Sarah Frances Eckhoff (Frances or 'Eck') joins us with over 15 years of experience in gender integration, program quality, and monitoring evaluation, accountability, and learning experience. Eck comes to GHV from CARE where she supported gender integration, program quality improvement, impact measurement and learning for the Federation's portfolio of1600+ projects over the last 7 years and most recently served as the Director of Gender Program Quality and Impact. In addition to her extensive experience and expertise in gender program quality and MEAL, Eck brings experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of social norms interventions, a track record in analysis and evidence translation for strategic decision-making, and a commitment to using learning to advance technical excellence.

Eck lives in the mountains outside of Seattle with her two children (4 and 2), two dogs, and two cats and is an avid trail runner and skier.