Joseph R. BUGEMBE (He / Him)

Joseph R. BUGEMBE is a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) expert with about three decades of professional experience in international and national development. He has specialised in evaluation methodology design, including impact evaluations (that seek for attributable cause-effect evidence and inferences). He has led both the conducting and designing of several innovative, collaborative and combined-methods evaluative research and surveys. The experience is that interventions implemented in complex situations call for blending research methods to be able to enrich decision making relying on mixed-methods generated empirical evidence. He has also designed and managed M&E systems strengthening in Africa, Asia Pacific and the Middle East [with the bulk of his work targeting developing countries in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), notably Angola, Kenya, Liberia, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe]. He has also facilitated organisational and sector-level results measurement and performance management. This involved leading several multidisciplinary M&E teams across a range of fields, settings or sectors (including support to countries in conflict and post-conflict situations, economic and social sectors, public and private sectors as well as rural and urban development). This widened his know-how and increased his versatility in facilitating the measurement of outcomes and impacts through tighter implementation M&E regimes and rigorous evaluative studies. As an M&E consultant, he has served a diverse range of clients, including several government institutions, civil society organisations (see list of these agencies in section 14) and development partner agencies [such as AfDB (Africa), Agha Khan Foundation, CIDA (Canada), DANIDA (Denmark), DFID (UK), EU (Europe), Global Fund, GIZ (Germany), IGAD, JICA (Japan), SIDA (Sweden) and USAID; the latter including UN agencies (e.g., UNICEF, UNESCO, UNDP, UNCDP and WHO)]. These agencies contracted or funded his work in support of country systems, hence exposing him directly to working within frameworks of either bilateral relations or multilateral partnerships. He has authored several peer-reviewed technical M&E papers, reports and normative guidelines, some of these published by authorities that commissioned the works. His recent interests lie in greater M&E evidence uptake and utilisation by decision makers to drive or guide performance improvements in intervention implementation (through greater transparency and accountability, alignment and harmonisation, coordination and integration as well as to ensure ownership and responsibility of the observed or measured results). He also has a growing strong and explicit commitment to M&E-related skills transfer (either achieved through coaching and mentoring, hands-on support and practical field-based demonstrations, use of online resources and textual guidelines, best-practice study tours and twining of agencies as well as workshop-based training, etc.). Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring and Evaluation |