Our Team

Ramadhan Kirunda has 17 years experience in development programs. He serves as Co-Principal Investigator and Director at Fidelitas Scientific Execution Facility. He brings extensive experience in designing and implementing development interventions that address health, education and social and behavioral change. Ramadhan specializes in participatory program design methodologies that center community voices and indigenous knowledge. His work focuses on understanding and shifting social norms to support sustainable development outcomes across health, education, and gender equality initiatives.

He leads Fidelitas Scientific's innovation lab, learning and adaptation, ensuring that programs continuously evolve based on evidence and community feedback.

John King Odolon is an experienced management and public health professional with over 35 years of expertise in project management, science research, and monitoring & evaluation. In his current role, John leads strategy development for Indigenous knowledge, WASH and Climate Change initiatives, ensuring programs are evidence-based and aligned with community needs.

Ednance Kiiza is a Program Development and capacity development expert in Education, Gender, and Social Behavioral Change. She brings over 20 years of NGO leadership experience to Fidelitas Scientific.

She holds a graduate degree in Management, a bachelor's degree in Education, and is certified in Research Methods with Trainer of Trainers credentials across multiple program areas. Her extensive experience spans strategic program development, implementation, and capacity building initiatives across East Africa.

As Capacity Strengthening Advisor, Ednance leads initiatives to build organizational and community capacity, ensuring sustainable development outcomes.

Carol (MPH) is a protection and safeguarding expert responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and monitoring of evidence-based interventions aimed at preventing violence against children, women and girls. This role involves coordinating multi-stakeholder partnerships, managing project teams, ensuring quality programming, and facilitating community engagement strategies. She is responsible for budget oversight, technical guidance on social norms change approaches, data-driven adaptive management, and ensuring interventions are culturally sensitive and sustainable. She leads documentation of outcomes, supports capacity building, and ensures alignment with organizational goals and donor requirements. She is in charge of leading gender-transformative and community-centered approaches.

Nicholas Matsiko serves as Data Science and Informatics Advisor. He leads the organization's research agenda and ensures that all programs are grounded in rigorous evidence and data-driven decision making. Nicholas is an expert in quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, data analytics, and data science applications for development programming. He oversees research design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination of findings to inform policy and practice.

His work ensures that Fidelitas Scientific maintains its commitment to evidence-based programming while building local research capacity and promoting the use of indigenous knowledge alongside scientific methods.

Aceng Barbra (MPH) is responsible for designing, coordinating, and supporting evidence-based health programs and research focused on adolescents within broader public health priorities. She translates data, global standards, and national guidelines into practical, youth-friendly protocols and interventions, ensuring that studies and implementation activities at Fidelitas are ethically sound, context-appropriate, and responsive to the specific needs of young people. Working closely with multidisciplinary research teams, implementing partners, schools, health facilities, and community structures, she helps to strengthen service delivery, referral systems, and health literacy for adolescents. Aceng also contributes to capacity building of frontline providers through technical guidance and training, leads or supports the development of tools and indicators for adolescent health, and prepares reports, briefs, and scientific outputs that inform policy, scale-up, and strategic decision-making within Fidelitas and the wider public health community.

Esther (BA Hons, PGD) is responsible for ensuring all financial operations are transparent, ethical, and fully compliant with both internal policies and external donor regulations. She implements robust internal controls, coordinating all grant budgeting, reporting, and rigorously monitoring expenditures to mitigate financial risk and safeguard the organization's reputation and resources.

Rita Kituyi is the core driver of evidence-based action, tasked with developing and managing a robust system that measures the effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability of community-led development interventions. Rita designs and operationalizes M&E frameworks, developing digital data collection tools, and ensuring that data is collected accurately and ethically from the grassroots level. She contributes significantly to translating indigenous knowledge and project actions into scientific evidence, analyzing performance against programmatic goals, and creating accessible data visualizations (dashboards) that allow communities, district leaders, partners, and donors to track progress, identify gaps, and use real-time learnings to adapt and improve program execution.

Rebecca leads the mental health and healing potfolio, and contributes to designing, implementing, and overseeing preventive and therapeutic programs that support individuals dealing with mental health challenges, trauma, and emotional distress. She works collaboratively with clients, healthcare providers, and community organizations to develop evidence-based interventions tailored to diverse populations and their unique needs. 

Patrick, is the crucial liaison and field manager, translating high-level program designs into measurable, community-led action. He mobilizes and trains local volunteer structures ensuring correct, ethical implementation of data collection tools (both physical registers and digital), and guaranteeing the consistent flow of quality data from the village to the district, and to National Office level. He is the boots-on-the-ground coordinator responsible for localizing interventions, providing continuous support to frontline teams, and ensuring that community-identified vulnerabilities are effectively linked to the appropriate multi-sectoral services.

Janet is responsible for the technical and administrative execution of the mental health component, including supporting the development of culturally appropriate Mental Health and Healing protocols, training and mentoring community-level facilitators and volunteers in basic psychological first aid and group-based healing interventions. She ensures a functional system for case identification and referral of severe mental health and healing issues to specialized services. She is involved in documentation, monitoring, and reporting, gathers evidence that translates community resilience and healing practices into the scientific evidence base, directly supporting the organization's mission to drive systemic change through data-backed, community-led impact.

Atai Sandra supports evidence-based decision-making by generating routine performance reports, analyzing and interpreting data trends, and building the capacity of field staff and partners in accurate data capture and documentation, ensuring raw information is transformed into reliable, actionable insights for programmatic adaptation and accountability. 

She is the focal person for safeguarding, ensuring that Fidelitas safeguarding policy is implemented effectively. She institutionalizes ethical practices, protection, and the well-being of beneficiaries across all program activities, especially those involving vulnerable populations. She is responsible for monitoring adherence to safeguarding policy, ensuring full compliance.