Consulting with purpose and responsibility
We believe that our consultancies should contribute positively to humanity and the ecosystems that sustain it. We focus on generating insights and advice that are meaningful, practical and genuinely useful. We work in close collaboration with our clients and their key stakeholders from the beginning through to the completion of our consultancies, to make sure that our work best meets their needs.
How do we work?
We undertake our work through a global cooperative network that operates fully remotely. Our business model minimises our fixed costs enabling us to provide high-quality services and excellent value for money for our clients.
Our network brings together experienced professionals from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, with both global and regional expertise, so that we can mobilise for each assignment the most appropriate set of required qualifications, experience and skills.
Worldwide presence with local insight
ICDC works in close partnership with a vetted pool of associate consultants across sub-Saharan Africa, the MENA region, Europe, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Indian subcontinent.
Interdisciplinary expertise
ICDC brings together specialists from multiple disciplines, allowing us to approach complex challenges from complementary analytical perspectives.
Context-sensitive engagement
Our network bridges contexts and cultures, providing a deep understanding of local nuances and power dynamics, facilitating access to communities and supporting the development of contextually relevant findings.
Responsive and scalable operations
ICDC’s flexible structure enables rapid mobilisation of multidisciplinary teams tailored to each assignment, from small-scale technical reviews to complex multi-country evaluations.
Approach and ethical framework
Commitment to social and environmental justice
We are guided by a commitment to justice—epistemic, political, economic, social, and environmental—and by the principles of human rights, equity, honesty, transparency, humility, fairness, dignity and respect. Our approach combines value-anchored realism with innovative, up-to-date methodologies, including epistemically just and decolonising practices that recognise diverse forms of knowledge.
Participative approach
We recognise that those best positioned to understand organisations—their challenges, constraints and practical opportunities—are the people working directly in them. Our role is to bring together evidence generated through the assignment, expert advice and insights from comparable experiences to support informed decision-making. For this reason, we adopt a co-creation approach across all our consultancies, engaging stakeholders to identify solutions and approaches.
Added value for all stakeholders
We view evaluation as a process that should create value for all stakeholders, including clients, partners and served communities. We systematically engage key groups to understand their expectations and identify the knowledge and learning they would value most. We do this with consideration of existing power dynamics, creating space for the voices, perspectives and interests of communities to be heard and reflected.
Meet the dedicated experts shaping our international consulting efforts
Core team
Ian Davies
Canada
Executive Director
25+ years of international experience at the intersection of governance, evaluation and organisational learning, supporting governments and global organisations to strengthen accountability, improve performance and navigate complex systems to advance policies for sustainable development.
- Organisational, programme and system-wide evaluations
- Governance and accountability frameworks
- Public administration and public financial management reforms
- Evaluation policies and systems
- Sustainable development and international cooperation effectiveness
Romane Lord-Morin
Canada
Consultant and Project Coordinator
Professional consultant working across international and multilateral environments, with experience in public policy processes, including the design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and programmes in international contexts.
- Public policy analysis
- UN system and multilateral governance
- Implementation of international conventions
- Project management and international network coordination
- Thematic experience in cultural diversity, cultural and creative industries, international trade and digital transformation in society
Sabrina Ouellet
Canada
Governance, Evaluation and Learning Specialist
15 years of experience in international development, bringing a practitioner perspective to evaluation, organisational learning, and evidence-informed decision-making. Extensive field experience in Cambodia and Iraq, supporting gender equality and governance initiatives in complex and fragile settings.
- Evaluation and organisational learning
- Evidence-informed decision-making
- Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB)
- Theory of Change and adaptive management
- International development and knowledge localisation
- Democratic governance and parliamentary strengthening
- Human rights, women’s rights, and GBA+
- Do No Harm and conflict-sensitive approaches
Ziad Moussa
Lebanon
Senior M&E Specialist
18+ years of experience delivering large-scale, complex evaluations, combined with expertise in local governance and extensive experience across development and humanitarian contexts, especially in the MENA region.
