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