About Aid-IT Solutions

Statement of Mission:

To help helpers help.

Vision Statement:

Better information, better performance, better aid, better world.

Our Objective

To be the international aid industry standard for best-practice monitoring and evaluation (M&E).

Our History

Back in the 70s, Lyndon Voigt was in his final year of primary school in Melbourne, Australia.  Several years prior, he had moved with his family from living in Papua New Guinea…and so he felt some empathy for a geeky little kid, Paul Crawford, who had just moved from living on an island in Vanuatu.  They became friends.

In 1992 Paul was recruited as a youth worker by Glenn Roberts.  Glenn and Paul worked together for two years before Paul obtained work with an NGO in Africa. 

In 1999, Glenn, Lyndon and Paul worked together in Kosovo immediately following the NATO-Yugoslav ceasefire.  Paul, an international aid consultant, Lyndon an IT consultant, and Glenn a community services manager developed an information system to help report the delivery of community services for thousands of returning Kosovar refugees to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Following the Kosovo assignment (and many others around the world), a PhD in M&E, the visionary support of an international aid agency CEO, and world class software development by Datawise Consulting...the eM&E system was born in December 2004.

Aid-IT Solutions Pty Ltd is now a growing private Australian company with consulting and system clients around the world and a commitment to being the benchmark for best practice M&E.

Paul Crawford

The Principal Consultant of Aid-IT Solutions Pty Ltd, Dr Paul Crawford, holds a Bachelor of Rural Science, a Master of Business Administration and a Doctorate of Philosophy in the field of aid monitoring and evaluation.

He has over twelve years management and consulting experience within international development and humanitarian aid organisations in more than 35 countries throughout Africa, Asia, the Pacific, the Balkans, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. 

He has held a range of positions within international NGO operations including Project Manager, Program Director, M&E Officer and Country Director; and he has provided consultancy services including evaluations, M&E system design and review, needs assessments, project design and appraisal. Clients have included prominent international NGOs (Oxfam, World Vision, IFRC, ADRA, Child Fund), commercial aid contractors, bilateral donors and multilateral agencies.

Paul is an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Futures.  His is a member of the Graduate Management Association, the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP) and Registered Engineers in Disaster Response (Red-R UK).

He has been decorated with the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal of Australia (HOSM) for work in Rwanda during the 1994 humanitarian crisis, and has been awarded certificates of appreciation by the Government of Australia on two occasions for his contribution to sustainable development and poverty reduction. 

Paul was born in Papua New Guinea and spent his childhood in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.  He lives beside Lake Macquarie north of Sydney in Australia.  He enjoys long distance running, cycling (both pedal and motor), sea kayaking, music and fine food.

Download a copy of Paul's CV.



Lyndon Voigt

Lyndon Voigt is currently completing an MBA and holds a Bachelor of Science (Biological Science/Computing & Information Systems) and has worked in the ICT industry in both commercial and non-profit sectors in Australia and internationally.

Lyndon’s unique contribution stems from a combination of strong technical IT development skills and a thorough appreciation of international development assistance.

His professional experience includes IT management, system development project management, information systems analysis/design/development, web solution development and operations management.

Prior to his involvement with Aid-IT Lyndon held the position of Technical Services Leader for a multi-million dollar IBM-supported start-up company. Among other responsibilities, he was charged with developing and managing a support/help system servicing over 800 client organisations.

He first worked in international aid as the Information Officer for an international NGO operating in Kosovo immediately following the 1999 NATO-Yugoslav ceasefire. In addition to managing the NGO’s IT infrastructure, he was responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of an MIS to support a large UNHCR community services project responding to the emergency needs of refugees.

Lyndon has also conducted M&E system consultancies in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Timor Leste, PNG, Soloman Islands, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania. Lyndon spent his childhood years in Papua New Guinea.