Long-term experience in monitoring and evaluation of MDGs, poverty, food security and rural development programmes, evaluation of MDG and poverty indicators. Experience in food security and rural development programmes. Experience in evaluation and assessment studies of EU-funded projects. Specific long-term experience on MDGs and poverty related projects in Mozambique. 

Extensive experience in Monitoring and Evaluation methodologies, impact evaluation, developmental evaluation and outcome mapping. Director of University of Bologna International Summer School on Monitoring and Evaluation of International Development Programmes, since 2006. 

Extensive and long-term experience in statistics, both at the academic level and on the field, very good knowledge of data bases from large scale surveys and statistical software.