Experience

Namati

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Associate | Program Officer

  • Aug 2016 - Present

  𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: ●Advocating and influencing policy: Supporting the coalition on citizenship and statelessness in Kenya to advocate against the Huduma Namba project by raising awareness about its policy gaps, such as lack of public participation, digital rights and privacy, and exclusion of marginalized communities. ●Managing and implementing programs: Assisting the citizenship team in developing strategic goals and ensuring effective and efficient planning, monitoring, and implementation of activities through partners. ●Managing sub-grants of implementing partners: Supporting two partner organizations in identifying goals, objectives, and activities, and working with them on budget processes to ensure their needs are met. ●Assessing and managing partner capacity: Supporting partners in assessing and developing their capacity in community mobilizing and organizing. ●Coordinating research: Coordinating research with the support of M&E to conduct a client follow-up exercise to evaluate the theory of change on legal empowerment approach. The findings are leading to the development of a program strategy addressing gaps and successes. ●Mobilizing resources and fundraising: Successfully securing funding from the Netherlands embassy through the UNDP program Amkeniwakenya. ●Supporting campaigns: Supporting the rollout of the #myidmyrights campaign, which aims to raise awareness about the experiences of Kenyans in accessing vital identity documents, highlighting issues of discrimination faced by minority communities, and proposing better solutions for an inclusive, fair, and equal identity system in Kenya. ●Conducting trainings: Supporting the team in conducting training for paralegals within the coalition of four non-governmental organizations. ●Representing Namati: Representing Namati in various workshops and panel discussions, both locally and internationally, as a skilled public speaker and storyteller.



Pastoralist Girls Initiative

• Program Officer

  • Nov 2011 - Mar 2015

  𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: ●Advocating and implementing programs: Developing an advocacy strategy for the realization of women and girl child rights in Garissa County, including the development of training materials and the design of regional advocacy campaigns and programs. Leading the design of gender mainstreaming in various projects in PGI, such as education, livelihood diversification, and girl child empowerment, which resulted in the establishment of the first girl-led movement in Garissa called INUA Girls Group. ●Conducting training and dialogue forums: Providing training to secondary school girls on gender-based violence, retrogressive cultural practices, leadership skills, and sexual reproductive health rights. Mentoring the girls to perform better in school and achieve their dreams. ●Maintaining good donor relations: Interacting directly with donors through report writing, field visits at the community, and incoming correspondence, with the support of the executive director. Examples of donors include ACT Transform, Mama Cash, and German Agro Action. ●Building a network of stakeholders: Working closely with all sectors, particularly the education sector, agriculture and livelihood sector, health and nutrition sector, and the county commissioners office. Collaborating with other non-governmental organizations such as Care International, Simaho, UNICEF, and Woman Kind Kenya. ●Providing leadership for the day-to-day operations of projects and programs: Managing staff, distributing roles and responsibilities for each staff member under the programs, and other duties. ●Supporting resource mobilization: Assisting the team in designing and strategizing programs, using expertise and advice from theme experts to understand the needs of the community and draft proposals and budgets.



Interim Independent Electoral Commission

• Interim Independent Electoral Commission

  • 2010 - 2010

  𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: ●Presided over the 2010 referendum at St. Mary Primary School in Karen as a presiding officer. ●Managed the Deputy presiding officer and clerks. ●Ensured the smooth conduct of the polling station voting exercise. ●Reported to the returning officer, deciding on matters and consulting as necessary. ●Verified that the votes were counted correctly. ●Delivered the results to the tallying center. 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: ●Presided over the 2010 referendum at St. Mary Primary School in Karen as a presiding officer. ●Managed the Deputy presiding officer and clerks. ●Ensured the smooth conduct of the polling station voting exercise. ●Reported to the returning officer, deciding on matters and consulting as necessary. ●Verified that the votes were counted correctly. ●Delivered the results to the tallying center.



Terranouva-Sheikh Institute

• Intern

  • 2009 - 2009

  𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: ●Completed an internship with Sheikh Institute in Somalia as part of Terranouva's project, an Italian Non-Governmental organization. ●During my time as an intern, digitalized Sheikh Institute's library by inputting book titles and authors into the system. ●Searched for the authors' addresses in the system and contacted them to obtain copyright permission for the books. ●Updated the information in the system once permission was granted, making the books easily accessible to students.



Kilimani police station

• Attache

  • 2005 - 2005

  𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: ●Completed my Diploma in Criminology and Social Order at the University of Nairobi and was attached to Kilimani police station to conduct research on why offenders commit crimes. ●Gained hands-on experience in various areas of the police station, including the crime office, report office, and children's protection desk. ●Accompanied officers during investigations, prepared files for court, and interacted with repeat offenders. ●Interested in understanding the motivation behind repeating crimes, and also worked closely on issues related to children and gender-based violence.