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Natascha Minnitt

Natascha Minnitt

Data scientist & research consultant

Annecy, France

👋 Hello, I’m Natascha, a data scientist with 6+ years in the humanitarian and international development space. My skills and experience span the entire data lifecycle, from designing tools for data collection, to cleaning and modelling data pipelines, and storytelling through data visualisations and dashboards.

AVAILABLE FOR WORK

How can I assist you?

Data design and collection

Questionnaire and workflow design for high-quality data collection in complex settings.

Kobo Toolbox Qualtrics API / CSV ingestions

Processing, analysis and modelling

Cleaning, modelling and analysing large, messy datasets for actionable insights.

Python SQL Forecasting Machine Learning

Production and dissemination

Turning analysis into clear narratives, dashboards and decision-ready outputs.

Dashboards Data visualisation Reporting MLOps

What I’ve done

Forecasting food prices<br>Ethiopia
Forecasting food prices
Ethiopia ongoing

Developed a short-horizon forecasting workflow for staple food prices by combining FEWS NET, WFP, FAO, climate (CHIRPS) and conflict (ACLED) data. Automated the ETL pipeline and exposed forecasts in a Streamlit dashboard.

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Forecasting food prices
Ethiopia ongoing
Intimate partner violence screening<br>South Africa
Intimate partner violence screening
South Africa

Designed and maintained a data processing and analysis pipeline for an IPV screening tool implemented in two public hospitals in South Africa. The system processes data quarterly (≈35,000 women screened to date) and supports decision-making on service referrals and violence trends.

Client: Groote Schuur Hospital Trust. The screening tool won the GEMS Health Award at the 2024 Centre for Public Service Innovation Awards.

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Intimate partner violence screening
South Africa
Predicting adolescent pregnancy<br>Uganda
Predicting adolescent pregnancy
Uganda

Built models on Global Fund data merged with demographic and service variables to identify determinants and risk factors for adolescent pregnancy (10–14). Findings inform UNICEF Uganda policy and programming and feed into an academic paper in progress.

Client: UNICEF Uganda
Completed in collaboration with Southern Hemisphere Consulting.

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Predicting adolescent pregnancy
Uganda
Evaluation of UNHCR’s Level 3 emergency<br>Ukraine (regional)
Evaluation of UNHCR’s Level 3 emergency
Ukraine (regional)

Contributed to a flagship evaluation of UNHCR’s largest-ever emergency response across Poland, Moldova, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, with a focus on protection, cash and coordination outcomes.

Client: UNHCR Regional Bureau for Europe
Completed while working at Key Aid Consulting.

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Evaluation of UNHCR’s Level 3 emergency
Ukraine (regional)
Market baseline & cash feasibility<br>Ethiopia
Market baseline & cash feasibility
Ethiopia

Led a market baseline and cash feasibility study for Ethiopia’s largest food programme, including managing 25 data collectors and surveys with 700+ respondents across multiple locations.

Client: Catholic Relief Services.
Completed while working at Key Aid Consulting.

Market baseline & cash feasibility
Ethiopia
Value for Money of cash response<br>Ukraine & Poland
Value for Money of cash response
Ukraine & Poland

Assessed the Value for Money of large-scale cash responses for refugees in Ukraine and Poland, analysing cost-efficiency and equity of assistance delivered by multiple agencies.

Clients: Mercy Corps, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and People in Need (PIN)
Donors: USAID and FCDO
Completed while working at Key Aid Consulting.

Value for Money of cash response
Ukraine & Poland

Experience

Education and work

2013
2015
2017
2019
2021
2023
2025
Today
Honours in Social Science
Masters Social Psychology
Masters in Data Science
Researcher
Analyst
Analyst
Data Scientist

Click a role to see organisation and years.

Thematic areas

🏥 Public health 🌾 Food security & livelihoods 💵 Cash & voucher assistance 🌦️ Climate adaptation & resilience 🧳 Migration & displacement 🫂 Protection 🚺 Sexual & reproductive health rights

Technical skills

Python SQL Git & version control Excel Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn Data cleaning & wrangling ETL pipelines Time-series modelling Statistical analysis MLflow (experiment tracking) Dashboard (Streamlit) Data viz (Matplotlib, Seaborn & Plotly) Survey design (KoBo, ODK, Qualtrics)

Stakeholders

USAID
USAID
UNICEF
UNICEF
UNHCR
UNHCR
Danish Refugee Council
Danish Refugee Council
Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps
Global Fund
Global Fund
FCDO
FCDO
CRS
CRS
NRC
NRC
CALP
CALP
GFFO
GFFO
Frontline AIDS
Frontline AIDS
Trocaire
Trocaire
Red Cross / Red Crescent
Red Cross / Red Crescent

Context & languages

Project experience spans Africa, MENA, Eastern Europe and South East Asia.
The map below highlights locations where I've travelled for work.

English – native French – intermediate

Side projects

Distribution of Things is where I explore humanitarian and development datasets to visualize trends. Click any visual to open the article.

Visualisation

Contact

Feel free to reach out for collaborations or consultancy work on data products. I look forward to connecting.

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