Juliana Lara Conjera is a Mozambican national with a Bachelor´s Degree (Public Administration and Sociology), and Specialist certificate in Leadership and Management in Health. She has 15 years of experience in M&E, health, data quality and assurance, including M&E of the USAID Community Care Project. She has more than 18 year of experience in Mozambique. She has technical expertise in: HIV/AIDS; TB; geographic information systems; data quality assurance; quality assurance/quality improvement; data monitoring, analysis, and feedback to implementing partners; development of M&E forms and registers for TB and HIV indicators; monitoring and evaluation; capacity building, mentoring and transfer of technical skills to M&E staff at CBOs and Ministerial departmental partners. She is skilled in Project Management, Strategic Planning, designing/planning, budgeting, implementing and management of development projects, including: community-based projects with a special technical focus on Community-Based Direct Observation and Treatment (DOTS) of TB in the community; HIV/AIDS prevention among youth; home-based Care for PLHIV; and orphans and vulnerable children care and support. She has worked both with the Mozambican public sector and international NGOs operating in Mozambique. She is experienced in research, specifically in: qualitative and quantitative research in health and community programs; research ethics training; protocol development processes including ethical approval, recruitment and training of field staff; conducting needs assessments, baseline surveys, and project evaluation; qualitative data collection (in-depth interviews and focused group discussion); data analysis; and reporting. She is fluent in written and spoken Portuguese and English.