Dr. Graham Sherbut

Dr. Graham Sherbut is a development practitioner, researcher, and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) specialist. Concentrating primarily on sub-Saharan Africa, but also with experience in Central, South, and Southeast Asia, he specialises in the use of innovative and complexity-aware monitoring and evaluation approaches – e.g., Outcome Harvesting, Outcome Mapping, network analysis, and Most Significant Change – to provide development actors with practical and analytically-sound assessments of their contributions to meaningful change. In addition to providing evaluative expertise, he is skilled in the design of project and program-focused MEL plans/frameworks and theories of change. He has additional expertise in developing a range of data visualisations and in planning and executing multi-stakeholder learning events, including for USAID and other key international organisations like IOM and UNDP. He has served in organisational leadership positions in multiple country contexts, taking on both donor-focused and internal coordination/team management roles.

Along with his professional focus, Dr Sherbut is also an academic researcher, holding a PhD in Political Science from Stellenbosch University. His academic interests focus on comparative African politics; the comparative politics and international relations of Small Island Developing States (SIDS); international development policy; migration; as well as maritime policy and the “blue economy”. He is fluent in English, Portuguese and French languages and has worked in Canada, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa, Tajikistan, Tanzania, United Kingdom, Zambia.