Jonathan Ejoku

Manager, Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL)
Ejoku Jonathan

Jonathan is a statistician by training (BSc Makerere University, MSc Strathmore University) and has significant quantitative data skills, including designing and programming data collection instruments; leading enumerator recruitment and trainings; developing indicators and metrics; designing and implementing data quality assurance processes and systems; ensuring data privacy, protection of human subjects in research, and informed consent; and of course conducting data analyses and producing high quality visuals and reports to bring evidence to decision-making.

Jonathan has been using his MEAL skills in the global health and education sectors for thirteen years. In the health sector, he’s worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on HIV data systems and refugee settlements in Uganda; at the Uganda Virus Research Institute on US PEPFAR-funded testing quality; and Evidence Action on safe water, deworming, and hygiene programs in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Malawi, and Ethiopia. In the education sector, he worked at the Education Development Center, where he oversaw the survey work for USAID’s ICYD activity in Uganda, which involved early grade reading assessments in thousands of schools and 100+ districts.

In addition, Jonathan has also done diverse MEAL-related consultancy work, including for PATH with WHO and the Gates Foundation, developing an NTD surveillance planning toolkit piloted in Nigeria, Senegal, and Bangladesh; for PATH/Novel-T, mapping wastewater surveillance labs across Africa; and for the World Bank through JBN Consults and Planners, designing and running ESIA and resettlement surveys in refugee and host communities. Jonathan also assisted Uganda’s Ministry of Agriculture in transitioning livestock disease reporting from paper to digital across 130+ districts.

Based in Kampala, Uganda, Jonathan loves farm work. He is also active at his local church, where he’s become the person everyone hands the attendance sheet to. And he loves to read, although he claims a book only holds him if it has numbers in it.