Majella Van Der Werf

Majella van der Werf is a director at Panagora Group, focusing on monitoring, evaluation, research, learning, and adaptation (MERLA) and business development. She brings 22 years of experience including in the design and implementation of MEL systems as well as youth development, workforce development and violence prevention programming experience targeting high-risk youth. Majella has a track record leading evaluations and assessments, managing complex programs and achieving performance benchmarks in the areas of MEL, governance, youth development, violence intervention, workforce development and health. Majella is known for excellent working relationships with clients, partners and stakeholders and has multi-donor experience in Latin America; the Caribbean and North, West and Central Africa. She was also Assistant Director of Evaluation for a US-based NGO working in Baltimore, Maryland. Majella earned an MA in development studies at Erasmus University in the Hague, the Netherlands and speaks Spanish and French and is a native Dutch speaker.