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Nathan Morrow

Development Information Services International is a small woman-owned business in Louisiana. The President and CEO is Dr. Nancy Mock. DISI has been in operation for twelve years and is a corporation in good standing in the State of Louisiana. DISI provides evaluation and analytical services both domestically and internationally. DISI’s clients include United Nation’s World Food Programme, World Vision International, Chemonix and local law firms. DISI has undertaken global evaluations, major technical reviews, vulnerability assessment work in countries such as Mozambique and Angola and provided statistical analysis services for class action legal disputes.

The evaluation will be led by Dr. Nancy Mock, president and owner as well as Associate Professor at Tulane University. Dr. Mock was a major designer of the Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) and was the Associate Director of the Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (Latin America and Caribbean). She has over 20 years of international experience in project evaluation for multilateral organizations such as USAID and has worked as both team leader and principal investigator. Dr. Mock has extensive international experience in assessment, surveys, and reviews with focus on post-conflict and disaster settings. She has developed and facilitated training (US, Europe, Africa) on evaluation methodologies with focus on epidemiology, nutrition, food security and is broadly published in evaluation methodology development and impact evaluation. She participated in a rapid assessment of early coordination of the Haiti response in February.

Nathan Morrow is a geographer that has worked extensively on humanitarian and development information systems and vulnerability assessment with specific expertise in the use of remotely sensed and geospatial data. Nathan was an evaluator of the European Community funded Strengthening Emergency Needs Assessment Capacity project that systematically reviewed all of the United Nation’s World Food Programme assessments over a five-year period and evaluated the impact of more than 20 million Euros spent to improve this analysis. More recently, he has worked on an impact measurement and evaluation system for World Vision International that includes more than 1600 projects in 55 countries as well as hundreds of millions of dollars of bi-lateral and emergency programming. He has also worked on numerous technical reviews and acted as an evaluation manager. They will be assisted by Nicholas Kocmich who has several years of experience in community development in Haiti and is a fluent Haitian Creole speaker.

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