Zara is a senior consultant based in the UK, and leads our work on Inclusive Education. She has over 10 years’ experience in designing and leading research, evaluation, technical assistance, and capacity building assignments. Zara’s work focuses around gender, quality and inclusive education, and public finance for development. She specialises in using qualitative and mixed-methods and holds an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge.
Developing a Girls’ Education Results Framework for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office (FCDO) to monitor improvements in girls’ education in their focal countries up to 2026.
We are leading the monitoring, evaluation and research delivery of a five year programme to improve secondary education and long term growth in Sierra Leone
We provided technical assistance and monitoring to the SENSA programme, which supported NGOs providing full cycle primary education to poorest children in Sindh, Pakistan
The Out-of-School Children Initiative helps design policies that ensure children have access to pre-primary, primary, and lower secondary education.
With better quality information to hand and better incentives to use it, policymakers will improve the design and implementation of education systems.
Education Programme for Results (EPforR) is a results-based financing programme which incentivises strengthening school education systems, building capacity of government ministries, and improving education outcomes in Tanzania
We led the performance evaluation of the Punjab Education Sector Programme to assess improvements made and identify lessons for future programmes in education system performance.
Our work aims to assess and analyse implementation processes, factors contributing to scale and emerging outcomes from the innovations to develop scalable education initiatives for refugees and displaced communities.
Members of our Consultant Development Programme share their experiences and what they've learned so far.