Technology Entrepreneur Evelyn Namara helps NGOs, Governments track their impact without need for intermediaries

Evelyn Namara, through her platform Vouch Digital, helps NGOs and governments running cash-based programmes to track their impact while eliminating the need for intermediaries who often reduce value in the supply chain. Vouch Digital has also created an incentives platform that helps businesses and corporates create, manage and distribute coupon-based campaigns that facilitate the acquisition, retention, and rewarding of customers.

Evelyn is a Technology Entrepreneur with over 10 years of leading systematic change in the fields of social entrepreneurship, digital technology, and driving innovation for small businesses.

Currently working at the coalface of African technology and finance – Evelyn’s passion is to create solutions that impact societies and communities. As the founder of Vouch Digital, she has worked with her team to build technology that fuels transparency and traceability in the distribution and disbursement of life-changing goods and services across the world.

Before starting Vouch, Evelyn lead multiple technology for development projects in her native Uganda and has worked in the telecommunications industry, renewable energy sector, digital payments, as well as tech start-ups

Her Expertise include: Leadership, business development, ICT policy & advocacy, vision, strategy & execution, team-building, community engagement, communications, project management, program management, marketing, emerging markets, social entrepreneurship, impact assessment, storytelling, growth strategy, mission & values.

She won the ICT4D Awards in May 2017 at ACIA Awards for M-Voucher with a reward of US$ 7500, the best Agriculture app at MTN Innovation Awards in November 2017 with US$ 3000 rewards and overall entrepreneur award in the Agriculture sector in 2017’s Women In Africa club Summit in Marrakesh, Morocco.

She was also crowned the innovator of the year at MTN Innovation Awards 2017

Namara holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) from Makerere University and a Diploma in Sustainable Business and Responsible Leadership from Swedish Institute Management Programme.