Our Team

The DME team at SFCG links all of our offices and programs. In our field offices, we have DME Coordinators who are responsible for monitoring and documenting our work; providing support to their programs colleagues; and providing methods for SFCG to constantly improve its programming. They are supported by DME staff at headquarters in DC:

• Ratiba Taouti-Cherif
  DME Specialist
  
  Ratiba Taouti-Cherif is the Design, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at Search for Common Ground Headquarters in Washington D.C, where she is responsible for providing leadership on all design, monitoring and evaluation aspects across the organization and supporting country programs in documenting and evaluating their work. In addition to program focused work, Ratiba conducts field and desk research on the interface between knowledge, attitude and behavior change, and media for conflict transformation.
  
  Prior to joining Search for Common Ground in January 2007, Ratiba was an independent consultant leading research and evaluation projects in the Great Lakes region of Africa for the World Bank, CARE International and Save the Children. Before consulting, Ratiba was a Program Officer for the International Rescue Committee in Rwanda and before that a Project Manager for the British Council in Oxford (UK), where she managed a portfolio of education and governance professional exchange projects. Her work has been published by Save the Children, the World Bank and appears in a number of bibliographies such as UNESCO’s and GTZ’s Education and Conflict, and USAID’s review on Trafficking in Post-Conflict Situations.
  
  Ratiba received a Master’s degree from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, focusing on the political economy of conflict and development; and a Bachelor’s degree in Language and History from the University of Toulouse in France, where she focused on socio-linguistics and political discourse.  
• Erica Bonnano
  Intern
  
  Erica is a graduate student at Georgetown University.  
• Fadi Rabieh
  Intern
  
  Fadi is a graduate student at Eastern Mennonite University.  
• Ruth Speyer
  Intern
  
  Ruth is a graduate student at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, specializing in conflict resolution. Her current projects at SFCG include developing a glossary of most-used DME terms in French and English, planning an organization-wide DME training seminar, and co-managing the monthly staff newsletter on institutional learning and sharing.