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Mwebembezi Jostas

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

Mouz Asfaw

Mouz Asfaw is an experienced web developer, designer, and communicator with expertise in leading web development projects as well as their operational management. He has experience in managing websites containing a significant number of resources and leading content development efforts. Mouz has been working with Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, managing the CCP Ethiopia country website, leading the design and development of innovative Social and Behavior Change interventions including communication material design, and development of technology-based solutions for community engagement. He has also been supporting the knowledge management efforts of CCP Ethiopia. This includes creating a system for managing and sharing program resources and materials using both online and offline mechanisms. Other SBC interventions under his purview were a mobile app to help families make better informed decisions about their health; content development and design of multimedia products on various health issues; and quality assurance of different productions.