Stephen Lister
Principal Consultant and Director
Stephen Lister has over thirty years’ consultancy experience. His areas of special interest include aid effectiveness, public financial management and education. In recent years he has increasingly focused on evaluations. He has led evaluation teams for assessments in individual countries as well as for very large-scale and high-profile cross-country studies, including the Independent Comprehensive Evaluation of the SUN (Scaling Up Nutrition) Movement, the mid-term review of the Education for All Fast Track Initiative (FTI), the OECD DAC joint evaluation of general budget support, long-term reviews of Danish aid in Uganda and Mozambique, a ten-country study of experiences in putting aid on budget, and evaluations of WFP’s school-feeding and nutrition policies. He has experience across Africa, as well as in Asia, the Pacific and transition countries.
MBA, The Open University (1998)
BA (First Class) Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford (1973)
Latest projects
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Ethiopia key issues paper
2019
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Ethiopia
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Global Affairs Canada
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Ethiopia Country Portfolio Evaluation 2012-2017
2019
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Ethiopia
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WFP
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Education Cannot Wait Independent Hosting Review
2018
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Global
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DFID
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Evaluation of the 11th European Development Fund
2017
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Multi country
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EC
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WFP McGovern-Dole School Feeding Evaluations
2017
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Multi country
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WFP
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Sri Lanka Country Portfolio Evaluation 2011-2015
2016
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Sri Lanka
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WFP
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Evaluation of Finland’s Country Strategies and Modality
2016
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Multi country
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MFA Finland
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Evaluation of the Emergency Nutrition Network
2015
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Global
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ENN
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Evaluation of WFP’s nutrition policy
2015
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Desk based
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WFP
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Guiding MDBs on Value for Money
2015
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Desk based
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African Development Bank
