Ben Mwongela

Director

Ben Mwongela, CEO and Founder Director

Ben Mwongela (Kenyan) holds a Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship and Business Management from the Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands and has been involved in the area of enterprise development and program management for well over 20 years. He is PhD fellow in Strategic Management in Moi University’s School of Economics and Business.

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John N. Kinyua, MA

Development Management and Evaluation Specialist

John is the Development Management and Evaluation Specialist at Agile Consulting Africa. He
holds a Master of Art in Development Management from Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany;
and Bachelor of Science in Applied Statistics with Information Technology from Maseno
University Kenya. Currently, John is a PhD in Development Studies candidate at Jomo Kenyatta
University of Agriculture, Science and Technology, Kenya.
He has proven expertise background in design and implementation of experimental research
designs; design of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) systems; vast
data management and analysis skills; and extensive experience and a track record in field
supervision, data collection, analysis and inference making.
He worked as Head of Monitoring and Evaluation at Equity Group Foundation (EGF) where he
was in charge of 6 national programs. Part of these programs included: Financial Knowledge for
Africa (FiKA) and Entrepreneurship Training Program (ETP) both of which sought to expand
financial access to small and micro enterprises. At EGF John designed and successfully
implemented quasi experimental designs using pipeline method. While working with OECD in
Paris France, he conducted impact evaluation of PARIS21’s NSDS program using Pooled Time-
Series Cross-Sectional (PTSCS) analysis design. These are all in addition to numerous need
assessments, baseline surveys, formative and summative evaluations both nationally and
internationally that John has conducted.
His consulting experience includes; Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) in partnership with
Global Communities for a five-year Agribusiness Investment for Market Stimulation (AIMS) in
Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi: Farm Africa’s Sorghum and green grams value chain development
project: Farm Africa’s outcome mapping evaluation exercise: World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Kenya in conducting baseline study for the Evergreen Project that covered Kenya, Tanzania and
Malawi. He also supported development of the ICRAF partnership database for the partnership
directorate. He also conducted several studies with CONGRI Nyumbani Kenya, among other
organizations.
John has extensive working knowledge and vast experience using: SPSS, STATA, R-Programming,
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, in quantitative analysis. He also has a working knowledge of
MaxQDA for qualitative analysis as well as tallying method and thematic analysis using Excel.

Felix Kanungwe Kalaba

Associate Director, Southern Africa

Dr. Kabala, (Zambian) national holds a PhD in Environmental Science from the Leeds University in the United Kingdom. He too holds an MSc and BSc in forestry from the universities of Stellenbosch (SA) and Copperbelt (Zambia) respectively.
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Pascal Martin Kinyage

Consultant, Tanzania

Pascal (Tanzanian), holds double Masters in Entrepreneurship and Business Administration from Eastern and Southern African Management Institute- ESAMI. He too holds a Bachelors Degree in Community Development-Community Development-Institute of Community Development Arusha.
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Mark David Mwine

Consultant, Uganda

Mark (Ugandan) holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) majoring in Small and Micro Enterprises from Makerere University Business School, Makerere University Kampala and a Bachelor of Arts Social Sciences (Majoring in Political Science and Public Administration).
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Lansen Wedroughs Chikopa

Consultant, Malawi

Lansen has over 18 years in project needs assessment, planning,implementation, monitoring and evaluation and financial management.
He is experienced in staff and community capacity building, food security, sustainable livelihoods, natural resources management, sustainable energy, income generation and climate change adaptation. He is skilled in research using both participatory and quantitative methodologies. Lansen has worked with communities at grassroots level including women and youth.
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Thomas Obiero