With a team of highly experienced and highly qualified consultants, ISL guarantees excellent service and quality delivery on all its projects.
MEET OUR CORE TEAM
Mr. Andrew Igbo
Has over 15 years demonstrated experience in developing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems. Mr. Igbo who is multi-lingual (English, Spanish and Igbo) has worked extensively in Africa with numerous NGOs, as well as government ministries to integrate M&E as a management tool as opposed to a donor requirement. Mr. Igbo is also experienced in the development of “people-driven” data management systems that streamline data collection and provide a clear and simple way of analyzing the data collected in order to save people from becoming overwhelmed.
Mr. Igbo provides training to NGOs on the fundamentals of M&E. He developed the electronic logframe matrix (ELM), a training tool that makes it easy to quickly generate logframes. The ELM is a great training tool with its built-in features that walks trainees through the process of checking the design logic and M&E elements of logframes they develop using the ELM.
Dr ChiChi Okoye
A Sociologist subspecializing in Gender and Development, Dr Okoye has over 20 years’ experience in academia and international development experience. She has worked as Country Director for Girl Effect and Oxfam in Nigeria, Director for the Canadian International Development Agency Programme Support Unit; Deputy Programme Director for the EU funded “Support to Reforming Institutions Programme” (SRIP) and Ashoka Innovators for the Public’s Representative for West Africa (Ashoka supports social entrepreneurs with innovative ideas with the potential to transform the social sector). She also has consulting experience with such agencies as the European Union, UNFPA, IPAS, UNESCO to mention a few and has produced several education materials on Gender and HIV/AIDS.
Before returning to Nigeria, she was a Lecturer at the University of Limerick in Ireland teaching undergraduate and post graduate students of Women’s Studies, Sociology of Development. While at the university, she pioneered the “encouraging women in science and technology initiative” of the University of Limerick which exposed young women in secondary schools in Ireland to the accomplishments of women scientists and technologists. She also started the Women Studies’ lecture series and journal, “In from the Shadows.” Prior to Limerick, she was a Lecturer in the University College Cork and a Researcher at the Centre for Europeans Social Research, Cork.
Dr. Jacqui O’Riordan
A lecturer at the School of Applied Social Studies, UCC since 2006 where she is a member of the BA Childhood and Early Years team, the school support and outreach team, and the Child Migration and Social Policy research group and ISS21. She also lectures in Women’s Studies and adult education settings. Her research interests focus on a range of issues concerning equality and diversity in local and global contexts and, further to these interests, she has undertaken research in Ireland and in Sub-Saharan Africa since the mid-1990s. She has a particular interest in the intersection between gender, lives and livelihoods, minority groups and aspects of childhood and children’s lives. Recent research includes research on trafficking in children in Ireland, analysis of issues arising for children living in Direct Provision in Ireland, and experiences of children living with disabilities in Lesotho as well as supports for and experiences of family carers.
Usman Sunny Audu, Esq.
A law graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, a barrister and solicitor of the supreme court of Nigeria; Sunny is the principal partner of U.S. Audu & Co. the firm was set up in 2008, it draws on experiences and prospective of not only its in-house counsels, but also its several associates, possessing decent academic and professional credentials that have helped in no small measure in making the firm a reservoir of reliable and authoritative legal view point on issues. The firm has rendered consultancy services to different organizations and individuals including but not limite to the following: Platinum mortgage bank, Oxfam in Nigeria, Fit consult LTD, Ashoka, Kind hearts initiative
Dr. Stanley Ilechukwu
A public health physician with a passion for ICT for development. A graduate student of health economics and evaluation at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, he has been involved in a number of evaluations sanctioned by donors like the World Bank, DFID/UKAID and GAVI, in program areas that range from HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Immunization. He has had course to make an impact in other public health spaces, examples of which include reproductive health where he led a team that expanded access to Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) to underserved populations in North Central Nigeria as well as expanded access to non-impoverishing health via UHC schemes like community based health insurance.
Most recently, he has been intimately involved in continuous quality improvement and health informatics where he expanded the adoption and use of electronic health records by health facilities in the management of HIV/AIDS in South East Nigeria, led a team that developed a mobile electronic health record system with clinical decision support and remote supervision for lay health workers as well as adapted the Site Improvement and Monitoring Systems (SIMS) tool into a mobile application for use in the assessment of CDC-PEPFAR supported HIV treatment centers in Nigeria.
Gerald Ogoko
A development expert with about 12 years professional experience. He has the following qualifications: Bachelors Degree (BSc.) in Accounting from the Rivers State University of Science & Technology; Master of Science Degree (MSc.) in Investment Management from Coventry University, United Kingdom; and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree from Coventry University, United Kingdom. He is currently studying for a Doctorate Degree (Ph.D) in Management. In his time in development, he has provided technical support to local and international organizations in several areas including organizational development, program management, fundraising, strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), proposal development, and research (i.e. concept testing, formative research, quantitative and qualitative impact evaluation).
Over the years, Mr. Gerald has worked in both full-time and consulting capacities for international organizations such as the World Bank, Christian Aid, Adam Smith International, Mercy Corps etc. The technical support he provided to these organizations assisted them in improving program delivery, developing a framework for effective data collection and management around ongoing and completed projects, program design, and generating funding inflows to expand their program portfolio. Gerald is also an expert fundraiser who has assisted local and international NGOs in raising funds for their development interventions.
He also lectures part-time at the Global Distance Learning Institute where he teaches postgraduate students the following subjects: corporate finance; accounting for decision-making; and research methods.