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Mr. Otikal Kenneth

Mr. OTIKAL Kenneth

Convocation Representative

Mr. Kenneth Otikal is a development economist, statistician and monitoring, evaluation and learning specialist with more than 20 years of experience in government planning, national statistics and independent evaluation. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nate Africa Consulting Ltd, a Ugandan research and evaluation firm based in Soroti City and Kampala. He sits on the UTAMU University Council, where he serves on the Finance and Administrative Committee.

Kenneth holds a Master of Science in Monitoring and Evaluation from UTAMU, where he graduated top of the entire Graduate School with a CGPA of 4.55. He also holds a Master of Science in Population Studies (Demography) from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, which he attended as a Netherlands Fellowship Programme scholar, and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Statistics and Economics from Makerere University. In 2022 he won First Place at the IPDET Global Evaluation Hackathon at the University of Bern.

His public service career spans district and central government. He served as Principal Planner and Economist at the Dairy Development Authority from 2019 to 2023, where he led work on the national dairy value chain development strategy. Before that he held statistics, planning and monitoring and evaluation posts in local government.

As a consultant, he has led or co-led assignments for FAO, the World Bank, the International Labour Organization, the International Trade Centre, USAID Feed the Future, UNCDF, the African Union, WaterAid, Oxfam, Catholic Relief Services and the Government of Uganda. Recent work includes co-leading the FAO Uganda Country Programme Evaluation, evaluating the World Bank funded Uganda Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers programme, and leading a national study on inequalities in access to water, sanitation and hygiene, whose policy brief was adopted by the Ministry of Water and Environment. He is on the FAO Consultancy Roster as a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist and serves on Uganda’s National M&E Technical Working Group.

Kenneth is also developing practical uses of artificial intelligence in evaluation, including AI-assisted digitisation of survey instruments.