User:Jostas

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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, Msc in Communication for Development from University of Manchester. 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 Survival, Girl-child education and gender based violence. His is a practitioner in social behavioural change communication in Western Uganda, has employed latest communication technologies in addressing community challenges. He is now senior research consultant has accumulated substantial experience in research, technology for development, program design and management, and community empowerment and projects evaluation. He is innovative with managerial skills