Ronald Munatsi

@uj.ac.za

Anthropology and Development Studies
University of Johannesburg

Mr. Ronald Munatsi has over 15 years of combined experience in academia, public service, and development work. His skill set include librarianship, knowledge management, evidence-informed decision making, evidence synthesis, monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning, as well as project management and institutional capacity development. His experience in these domains has come from a variety of roles and initiatives, such as working as a librarian, lecturer in library science, knowledge manager, information officer, including managing projects on building institutional capacity to improve the application of research and other forms of evidence in decision-making in the public and civic society sectors.

EDUCATION

• PhD in Development Studies University of Johannesburg (Recent); Thesis: Using rapid evidence synthesis platforms to institutionalise evidence informed decision making in low resourced settings
• MPhil in Library and information sciences (Aberystwyth University, Wales);
Thesis: Enabling and restraining factors to using research evidence in policymaking in Zimbabwe and other low-to-middle-income countries;
• Graduate Diploma in Management Information Systems
(Midlands State University Zimbabwe);
• Diploma in Information Technology (Harare Polytechnic, Zimbabwe );
• Higher Diploma in Library and Information Science (Harare Polytechnic, Zimbabwe).

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Multidisciplinary, Decision Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Management Information Systems