Rusudan Kardava

Mrs. Rusudan Kardava holds an Advanced Master degree in Development Evaluation and Management (University of Antwerp, Belgium), MA in Conflict Management and Analysis (Tbilisi State University), BA in Sociology and BA in Law.

Rusudan has up to 20 years of experience in development projects with over 14 years of work experience in the field of program/project evaluation/impact assessment and MEL. Since 2006 she has worked as a MEL Manager and Consultant for a number of state, non-governmental and international organizations, including UNDP, UN FAO, USAID, Statistics Office of Georgia, etc. In this capacity she has designed the project action plans, Monitoring and Evaluation systems, developed project impact and performance measurement indicators and tools, coordinated project impact evaluations, prepared recommendations for the project management, elaborated M&E data collection and reporting software. As an Evaluator, she has conducted more than 30 evaluations in various sectors across different countries of Africa, Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. 

Rusudan is a Founder and Executive Director at DEPA Consulting, the organization which is mainly focusing on strategic planning, program/project evaluations, performance monitoring, needs assessment, sector assessment, social studies/surveys, and related capacity building/training and consultancy services.