Biography

Sabine Garbarino is a consultant within OPM’s social development portfolio focusing on gender analysis and mainstreaming, political economy analysis and qualitative and participatory methods. She has been working over many years on the DFID-financed social assistance reform project in Moldova where she led the team’s social development inputs in gender mainstreaming, stakeholder consultation and the Participatory Vulnerability Assessment. Sabine has just successfully managed a four country case study on political economy dynamics of sanitation investments which built on earlier work she has undertaken for the World Bank on tools for institutional, political and social analysis (TIPS) for Poverty and Social Impact Assessment (PSIA) and the Political Economy of Reform framework. She authored a how-to note for DFID to better analyse gender through household survey data and a paper for DFID’s social development department on current thinking and knowledge on impact evaluation with a focus on combining qualitative and quantitative methods. Other recent work includes an evaluation of donor-supported voice and accountability interventions in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a pilot study to improve gender analysis and mainstreaming for infrastructure projects for the EBRD. Sabine holds an M.A. in political sciences, a Master in international development and a Diploma in Economics from the LSE.