Core Program Areas

Agriculture Education Emergencies Health HIV and AIDS Microfinance Peacebuilding Water and Sanitation

Cross-Cutting Areas

Capacity Strengthening Climate Change ICT4D IHD Monitoring and Evaluation Youth

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

Dorrett Byrd    David Leege    Shannon Senefeld
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

Rupert Best    Shaun Ferris    Geoffrey Heinrich
Rupert Best provides technical assistance and training on innovative technologies and methods for the production and marketing of smallholder products.
 
  
Shaun Ferris specializes in agroenterprise development and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D).
 
  
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    Valerie Rhoe
  
Tom Remington supports CRS' relationship with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, partnership with research institutions, the rice value chain and seed systems and security.
 
  
Valerie Rhoe provides technical advice on integrating agriculture with nutrition and on developing gender-inclusive agricultural innovations.
 
  
 

Education

Naoko Kamioka    Anne Sellers   
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.


 
    
 

Gender

Trish Ahern   
  
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
 
  
 
  
 

Health and HIV

Dorothy Brewster-Lee    Kate Greenaway    Mary Hennigan
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.
 
  
Mary Hennigan provides technical advice on issues related to health and nutrition.
 
Mwayabo J. C. Kazadi    Lee Losey    Elena McEwan
Mwayabo J. C. Kazadi provides technical support and training on HIV care and treatment for program quality improvement.
 
  
Lee Losey is deputy director and senior technical advisor for the CORE Group Polio Project.
  
Elena McEwan specializes in maternal and child health, tuberculosis, malaria and health systems.
Orhan Morina    Paul Perrin    Kristin Weinhauer
Orhan Morina provides technical advice on issues related to Health Systems Strengthening.
  
Paul Perrin provides technical support on health-related operations research, monitoring and evaluation, and information dissemination.
  
Kristin Weinhauer focuses on health in emergencies, community systems strengthening and home-based, palliative and end-of life care.
 

Institutional Strengthening and Partnership

   John Donahue    Sarah Ford
Alberto Andretta specializes in the application of knowledge management and organizational learning to promote institutional strengthening and partnership development.
 
  
John Donahue works to improve CRS partnership and capacity strengthening, and he serves as the deputy chief of party for AIDSRelief.
 
  
Sarah Ford is an expert in organizational development and non-formal education.
 

 

Microfinance

Tom Shaw    Guy Vanmeenen   
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.


 
    
 

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)

Hap Carr    Guy Sharrock    T D Jose
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.

 
 

Peacebuilding and Governance

Tom Bamat    Aaron Chassy   
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.
 
  
 
 

Water and Sanitation

Vanessa Tobin   
  
Vanessa Tobin is an expert in water and sanitation and in the management of integrated development programs.