
RE: APPLICATION FOR MEAL OFFICER POSITION
I am writing to express my interest in the position of MEAL Officer at HEKS/EPER. I bring practical experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning processes, alongside strong competencies in compliance monitoring, social inclusion assessments, vulnerability analysis, stakeholder engagement, and rights-based programming gained through my work with the Equal Opportunities Commission as an External Resource Person.
I have actively contributed to field-based monitoring and evaluation activities, including conducting assessments to evaluate compliance with equal opportunity and social protection standards across government programmes. This involved identifying exclusion risks affecting vulnerable populations, analyzing service delivery gaps, and generating evidence-based recommendations to strengthen inclusive and accountable service delivery systems which directly aligning with MEAL system strengthening and adaptive programming requirements.
I have also been engaged in data collection, validation, analysis, and reporting, ensuring accuracy and quality in documentation and contributing to analytical reports used for decision-making. My experience includes participation in stakeholder validation meetings, supporting accountability processes, and engaging local governments and implementing partners to promote transparency and responsiveness to community needs.
Additionally, I have handled sensitive community issues involving marginalization, discrimination, and access to services, ensuring confidentiality, safeguarding, and ethical data handling, which aligns with safeguarding, PSEA, and accountability standards required for this role.
Through this experience, I have developed strong competencies in:
Designing and supporting monitoring and evaluation processes and tools.
Conducting qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis.
Strengthening accountability mechanisms, including community feedback systems.
Preparing technical reports, learning briefs, and evidence-based recommendations.
I am particularly motivated to contribute to HEKS/EPER’s mission of promoting dignity, inclusion, and accountability through strong MEAL systems, and I am confident that my background and skills will support effective programme implementation.
For more details, please refer to my CV below
Yours Sincerely
Beryl Khisa
Second Class Upper degree with Honours
GPA 4.28
ongoing
Duties and Responsibilities
• Provide technical support to the Assessment team.
• Application of computer-based information management system of Equal Opportunities Commission called GEMIS (Gender and Equity Management Information System). This system enables you to modernize data and produce reports.
• Keep track of progress and delays of all assigned assessment. Ensure that delays or identified challenges for specific assessments are reported in writing and orally in a timely manner.
• Ensure relevant stakeholders and partners are engaged in design and planning.
• Under the direction of Equal Opportunities Commission and in close coordination with the Consortium, engage in the dissemination of monitoring, targeted e-mails, presentations, meetings, etc., with partners as appropriate, and in line with EOC Dissemination and External Communication Guidelines.
• Participate in report writing exercises for Assessments of Programs at National and Local Government Levels.
• I am part of the National Resource Gender and Equity budgeting training team that Trains Various Local Governments, Ministries, Departments, and Agencies in Gender and Equity planning and budgeting across the country.
Activity: Advancing Respect of Human Rights by Businesses in Uganda (ARBHR)
Duties and responsibilities.
Dialogues with districts to create awareness on business and human rights in Albertine (Hoima, Kiryandongo, Masindi and Bulliisa).
Busoga region in areas of Bugweri, Mayuge and Iganga and Kampala Metropolitan in the areas of Wakiso, Mukono and kampala
Conduct Mobile Legel Clinics in the three regions and this was done through legal awareness sessions on business and human rights to different communities.
Provision of Legal Aid Services: The activity offered free legal advice, guidance, and referrals to community members.
Documentation of Complaints: The activity systematically documented legal, human rights, and equal opportunity concerns raised by community members, with the aim of facilitating follow-up.
Assessment of the impact of social welfare officers in the pilot districts
Study: Audit on the Value Chain Project in the districts of Luwero, Nakasake, Kiboga, Mityana and Kasanda.
Job title: Team Leader
Period: 16th -27th March 2026
Study: An Audit on the National Seed Oil Project in the Districts of Lira, Kole, Masindi and Kaberamaido.
Job Title: Team Leader
Period: 9th -20th February 2026
Study: A research study on access to electricity and Justice in the districts of Buvuma, Kalaki, Mayuge, and Gomba
Period: 6th – 17th of September 2025
Job title: Team leader
Study: The study on the contribution and role of older persons, youths, and persons with disabilities, to the socioeconomic agenda and mapping of primary and secondary schools on the new lower-level curriculum.
Period: 28th July – 9th August 2025
Location: Yumbe, Terego, Pakwachi and Zombo
Study: A study on working conditions in Civil society organizations.
Job Title: Team Leader.
Location: Luwero, Wobulenzi, Mukono,Buikwe
Period: 10th – 17th June 2025
Study: A research study on accessibility to social services and programmes
among the indigenous minority groups.
Job Title: Team leader
Period: November 29th – 11th December 2024
Location: Luwero, Masindi, Zombo and Obongi
Study: Availability of WASH and Power in Health Facilities in Western Uganda.
Job title: Team Leader
Period: 2nd – 19 January 2024
Location: Ntugamo, Kazo, Kyegegwa and Kibaale
Job Title: Research Assistant
Period: 8th -19th January 2024
Location: Kasese, Rubiziri, Buliisa, Kabarole
Study: Research study on accessibility to capital and local markets among the vulnerable
Groups in Uganda.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Coordinated and monitored research activities in line with EOC gender and equity principles, ensuring inclusion of women, youth, PWDs, and underserved communities in data collection and reporting processes.
• Facilitated inclusive focus group discussions and key informant interviews, deliberately engaging marginalized and vulnerable groups to generate equitable, gender-responsive insights for decision-making and policy recommendations to relevant stakeholders.
• Led and supervised field teams, consolidating inputs into comprehensive reports while ensuring that findings reflected regional, gender, and social equity considerations.
• Ensured accountability and transparent utilization of resources, managing activity expenditures (fuel, allowances, logistics)
Duties and Responsibilities
• Undertaking and writing up assessments (sometimes in collaboration with other professionals), which meet specified standards and timescales
• Maintained accurate records and prepared reports.
• Participated in training, supervision and team meetings.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Promoted capacity building of social workers through Identifying Professional Development (CPD) programs focusing on Orphans and Vulnerable Children and linking them to social worker Agencies.
• Monitored and accounted for capacity-building activities
• Supported data collection and creation of a database on social work institutions and agencies.
• Conducted Operational research and documentation of best practices
Duties and Responsibilities
Offer Client Counselling Services/ Social work.
• Profiling first-hand client information
• Individual counseling sessions for individual clients as well as group counseling during community engagements.
• Developing and managing client database and individualized filling.
• Family therapy and mediation and reintegration
• Follow-up activities after resettlement of teenage mothers for example conducting home visits.
Administrative Support.
• Organize and facilitate workshops, meetings and trainings for community workers, clients and other partners.
• Arranging transport bookings for community outreaches and clients during antenatal visits and labor
• Managing accounting information by using both the software and hard copy files.
• Human resources support, manage staff files, staff arrivals and departures and making monthly reports.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Conducting risk assessment for children, and linking them to support systems.
• Support the reunification of children with family/ other caregivers in the community
• Providing intensive Care services to both families in crisis and planned interventions as part of the plans for children.
• Carried out office administration Work, and prepared documents to facilitate Child adoption panel meetings.
• Reduced further Risk to Children by supporting the caregivers/families to enhance their potential to provide care for the children.
• Conducted capacity building initiatives i.e., plan and carry out reviews and evaluations of social work practice with individuals, caregivers, families, groups, communities, and other agency supervisors
• Participated in partnership meetings, particularly organizing periodic Child adoption and fostering meetings with the prospective Foster Family.
• Monitoring visits for the children who had been resettled back with their families and those under Foster Care.