Ben Rauch is the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Officer for the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund.
Before joining Partners, Ben developed maps to help track alternative development and coca eradication efforts for the U.S. Department of State and USAID. He also worked for TechnoServe in the LAC MEL/program development teams, where he contributed to redesigning the organization’s MEL guidance and orchestrated a comprehensive webinar series on information dissemination among country offices and donors.
Prior to this, Ben spent two years abroad living in Peru, working as an M&E Analyst on the local market for an educational research station in Oxapampa. He received a BS in evolutionary anthropology from Rutgers University and an MS in environmental science from Johns Hopkins University.