Venancio Mzonda is a chief economist working with the monitoring and evaluation division of Malawi’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs. He is a holder of Master’s degree in policy economics from Williams college, Massachusets-USA. Apart from routine M&E activities in government he is part of the core evaluation team in Malawi and has been involved in a number of in country evaluations. He is currently the country lead in Malawi’s post compact evaluation and is in a team of 2nd compact M&E plan development.