Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Specialist

• May 2020 - Present

Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator

• Jan 2015 - Mar 2020

Besides conservation and protection of endangered wildlife species and their habitat. LWC implement programs in the host communities ranging from Education, Health, Community development and Security. The Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator has overall responsibility for providing coordination and leadership for monitoring and evaluation of these projects including both formative (pre-intervention) and summative research (post-intervention). Provide coordination and leadership on monitoring, evaluation, quality Improvement and research components of the project. Develop monitoring, evaluation, and reporting (MER) systems that include appropriate indicators, baseline data, targets and a plan to evaluate performance and produce timely accurate and complete reporting.

Programs Officer- Monitoring & Evaluation

• Jan 2013 - Dec 2014

Administrative Roles1.Regular update of project partners to management team and director.2.Preparation of Half Year reports, Project Update reports (biannual for funding partners) and monitoring reports.3.Planning, budgeting and monitoring of the budget spending relevant to M&E desk4.Overall responsibility for the documentation archive (reports, communication, important documents).5.Handling (including storage in soft and hard copies) of all communication related to the component. Maintaining sharing of all relevant information in regards to project partners with DKA Austria and eRko Slovakia.6.Supervision and appraisal of Project AssistantProgrammatic Roles1.Prepare M&E plans, Conduct M&E exercises with all partners in order to monitor progress in implementation, verify the reports shared to the funding partners and collect relevant information/ideas for recommendations and future planning.2.Prepare and provide feedback from monitoring and evaluation assessments to partners and do follow up in the implementation of recommendations..3.Evaluate partners project reports and provide recommendations (in cooperation with Program Finance and Admin Officer)4.Appraise new project proposals to assess viability and identify new projects proposals, strategic plans and follow up on implementation for success8.Prepare monitoring and evaluation plans, support partners in internal monitoring.10.Conduct project appraisal for all partners in order to monitor progress.11.Prepare and provide feedback from monitoring and evaluation to partners12.Provide recommendations to partners on areas for improvement through discussion forums.15.Appraise new project partner to assess viability and congruence with support office mandate18.Facilitate the cooperation between Project Partners and European partners.20.Organize sensitization workshops with partner organizations on values, policies and requirements.

Food Security and Livelihoods Officer

• Apr 2010 - Dec 2012

1. Project Implementation:i. Evaluate possible livelihood shocks and threats to agro-pastorolist within Somalia-Hargesia and give appropriate intervention.ii. Participate in the identification, design and execution livelihood intervention such as cash based interventions, IGA, food Aid and alternative to food Aid and agriculture rehabilitation. iii. Implementing Pastoral Field School projects in liaison with facilitator in identifying training needs including participatory technology development (PTD), non formal education methods (NFE) and documenting its success and best lessons learnt that could be replicated.iv. Analyze production system for agro-pastoral communities’ value chain system, market patterns and their impacts on farmers’ livelihoods with a view to enhancing the functioning of the chain to the benefit of poor by identifying where various actors along the chain could contribute best.2. Project Monitoring and Evaluationi. Development of M&E Plan, M&E framework and tools to access efficiency, effectiveness, relevance and impact of Food Security and Livelihood programs implemented by Improlife Intiv. Conduct needs and impact assessments, monitoring of agricultural trends and markets prices as well as livelihood situations within the project operational areas. 3. Capacity Building and Networkingii. Training pastoralist communities and participatory approaches e.g PFS, community managed disaster risk reduction (CMDRR), vulnerability and capacity assessment.iii. Oversee strengthened functioning of local associations that are charged with environment protection and conflict resolution processes e.g water users association (WUA), conflict resolution committee (CRC) and rangeland management committee (RMC).v. organizations and lead in the recruitment of partner organizations as appropriate.