I offer educational consulting services and professional development for individuals and organisations, bringing together research, policy engagement and field experience in Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Timor-Leste, South Sudan and the Gulf region.
Areas of expertise
Educational research
Mixed-methods studies, systematic and mapping reviews, and national studies to inform education policy and strategy.
Monitoring and evaluation
Design and management of programme evaluations, data collection instruments and final evaluation reports.
Humanitarian aid and development assistance
Education in emergencies, disaster risk reduction, out-of-school children and education in fragile contexts.
Project design and capacity building
Project life cycle, national strategies and action plans, and workshops for ministries, teachers and aid workers.
Clients and partners
Recent consulting work
- Developing the national strategy and the operational plan for out-of-school children in Guinea-Bissau, for UNICEF
- Designing and delivering a workshop on education in emergencies and disaster risk reduction for technical staff of the Ministry of Education of Guinea-Bissau, for UNICEF
- Mapping Portuguese-language African education research for Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) and the REAL Centre, University of Cambridge
- Producing policy briefs from the project Apoio à educação pré-escolar nos PALOP, for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- Writing a report on multistakeholder mechanisms in the global governance of education, for the Transnational Institute
- Assessing the usage and uptake of the INEE Minimum Standards, with a focus on the Portuguese language, for INEE
- Designing and managing the evaluation of UNICEF’s South Sudan education programme (L3 response, 2016–2018)
- Designing and managing the qualitative research for the Study on Out-of-School Children in Guinea-Bissau, promoted by UNICEF and the Ministry of Education
- Facilitating a national workshop on monitoring SDG 4, for the National Network for Education for All in Cabo Verde
- Conducting the final external evaluation of UNESCO’s teacher qualification project in Guinea-Bissau
- Supporting research on South–South cooperation for the right to education in Guinea-Bissau, for the Brazilian National Campaign for the Right to Education and the Open Society Foundations
Sample outputs
UNICEF · 2023
Supporting the development of a National Strategy for Out-of-School Children in Guinea-Bissau
Final report. Bissau: UNICEF.
UNICEF · 2018
Study on Out-of-School Children in Guinea-Bissau
Marshall, Silva & Nicolai. Final report. Bissau: UNICEF.
UNESCO · 2015
Final external evaluation: Improvement of teacher qualification in Guinea-Bissau
Dakar: UNESCO.
Working on a project?
Please contact me if you would like more information about consultancy or professional development.
For a complete and up-to-date record of my research projects, consultancies and outputs, see my Ciência Vitae profile.
