Experience

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  Hivos

  • Nairobi County, Kenya

  • Program Manager_ East Africa

    • Sep 2022 - Present
    • Nairobi County, Kenya

    Country lead; responsible for managing and coordinating Grant making in close collaboration with country teams, Regional Director and key stakeholders. In addition to providing technical support to grantee partners. Voice is an innovative grant facility financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands to support rightsholders and groups facing marginalisation or discrimination in their efforts to exert influence in accessing productive and social services and political participation.

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  Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH-USA)

  • Kenya

  • Senior Program Manager - SRHR

    • Jun 2018 - Aug 2022
    • Kenya

    Overall management of the Project under TICAH by:-• Establish effective working relationship with internal & external stakeholders. • Ensure excellence in implementation in terms of impact, reporting, and timeliness.• Stay abreast of donor compliances and requirements.• Enhance staff capacity and position TICAH to ensure donor compliance.• Capacity building of Project team members on compliance requirements. Successfully planned, management & implemented the following programs:• Program Name: Comprehensive Sexuality Education Advocacy • Program Name: Youth Advocacy in Practice Project. • Program Name: Grassroots Activists Organizations Capacity. • Program Name: Sub-granting Project.• Program Name: Fundraising & Donor Management.• Program Name: Global Gag Rule Documentation & Advocacy Project.

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  Relief International

  • Somalia

  • Consultant ( Mogadishu, Puntland and Somaliland )

    • Mar 2018 - May 2018
    • Somalia

    • Successfully strengthen the capacity of Ministry of Education Gender focal persons; Relief International Personnel and CSOs through training and development of adolescent girls and young women SRHR, life skills and financial education curriculum. • Provided recommendations to the adolescent girl’s program which were successfully adopted.

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  Population Council

  • Nairobi, Kenya

  • Program Coordinator

    • Jan 2015 - Feb 2018
    • Nairobi, Kenya

    Plan, manage & implement:• Program Name: Adolescent girls’ initiative Kenya.Objective: A research project that sought to generate evidence on the most impactful interventions for adolescent girls on education, health, wealth and violence prevention. ( Donors - Department for International Development (DFID) ).

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  PATH

  • Nairobi, Kenya

  • Program Officer

    • Jan 2011 - Apr 2014
    • Nairobi, Kenya

    Plan, manage & implement:• Program Name: HIV Free Generation. Objective: Prevent HIV infections among youth in Kenya through Social and Behavior Change Communication. ( Donor: US Aid for International Development (USAID)).

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  SOS Children Villages

  • Nairobi - Kenya

  • Program Coordinator

    • Jun 2004 - Dec 2010
    • Nairobi - Kenya

    Plan, manage & implement:• Program Name: SOS Children's Villages Youth Empowerment ProgramObjective: Empower youth with comprehensive information on SRHR, life skills, linkages to training and employment opportunities. ( Donor - SOS Kinderdof ).