Ric Goodman

Ric Goodman is an experienced Project Team Leader with expertise in social protection, safety nets, and resilience.

His proven success lies in delivering large-scale complex projects and shorter consultancies, offering a range of management, technical, public policy, and strategy solutions to poverty and social development issues.

Ric's strengths encompass social policy, organizational development, program management, implementation design, and monitoring and evaluation in both development and humanitarian contexts.

He provides advisory services on the design of national safety-net and resilience approaches in various countries such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Yemen, Kenya, Indonesia, Somalia, and Lebanon.

Having overseen a team of 65 staff, including senior international technical experts, he is indirectly responsible for 1,500 NGO-employed staff.

Ric's skills include operational project management, project cycle management, project design, reviews, monitoring and evaluation, and the creation of accountable delivery systems that demonstrate progress and impact.

He possesses strong writing and proposal development skills.

Ric's technical specialties include resilience, food security, livelihoods, cash transfers, cash-based transfers, humanitarian assistance, social protection, shock-responsive social protection, cash/voucher/income-generating asset transfers, public works, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation.