E-mail:
a.kazimierczuk@umail.leidenuniv.nl
Agnieszka Helena Kazimierczuk (1984) is working on her PhD at the
African Studies Centre in Leiden. She has a BA in Economics from Warsaw
University, Poland, and an MA in International Development from the
Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS) at the University of Amsterdam
(UvA).
As a member of the Participatory Assessment of Development (PADEV)
project team, Agnieszka has been involved in developing a new holistic
and participatory methodology to evaluate development interventions. Her
fieldwork in Ghana (2008) and Burkina Faso (2010) resulted in a
participatory poverty assessment and a solid evaluation of development
projects conducted among socially excluded groups of people, namely the
poor and children. The preliminary results of this cutting-edge research
formed part of the PADEV project and were presented at a public seminar
entitled ‘Insights in Complexity: Possibilities for Scaling-up a
Bottom-up Evaluation Approach’ that was hosted by ICCO in September
2010. and can be read
here.
Agnieszka believes in combining academic research with practice so she
is also working as a consultant for the European Network of NGOs in
Afghanistan (ENNA) on a part-time basis. Within this evolving field as a
young scholar and development worker, and as both an economist and
sociologist, Agnieszka is interested in combining her field experience
in a PhD on how NGOs target their development interventions, with a
focus on (often) excluded groups of society: the poor, the very poor and
children.
Agnieszka’s supervisor is Prof. Ton Dietz and she is also inspired by
the work of Robert Chambers, Amartya Sen, Caroline Moser and Andrea
Cornwall, and by the abstract thinking of Kurt Vonnegut.
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