
Falihery Rabetaliana is a Performance Management professional with over 17 years of experience spanning donor agencies, international NGOs, and large-scale development programs. He lastly served as MEL Lead Program Specialist at USAID Madagascar, where he provided mission-wide leadership on performance monitoring, strategic learning, data quality assessment, evaluations, and knowledge management across portfolios covering health, food security, livelihoods, governance, education, biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, and sustainable landscapes.
Graduated as an Agronomy Engineer, Falihery has held senior management and technical leadership roles with organizations such as Land O’Lakes Venture 37, and Peace Corps Madagascar, managing multi-million-dollar programs, leading multidisciplinary teams, coordinating grants and supporting partners to meet donor requirements. He is fluent in English and French, with Malagasy as his native language, and has extensive experience coordinating multi-stakeholder processes, facilitating strategic and learning workshops, conducting organizational diagnostics, and guiding evidence-based decision-making.
Beyond his professional life, Falihery enjoys Indian sweet delicacies—especially Jalebi, dedicates time to teaching children during Sunday school, and makes it a personal tradition to spend at least a few days every year on the warm northwest coast of Majunga, his favorite seaside retreat.