Richard Oladipo

Richard is a social development expert with more than 10 years of experience in the development sector with international and indigenous NGOs including Mercy Corps, Voluntary Services Overseas, and DevTech Systems Inc. Richard has designed and implemented monitoring and evaluation systems for several donor-funded projects across diverse thematic areas including education, agriculture and nutrition, adolescent and gender programming, sustainable energy, sustainability planning, and public policy.
Richard explores a professional niche in research, monitoring, and evaluation and leverages a well-grounded technical knowledge with a mix of adaptive management tools to support the implementation and delivery of high-impact results for multiple program portfolios at Sahel Consulting.
Richard holds a Master of Development Practice from the University of Ibadan. He is a certified Development Project Manager with the Association of Project Managers Group (APMG-International) and has completed the Quantitative Impact Evaluation certification by the Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank, the University of Bern, Switzerland and the Center for Evaluation, Germany. Richard maintains active membership status with relevant international and local communities of practice including the Nigerian Association of Evaluators (NAE) and Eval Youth.