Andrea Procopio is a Program Cycle Senior Specialist with USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). Andrea specializes in monitoring, evaluation (M&E), and learning and brings 15 years of international experience to her role at Environmental Incentives. She is an expert at designing strategies and approaches to adaptive management through facilitating participatory learning sessions; using M&E for learning and program improvement; collaborating, learning, and adapting capacity building; and theory of change design, review, and refinement.

Andrea’s prior experience includes working as the Senior Strategic Learning Advisor on the USAID/BHA Graduating to Resilience activity in Western Uganda. She designed and implemented large-scale adaptive management approaches that incorporate monitoring data, applied learning, shorter implementation cycles, and greater stakeholder feedback. Andrea also consulted for the U.S. Department of State, providing M&E support to the Office of Global Women’s Issues, the Office of Foreign Assistance and the Bureau of Budget and Planning, and PEPFAR. Additionally, she worked for USAID in western Afghanistan for two years focusing on health, education, gender, and civil society.

Andrea believes in improving international development programming through increased coordination and planning with local stakeholders, including participants, and using qualitative and quantitative data to adapt implementation at the right time for greater results.