MEET OUR EXPERTS!
CRS has a large team of senior advisors who provide technical assistance in a variety of areas. With a wealth of experience in their fields, they help ensure that CRS programming meets the needs of the people we serve. On this page you will find the directors of CRS' Program Quality and Support Department based in Baltimore, Maryland (USA) and senior-level advisors located in Baltimore and other countries around the world.
Directors |
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| Dorrett Byrd is an expert in technical assistance, innovation in international development and the quality and effectiveness of CRS programs. |
David Leege specializes in the integral human development framework, a holistic approach to programming used in strategic planning and project design processes. |
Shannon Senefeld advises on HIV and AIDS, including psychosocial support, counseling, home-based care, PEPFAR, anti-retroviral therapy and nutrition. | ||
Agriculture |
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| Rupert Best provides technical assistance and training on innovative technologies and methods for the production and marketing of smallholder products. |
Robert Delve advises on innovative technologies for crop and livestock production, adaptation to climate change, environmental compliance and natural resource management. |
Shaun Ferris specializes in agroenterprise development and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). |
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| Geoffrey Heinrich is an expert in agricultural development and livelihood strategies for smallholder farmers, and provides a wide range of technical support to CRS field programs in southern Africa. |
Tom Remington supports CRS' relationship with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, partnership with research institutions, the rice value chain and seed systems and security. |
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Education |
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| Naoko Kamioka helps strengthen knowledge-sharing on education issues and donor trends, and promotes cross-sectoral collaboration including youth programming, WASH in school and child labor. |
Anne Sellers provides a broad range of technical support to CRS’ education programs, with a particular focus in the areas of food-assisted education, school health, and early childhood development. |
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Gender |
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| Trish Ahern provides technical assistance to regional and country programs for implementing CRS’s integral human development framework and mainstreaming gender integration in CRS programming |
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Health and HIV |
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| Michele Broemmelsiek is the Chief of Party for AIDSRelief, a CRS-led consortium funded through PEPFAR. |
Dorothy Brewster-Lee specializes in HIV prevention and the care of orphans and other vulnerable children. | Kate Greenaway is an HIV expert with a special interest in nutrition, vulnerable children and treatment adherence. |
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| Mary Hennigan provides technical advice on issues related to health and nutrition. |
Elena McEwan specializes in maternal and child health, tuberculosis, malaria and health systems. | Kristin Weinhauer focuses on health in emergencies, community systems strengthening and home-based, palliative and end-of life care. | ||
Institutional Strengthening and Partnership |
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| Sarah Ford is an expert in organizational development and non-formal education. |
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Microfinance |
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| Tom Shaw works with CRS country programs and partners to develop sustainable, cost effective, and affordable financial solutions for poor and vulnerable communities worldwide. |
Guy Vanmeenen helps strengthen the microfinance capabilities of CRS and partner staff and developed CRS’ Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) program, including the innovative fee-for-service Private Service Provider (PSP) delivery model. |
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Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) |
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| Hap Carr helps CRS improve the way it monitors and evaluates its projects and programs by developing or revising agency-wide M&E processes. |
Guy Sharrock has shared global responsibility for advancing CRS’ M&E agenda. |
T D Jose provides technical advice in the design and implementation of systems that generate data to inform evidence-based programming decisions and innovations in programming. |
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Peacebuilding and Governance |
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| Tom Bamat specializes in justice and peacebuilding, including human rights, people-to-people relations, cross-sector project integration, and church/inter-faith initiatives. |
Aaron Chassy is an expert in integrating democratic local governance and civic engagement across multiple technical sectors. |
Rees Warne is an expert in extractive industries (oil, gas and mining), conflict minerals and natural resource governance. |
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Water and Sanitation |
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| Dennis Warner is an expert in water and sanitation. |
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