Jason is a Managing Associate- Project Delivery at Itad’s US office. He has worked in international development for over twenty years. The first eleven of those years were spent managing projects in the Balkans and East Africa. During that time Jason became interested in understanding how to collect data from hard-to-reach populations to guide project design and management to maximize benefit to targeted populations.
Since then, Jason has served as a specialist in monitoring, evaluation, and learning. His most recent projects include leading a nation-wide survey in Nepal to better understand Nepali citizens experience with their local government. He is also advising on the design of the monitoring, evaluation, and learning agenda for the USAID-funded Inclusive Resilience in Somalia project.
Before coming to Itad, Jason was the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation programs for IMC Worldwide/USA. While at IMC he conducted a series of assessments to inform programs that sought to improve livelihoods in North East Syrian communities. He also led a nationwide baseline study for Rwanda’s Ministry of Agriculture and Animal resources to inform the Ministry’s strategy to improve the livelihoods of women that work in the agriculture sector.
Jason served as a senior economic development advisor at RTI International before his work at IMC USA. At RTI, among his projects was the design of the the Microenterprise Growth Index in Egypt, an IFC funded project.
Currently, Jason provides senior technical leadership on delivering Itad’s projects in the US. Mr. Wares holds an MBA in International Business from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
