Team

Maryline Jean-François emerges as a seasoned professional, enriching any team with her extensive knowledge base and versatile skill set. Armed with a solid foundation in Economics, she embarked on a remarkable 18-year journey within the banking sector, where she cultivated invaluable expertise across multifaceted domains. Her adeptness in customer service, operations, risk management, and compliance shines through, particularly within the intricate frameworks of Visa and MasterCard. Maryline's proficiency extends beyond operational realms, as she seamlessly navigates the intricacies of administration, finance, and human resources management with finesse and acumen. Beyond her impressive qualifications, Maryline is celebrated for her considerate demeanour and unwavering motivation, characteristics that underscore her resourcefulness and unwavering commitment to achieving results. Her journey is marked by a fervent dedication to professional growth, as she continually seeks new challenges and opportunities for advancement, embodying a steadfast commitment to excellence in every endeavour she undertakes.

With over 12 years of experience in the field, she has implemented participatory and feminist approaches to MEL in solidarity with organizations and communities that prioritize gender equality, inclusion, and self-determination. She has supported Canadian and international organizations to develop theories of change, design MEL systems, and evaluate their programs and interventions using theory-based approaches. One of Katie’s greatest assets is her ability to listen to organizations’ needs, and tailor her approaches to reflect these. Katie has a master’s in international cooperation and humanitarian action with a focus on gender and development, and a certificate in contribution analysis for impact evaluation.

She has solid experience in international project management, specifically in monitoring and evaluation, stakeholders and rightsholders engagement. Her areas of expertise are education,vocational training, gender equality and women’s empowerment, socio economic development including poverty reduction, trade, private sector development and value chains reinforcement. She has extensive experience in developing results based management tools, and, monitoring, evaluation and reporting frameworks and tools, as well as collecting and analysing quantitative and qualitative data and impact measurement.  She contributed to various evaluation assignments for several development organizations such as Global Affairs Canada, Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD), United Development Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), International Finance Corporation (IFC), African Development Bank (AfDB), Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), International Trade Center (ITC). Moreover, Arnelle has coordinated private sector development programme and value chains reinforcement project respectively for the World Bank Group (WBG) and the United Development Program (UNDP). She also has a good knowledge of the United Nations system. With experience working in Latin America, North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Canada she is fluent in French, English, Creole and has intermediate level of Spanish.