Arbogast Oyanga is a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning and Adapting (MERLA) professional. Mr Oyanga has over 12 years’ experience in the health, education, and energy sectors. His work in the education sector has contributed to the scale-up of a pilot education project into a national programme which led to the establishment of reading benchmarks for the deaf and blind in Kenya.

Mr Oyanga has developed and implemented performance monitoring systems and indicators to track and report project results, including reporting of programme milestones and analyses of monitoring data to derive lessons for improvement based on his work at RTI International. His current work in the energy sector has resulted in revisions of critical Power Africa indicators for all implementing mechanism in Africa. He has also previously worked at Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES), a partnership between Kenya Medical Research Institute and the University of California San Francisco, where his work building the capacity of ministry of health records staff and their managers has been adopted as standard practice for all implementing partners in Nyanza region of Kenya.

Mr Oyanga holds an MSc in Research Methods from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya and a Postgraduate Diploma in International Public Health from the University of Liverpool, UK. He is fluent in English and Kiswahili and is studying Arabic.