Amy Erickson
USAID MEL Specialist

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Amy Erickson brings 25 years of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) experience and subject matter expertise in peacebuilding, psychosocial healing, conflict resolution, and gender equality practices, including 15 years of field-based experience in Africa and the Middle East. She served in MEL roles and as a MEL consultant for multiple USAID-funded projects in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, democracy and governance, and gender-based violence prevention. She uses a participatory approach, designing participatory monitoring and evaluation frameworks in collaboration with community-based and national organizations. In addition to her experience in MEL, Amy has significant experience designing and leading gender analyses and conflict analyses and integrating the results into program priorities and MEL frameworks for USAID-funded programs.

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Amy holds a BA in Peacebuilding, and Master’s degrees in Conflict Resolution and Sociology (PhD, ABD). She has extensive training in peacebuilding at the Institute for Justice and Peacebuilding at EMU. In addition, she is a certified MEL consultant for Reflecting on Peace Practice, a methodology for evaluation of peacebuilding, and the Do No Harm conflict sensitivity framework, both developed by Collaborative Development Associates. She has worked extensively in contexts experiencing protracted violent conflict and has substantial experience implementing complexity-aware methodologies, such as Appreciative Inquiry, Outcome Mapping, Outcome Harvesting, Most Significant Change (MSC), Social Network Analysis, and Causal Link Monitoring.