Center for Global Impact
The International Republican Institute’s (IRI) Center for Global Impact cultivates innovative, evidence-based programming and provides resources, tools, and expertise to IRI staff to advance democracy worldwide. The Center also leads IRI’s institutional efforts on monitoring, evaluation, and learning and applied research, ensuring our programs are based on the latest evidence and designed to achieve impact.
The Center is comprised of thematic experts, researchers, and global project staff who help IRI monitor—and develop innovative approaches to address—emerging trends and challenges to democracy.
Together, Center staff enhance IRI’s work on priority thematic areas by identifying and sharing evidence-based practices across the Institute. Priority cross-cutting technical areas include political processes, electoral transitions, governance and anti-corruption, countering foreign authoritarian influence, conflict prevention and stabilization, and digital democracy.
Working closely with IRI’s regional divisions, the Center also manages cross-regional and thematic projects that allow the Institute to develop, test, and scale-up new programming approaches.
Our Experts
Matt
Senior Advisor, Political Parties and Political Engagement
Caitlin
Dearing Scott
Deputy Director, Strategy, Development, and Operations – Center for Global Impact
Natalie
Trisilla
Director, Evidence and Learning – Center for Global Impact
Patrick
Quirk, PhD
Senior Director, Strategy, Research, and the Center for Global Impact
Eguiar
Lizundia
Senior Advisor, Governance and Anti-Corruption,
Katya
Rimkunas
Director for Democracy, Rights, and Governance (DRG) Technical Leadership
Meryl
Miner
Senior Program Manager for Youth and Inclusion
Utpal
Misra
Senior Governance Specialist
Lauren
Mooney
Senior Specialist for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization
Erin
McMenamin
Program Manager, Legislative Strengthening
Keith
Proctor
Technical Advisor and Team Lead, Evaluation and Research – Center for Global Impact
Latest News
New Tool to Support Democratic Actors to Apply Str…
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Advancing a Framework for the Stabilization and Re…
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IRI Launches Decentralization Resource Guide…
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IRI Georgia Poll Shows Economic Concerns, Politica…
Tbilisi, Georgia – A new nationwide poll conducted in Georgia by the International Republican Institute’s (IRI) Center for Insights in Survey Research (CISR) reveals concerns over the economy, feelings of…
Strengthening Democracy With the Global Fragility …
“Planning teams from across the U.S. government are racing to begin implementing the long-awaited Global Fragility Act (GFA), after the…
Russia’s attack on Ukraine is a tragic reminder th…
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Democracy as a Vital Interest: A Realist Approach …
“Pursuing a realist foreign policy and promoting democracy are not mutually exclusive goals but, instead, are reinforcing and responsive to…
IRI’s Monitoring and Evaluation practitioners stre…
Last November, members of IRI’s Evidence and Learning Practice (ELP) virtually attended the 35th annual American Evaluation Association conference. This…
Latest Resources
Networks Field Guide
Building and supporting networks is central to the advancement of democracy, expansion of human rights, and establishment of good governance.…
THE KLEPTOCRAT’S PLAYBOOK: A Taxonomy of Localized…
For decades, policymakers have overlooked the threat to security, prosperity and democracy posed by transnational corruption and global kleptocracy. These…
Field Guide for Democracy, Human Rights, and Gover…
Violent conflict has posed a major threat to providing accountable and democratic governance to citizens the world over. In addition…