Karen Rono

Karen has more than seven years in international development. These have been in the fields of official financial investments: with a focus on domestic spending and foreign aid analysis, political economy in the humanitarian space, poverty research, promoting open data and the use of evidence by government decision makers.
Currently the Regional Technical Lead at Development Initiatives (DI) Africa Hub-based in Nairobi.  Has the overall management and technical responsibility for the delivery of high quality analytical work for DI Africa Hub. Our analysis is primarily around measuring people’s progress out of poverty, financial investments to end poverty and the politics behind resource allocations and how best these investments should work