Public Finance & Planning
Medium-term planning, budget analysis, fiscal briefs, programme coordination, scenario planning, and policy support for public decisions.
Statistician · Data Science Practitioner · Public Sector Professional · Systems Thinker
Quiet work on complex problems.
I work where data, public systems, and difficult decisions meet, using statistics, data science, planning, and digital systems to turn scattered information into clearer action.
Positioning
Making sense of complexity
I am drawn to work that requires patience, structure, and imagination. The questions I return to often sit between statistics, public finance, economic planning, monitoring and evaluation, digital systems, and institutional decision-making.
Data matters most when it helps people see a situation more clearly, understand trade-offs, and decide what can be improved next.
My strength is turning scattered information and unclear systems into organized thinking, practical tools, and evidence people can use.
Work Areas
The problems I help clarify
Statistics & Data Science
Survey analysis, indicators, administrative data, poverty mapping, small area estimation, and practical analytical methods.
Monitoring & Evaluation
Results frameworks, performance tracking, evidence systems, reporting tools, and the routines that help institutions learn.
Digital Public Systems
Data workflows, dashboards, indicator platforms, automation, reporting tools, and decision-support systems that make information easier to use.
Research & Policy
Practical research, policy interpretation, public participation analysis, and translation of technical material into usable guidance.
Systems Thinking
Connecting people, processes, data, and institutions so complex work becomes clearer and easier to act on.
Selected Work
Selected work and interests
Selected areas that reflect how I think, work, and build. Some are professional, some are academic, and some are experimental.
Research / Statistics
Ward-Level Poverty Mapping
Exploring how survey, census, administrative, and geospatial data can support more useful local poverty estimates for planning and resource allocation.
Data Systems / Public Sector
County Statistics and Indicator Systems
Thinking through how counties can organize indicators, metadata, codelists, reporting structures, and dashboards into coherent decision-support systems.
Planning / Policy
Public Finance and Planning Analysis
Analysis around budgeting, medium-term planning, fiscal interpretation, programme implementation, and evidence-informed public decisions.
M&E / Institutional Systems
Monitoring, Evaluation and Performance Evidence
Connecting plans, targets, performance information, evidence, reporting, and institutional learning in ways that are easier to follow.
Venture / Lab
Mstatili Tech and Data Solutions
A small technology and analytics space for experimenting with practical tools around data, finance, intelligence, automation, and decisions.
Product Concept
Sonko Personal Finance App
A personal finance concept focused on helping people understand income, spending, budgets, goals, net worth, and money behaviour.
About
About Simon
Simon Wekesa
Structure, context, and patient analysis.
I am a statistician, data science practitioner, and public sector professional with a strong interest in economic planning, public finance, monitoring and evaluation, data management, and digital transformation.
My work has involved public finance, planning, monitoring and evaluation, performance systems, evidence management, and decision-support in devolved government contexts.
Useful decisions rarely come from data alone. They come from the careful connection of data, context, people, institutions, and implementation realities.
I enjoy work where information is scattered, systems are unclear, and decisions still need to be made. That is where structure, good questions, and thoughtful analysis can make a difference.
I also explore digital products and data systems through Mstatili Tech and Data Solutions, a small venture and lab where I test tools that make analysis, planning, and personal decision-making more practical.
Credentials
Selected learning and credentials
Selected learning areas that support my work in data, finance, analysis, leadership, and public decision-making.
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey Forward Program
Issued May 2023
Leadership, problem solving, communication, adaptability, and practical workplace skills.
Corporate Finance Institute
Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst
Issued Jul 2022
Financial modelling, valuation thinking, data management, and Microsoft Excel.
Corporate Finance Institute
Accounting Fundamentals
Issued Jun 2022
Accounting foundations, financial statement interpretation, and finance fundamentals.
Corporate Finance Institute
Dashboards & Data Visualization
Issued Jun 2022
Dashboard design, data presentation, Excel workflows, and decision-oriented reporting.
Corporate Finance Institute
Scenario & Sensitivity Analysis
Issued Jun 2022
Structured analysis of assumptions, uncertainty, trade-offs, and planning scenarios.
Corporate Finance Institute
Professional Ethics
Issued Jun 2022
Professional conduct, judgement, and responsibility in analytical and financial work.
Notes
Field Notes
A quiet space for short reflections on statistics, public finance, data science, devolution, digital systems, and institutional memory.
Why statistics in government should go beyond reporting
Data becomes powerful when it helps institutions ask better questions, not just produce tables.
The case for county statistics systems
Counties need more than reports. They need living data systems that connect planning, budgeting, monitoring, and learning.
Small area estimation and local planning
Better local estimates can help move planning closer to the places where decisions are actually felt.
Public finance as a decision system
Budgets are not only financial documents. They are institutional choices made visible.
Data systems for better institutional memory
Good systems help institutions remember what was planned, what changed, what was learned, and why decisions were made.
What public participation teaches us about evidence and trust
Public participation is not only a compliance activity. It can reveal how people understand evidence, priorities, and institutional promises.
Ventures
Ventures and experiments
Outside my formal professional and research work, I explore practical digital products through Mstatili Tech and Data Solutions.
Mstatili is a small venture and creative lab for building and testing tools around data, finance, intelligence, automation, and decision support. It sits beneath my personal work, not above it.
Concept
Sonko
A personal finance product concept focused on income, expenses, budgets, savings, investments, net worth, and money behaviour insights.
Contact
Let’s connect
I am open to thoughtful conversations around statistics, data science, public finance, planning, monitoring and evaluation, digital public systems, and practical technology for decision-making.
- LinkedIn profile
- GitHub
- GitHub profile
- Mstatili
- Mstatili Technologies