Marion Baumgart dos Santos brings 29 years of experience in international development cooperation, with a strong focus on gender equality. She combines over 15 years of work as an independent consultant with 10 years as a programme manager, including eight years dedicated specifically to evaluation.
She has conducted more than 20 evaluations, several focused on access to finance and entrepreneurship, including youth employment, women’s cooperatives, small businesses, and income-generating initiatives. Her methodological expertise includes theory-based and mixed-method approaches such as OECD/DAC criteria, outcome harvesting, contribution analysis, and human rights and gender-sensitive frameworks. Her experience spans the full research and evaluation cycle, from study design and tool development to fieldwork, data analysis, stakeholder validation, and dissemination of findings to governments, donors, and civil society.
Her areas of expertise include access to justice, entrepreneurship, social cohesion, gender equality, human rights-based approaches, and the socio-economic empowerment of women. She has contributed to more than 15 assignments applying gender mainstreaming and rights-based methodologies and has worked across thematic areas such as HIV/AIDS, SRHR, health, nutrition, decentralization, and civil society strengthening.
Countries: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Eritrea, Eswatini, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, São Tomé e Príncipe, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
Languages: German (Native); English (Fluent); Portuguese (Fluent).
