Sarah Parkinson began working in international development in 1993 and has since lived and worked in countries in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Her experiences ranged from volunteering in Grenada with a small development NGO to reviewing grant proposals for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), headquartered in Ottawa, and engaging in research collaborations with the Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) based in Cali, Colombia and the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS), a Ugandan government programme designed with input from the World Bank. Most recently, from 2008 until early 2011, she worked as Communication and… Advocacy Manager for the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit based in Kabul. Parkinson now works as a consultant on monitoring and evaluation and research, and is based in Ottawa.