Karin Kohlweg is an independent evaluation consultant with more than fifteen years of experience in international development. She has substantial experience in planning, managing, and implementing different types of evaluations, studies, reviews, UNEG peer reviews, and meta-analyses in various sectors and topics including gender mainstreaming, institutional capacity development, education, civil society, private sector, water, hygiene and sanitation and others. She conducted quality assurance on a regular basis, developed, and revised evaluation guidelines and manuals and provided advice to monitoring and evaluation frameworks. She supported different Government departments, UN organizations (UNDP, UNIDO, UNICEF, etc.), bilateral agencies, NGOs, and others in improving their evaluation systems as part of their organizational capacity development efforts. She is also a registered management consultant at the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, certified as a gender audit facilitator and an adult education trainer. Karin is a lecturer at different universities teaching evaluation and conducted a good number of monitoring and evaluation training for various organizations.

Karin Kohlweg has a university degree in Social Anthropology and one in Social Development Planning and Management. She used to work for UNICEF Regional Office in South Asia, UNICEF Bangladesh, the Austrian Development Agency and held evaluation courses at different universities. In 2018 she established her own company, pme Kohlweg Consulting, www.pmekohlweg.com.