Evidence for Change
Fiona Akwero is a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) professional with over six years of experience across humanitarian and development programming. She holds a Master's degree in Public Health and a Bachelor's degree in Demography, a combination that gives her both the population-level analytical lens and the public health grounding to design evidence systems that go beyond counting outputs and into understanding real change.
Fiona Akwero
MEAL Coordinator
- MEAL Coordinator — YSAT
- Over 6 years in humanitarian MEAL
At YSAT, Fiona leads the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation frameworks across a portfolio of projects spanning education, livelihoods, health, and social protection. She drives data-driven decision-making, strengthens accountability systems, and ensures that learning from the field shapes how programmes are refined and improved. Her work sits at the intersection of quality and accountability, two values that define how YSAT operates.
Fiona is passionate about using data not as a reporting requirement but as a tool for strategy, programme effectiveness, and sustainable outcomes for the vulnerable populations YSAT serves.
Education & Expertise
- Master's degree in Public Health
- Bachelor's degree in Demography
- MEAL framework design and implementation
- Data-driven decision-making
- Accountability and learning systems
- Multi-sector portfolio monitoring