Paola Andrea Espejo

MEAL Coordinator (Digital Performance & Data Products Lead)

PREMIÈRE URGENCE INTERNATIONALE

Dec 2023 - Sep 2024 (10 months)

• Owned a digital performance strategy, aligning stakeholders on user needs, success metrics, and end-to-end data workflows to strengthen delivery and decision-making.
• Led co-design workshops with programme and operations teams to translate needs into clear requirements, map user journeys, and agree success and adoption criteria for digital tools and reporting outputs.
• Delivered a monitoring and decision-support platform integrating CommCare, SQL, and Power BI, improving the timeliness and reliability of operational monitoring and partner/donor reporting.
• Standardized data structures and indicator definitions to improve comparability, reduce manual consolidation, and enable interoperability and adaptive management acros

MEAL Manager (Digital Monitoring & Decision Support)

PREMIÈRE URGENCE INTERNATIONALE

Oct 2022 - Nov 2023 (1 year 2 months)

• Led a portfolio of digital monitoring and decision-support solutions, aligning stakeholders on user needs, success metrics, and reporting requirements to strengthen accountability and learning.
• Delivered data capture and analytics solutions using Kobo and ODK, Microsoft Access, and Power BI, improving field workflows and enabling decision-ready reporting for adaptive programming.
• Established measurement and data quality standards, including indicator definitions, validation rules, and practical DQA processes to support performance reviews and evidence-based resource allocation.
• Coordinated cross-functional teams and external partners across sectors, clusters, and donors, including ECHO, USAID, and UN agencies, to ensu

MEAL Coordinator (RedRose Product Focal Point)

Medical Teams International

Jan 2022 - Oct 2022 (10 months)

• Served as the product focal point for RedRose, translating programme and finance requirements into configured workflows that supported cash delivery operations, real-time data flows, and donor compliance, while helping define implementation priorities and rollout sequencing.
• Planned and improved end-to-end service workflows for health and cash assistance, aligning digital processes with humanitarian standards and contributing to a phased roadmap for workflow adoption and operational scale-up.
• Delivered decision-support outputs, including insight briefs and interactive dashboards, to support programme reviews, budget realignments, and data-informed management decisions, enabling continuous refinement of product and implementa

MEAL Officer

Action Against Hunger

Jan 2020 - Sep 2021 (1 year 9 months)

• Led results-based data products and performance systems across humanitarian and development programmes, aligning RBM requirements with planning cycles and donor accountability to deliver consistent, decision-ready reporting.
• Developed scalable templates, SOPs, and knowledge products to capture best practices, enable adoption, and support the scaling of digital and process innovations across teams and partners.
• Enabled iterative improvement by translating real-time data and contextual analysis into actionable recommendations for operational planning and mid-term reviews, facilitating stakeholder alignment on priorities and trade-offs.
• Provided strategic advisory support through political economy, risk, and context anal

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Consortium MEAL Lead (ECHO-funded MAPA Consortium)

Alliance for International Solidarity

May 2019 - Dec 2019 (8 months)

• Led consortium-wide MEAL leadership across multiple organizations, coordinating end-to-end performance reporting and decision-support outputs to meet ECHO requirements and operational timelines.
• Acted as primary liaison across multiple organisations to harmonise results frameworks, reporting standards, and delivery cadence under donor constraints.
• Strengthened "evidence-to-decision” workflows: aligned stakeholders on priorities/trade-offs, surfaced risks, and supported adaptive management.
• Standardized results frameworks and accountability processes by aligning logframes, indicator definitions, monitoring tools, and reporting standards to improve coherence, comparability, and delivery quality.
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