JOY NAMUNOGA, MPA | LinkedIn
Founder & Principal

Policy • Strategy • Governance • Research & Evaluation • Civic Technology

Joy Namunoga is a policy, strategy, and governance leader with more than a decade of experience using research, data, and institutional evidence to strengthen accountability, institutional performance, and public and nonprofit decision-making.

ABOUT JOY

Joy’s work spans governance reform, anti-corruption, fiscal policy, public accountability, civic technology, institutional performance, and program evaluation across Africa and the United States. She has worked with the Sunlight Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government, the International Organization for Migration, ActionAid International, the Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda, ImpactED, KenCrest, GlobalGiving, and Anavi Strategies.

Anti-corruption and public accountability formed the foundation of Joy’s career. For ten years, she worked on anti-corruption, transparency, participatory accountability, fiscal governance, and institutional reform. This experience shaped her continuing focus on how public institutions make decisions, manage resources, remain accountable, and deliver services to communities.

In Uganda, Joy supported governance and fiscal reform across 18 local governments. She worked with local and national institutions to strengthen revenue generation, transparency, accountability, and public service delivery. Her international experience includes policy and research work with the International Organization for Migration and contributions to two UN alternative papers on economic, social, and cultural rights.

In the United States, Joy’s work has included national research spanning all 50 states, organizational capacity assessments involving 1,900 nonprofit organizations, education policy research, institutional assessments, and program evaluation. She combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to identify institutional strengths, uncover gaps, and develop practical recommendations that inform funding priorities, program design, organizational strategy, and leadership decisions.

Civic technology also runs throughout Joy’s work. She has designed technology tools for public accountability and service delivery, worked with open government data, and examined how data and technology can strengthen transparency, public participation, and institutional performance.

As Founder & Principal of Governance & Evidence Review (G&ER), Joy leads the organization’s research, strategy, and editorial direction. Her work examines governance, affordability, public service delivery, institutional performance, and civic technology. Through G&ER, she connects policy and institutional decisions to everyday life, making complex research accessible to policymakers, practitioners, and the public.

Joy holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a John K. Parker Scholar and received the Public Leadership and Service Scholarship. Her areas of expertise include policy strategy, anti-corruption and public accountability, mixed-methods research, program evaluation, stakeholder engagement, institutional analysis, and executive-level decision support.