Christine Murphy is a senior monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) specialist with 13 years of experience in building capacity and designing strategic, context-and-client-responsive tools and processes. She has demonstrated experience in building buy-in across a wide variety of stakeholders, strong facilitation and workshop design skills, and a passion for improving the quality, management, and use of monitoring data. 

Ms. Murphy most recently served in an advisory and capacity-building role in the USAID/Global Development Lab, at the Center for Digital Development.  She provided advice to USAID staff and implementing partners on harnessing the power of intentional, well-resourced M&E for learning, leveraging reflection at all points in the Program Cycle to inform adaptive management decision-making. After redesigning the Center's Results Framework, theory of change, and performance indicators from the ground up, she designed and institutionalized standardized tools and processes for data management, systematic learning and adapting, and participatory portfolio reviews. Her collaborations with colleagues across the Bureau led to replication of her approaches for data management and portfolio review. She provided key advisory for the recently-released USAID Digital Strategy, including fostering the use of existing Agency-level reporting structures to capture data via the Performance Plan and Report (PPR).

Previously, Ms. Murphy supported the Tanzania Mission in M&E capacity building, strengthening tools and processes for Agency-wide reporting and learning around the PPR, integrating systematic partner feedback into Country Development Coordination Strategy (CDCS) stocktaking, improving Data Quality Assessment (DQA) protocols, and both mission- and team-level MEL and CLA planning.  She has provided consultative services on Country Development Cooperative Strategy (CDCS) development to USAID/North Macedonia, Performance Management Plan (PMP) development to USAID/Uganda, and evaluation workshop design to Africa Bureau. 

Before joining USAID, she served as a technical advisor to The Carter Center’s Ethiopia Dracunculiasis (guinea worm) Eradication Program, providing adaptive management of interventions and data both in the field and at the national level. She has conducted fieldwork in South Sudan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nepal, as well as short-term technical advisory in Uganda, North Macedonia, and Liberia. Ms. Murphy received her MA in Biocultural Anthropology from Emory University.