Tendai Zauyamakando is a seasoned M&E professional with vast experience in the design and implementation of M&E systems for projects in various sectors, including health, WASH, nutrition, food security, and livelihoods. He has spent the last fifteen years working collaboratively with technical specialists, program staff, partners, and beneficiaries to define their M&E requirements to ensure participatory and robust M&E system designs and processes that collect and analyze data to improve and strengthen program quality, performance, and impact.

He has also led M&E capacity-building efforts for various programs aimed at equipping staff with appropriate M&E skills for effective program management, including the development of logical frameworks, indicators, M&E Plans and tools.

As an accomplished researcher, Tendai is highly proficient in qualitative and quantitative research methods, data analysis, and report writing with a proven track-record in the design of program evaluations and surveys including post-distribution monitoring (PDM) and knowledge attitude and practice (KAP) surveys.

Tendai also brings a unique international perspective to his M&E work as demonstrated by his experience of having worked in multiple countries in Africa, South East Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. His global experience has given him an appreciation for the value of diversity in M&E approaches that are contextualized to suit local realities.

Most recently, he served the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) in Poland, supporting the Ukraine and Impacted Countries Crisis, where he managed the development and implementation of the M&E Plan for the operation. Prior to that, he worked for the IFRC in Syria, as a MEAL Delegate, where he led the design and implementation of a MEAL system with appropriate MEAL tools and processes for the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC). He has also worked in various MEAL and research capacities for Première Urgence Internationale (PUI), the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), and the United Nations (UN).

Tendai earned a BA degree from the Queen’s University of Belfast in the UK and an MA in demography from the United Nations Institute for Population Studies at the University of Ghana. In addition to his formal training, he has enrolled in and completed online certification courses in M&E through MEASURE Evaluation and The Global Fund.