Akili foundation is a profound research and evaluation driven organisation established
in 2009. We provide research services in health, youth empowerment, education,
livelihoods and agriculture. Akili is legally registered to operate in Uganda.
Coined out of a Swahili saying, “Akili ni mali” (knowledge is wealth), we build on our
experience in providing consultancy services for evidence based decision making in
development, improvement, practice and dissemination to provide quality research
services to our clients and partners across the globe.
A Ugandan medical doctor and public health specialist; has since 1988 served in health care and management, health research and training, and integrated health and development consulting; with experience across Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia. He has experience in clinical care and district health services management; technical leadership to operations of government and private-not-for-profit primary health care facilities; community-based health care and research leadership; and technical leadership to government and non-government integrated health and development programs. He worked for 20 years in government health services and university-based research and training for health professionals; and for 7 years in non-government poverty-focused development and HIV control programs at national, regional and global level. He has been in full-time consulting services since 2003; with focus on reproductive, maternal, new- born, child and adolescent health; malaria control, HIV services and other aspects of primary health care program support. His specific experience in immunization services and public health evaluation includes: country evaluation of immunization services in Uganda (2005) and South Sudan (2011); immunization services management support in South Sudan (2012-2013); multi-country maternal and child health Programme evaluations (2007, 2009, 2011, every year between 2014 and 2020).
Frances is an expert in Agricultural Economics and Monitoring and Evaluation of programs. She holds a Masters of Science in Agricultural Economics and is currently pursing a PhD in the same field. She has over 18 years’ experience in working vast agriculture tailored assessments and evaluation/programs targeting farmers across the different regions within Uganda and in the East African Region. Uganda. Her experience includes statistical data collection, econometric modeling and analysis of agriculture research projects. She has designed program M&E systems, tools and methodologies (both qualitative and quantitative; and M&E training manuals. Frances currently works with the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA)/SG2000-Uganda and previously worked with the National Agriculture Research Organization of Uganda as an M&E Quality Assurance expert.
