- Over 8 years of experience in Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) across East Africa
- Expertise in:
- Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research
- Quasi-experimental and participatory evaluation designs
- Outcome harvesting and adaptive learning approaches
- Gender-responsive monitoring and policy analysis
- Thematic areas:
- Food security and rural development
- Climate change adaptation and climate justice
- Gender equality and women’s economic empowerment
- Preventing and countering violent extremism (PCVE)
- Experience leading MERL frameworks for multi-country, multi-partner programs
- Conducted evaluations for major donors and development partners (World Bank, EU, DFID, GCERF)
- Recent focus areas include:
- Evaluation of climate-smart agriculture and sustainable livelihoods interventions
- Mapping local vulnerabilities to environmental and climate-related shocks
- Strengthening MEL systems in contexts with low technology access and literacy
- Proficient in data collection and analysis tools, including NVivo, KoboToolbox, SPSS, Stata, Python and OCR-based digitization methods
