Sarah Cohen Wood (tbc) is a Technical Associate in ARD’s Governance and Institutional Development sector, Ms. Wood has significant experience with development planning, civil society programs, conflict mitigation, project design, monitoring and evaluation systems, community mobilization programming, and disaster risk reduction. An anthropologist by training, Ms. Wood has a strong background in managing and designing development programs with an emphasis on conflict prevention, peace building, community-driven reconstruction, and civil society participation in development planning. She is a monitoring and evaluation specialist, and designed the first conflict-sensitive monitoring and evaluation course for USAID field staff and partners, that focused on the Mano River Region and has conducted, trained, and designed courses in conflict-sensitive monitoring and evaluation (M&E). She is an adjunct faculty member at American University in Washington, DC, and has conducted regional trainings in Africa and Southeast Asia. Ms. Wood has a strong professional and academic background in civil society and governance work and managed for 3 years a USAID Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) Sector Strengthening Program for fragile states, which was a program designed to build the capacity of local NGOs and host country governments to enhance the regulatory frameworks for civil society organizations and services in transition and conflict environments. Ms. Wood worked for USAID in the Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Bureau. In addition, she served as the USAID liaison for the State Departments Office for the Coordinator of Stabilization and Reconstruction, and has worked on interagency coordination in stabilization and conflict environments. Ms. Wood has served on response management teams (RMTs) and disaster assistance response teams (DARTs) for the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and helped to design one of the first transition planning processes for OFDA’s disaster response management division.