Robert Learmonth

Country Representative, East Timor

Robert Learmonth has more than 35 years of experience in providing technical and management assistance. His particular focus is on improving program delivery in community development, health, institutional capacity building, rural development, population and food security. Mr. Learmonth has been instrumental in the design and implementation of programs to support municipal development and democratic initiatives and to improve municipal services and enhance citizen participation. He has also designed and implemented support programs for nongovernmental organization (NGO) activities directed at improving the quality, coverage and management of service delivery in various countries, most recently in Serbia and East Timor. Mr. Learmonth has assisted NGOs, government officials and donors to implement and evaluate policy and in the development of public and private institutions. He has led program and project evaluations, designed evaluation studies and provided technical assistance in developing monitoring and evaluation systems and procedures for projects funded by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, USAID and U.S. government departments. He was a trainer for a program impact evaluation seminar at the Asian Development Bank. He has led missions in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and served as a long-term resident advisor in Micronesia and Lesotho. Mr. Learmonth is now based in East Timor, where he is working with the East Timor Ministry of Justice to strengthen the country’s property rights and land tenure system. Mr. Learmonth has completed course work in applied social science research at the Catholic University of America and earned his B.A. in English literature at Mount Union College.