Jerry Joel

Jerry Joel is a Monitoring and Evaluation Support Consultant in the Council’s Nigeria Office. With over six years of experience, Joel has worked across various humanitarian and development sectors which cross cuts neglected tropical diseases (NTDs); livelihood; nutrition; HIV; immunization; sexual reproductive health; maternal, neonatal, and child health (MNCH); and the application of research across this thematic areas. Joel has led several level engagement stakeholders (engagement and management), which cut across Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH), State Ministry of Health (SMoH), Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN), National Association of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers (NAPPMED), National Primary Health Health Development Agency (NPHCDA), State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA), National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), and others.

Joel is supporting the coordination of the IntegratE 2.0, a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) funded project, across seven implementation local government areas (LGAs) of Borno State; a project that builds up patent and proprietary medicine vendors (PPMVs) and community pharmacists (CPs) that own a pharmacy, so as to provide an expanded access to family planning services; and primary health care (PHC) services uptake at the community level, so as to achieve the Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The project also aims to bridge the gap of low human resources for health (HRH), and also advocates sexual reproductive health (SRH) rights for women and girls of reproductive age in Borno State, and 10 other Nigerian states. Before joining the Council, Joel was the technical assistant, Borno, at Sydani Group; monitoring and evaluation assistant at Damaturu Yobe; enumerator at Mercy Corps Nigeria; among others.

Joel has supported Society for Family Health to provide technical support to State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA) and National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) of its baseline assessment to its basic healthcare supported primary health care facilities in March 2024. He also supported UN-IOM in multisectoral needs assessment in 2022; the Mercy Corps Nigeria team during the endline evaluation of its European Union (EU) funded Building Resilience in Complex Crises (BRICC) project in Yobe State in June 2021; the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) baseline assessment in 11 wards in Shani LGA in May 2022 at Enviplan International; and Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) to conduct successful HIV clients retained in care, death, and interrupted in care in August 2022. Joel has expertise in quantitative and qualitative data analysis; dashboard development for key program indicators (KPI); database management; result framework; theory of change, indicator tracking table; social behavioral communication change; program budgeting and program learning and adaptation tool tracking; writing monitoring reports; spreadsheets analysis; writing donor reports, and monthly and quarterly progress reports.

Joel holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, and is currently completing a master’s degree in information management from the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria, Nigeria.