Anthony Kamau

M&E and Research

Anthony N. Kamau is an experienced monitoring and evaluation/operations research consultant with over four decades experience in undertaking program/project monitoring/operations research studies. He holds a master’s degree in health promotion from the University of Bergen in Norway. He is also trained in applied statistics as well as in public health. Mr. Kamau undertook a four-month short summer training program in program/project monitoring and evaluation at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill campus during the mid-eighties run by ‘MEASURE EVALUATION’. Anthony has vast experience working both in the public as well as in the non-governmental sectors for considerable periods of time. For almost two decades he worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation/Operations Research Officer with the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) currently known as AMREF Health Africa. As the Operations Research Manager he spearheaded a quasi-experimental initiated by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with an international non-governmental organization known as Healthright International (formerly doctors of the world) seeking to establish if Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) would be useful in assisting trained health workers in under-staffed, marginalized areas of the republic within community settings as well as in health facilities.
As a consultant he has undertaken numerous monitoring and evaluation/operation research studies in various countries within the sub-Saharan Africa region such as Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia, South Sudan, Liberia and Rwanda. He has undertaken the assignments either as a lead consultant or as a member of a team. The studies have been sponsored by various organizations such as the World Bank, USAID, Au-SAID, DANIDA, EU, Global Fund, UNFPA, UNICEF, AMREF, Governments and County governments among others. His knowledge and skills in designing and undertaking mixed methods study designs is above average. Anthony has vast experience in processing and analysing both quantitative and qualitative data through a variety of micro-computer software such as the Social Package for Social Sciences, STATA, and NVIVO among others. Over time he has acquired inestimable skills in relating with various professionals in the consultancy jurisdiction.