Mariane Arsenault
Senior Associate
Based in Montreal, Canada.
Fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Intermediate Portuguese
Mariane Arsenault is a Senior Evaluation Specialist with nearly 15 years of experience in development effectiveness supporting UN organisations (UNICEF, UN Women, UNHCR, ILO, ICAO, OCHA); international financial institutions and multi-donor trust funds (World Bank, Caribbean Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank); INGOs (Forum of Federations, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Disability Rights Fund, Rights and Democracy); bilateral donors (SIDA, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and Global Affairs Canada, OAS, CIDA); and research institutions (Canadian International Development Research Council, Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning).
With a strong academic background in evaluation, Mariane regularly designs advanced analytical tools and leads complex quantitative and qualitative analysis for both development and humanitarian programming. For instance, she recently led the Evaluation of UNHCR’s Global Fleet Management, drawing on extensive quantitative data to develop a multi-scenario cost-benefit analysis. She also has extensive experience designing complex theories of change for diverse programming and has conducted a number of global organisational assessments, including the Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN) Common Assessment. Mariane holds vast sectoral expertise in children’s rights, child protection, gender equality, migration, human rights, and humanitarian intervention and regularly brings this sectoral knowledge together through assignments such as recent evaluations of the UNDAF in Cambodia and UNDAP in Rwanda. She has designed and led a number of large-scale complex meta-analyses, including for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and Global Affairs Canada, where she assessed the quality of evaluation reports as well as the development effectiveness of both organisations by reviewing and assessing over 120 evaluation reports. She also led an extensive meta-analysis review of the Rockefeller Foundation Grants Portfolio.
Mariane was the Lead Technical Reviewer for the UNICEF Global Evaluation Reports Oversight System (GEROS) in 2015, where she led the technical review team and provided quality assurance for all GEROS reviews of final evaluation reports. From 2014 – 2018, she was the Team Leader for the UNICEF Quality Assurance Facility for the Review of Evaluation and Research Deliverables for 5 UNICEF Regional Offices (also known as the GEROS regional help-desks), supporting the quality assurance of UNICEF evaluation terms of reference (ToRs), inception reports, and draft reports. Mariane has also supported UNICEF through a number of other evaluation initiatives, including leading an Evaluability Assessment for the UNICEF Thailand Country Office, the Final Evaluation of the Retorno de la Alegría Programme in Honduras, an Evaluability Assessment of UNICEF Nigeria Training Investments, an Evaluability Assessment for the UNICEF Angola Country Programme, and the Mid-Term Evaluation of the UNICEF Mali Country Programme.