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Diana Rutherford
Program Specialist |
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Diana Rutherford has studied and worked in the field of international affairs since 1989, with more than 8 years specifically in development. She specializes in program management and the design, implementation and analysis of surveys.
Currently, Ms. Rutherford manages the Assessing the Impact of Innovation Grants in Financial Services project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She designs survey instruments, initiates the implementation of surveys, analyzes the results, and writes reports. In addition, she manages the human subjects research applications on behalf of IRIS. Ms. Rutherford has developed survey questionnaires for households, journalists, private enterprises and public officials. She has worked with survey teams in Indonesia and Uganda, and managed the implementation of several rounds of the citizen household survey in Georgia.
She recently completed a report for the monitoring and evaluation of the Bosnia ALPS project that measured the effectiveness of a legal NGO’s media campaign. For a project for USAID’s E&E Bureau, Ms. Rutherford prepared the quantitative research design for a study of pharmaceutical procurement in Bulgarian hospitals, including drafting several survey instruments and focus group protocols, analyzing the resulting data and writing the preliminary quantitative report.
Other survey projects include: managing a survey in Peru to collect baseline data from lawyers on the quality of new commercial courts and working with a project team to design a survey instrument for Armenian businesses about competition policy.
Ms. Rutherford has also traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria as a member of the IRIS team for the second USAID Partners in Transition Conference. |
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Expertise
Project Evaluation
Survey Design and implementation
Project Management |
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Education
MA, International Affairs, American University, 1996
BA, Communications and International Affairs, University of New Hampshire, 1988 |
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Previous Positions
Consultant, THE WORLD BANK
Research Assistant, UNITED STATES INSTITUTE FOR PEACE
Research Assistant, WORLD PRIORITIES
Special Projects Analyst, RHH FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.
Teaching / Lab Assistant, SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY, AMERICAN UNIVERISTY |
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Selected Publications
Governance in Bulgaria’s Pharmaceutical System: A Synthesis of Research Findings, with Patrick Meagher and Omar Azfar, August 2005. Available at USAID’s DEC, or from www.irisprojects.umd.edu/anticorruption
Bulgaria Pharmaceutical Study: Methodology, with Omar Azfar and Patrick Meagher, August 2005. Available at USAID’s DEC, or from www.irisprojects.umd.edu/anticorruption
“Decentralization, Governance and Public Services: The Impact of Institutional Arrangements” with Omar Azfar, Satu Kähkönen, Anthony Lanyi, Patrick Meagher in Devolution and Development: Governance Prospects in Decentralizing States, Mwangi Kimenyi and Patrick Meagher, eds. UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. |
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| Last updated on: 11/20/2009 |
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E-mail: diana@iris.umd.edu
Location: College Park
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