Ms. Moyo is an associate program director in the Market Shaping practice at Results for Development (R4D), where she provides strategic and technical leadership across R4D’s Tanzania market shaping portfolio. She manages the in-country team, guides the analytical and technical work underpinning R4D’s government-, donor- and partner-facing products, and represents R4D externally as the organization works to expand access to essential health and nutrition products.

Throughout her career, Ms. Moyo has contributed to initiatives that have strengthened health systems and improved access to quality, people-centered health services in Tanzania. At Ifakara Health Institute, she contributed to the Staha initiative in Tanga, which brought communities and health care workers together to address disrespect and abuse during childbirth. The intervention was associated with a 66% reduction in the odds of women experiencing disrespect and abuse. She also contributed to research published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization that helped advance the research, policy and rights agenda around disrespect and abuse during childbirth and its effects on women’s confidence in health facilities and willingness to return for care.

Before joining R4D, Ms. Moyo was head of health and nutrition at Plan International Tanzania, where she led strategic funding identification, program design and integrated delivery across sexual and reproductive health, WASH, nutrition, maternal and child health, and noncommunicable diseases. She also represented the organization in national and international policy forums, including Tanzania’s family planning and RMNCAH+N technical working groups.

Previously, Ms. Moyo served as head of projects at Marie Stopes International, overseeing multi-donor programs focused on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, comprehensive post-abortion care and public systems strengthening. Through these programs, she helped strengthen systems to sustain and scale approaches with minimal program support and beyond the programs’ lifespans.

Ms. Moyo holds a master’s degree in health care leadership from Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, and a bachelor’s degree in political science and public administration from the University of Dar es Salaam. She speaks English and Swahili.

Publications

• Disrespectful and abusive treatment during facility delivery in Tanzania: a facility and community survey
• Community and health system intervention to reduce disrespect and abuse during childbirth in Tanga Region, Tanzania
• Hidden in plain sight: Validating theory on how health systems enable the persistence of women’s mistreatment in childbirth through a case in Tanzania
• The Staha Project: Promoting Respectful and Attentive Care in Tanzania — Presented by Wema Moyo

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Alethea is a senior program manager at Results for Development, where she leads monitoring, evaluation and learning within the Innovation team. She is also a specialist in gender equity, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI), and helps ensure a comprehensive inclusion lens throughout the Innovation team’s work. Collectively, she works to ensure that innovative approaches bring about equitable impact and are measured and learned from in ways that benefit the change agents involved and the wider ecosystems.

She has worked as a researcher, grant manager and technical expert on public health and gender equality, often with a focus on sexual and reproductive health. She has been a thought leader on menstrual health and has provided expert advice to multiple stakeholders — including UNFPA, ActionAid Malawi, Plan International, AmplifyChange and the Aga Khan Foundation — shaping policy and generating direct impact. For example, she recently guided the Aga Khan Foundation in Uganda to pilot and scale a first-of-its-kind menstrual cup project that produced tangible quantitative uptake results as well as rich qualitative insights. Throughout her work, Alethea has focused on bridging the gap between research and implementation, emphasizing how to capture actionable insights that drive tangible changes responding directly to localized problems.

Before joining R4D, she worked as an independent consultant, providing technical advice on monitoring, evaluation and learning to multiple INGOs and international development actors, including UK Aid Match. From 2020 to 2024, she was a senior technical expert in gender and social inclusion at MannionDaniels, serving on the senior management team. Her responsibilities included working directly with donors such as FCDO, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UNFPA and cross-donor partnerships such as the Global Evidence in Education Advisory Panel to ensure quality results and impact measurement within education, health and climate programming.

Alethea holds a master’s degree in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a master’s degree in Middle East studies from the University of Oxford, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Exeter.

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As a fellow at Results for Development (R4D), she is currently involved in R4D’s Access PDC project, which aims to strengthen country-led systems for equitable access to essential health commodities. Her role includes supporting stakeholder engagement, policy analysis and evidence generation to inform RMNCH product financing and delivery reforms at the federal and state levels.

Mariya’s past roles include chief of party for USAID’s Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage project at Chemonics International, where she led market-driven initiatives to expand access to quality health products and services through private-sector partnerships. Previously, she was technical director for RMNCH on the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program (GHSC-PSM), managing a portfolio of nine states and pioneering approaches to improve RMNCH product availability through sustainable drug financing and end-to-end supply chain visibility.

Her earlier leadership roles at the Palladium Group and FHI 360 contributed to strengthening Nigeria’s primary health care systems, implementing state-level health financing mechanisms and advancing policy reforms that have shaped reproductive health programming nationwide.

Mariya holds an M.Sc. in reproductive and sexual health research from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and an M.B.B.S. from Ahmadu Bello University. She is a recipient of the 120 Under 40: New Generation of Family Planning Leaders award from the Gates Institute.

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