heather.bryant@undp.org

Heather Bryant is Chief of Section for capacity development and quality assessment. In addition to conducting country, regional and thematic evaluations, Heather leads work to strengthen decentralized evaluation within UNDP as well as national evaluation capacities, organizing the 2017 and 2019 National Evaluation Capacities Conferences. Before joining the IEO in 2012, Heather worked for UNDP Nepal, heading the Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness Unit, where she was responsible for country programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, with a special emphasis on human rights, gender equality and social exclusion issues. She also facilitated the development by Nepal’s National Planning Commission of a Poverty Monitoring and Analysis System. She has designed and led many workshops and training courses on monitoring and evaluation for government officials, UN staff and partners. Prior to joining UNDP, Heather conducted research at the University of Lausanne’s Institute of Geography in Switzerland.