Dr. Godfrey Obwina Atsiaya is a Senior MEL Program Officer at the International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED), where he leads the Strategic Partnerships and Innovation platform under the Centre's Mastercard Foundation Programmes. In this role, he designs and operationalizes MEL frameworks and learning agendas, drives strategic partnerships, and leads high-value proposal development and donor engagement to expand ICED's programme portfolio.
Godfrey brings over a decade of progressive experience in agricultural economics, monitoring and evaluation, and programme management. He has served as Team Lead on a series of large-scale assessments, including a continental ecosystem mapping of organizations supporting youth livelihoods, refugee inclusion, and disability inclusion across Africa, a multi-country outcome assessment of youth employment and wellbeing, and program reviews focused on youth employment, refugee inclusion, and institutional strengthening. He is currently Principal Investigator (Rwanda) on a longitudinal regional study examining the contribution of indigenous enterprises to youth employment and inclusive economic growth.
Prior to joining ICED, Godfrey held research and programme leadership roles with RUFORUM/Egerton University's TAGDev Programme, the Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project (KCSAP), and Egerton University's Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management, where he also taught as a part-time lecturer.
Godfrey holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Egerton University, Kenya, with a research focus on climate change adaptation and agrometeorological information systems. He is the author of six peer-reviewed publications in international journals and has presented his research at conferences including the EAC Science, Technology and Innovation Hybrid Conference and the RUFORUM Triennial Conference.
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
