Nnamdi Odo is a Monitoring and Evaluation expert and a statistician with diverse knowledge and skills in information communication and technology. He is a renowned researcher and data analyst with experience in development works, data analysis and project monitoring and evaluation. His career objective is to “to aid effective management decision making processes in government, businesses and organizations in the development sector through inferences based on empirical evidence”.
Professionally, Nnamdi led the implementation of “Improving Knowledge and Mitigating Electoral Violence” project which one of the outcome of the project is Election Violence Mitigation Tool (EVMT) which is being used by the Electoral Institute, an organ of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other stakeholders in conducting research to map electoral risk related factors ahead of elections. Nnamdi supervised the field work on Election Violence Mitigation in Edo and Ondo state 2016 gubernatorial elections respectively. Furthermore, he has assisted in the commencement and implementation of Civil Military Relations Project which is currently in a 3rd phase of its implementation based on the successes recorded by the project. His immense contribution, ideas on projects and personal relationship with colleagues has endeared him to many people that has come across him.
Through the combination of his statistical background, data analysis skills in statistical software (SPSS, Excel,Mimitab) and knowledge on research methods to analyze the data collected from the field, Nnamdi has contributed greatly to CLEEN achievements (Proposal conceptualizations, proposal development and effective and efficient project implementations)
in the past three years in the organization, climbing from the position of an intern through Assistant Program Officer to Monitoring and evaluation officer. In his current position, as a Monitoring and Evaluation officer, Nnamdi develops organizational and project work/implementation plans, collects data relating to project performance, produces management information system (MIS) reports for the board and management of CLEEN Foundation, conducts field visits to monitor projects and carries out mid-term and end of project evaluations.
Nnamdi holds a B.SC in Statistics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 2012. An Afrihub scholarship beneficiary where he obtained a course completion certificate on Cisco Networking Academy, 2011. Completed a course on “Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation” with University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2017 in addition to a Certificate of Completion on Advanced Systemic Monitoring and Evaluation Ford, Foundation Systemic M&E training in, Abuja 2016. Finally, Nnamdi holds a certificate on Project Management from Abuja Undergraduate School, 2018.