BRIEF PROFILE OF MWEBEMBEZI JOSTAS
Mr.Jostas is the Executive Director, Founder and Senior Research Consultant of Rwenzori Center for Research and Advocacy (RCRA) a not for profit communication for development organisation in Uganda working to improve lives of women and children. Mr. Jostas has a first Degree in Statistics from Makerere University Kampala. He is a certified public statistician with substantial experience in Project planning and Management, Monitoring and Evaluation.
Mr.Jostas has worked in behavioral change communication and advocacy fields for the last 6 years – with expertise in managing teams, research, monitoring and evaluation of programs including the development of Monitoring & Evaluation(M&E) plans, M&E methodologies and indicators; data collection and analysis protocol, undertaking baseline surveys process, mid-term, and end-term evaluations; monitoring and evaluating multi-region large scale health programmes, including in fragile and post-conflict environments; conducting data quality assessments, interpreting performance results and analysis of the implications of such results in the country context; report writing and Promoting research uptake. His expertise has seen him manage exciting and complex projects mainly focused on health systems strengthening, mHealth, reproductive health, family planning, malaria, HIV/AIDS, advocacy, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Child Surviva