Candidate Profile

Franklin Namanya                                                                                                  

Kampala – Uganda

Phone: +256-774639865 / 752422076       emails: namanyafranklin9@gmail.com

PERSONAL PROFILE

Franklin is a female Emerging monitoring & Evaluation professional with over 3 years of experience in program monitoring & reporting, data management, research, evaluation & learning in fast growing environments demanding strong leadership, organizational, interpersonal, communication skills. She has held supervisory roles in field activities and supported implementation of programs across livelihoods and Entrepreneurship funded by the Mastercard foundation. She is highly committed to tracking details, following up with internal & external parties to ensure timely completion of tasks with adherence to quality standards. She is knowledgeable in designing and using mobile data collection tools as well use of data analysis packages and always eager to learn to better her skills in Monitoring & Evaluation as well as data management. She has had an interesting experience being a part of a team that developed an M&E system. She looks forward to being able to influence policy using reality-informed Evaluation results.

 EDUCATION BACKGROUND

Post Graduate Diploma in Monitoring & Evaluation (Uganda Management Institute, 2022 – 2023)

Bachelor of science in Quantitative Economics (Makerere University, 2016-2019)

Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (East High School-Ntinda, 2014-2015)

Uganda Certificate of Education (Kigezi High School, 2010-2013)

CAREER HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE

M&E Officer. July 2020 – December 2022

Institution: The Innovation Village, Kampala – Uganda

The Innovation village through 4 regional offices and 15 subgrantees was implementing two projects funded by the Mastercard foundation; Nextwave worth USD 16M to create and support an ecosystem of entrepreneurs aimed at creating 300,000 jobs in a period of 5 years. CRRP; the Covid-19 resilience and recovery program worth USD 2M was to support entrepreneurs recover from the shocks of Covid-19 pandemic.

Program monitoring & Learning.

• Followed-up former project beneficiaries(entrepreneurs) to ensure retention.
• Developed a document with standard indicators defined to ease routine reporting by implementing teams and understand the data needs.
• Undertook monitoring visits to the partner workstations to ensure continuous support and reporting capacity.
• Developed TIV’s MEL guidelines, tools & frameworks and provided hands-on technical assistance to staff to ensure that these are used for better reporting and organizational improvement.
• Developed, reviewed, and implemented MEL Strategy documents (log frames, theory of change) & Management Information System (tivimpact).
• Scheduled weekly department planning meetings.
• Trained staff and implementing partners on the use of the MIS for improved reporting and monitoring.
• Developed the M&E System to support operations with accountability and guided planning.
• Ensured data quality through audits, securing, monitoring and validation visits.
• Data analysis using excel to evaluate performance and inform strategic decisions.
• Designed & revised data collection tools.
• Data cleaning.

Research and Evaluations.

• Captured stories of change and supported studies as well as evaluations to aid comprehensive reporting and learning.
• Engaged in the study to assess the effectiveness of the radio-preneur programs.
• Developed a lesson learnt log to document lessons for future reference and improvement.
• Supported in the recruitment of research assistants.
• Trained research Assistants to ensure data quality standards were observed.

Reporting.

• Supporting monthly reporting and reviewed performance for the partners to draw strategies following the trends.
• Updating the monthly performance trucker to keep the organization informed about the milestones and trends.
• Making presentations on the progress of implementing partners given different targets.
• Compiled monthly reports for implementing partners that were used in the final donor report.
• Compiled quarterly insights reports for purposes of learning, continuous growth and planning with evidence.

Field Supervisor, April 2022.

Institution: Chrisbert Consult, Kampala

Study: Assessing urbanization, industrialization and harnessing the demographic dividend in the major cities

Operations

• Daily morning check-ins with research assistants to discuss challenges experienced and how to address them.
• coordinated and ensured Research Assistants had all the required data collection tools and equipment like tablets required.
• Discussed the deployment plan and ensured Research Assistants reached their interview locations on time to ensure all scheduled interviews are completed with-in the planned time.
• Met district and local leaders to obtain study administrative clearance for Research Assistants to smoothly hold interviews.
• Ensured delivery of all study transcripts and equipment (recorders and tablets) after research assistants have completed field data collection.
• Managed and accounted for the Team’s petty cash to run field operations.

Technical Supervision oversight

• Held spot check visits and listened into interviews of Research Assistants underway.
• Reviewed completed scripts and ensured they informed improvement in the way some of the questions were being asked by Research Assistants.
• Prepared daily summary progress reports on interviews completed per Research Assistant and shared with study consultants/lead.
• Documented summary of key challenges met in the field and recommended how these were addressed and can be addressed in future studies.
• Held end of week check-ins with the study lead/consultants to brief them on the progress of the study.
• Undertook thematic analysis of the qualitative data shared with me thru transcripts from Research Assistants.
• supported study lead/consultants in providing clarity to some of the results written in the report.

M&E Consultant, November 2019 –January 2020

Institution: Voluntary Action for Development, Kampala

I took lead in the design and field operations as well as the data management for a study where Umeme wanted to understand the livelihoods of the slum dwellers and their relationship with high number of Illegal connections.               

• Developed and revised data collection tools.
• Handled the entire data management process.
• Undertook the interpretation of results including visualizations that were used in the report.
• Undertook data cleaning & analysis using SPSS.
• Trained research assistants to best understand the tools that were used to collect data to collect correct and relevant data.

RELEVANT TRAININGS AND CERTIFICATES

• Data management & Analysis using MS.Excel and SPSS
• Acumen’s Lean Data Approaches to measuring social Impact. July 2021
• Certificate of successful completion of the data quality course with Global Health eLearning Center July 28, 2019
• Certificate of successful completion of the M&E fundamentals course with Global Health eLearning Center July 27, 2019
• International computer Drivers License (ICDL) at Makerere University August 2018

PROFESSIONAL BODIES.

• Member, Young Emerging Evaluators.

LANGUAGES

Fluency in speaking, reading & writing; English, Rukiga/Runyankore and Luganda.

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