Dr. Samson M.Machuka Director, Monitoring and Evaluation
Department; State Department for
Planning & Statistics;
Ministry
of Devolution and Planning.
Dr Samson M.Machuka
is currently the serving Director of
Monitoring and Evaluation Department (MED) in the Ministry of Devolution and
Planning in Kenya. He has been the Director of MED since 2007 following competitive
interviews by the Public Service Commission of Kenya. Previous to this, Samson
was the Chief Economist in the Human Resources and Social services Department in the then Ministry of State for
Planning, National Development and Vision 2030. He joined the Public Service as
an Economist 11 in 1984 and has climbed through the ranks to his present
position.
The
Department that Samson heads is charged with the responsibility of coordinating
the implementation of the National Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System
(NIMES) in Kenya. The NIMES is a mechanism that enables the government to track implementation
progress of policies programmes and projects at both the National and County
level.
Samson sits in various advisory boards, task forces and committees
with the express purpose of championing M&E issues and ensures its
integration in all aspects of planning, accountability and governance. He is
also the focal person/chair of the Kenya Community of Practice on Managing for
Development Results (KCoP-MfDR). Under his leadership, Dr. Machuka has encouraged partnership
engagements and Knowledge Management in support of managing for development results.
Partnerships have been forged with Knowledge Management Africa, Kenya Chapter;
Evaluation Society of Kenya (ESK) and the Annual National Monitoring and
Evaluation (M&E) Week platform held every 45th Week of the
calendar year since 2013.
Samson holds a B.A (Hons) Upper second in Economics from
the University of Nairobi in Kenya
(1984), an M.A in Economics from the University
of Guelph in Canada (1989) and a PhD in Economics from the Open University of
Tanzania in Tanzania (2016). Samson has
also published two academic papers in two international journals ; the first
one is entitled “Determinants of
Productivity of Small-Scale Holdings of
Arabica Coffee in Kenya: A Case Study of Kiambu County, Kenya published in August
2016 in the international journal of Humanities and Social studies; the second
one is the Supply Response And
Production Trends of The Arabica Coffee: A case Study of the Small Holdings of Kiambu County Between
2004 and 2014 , Kenya published in September 2016 in the International Research
Journal of Economics.
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