Ms. Racky Balde is an Evaluation Officer at Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV). Racky BALDE has more than 6 years of working experience in evaluation, data analysis, and research.
She has been working with the African Development Bank, IDEV since December 2019, as Evaluation and Data Support Consultant and has supported the implementation of the IDEV1 work program by actively participating in several evaluations.
Prior to joining the African Development Bank Group, Racky served as Evaluation Intern at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva where she worked on a High-Level Evaluation of the ILO’s Decent Work Country Program (DWCP) and developed capacity building materials for the ILO’s evaluation managers.
Before that, she worked as a consultant on the evaluation of different programs of WFP including cash-based transfers as part of voucher/in-kind mixed modality transfers and school meals for refugees in Kakuma, Kalobeyei, and Dadaab refugee camps, Kenya. She also worked on different research projects, including the Impacts of ECOWAS Trade Reforms on Welfare and Employment in Senegal.
In addition, as a teaching assistant, she trained development professionals who enrolled in the online impact evaluation course offered by United Nations University-MERIT and led tutorials on the Econometrics course of the Master of Science in Public Policy and Human Development of Maastricht University.
Ms. Racky Balde holds a Ph.D. in Economics at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She holds a Master's Degree in Applied Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Gaston Berger University in Senegal.