Eliab Kwikiriza

Experience

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  Uganda Health Marketing Group

  Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

  • A.g Monitoring,Evaluation Research and Learning Officer

    Aug 2014 - Dec 2014

  • Monitoring,Evaluation Research and Learning Assistant

    Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
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  Uganda Health Marketing Group/USAID/Uganda Social Marketing

  Dec 2014 - Jul 2018

  Regional MERL Officer-Western Region
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  ADRA Uganda

  Sept 2018 - Nov 2018

  Team Leader/Research investigator

  Development of ToRInception reportRecruitment of enumeratorsDevelopment of day collection too ls and pretestingDevelopment of Research quality report

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  Food for the Hungry, Inc.

  Feb 2019 - now

  In this role, I am responsible for coordinating all the MEAL and Research activities in the organizational country program interventions, ensuring program quality assurance, the SMART indicators defined in the frameworks and policies and Ensure quality programming through supporting access to and use of relevant and timely information on program scale, relevance, and effectiveness. Within this context, provide technical support to in-country staff pertaining to MEAL, Proposal development, Program Design, Theory of Change development and build capacity in the country program team by identifying and supporting the implementation of effective, cost efficient and meaningful M&E systems.The key achievements: Spearheaded, coordinated the implementation of Outcome Harvesting Evaluation as an innovation to the MEARL Unit, Spearheaded the development of technical program design for the country intervention following global office strategy of five years and ensuring that projects planning use Human centered design approach and championed the development of consultants TOR for baseline, Midterm and end term evaluations and the entire research implementation and the development of abstracts and spearheaded the implementation and sharing the country performance metrics (Time, Scope and Budget) and the balance scored measurement of organizational health. Show less In this role, I do provide substantive and hands-on support to Area Programs (APs). Ensures that the projects stay on time, scope, and budget, promote practice of performance, accountability, and risk management in line with in line with FH’s “Transforming Field Experience (TFE)” re-imagination initiative and ensuring that the country transitions well the new program Model. The Position also support the “ecosystem approach” of coordinating support to Program Delivery across APs with surge support to HR, Procurement and logistics, Business development, Finance, Admin and IT support services. Co-lead in providing leadership for functional and operational issues, monitoring the Area Program performance, and ensure processes, mechanisms and capacities are in place to assure quality in a consistent manner across their programming portfolios. And promote organizational growth and portfolio diversification and contribute to strategy development whilst positioning Food for the Hungry Association across all districts of operation.The key achievements: Spearheaded the implementation of the country’s performance metrics (Time, Scope and Budget) closed the quarter 75%. This symbolizes zeal and determination in ensuring that organizational performance is hinged on precision taken by coordination and teamwork. Spearheaded the FY25 Planning processes and the innovations that were embedded in the planning, budgeting and implementation. Show less In this role, I am responsible for MEAL and Research activities in the northern region including; designing data collection tools based on the project indicators, support the project team and partners to collect accurate and quality data as well as identified staff training needs then coordinated them to strengthen their skills in M&E programing in Malaria, Livelihood, WASH, Nutrition and Family Planning. Updating Monitoring and Evaluation guidelines (AMELP and SOPs) and spearheaded the development of the SBCC, Livelihood, Education, Nutrition and WASH data collection tools. Developed filling system to track all data collected; nutrition client cards, registers and forms, ensured that the research component is descended in the country office, providing technical Support and mentorship to health facilities in thematic areas of Health and nutrition. The key achievements: Analyzed and ensured that data collected is entered into the different donor data bases including Education, Livelihood, Nutrition, WASH and Malaria data are reported into UNHCR Data base, DHIS II and FH Global database to track the implementation; Designed, coordinated and conducted the KAPs surveys, Mass MUAC, Weight for Height and Post Distribution Monitoring. And other key achieve Introduction of paperless monitoring and assessments (ODK, COMCARE and Nnivo) and Data analysis using ENA,SPSS and Anthroplus Show less

  • Country MEARL Coordinator

    Jun 2022 - now

  • Acting. Program Delivery Manager

    Oct 2024 - Dec 2024

  • Regional MEAL Officer-Northern Uganda

    Nov 2020 - Jun 2022

  • MEAL- Officer Lamwo

    Feb 2019 - Oct 2020