I'm Fatema. I work with any organisation that needs data and evaluation behind its decisions: international organisations, universities, UN agencies, donors, NGOs, consulting and research teams, startups and companies. I set up monitoring systems, run evaluations and explain the results in plain language.
I'm an M&E and research professional with eight years in international development. I have built monitoring systems for refugee livelihoods and cash programmes at the UN World Food Programme, much of it with Sudanese refugee communities, designed evaluation tools for GIZ accelerators, run an impact evaluation in Minnesota, and interviewed government leaders in Saudi Arabia for a leadership case study.
Technical terms and indicators are hard to absorb on their own. They make sense when they come with a story. I bring that story to life, so you can feel, sense and decide what is really working, and take your next decision from there. Whether you sit on a programme team, in management, at a donor or as a client, I help you understand your programme better, from every angle.
Organisations, clients & donors I have worked with
We usually start with a short call about your programme, who the results are for and when you need them. Then we agree on the scope, the deliverables and a budget that works.
International organisations · Universities & research teams · UN agencies & donors · NGOs & foundations · Government entities · Consulting firms · Startups · Companies
Donor reports, visual briefs and dashboards that show what changed and why.
WFP · several donor frameworks
Theory of Change, logframe, indicators and an M&E plan, so you know what to measure from the start.
WFP livelihoods · GIZ · AUC Gerhart Center
Baseline, midline, endline and impact evaluations against the OECD-DAC criteria, with practical recommendations.
International Institute of Minnesota · Handicap International
Key informant interviews, focus groups and case studies, written up as policy papers and briefs.
Public Policy HUB · Emeritus / ADAL
Collection tools in KoboToolbox, clean databases, and analysis in R, STATA, SPSS or Excel.
GIZ · Maryamya's Corner
Hands-on training in data collection, analysis and visualization that your team can keep using.
WFP M&E team · AUC NGO partners
I don't build indicators from scratch. I start from indicators that have already been used and validated, such as WFP's corporate indicators, and adapt them to the programme. Tested indicators make a system more credible and easier to compare across countries. Where no tested measure exists, I design one, as I did for business maturity and eligibility assessments.
I contributed to the Egypt country-level work for WFP's new indicator compendium under the Corporate Results Framework 2026–2029. See the compendium ↗
As part of the WFP Egypt M&E team, we measured these indicators and shared the results publicly in WFP's Annual Country Report 2025. Read the report ↗
Indicators can be hard to read for people outside M&E, so I design visual explainers, like this one on what the Food Consumption Score measures and how households are classified, and report covers that sum up a response in one page.
Led the analysis and wrote the narrative for quarterly outcome monitoring, using longitudinal household data to track how food security and coping changed over time, comparing assisted and non-assisted households, and presenting the findings visually for management and donors.
A knowledge-sharing session I designed and delivered on data cleaning, Excel functions, pivot tables, chart design and building visual presentations in Canva.
The framework behind an impact evaluation of small business development programmes for refugees in Minnesota, linking agency, knowledge, opportunity, resources and capacity building to economic and social inclusion.
“Choosing to work with Fatema again after GIZ is perhaps my clearest endorsement. I would gladly collaborate with her again and recommend her to teams seeking a thoughtful researcher, capable writer, and dependable professional.”
“Ms Fatema is a very serious and dedicated professional who takes her job with passion and integrity. No matter how small or big the task could be, it gets all her attention.”
“I really recommend her as a professional and expert project manager/coordinator.”
From recommendations on LinkedIn ↗
Donor reports and visual briefs that informed resource allocation; M&E systems across multiple donor frameworks; frameworks and Theories of Change for refugee livelihoods, food security and cash transfers. See my indicator work.
Led interviews with government stakeholders and produced a case study and participant guide on Saudi initiatives such as Riyadh Metro and the NPHIES platform, for ADAL.
Evaluation tools and analysis for a COVID-19 impact project for vulnerable households.
Accelerators for 30+ startups; employability and effectiveness tools for develoPPP and TVET projects; a BMZ-compliant project database.
M&E frameworks for two social entrepreneurship programmes for youth and women, and capacity-building workshops for local NGO partners.
Data for an interactive map of Egypt's business ecosystem and a sectoral study connecting SMEs and startups.
Managed an impact evaluation of small business development programmes for refugees, in line with U.S. Department of State standards.
A Business Maturity Assessment tool and final report to guide the selection of business owners.
Evidence-based policy recommendations for Egyptian decision-makers, including a co-authored paper on rural solid waste management.
Registration and orientation of thousands of refugees a year into vocational training and startup incubation; outcome monitoring and donor reporting.
A full M&E system for parenting and early childhood development courses: Theory of Change, assessments, database and staff training.
Tracking for 10+ IT projects, risk assessments and briefings for senior leadership.
My research focuses on Egypt and the wider Middle East and North Africa, where international organisations, donors and national institutions shape how vulnerable people, refugees especially, are protected and supported.
My master's thesis used 19 key informant interviews to show why evaluation in Egypt's development partnerships often stays superficial, and what would make it rigorous and owned by national partners. I bring mixed-methods training, experience across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United States and with Sudanese communities, and native Arabic with fluent English.
I am applying for funded PhD positions and would welcome a conversation about research fit and supervision.
Writing sample ↗
El Ghonemy, F. (2024). The American University in Cairo. Supervised by Prof. Laila El Baradei.
An IRB-approved qualitative study with 19 key informant interviews. It applies the OECD-DAC criteria and recommends a unified evaluation dictionary, stronger national ownership, independent evaluation institutions and capacity building.
Read the thesis ↗
El Masry, A., El Ghonemy, F., AbuGazia, I., & El Khater, R. (2022). The Public Policy HUB, AUC.
Diagnoses weaknesses in rural waste management, traced largely to under-performing local government units, and recommends a low-cost national awareness campaign. Developed with the Ministry of Local Development.
Read the paper ↗Key informant interviews, focus groups, case studies, thematic analysis, Atlas.ti
Household surveys, impact evaluation, R, STATA, SPSS, KoboToolbox, Tableau
WFP Corporate Results Framework and indicator compendium, OECD-DAC criteria, Theory of Change, logframes, results frameworks
IRB research ethics, informed consent and child assent, safeguarding and do-no-harm, age-appropriate tools such as child development checklists
If you are planning an evaluation, setting up an M&E system or looking for a research collaborator, I would be glad to hear from you.