About Lucas Katera

Dr Katera is an Economist with practical experience in research and policy analysis, particularly in poverty, public policy, governance and service delivery. He has worked and published intensively on Local Government in service delivery, finance and financial management, and governance and accountability. In his recent assignment, Dr Katera is a team leader of researchers working on the World Bank Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) survey, research that benchmarks health and education indicators for future impact assessment. In addition, Dr Katera is a team member of the five-year research programme on “Tanzania as a future Petro State”. This is collaborative research between REPOA and the Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI) of Norway. He is leading a team working on the Governance component. Currently, he is a Director of the Governance and Service Delivery Research programme at REPOA.