Francis has over 9 years of Research and M&E practical work experience designing innovative and leading project monitoring and evaluation system, knowledge management, PMP, quality improvement and organizational learning initiatives for international public health development organization. Before joining Palladium on SOCY- Project, Francis served as the M&E Advisor at John Snow Inc., SPRING/Uganda project, where he developed and implemented a robust M&E strategy for collecting, management and reporting and use of data, team leadership, coordination of multisectoral government and partners’ technical M&E efforts for corroborative learning and adoption. He steered the development of the M&E frameworks for the Uganda Anemia prevention and control strategy 2017- 2022, Industrial Food Fortification Strategy 2017-2022, and tools for the Micronutrient powder distribution pilot in Uganda. Prior to joining JSI, Francis worked as Data Manager for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded EMBLEM project in Uganda under AFENET where he provided leadership in data management and operation research. His experience arrays public health programing and management including health system strengthening for (HIV&AIDS, child and maternal health; reproductive health; Nutrition, WASH, malaria, non-communicable diseases), result based monitoring (RBM) and evaluation, planning, budgeting and financial control, and coordination. Other areas of expertise include data management, analysis, quality assessment and visualization, knowledge management, protocol and survey design, M&E capacity building and leadership. Through his career, Francis has carried out program evaluation including statistical and data management for government and development partners on different project interventions. Francis holds a MSc. Population Studies from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and professional training in M&E, and he has made scientific presentation at different international conferences.