Dr. Eric Djimeu Wouabe is an economist with more than a decade of experience designing, conducting, supervising, and disseminating evaluations of development programs in health, education, nutrition, infrastructures and agriculture in Africa and Asia.
Dr. Djimeu is an associate director in evaluation and adaptive learning at Results for Development (R4D) where he leads innovative monitoring, evaluation, research and learning approaches to improve the performance of health, education, and nutrition systems. He leads the Rapid Feedback Monitoring Evaluation Research and Learning (RF MERL) project in Mali and supports monitoring evaluation learning activities (MEL) for the HSS Accelerator, a global USAID-funded health system strengthening program. In addition, he collaborates with other programs and lines of work at R4D.
Dr. Djimeu’s career has focused on generating and adapting evidence to enhance performance of social development outcomes. Prior to R4D, Dr. Djimeu worked at GAIN as a senior technical evaluation specialist where he set up a system for conducting evaluations and led the evaluation of major nutrition programs. Prior to GAIN, he worked at 3ie where he designed and led seven research projects on HIV self-testing in Kenya and six impact evaluations. He has promoted evidence generation and their use in designing interventions to enhance effectiveness of programs across different sectors including nutrition, health, education, infrastructure, and agriculture. He has conducted capacity building activities to train young researchers, policymakers and stakeholders in evaluation methods and techniques and the use of evidence to inform policies.
Dr. Djimeu has published more than two dozen journal articles. His research spans multiple specialties, including impact evaluations, empirical methodologies, replication research, evidence review, cost effectiveness analysis, and macroeconomic analysis. He holds a PhD and master’s degree in economics from the University of Auvergne Clermont-Ferrand I in France and a BA in economics from University of Yaoundé II. He is native speaker of Ghomala and French and speaks fluent English.
