jowatera@gmail.com

A Social Worker by profession, Josephine Watera is the Head Monitoring and Evaluation Division in the Parliament of Uganda with over twelve (12) years of working experience in program design, implementation, performance management, community-driven development, and action learning, including planning, monitoring and evaluation, research and advancing evidence use in decision-making.   Josephine holds a triple master’s degree in Monitoring and Evaluation; Business Administration; and Social Sector Planning and Management. Josephine is the Sub-Saharan Africa representative on the Board of International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), Advisory Committee Member of the Africa Center for Evidence (ACE) at the University of Johannesburg, and the Secretary-General of the Uganda Evaluation Association (UEA). She is part of the team that is currently reviewing the African Evaluation Guidelines led by the African Evaluation Association.   As an author, presenter and speaker, she has made great contributions in the field of monitoring and evaluation. She is greatly involved in delivering training in monitoring and evaluation; and in the recent past, she has engaged as mentor in the Piloted EvalYouth International Youth Mentorship Program by EvalPartners, and in the Development Monitoring and Evaluation for Peace (DPME) Mentorship Program 2018 by Search for Common Ground, both aimed at developing Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity of Young and Emerging Evaluators. Josephine’s works have been internationally recognized, as she was awarded as the most promising evaluator from developing countries during the 2017 American Evaluation Association Conference in Washington DC.