Dr Isaack Michael Nguliki is a Tanzanian Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) specialist, development economist, researcher and evaluation consultant with over 17 years of professional experience and more than 50 consultancy assignments across seven African countries: Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia, Malawi, Eritrea and South Sudan. He holds a PhD in Economics, an MA in Economics and a BSc in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness.
His core areas of expertise include development evaluation, results-based monitoring and evaluation systems, agriculture and rural development, food security and sustainable livelihoods, agricultural value chains, natural resource management, climate change adaptation, environmental sustainability, institutional performance assessment, public policy evaluation, and knowledge management. He has extensive experience conducting baseline studies, mid-term reviews, endline evaluations, impact assessments, programme completion reviews and institutional performance evaluations.
Dr Nguliki has substantial international experience working with development partners and United Nations agencies, including IFAD, FAO, WFP, UNDP and WMO. His assignments have covered agricultural transformation, smallholder farming, livestock commercialisation, fisheries and aquaculture development, rural livelihoods, climate resilience and agricultural statistics. Through IFAD-supported programmes, he has undertaken monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management assignments in Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia, Eritrea and South Sudan.
He possesses advanced technical competencies in Theory of Change, results frameworks, OECD-DAC evaluation criteria, mixed-methods research, participatory and equity-focused evaluation, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, impact evaluation methodologies, data quality assurance and evidence-based decision-making. His methodological expertise includes Difference-in-Differences, Propensity Score Matching, Regression Discontinuity Design, Randomised Controlled Trials, Outcome Harvesting, Outcome Mapping and Most Significant Change. He is experienced in using SPSS, Excel, KoboToolbox and ODK for evaluation data collection, management and analysis.
At the national level, he has contributed to major evaluations of Tanzania Development Vision 2025, the Third National Five-Year Development Plan and the performance of 14 public and statutory corporations. He currently serves as Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Lead at DERICH Consulting Limited and as a part-time lecturer in the Master of Arts in Development Evaluation programme at Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE).
Beyond consultancy practice, Dr Nguliki contributes to evaluation research, professional capacity development and knowledge sharing through academic publications, methodological innovations and training. He has authored and co-authored publications on evaluation data management, evidence utilisation, participatory evaluation and development evaluation practices, including a 2026 book chapter on the institutionalisation of evaluation in Tanzania. He is a member of the Tanzania Evaluation Association (TanEA) and is particularly interested in strengthening the use of evaluation evidence, innovative evaluation methodologies, geospatial technologies and learning systems to advance sustainable development and improve the effectiveness of agriculture, food systems and rural development programmes.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4473-8002
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