Beatrice Ngoma joined Infonex in 2016 as a Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant assigned to the MERIT Activity. But in just 4 years, she demonstrated the talent and skills for M&E to reach Senior M&E Officer. Beatrice ably leads teams of field assessors, directs telephone interviewers in conducting surveys of teachers and supervisors, collects and validates field data from schools, and manages M&E documentation with aplomb. Now an “M&E Associate”, Beatrice skillfully supports Infonex education studies with targeted data collection, monitoring follow-up and assessment tasks.
Lwitiko Mulwafu capably powers Infonex as our “GIS Associate”. Master mapper and datamap creator for Infonex since 2016, Lwitiko single-handedly mapped Malawi to produce a zone boundary layer for the MoEST GIS and led the team that produced 500+ zone, district and division maps for district education managers, PEAs and ministry departments. Both activities were fully supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development under the MERIT Activity. Lwitiko updates these maps for our website, zooms Google Earth to measure travel distances to schools, and prepares visually compelling datamaps to best display the geography of quantitative analyses. When he is not mapping, Lwitiko ably supports Infonex monitoring & evaluation.
Mercy Malinda joined Infonex in April 2016 as Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant for the MERIT Activity for two years and returned again in September 2019 as Monitoring & Evaluation Officer. With a BA degree in journalism, previous mentorship with the Girls’ Employment Network and Research Assistant assignments with several Malawi organizations, Mercy brings a keen eye to qualitative interviewing with a talent for detailed notetaking. As an “M&E Associate”, Mercy provides Infonex with consistent, high quality data collection through interviews, follow-up monitoring and assessment leadership.
