Miku Watanabe

Functional Title: Monitoring Specialist
Institution: UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
Email Address: mwatanabe@unicef.org
Phone Number: +962 791823094

Bio
International development professional with over 12 years of experience working in humanitarian and development programming, education, and Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E). Working as the Monitoring Specialist in UNICEF Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Regional Office with oversight of programme implementation with over 380+ CSO partners and 340+ government counterparts. Provided technical support and training on programme monitoring and corporate digital tools to 300+ professional staff (cumulative total). Solid experience in Programme Planning and Management, Adolescent Programme and Implementation Partnerships with technical skills in data analysis, partnership management and programme monitoring. Highly skilled staff trainer, team player and a change maker.

Social

Years of experience 11-15 Years
Social field: Education, Inequality, Poverty Reduction, Youth Empowerment
Additional fields of expertise: Monitoring and Evaluation, Strategic Planning, Adolescent Development and Participation

Technology and Data

Years of experience 11-15 Years
Technology and Data field: Digital Transformation, Knowledge Economy, SDG Monitoring
Additional fields of expertise: Programme management, T4D Planning and Management, Staff Training, Data Visualization

SDGs Expertise:
GOAL 1: No Poverty
GOAL 4: Quality Education
GOAL 10: Reduced Inequality
GOAL 16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
GOAL 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal


Countries of Expertise:
Arab region
Djibouti
Egypt
Iraq
Jordan
Lebanon
Libya
Morocco
State of Palestine
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia
Yemen


  • Capacity building
  • Communication
  • Data analysis
  • Programming
  • Project management
  • Strategic planning
  • Team management
Degree Title University Graduation Date
PhD in International Education Development Arizona State University 2011-08-11
Title Completion Date
Using Power BI with Excel 2022-11-07
How to Measure Child Poverty 2023-06-18
Title URL Author/Co-Author
Assessing socio-economic profile of U-Reporters: Towards extablishing a pool for equity analysis of future crowdsourced surveys https://jogh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/jogh-11-09001.pdf Co-Author
Voices of Youth - South Asian Perspectives on Education, Skills and Employment_June 2020 https://www.unicef.org/rosa/media/4556/file/Voices%20of%20Youth%20-%20South%20Asian%20Perspectives%20on%20Education,%20Skills%20and%20Employment_June%202020.pdf Co-Author