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 regional resource hub for quality academic,
social and scientific research to inform
development interventions
To provide a better understanding of
health, socio-economic and demography of
communities through applied quality research
to facilitate evidence based analysis and
dissemination of knowledge.
To disseminate study findings to programme implementers, policy makers and analysts, community development practitioners, scholars and other research users.
To build partnerships in health and socio-economic policy research and program management, through capacity building and information sharing.
To initiate and commission cross cutting investigation in demographic, health and social-economic indicators in urban and rural communities in the great lakes region.
To contribute to evidence based policy formulation by collecting, digesting, synthesizing and disseminating reliable, timely health, development and social demographic data.
Annette
is the Monitoring,
Evaluation and Research Evaluation Consultant. At Akili she oversees all the entire programs and conducts
quality assurance
for
consultancy assignments. She holds a
Master of Science degree in Population
Studies and Reproductive Health and a
Bachelors’ in Social Work and Social Administration
both from Makerere University.
She has extensive knowledge
and
13 years’ experience in
development work. Annette has valuable
knowledge in social research,
analysis, project planning and
management.
She has developed a broad knowledge
and experience in the area of documentation, communication, reproductive health
and family planning, community programming
and training.
Annette has worked as a Monitoring, Evaluation
and
Research Consultant and
Coordinator for Plan International Uganda, Monitor and Evaluation Manager, Energy Institute of Uganda, Project Coordinator, Family Health International (ROADS project) and FIDA Uganda (Iganga child rights project) and Social Worker, Child Restoration Outreach.
Annette
has regional experience having worked in
Uganda, South Sudan and Rwanda.
Florence is an experienced
research and development
professional with over 14years’
experience in diverse fields. She
has a Masters’ of Science degree
in Population and Reproductive
Health with a Bachelors’ degree in
Social of Makerere University. To
this, the has attained profession
certificates in Research Ethics,
Good clinical practices, clinical
and community trials, Gender,
Nutrition for infants and children
among others. Currently, Florence
is a director at Akili Foundation
and also working as the head of
research.
Over time, Florence has been
involved in program
management, research,
monitoring and evaluations in
fields of livelihoods, maternal
and child health care, nutrition,
HIV/AIDS, sexual and
reproductive health, nutrition,
gender, rights among others
among others. She commands
strong experience with mixed
methods research
(quantitative/qualitative),
accumulated from several
studies including formative
research, monitoring and
evaluation (impact/
operational), baselines
undertaken for both local and
international institutions and organisations.
In addition,
Florence has experience in
different research roles ranging
from enumeration/data
collection, supervision to
managing different studies and
teams. Florence is conversant
working with both primary and
secondary data sets; both single
and multiple sets of data. She is
also abreast with both manual
electronic data collection
processes particularly using
ODK, Interviewer Solutions and
Survey CTO. She also commands
good experience in using Excel,
Epi data, STATA, SPSS, and Atlas
ti for data analysis.
James
is a Certified Public
Accountant
and oversees the Finance and
Administration roles at Akili
Foundation. He holds a BSc Honors (Accounting) from Oxford Brookes University
(UK) and ACCA qualification. James
is
a Professional accountant of proven
knowledge and ability to administer
financial
accounts and with over 10 year’s
continuous experience in Audit and accounting both private and public sector.
He is a member of the association of the Association
of
Accounting Technician
Uganda ATC– under the Institute of Certified Public Accountant of Uganda CAT (UK)
(Association Chartered Certified Accountant) UK. He
is also a member of the Association of Accounting Technicians of Uganda
-Institute
of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda.
James is a specialist
trainer in financial management and income generating Activities; Setting up accounting systems; Reviewing internal
controls and procedures;
Auditing Books of Accounts; Financial Analysis & Consolidation; Trainer
of
trainers in Financial Management; Result
Oriented Management (ROM); Staff Supervision.
Stanley is our Research Officer and assists in data collection supervision, data management and report preparations. He holds a Diploma in Fisheries Management and Technologies from The Fisheries Training Institute, Entebbe Uganda. He has two years’ experience in research work, most of which spent as research supervisor, assistant and data entrant. During his working career, he has acquired knowledge and experience in data base design, field research coordination, data collection and entry and community mobilization.
Julius is an experienced Software engineer and graphics designer who also doubles as a research assistnat. He has a degree in philosphy from the Urban university of Rome , a philosophy and social studies diploma from Katigondo National Major Seminary and a diploma in Software Enigneering from Monaco Institute of Business and Computer Science.
He has designed many websites , developed mobile applications for various companies and schools. He is also an Informations Technoogy adminstrator at Landstar Hotel Uganda, in the same aspect he has done some work in network Enigneering given his expertise in CCNA in which he has a certificate. Julius is also a psychologist in some communities given his diploma in social studies mainly human psychology.
Email: julius.m.kiyimba@gmail.com
Simon has been in the lead of monitoring and evaluating donor projects of national scope for the last 10 years. He has been M&E lead for family planning, MNCH, HIV prevention and care, Malaria prevention, BCC and social franchising. This various experience has made him adept in working with ministries, districts, NGO partners, and communities. As such, he has developed and managed integrated systems for monitoring static and non- static layers. On job experience has afforded him a well- rounded knowledge and practice of the various donor policies and M&E systems including DFID, USAID, GF, CDC, UNFPA, UNICEF and private funders in internationally affiliated NNGOs and government institutions.
