Eduardo Pacheco

• DevTech Systems, Inc.. Technical Specialist in the Zambia performance evaluation of the project Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS). January-April 2024.
• Creative Associates International. Lead Consultant in the study Youth Labor Market Assessment in Nicaragua. September 2023-February 2024.
• DevTech Systems, Inc.. Regional Labor Economist/Principal Investigator in the study for improving informal sector productivity and opportunities for at-risk Honduran youth. May-August 2023.
• Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Resident economist for the representation of Honduras. September-November 2022.
• RIDEV International. Coordination of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) consultancy for Skills in Action (SKiA) project executed by Creative Associates International. April-September 2022.
• Collaboration in study commissioned by Creative Associates International. Researcher in the rapid youth needs assessment for Nicaraguan youth. March 2022.
• Visage consulting group. Review and improvement of opinion survey of Guatemalans living in selected U.S. cities. March 2022.

Coordinated operations of the Foundation; conducted research on labor market, macroeconomics, social, and demographic; oversaw projects in human rights and democracy; and managed grants and contracts with international organizations, contractors, private companies, and NGOs.

Coordinated the consulting area; conducted research on labor market, social, demographic, and education; developed baseline, midterm, and final evaluations of development programs; data cleaning and codebook design; conducted microeconometric analysis using quasi-experimental and experimental techniques; developed monitoring systems of projects in democracy, human rights and agriculture; coordinated the design of surveys, sampling, onsite data collection and preparation of fieldwork.

Taught courses at the Bachelor in Applied Economics: Labor Economics, Development Economics, Macroeconomics, Research Methods.

• Fundación Nicaragüense para el Desarrollo Económico y Social (FUNIDES). Researcher in the study Statistical analysis of baseline information for sorghum. March 2015.
• UNICEF. Macro assessment of the Public financial management system in Nicaragua. March 2015.
• Fundación Nicaragüense para el Desarrollo Económico y Social (FUNIDES). Researcher in the study The efficiency of public spending on education and health in Nicaragua 2003-2013. June 2014 - January 2015.
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Researcher in the study A look at the empowerment of rural women in Nicaragua. April - September 2014.
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Researcher in the study Job placement, income gaps and segmentation in the Nicaraguan labor market: a gender approach. February - September 2014.
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Researcher in the study Explanatory factors of the Nicaraguan labor market dynamics: a gender approach. January 2014.
• Instituto de Estudios Estratégicos y Políticas Públicas (IEEPP). Design of a database on violence in Nicaragua. September 2013 - March 2014.

Prepared economic reports, managed grants with local non-governmental organizations, provided technical support in the design of development programs, and evaluated the Danish development assistance program in Nicaragua.

• International Budget Partnership (IBP). Open Budget Survey 2012. Review for Nicaragua. Open Budget Index Program (OBI). 2011.
• Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales (ICEFI). Research assistant for the case of Nicaragua in the research project “Equity in Tertiary Education for Central American Countries”. April-June 2010.
• International Budget Partnership (IBP). Open Budget Survey 2010. Review for Nicaragua. Open Budget Index Program (OBI). 2010.
• Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales (ICEFI). Research assistant for the case of Nicaragua in the research project Financing Social Protection in Health and Pensions in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. November 2008.
• Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales (ICEFI). Researcher in the study Analysis of the Public Expenditure on Food and Nutrition Security in Nicaragua. July-September 2006.

Collaborated in monthly macroeconomic reports, provided technical assistance to the Executive Director, compiled economic and social statistics of Nicaragua and Central America, and conducted time series analysis.