- Programme monitoring and evaluation
- Urban governance and decentralisation
- Participatory local development and city resilience
- International development and humanitarian action
- Conflict-sensitive adaptive M&E
- Local agrifood systems and the water-waste-energy-food nexus
John Crowley
France
Senior Policy Analyst
35+ years of international experience including senior management in the United Nations system, supporting governments and private organisations managing global environmental, social and technological transformations.
- Social, environmental and technological transformations
- Renewable energy solutions
- Connections between culture and sustainable development
- Sustainable Development Agenda
- International cooperation
- Ethics of science and technology
- CEO of PHGD Group
Global expert network
Albine Guitard
France
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
- International development and cooperation
- Programme and project management
- Policy research and analysis
- Programme and project evaluation
- Evaluation capacity building and organisational learning
- Evaluation quality assurance
- Liaison and public narrative
Candice V. Sankarsingh
Trinidad and Tobago
Senior Learning Systems & Quality Governance Specialist
- Public and enterprise-scale learning systems
- Quality assurance and governance frameworks for digital learning ecosystems
- Evaluation of learning design and programmes
- Accessibility and inclusive learning compliance
Cecilia Deme
Hungary/Brazil
Senior Evaluation Team Leader
- Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
- Migration governance
- Adaptive social protection
- Conflict resolution and peace-building
- Gender analysis, human rights-based approaches, and conflict sensitivity lens
- EU & UN external action
Denis Jobin
Canada
International Development and Public-Sector Governance Specialist
- Programme planning, monitoring, evaluation and performance audit
- Results-based management
- Multidimensional poverty, equity and social protection in development, humanitarian and fragile contexts
Donna Podems
South Africa
Researcher, Facilitator and Expert in M&E
- PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies: Evaluation and Organisational Development
- Evaluation capacity building and M&E frameworks
- Evaluation methodologies
- Technical areas: education, environment, finance, youth, gender and women’s empowerment, health, agriculture
Fred Carden
Canada
Research and Evaluation Specialist
- Evaluation systems and frameworks
- Quality of international development research
- Global health
- Evidence-based public policies
- CEO of Using Evidence Inc.
Jeff Camkin
Australia/Portugal
Water, Climate and Sustainable Development Specialist
- Water, fisheries, and agriculture policy and governance
- Education and capacity building in natural resources management
- Sustainable development in a changing climate
- Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the World Water Policy Journal
Kai-Uwe Barani Schmidt
Brazil
Climate Action and Sustainable Development Specialist
- Global Climate Action Agenda
- Climate-altering technology governance
- UN Secretary-General’s teamlead for Paris 2015 Action Agenda
- Co-created the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency
- Climate finance and carbon-market governance
Madina Tursunova
Uzbekistan
Intellectual Property, Media & Digital Rights Lawyer LL.M. in Intellectual Property
- Intellectual property & copyright
- Media law & media freedom
- Access to information
- Digital rights, online platforms and AI regulation
- Freedom of expression
Mohamadou Sy
Senegal
Strategic planning and evaluation specialist
- 30+ years of experience, Ph.D. in management science
- Strategic planning
- Financial resource mobilisation
- Project evaluation
- Higher education institutions
- Sustainable development
Paul Baker
Mauritius
Chairman of International Economics Consulting (London, Mauritius, Vietnam), Emerging Markets International (Belgium) and the Africa Trade Foundation. Senior economist and trade strategist, adviser to G7, G20 and G90 countries, with 30+ years experience in over 90 countries.
- Strategic corporate growth
- Trade Policy, Investment, digital trade and e-commerce
- Global production networks and supply chains
Paulo Teixeira
Portugal
Planning and Evaluation Expert
- Strategic and operational planning at organisational, programme and project levels
- Evaluation of programmes, projects and public policies
- NGO management
- International development
- EU and UN external action
- CEO of Logframe
Thomas Aston
Dominican Republic/United Kingdom
Evaluation, Research and Learning Specialist
- PhD in Development Planning
- Evaluation Journal Board Member
- 20 years experience across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East
- Expert in theory-based and participatory approaches to evaluation
Wanda Karina De Jesus Pozo
Dominican Republic
Psychotherapy Interventions and Evaluation Consultant
- Programme and public policy evaluation
- Clinical psychology
- Psychoeducational projects
- Social risk, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation
- Collaborative social oversight
- Latin America and the Caribbean