He has designed and executed several surveys of national and multinational scope cutting across areas for both evaluation and policy. He has led the research and evaluation portfolio in URC, USAID ASSIST Uganda and led collaborations with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Ministry of Health and Academia. Simon has led technical review meetings using M&E data to guide programs. He has prepared donor reports in different formats and datasets for donor based MIS. He rolled out LQAS in the districts and routinely builds capacity of partners at national and district levels in basic program design & M&E, basic statistics and presentations for data utilization. He has managed knowledge products including web based products and published manuscripts.
Dr. Richard has a Doctorate in Sociology (specialising in Gender and Development) from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, now known as Maynooth University in the Republic of Ireland. He currently works as a Lecturer at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University and as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Development, Peace and Conflict Studies at Kampala International University. For the past fourteen years,
Dr. Richard has been teaching undergraduate and graduate students development and research courses such as gender and development, sociology
of development, environment and development, sustainable development, and research methods. Most of my academic and research work covers gender issues in development, adaptation o climate change, disaster risk reduction, health, participation and youth and child development.
He has also undertaken a number of consultancy assignments on gender, water and environmental governance, disaster risk reduction, and evaluative research (mainly baseline surveys, needs and capacity assessments and evaluation of development projects in various contexts).
Henry has a long track record of post-graduate research and consultancy, capacity building and organizational development support. He has applied experience in a wide range of disciplines including planning, analysis, design, and supervision of management systems, strategic management, establishment of management systems and evaluation. Henry’s key accomplishments include organization performance tracking as well as providing future and present cross learning based on evidence reporting and information gathering. He has a working experience of over 10 years in community participatory approaches and action operational research for community development programs, program management support to NGOs, UN bodies and governments reporting and report writing and training civic leaders in community empowerment approaches.
Email: kakubachrist@yahoo.com
Not only does he
have field experience in research, monitoring and evaluation, he competent in at
data management and analysis. Dr. Kakuba has worked as a Quantitative
Specialist on projects for World Vision-Ireland, Africa 2000 Network, Uganda
Red Cross Society, Oxfam GB-Uganda and World Vision-Uganda. Besides, he has been a Consultant for Uganda
National Expanded Program in the area of child immunisation and other child
survival interventions, KURET (Kenya-Uganda- Rwanda and Ethiopia Together) in
the area of child labour, ICEIDA (The Icelandic International Development
Agency) in the area of WASH, World Vision-Ireland and Save the Children Uganda
in the area of Infant and Maternal health, CARITAS-Switzerland in the area of
Land Advocacy and Management, Uganda Red Cross Society in the area of
agricultural statistics, Mott McDonald-UK, African Capacity Building
Foundation-Harare and IOM Migrant Welfare Programme.
He has over 16years’
experience in the area of translation between French and English. Christian has
worked as head of translation teams at various conferences and translated
highly technical documents like the Memorial of the DRC filed against Uganda on
issues related to the violation of the territorial integrity of the Congo. He
is also a trainer for AWARD (African Women in Agricultural Research and
Development) in the area of scientific and project
proposal writing. I have an M.A in French, an M.A in Population and
Development, a Certificate in Impact Evaluation and a PhD in Sociodemography
from Université de Paris Descartes (Paris
V), France. https://u-paris.fr/en/
He has additional skills in management and
leadership for large projects; proposal writing, report writing and data
management.
E-mail:
nathan.nshakira63@gmail.com or nnshakira@kab.ac.ug
He 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 10 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, newborn, 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).
Email:
arimo82@gmail.com
Moses is a fellow of the USAID
Global Health Strengthening Technical and Analytical Resources project at the
Uganda National TB and Leprosy Program, working as a Monitoring and Evaluation
Technical advisor. He has supported the World Bank service delivery indicators
surveys in health across several countries in East and West
Africa in increasing roles. He has lectured public health disciplines at
university level and supervised Masters' student theses. He won an Erling
Persson PhD scholarship in Global Health at Umea University. He brings a dozen years' experience
in public health expertise at district, health subdistrict, general hospital
and national level in addition to monitoring, evaluation and learning.
Email:
lynojan@gmail.com
Experienced
Gender and youth specialist, with a focus on gender integration in Livelihoods,
Heath, and Education. I am committed to closing gender gaps by tackling gender
inequality to realize positive program/project impact. My great deal of research and evaluation expertise offers
smooth ground for identifying gender issues and performing strategic program
development outcomes and sustainability based on evidence. I have program
design and implementation skills, committed to increasing access to education,
employment and economic opportunities. Addresses priority issues
collaboratively with local government officials and grassroots organizations to
find locally relevant solutions. Manages teams, provides technical assistance.
Experience building and managing budgets.
MSC
in population and Reproductive health of Makerere University and 13+ years of
experience in program design, implementation, research and evaluation in areas
of gender, sexual and reproductive health, and Education. Strong experience
with mixed methods research (quantitative/qualitative), monitoring and
evaluation (impact/operational), and technical report writing and production.