Alexandra Miehlbradt

Alexandra Miehlbradt (Aly) has worked in inclusive economic development for 30 years as an implementer, consultant, researcher and trainer. Aly is known for her client-centred technical assistance, strategic advisory, backstopping, design, documentation and review services, as well as effective knowledge management, training and facilitation. She has provided long-term advisory support to a number of MSD programs, primarily in Asia and the Pacific. Aly has written a variety of widely used publications on MSD and results measurement with a focus on system change and adaptive management. Aly is a leader in the global effort to improve monitoring and results measurement and the effective use of information in MSD. She has helped a wide variety of organisations - both programs and donors - to develop or improve their design, monitoring, results measurement and adaptive management systems. Aly is also an innovator in improving global capacity in this area, for example by training and mentoring other consultants. Aly opened Miehlbradt Consulting Ltd in 2008 building on 10 previous years of independent consulting.

Contributions

Blogs

• The puzzle of assessing system change: three lessons learned as evaluators (Part 3) [2023]
• The puzzle of assessing system change: three lessons learned as evaluators (Part 2) [2023]
• The puzzle of assessing system change: three lessons learned as evaluators (Part 1) [2023]
• Want to assess system change? Just get started [2022]
• Causality counts. Not the counterproductive debate on attribution or contribution [2021]

Resources

• Assessing systems change in Cambodian agriculture [2023]
• The CRS approach to MSD for scale, inclusion, resilience, environmental stewardship and social cohesion [2023]
• How to monitor interventions effectively: lessons from PRISMA’s intervention in the mungbean sector in Indonesia [2022]
• A pragmatic approach to assessing system change - how to put it into practice [2020]
• A pragmatic approach to assessing system change [2020]
• Promoting systemic change in shallow markets [2018]
• Developing a program specific monitoring and results measurement manual [2015]
• Building a learning culture: MDF in Fiji [2015]
• Monitoring and results measurement in value chain development: 10 lessons from experience [2012]