has advanced skills in English, Dari, and Pashtu, and can work with a diverse ethnic field teams.
Senior Associate of Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support Team: Mohammad Mobin Sadeq
Mr. Mohammad Mobin Sadeq works as a Senior Associate of Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support team at RSI. He is an Afghan Citizen with more than seven years of professional working experience in the capacity of monitoring and evaluation, where he worked on different USAID and World Bank funded projects with international donors such as ACDI/VOCA, ARD, Chemonics, AIT-BU, and IOM. His work experience on these entities include designing M&E systems, including logframes and performance indicators, as well as training project teams on these systems. Mr. Mobin is a young and dynamic individual with considerable experience in managing large teams. His native langue is Dari, and he fluently speaks and write English, and Pashtu as well.
In this capacity with RSI, Mr. Sadeq supports the initial design, pilot testing, and subsequent implementation of the M&E system for various projects. In particular, this includes working with the client’s M&E team to review and tailor the performance management plan (PMP), and activities of the project to RSI’s innovative technology based M&E solution. He also serves as a primary focal point between the client’s M&E team, and RSI’s application development team.
RSI has proposed Mr. Mohammad Mobin Sadeq as a Team Manager for North. Mr. Mobin is an Afghan and holds a Master degree as well as Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from Balkh Engineering Faculty. Mr. Mubin has more than seven years of experience in the area of Monitoring and Evaluation,
Data Analysis Staff
Analyst reach-back capabilities (remote): Ricardo Godoy
Mr. Godoy is a Professor of International Development at Brandeis University. Degrees: Columbia University, Ph.D. Harvard University, M.P.A. University of Chicago, M.A. Tufts University, B.A.
Dr. Godoy is a cultural anthropologist who draws on insights from evolutionary biology and economic theory to formulate hypotheses about the effects of market exposure, globalization, or modernization on the well-being and the use of natural resources of indigenous people. He collaborates with biological and cultural anthropologists from Northwestern University, the University of Georgia, and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in a study called the Tsimane Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS). The research team carries out annual survey waves in which they measure a wide range of socioeconomic, demographic, health, and psychological indicators.
Besides Bolivia and the study of globalization, he has done and continues to do randomized control trials of a wide range of interventions among native Amazonians in Bolivia. Expertise: Acculturation; inequality; social capital; econometrics; research design; Bolivia; indigenous peoples; native Amazonians; panel studies
He has worked with RSI previously to advise upon its analysis and statistical strategies for its Promote baseline work for USAID. He is an expert in STATA software and will oversee and review analysis remotely for the work.