Amelia Lyons

Background

About Amelia Lyons

Interested in better development: Urban/rural international development // WASH in Schools // ICT for Development // Monitoring & Evaluation + Resolution and Learning // Bottom-Up program design // Child Protection // Community Training and Development (ie, Capacity Building: let's work ourselves out of a job!)// Urban migration and infrastructure // Social entrepreneurship (Sanitation as a Business. Public Private Partnerships)// Behavior Change Communication (BCC)// Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM)// Maps, Data and GIS // Survey design and analysis // Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Management (DRM) Passionate about understanding WHY something works - or doesn't - and addressing the bottle necks and gaps. Extensive field and project management experience, especially on international Education, Water/Sanitation/Hygiene (WASH), and Health programs Experienced with health impact assessments, survey design, and data collection and analysis; capacity building, training and program design for local staff and government; community mobilization, focus group discussions, and women-led community support Technical skills include Microsoft Office, Power BI visualizations, ArcGIS, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop; Fluent in English (native), conversational Spanish and Nepali, actively studying French, Farsi and Amharic International work experience in Nepal, Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria, South Sudan, Cambodia Specialties: water and sanitation, project management, monitoring and evaluation, operation and maintenance, environmental engineering, international development, hygiene education, behavior change communication, Essential Hygiene Actions (EHAs), capacity building, disaster risk reduction and preparedness, household point-of-use water treatment, community participatory methods (PHAST, CLTS)