Antonia Morzenti
Selected institutional experience
Programme delivery, governance assessment, and performance management across complex funded environments.
Experience prior to Sustenra.
The examples below highlight selected institutional roles and programme delivery experience. Each reflects direct involvement in the governance, design, and performance management of funded programmes: the systems Sustenra now assesses independently.
Senior Programme Officer — Breakthrough ACTION
- Led programme management and delivery oversight for Breakthrough ACTION across multiple countries in West Africa
- Managed multi-country portfolios under significant budget and operational complexity
- Provided technical leadership on programme design, community engagement, and monitoring approaches
- Built direct knowledge of what multi-country programme delivery looks like under budget and operational pressure, the governance conditions Sustenra assesses when funders need to know whether a programme will hold
Tracking real programme impact beyond indicator reporting
Outcome Harvesting in Guinea
Applied outcome harvesting as a flexible, retrospective monitoring method to capture activity impact across One Health and community engagement programmes in Guinea. The approach documented changes in behaviour and social norms that conventional indicator tracking would miss.
Embedding equity into programme design and community reach
Gender Integration in Risk Communication and Community Engagement — Guinea
Led a three-pronged approach to integrating gender equity into risk communication and community engagement programming in Guinea, strengthening programme design and improving reach among women and marginalised groups.
Independent evaluation of training effectiveness across a region
Evaluating Gender Integration in RCCE Trainings — Guinea
Led a pioneering impact evaluation of gender integration in risk communication and community engagement training programmes. Findings published as a technical brief and used to inform replication across the region.
Bridging digital tools and community engagement in West Africa
Digital Technology for Family Planning and Reproductive Health — West Africa
Supported development of a chatbot designed to improve access to family planning and reproductive health education for young people in West Africa, bridging digital and community engagement approaches.
Multi-channel community behaviour change campaign
Rabies Prevention — “Super Ami des Chiens” Campaign, Guinea
Contributed to a multi-channel community campaign promoting rabies prevention behaviours, including safe pet interactions, vaccination uptake, and responsible dog care, targeting children and families across Guinea.
Embedding gender equity into frontline health emergency response
Gender Integration Training — Niger
Supported gender integration training across health emergency response programmes in Niger, embedding gender equity principles into frontline practice and institutional health responses.
Researcher
- Conducted field research within Tostan's Community Empowerment Programme documenting community-led social norm change
- Examined the institutional conditions that sustained behaviour change at community level
- Produced qualitative case studies and in-depth interviews on how governance structures within community programmes determine whether change holds over time
- Built direct understanding of how internal governance determines whether community-level programmes sustain their results, the same structural question Sustenra brings to funded programmes on behalf of institutional clients
Programme Officer — Social and Behaviour Change
- Provided technical advisory support on programme strategy, monitoring design, and delivery management across portfolios in Senegal
- Worked within UNICEF's governance and accountability framework at country level
- Built direct experience of how accountability and oversight systems function inside a major multilateral, and where the gap between framework and delivery reality tends to open
Researcher and Co-author — Reproductive Health
- Contributed to multi-country peer-reviewed research spanning contraceptive use, family planning access, and nutrition
- The research examined how individual, community, and service environment factors shape outcomes across low- and middle-income countries
- Built a research foundation in how context and structural conditions determine whether programme outcomes reflect design intent or mask implementation failure, directly relevant to the independent assessments Sustenra conducts for funders and investors
Improving how contraceptive use is measured across countries
Contraceptive Use Measurement Across Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Co-authored peer-reviewed articles in PLOS ONE and Studies in Family Planning examining modern contraceptive use and emergency contraception. Contributed to methodological work reconceptualising the measurement of emergency contraceptive use to better reflect real-world patterns.
Understanding how community and service conditions shape contraceptive use
Individual, Community, and Service Environment Factors in Contraceptive Use
Multilevel, multinomial analysis examining how community and service environment factors shape modern contraceptive use across five Sub-Saharan African countries. Research used geographically linked data from PMA2020 surveys.
Additional multilateral, government, and confidential advisory assignments are available upon request.