Miriamtha Dahdal is a program manager at IREX Jordan. Dahdal has worked on eight IREX programs to date, currently managing the U.S. Jordan Leadership Exchange Program (UJLEP). She is also the Jordan focal point for Learn to Discern, IREX’s approach to critical engagement with information, designed to build resilience to information manipulation, including online recruitment. Ms. Dahdal has also managed IREX’s Libya Very Verified program, adapting IREX’s Learn to Discern (L2D) methodology to engage Libyan youth groups and organizations in civic participation ahead of the elections. 

As the Jordan monitoring and evaluation focal point for L2D, Dahdal leads the design and implementation of the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI)-informed evaluation of several L2D programs in Jordan, including The Mums Project, Media Clubs, Tafakkar (Think), and Youmakken (Empowering, Youth Media Action Knowledge and Engagement), consistently innovating and elevating the L2D evaluation framework. Prior to joining IREX, Dahdal served as project officer with Aktis Strategy Ltd. at its regional office in Amman, which covered Jordan, Yemen, Syria, and Turkey. She started her career conducting qualitative and quantitative research as well as assessing ethical research as committee member of the National Research Ethics Service, the research board of the UK’s National Health Service.