Moses Waweru

Moses Waweru is a Senior Program Manager at Villgro Africa, where he spearheads monitoring, evaluation and learning initiatives. With over a decade of experience in global health, he has worked at the intersections of the private, public and non-profit sectors. He is adept at applying data-driven insights to inform and adapt program management strategies, ensuring interventions are evidence-based and effectively address critical socio-economic and health challenges. He also plays a key role in fostering ecosystem learning by translating data into actionable knowledge that can be shared with stakeholders to advance health innovation in Africa.

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August 18
2025

Heather Esper / Keith Obade / Moses Waweru

Building Smarter Data Practices in Entrepreneurship Support Ecosystems: How Entrepreneurs, Investors and Other Stakeholders Can Drive Systemic Change

Entrepreneurship support ecosystems include a diverse range of actors, from incubators and accelerators to policymakers, impact investors and other funders. But though strengthening these ecosystems is a growing priority in emerging markets, monitoring, evaluation and learning remains a persistent challenge, due in part to a lack of data sharing. Heather Esper at the William Davidson Institute and Keith Obade and Moses Waweru at Villgro Africa explore the reasons various stakeholders collect data, the obstacles that keep this data fragmented and underutilized, and the ways these ecosystems can improve their data practices.

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Investing, Social Enterprise

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business development, data, ESG, impact investing, impact measurement, public policy, startups, systems change, William Davidson Institute

NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

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Articles by Moses Waweru

Building Smarter Data Practices in Entrepreneurship Support Ecosystems: How Entrepreneurs, Investors and Other Stakeholders Can Drive Systemic Change