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Africa

Driving the vision of (RANA) to become an independent African CSO advocacy network working with partners at the national, regional, and global levels to strengthen Africa’s resilience and advance the African Union’s New Public Health Order. This will include providing thought leadership and mobilizing action to position RANA as a catalyst of change in advancing the realization the vision of an Africa where the health resilience of all is safeguarded through African-led solutions, informed by African needs, and driven by African leadership.

Nairobi - Africa

Nairobi, Kenya

For more than six years, I managed and directed the Health and Rights program at the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA), while also supporting overall management of the organization as a member of the senior management team. The role I hold entails close collaboration with the New York based and Globally acting, Public Health Program of Open Society Foundations (OSF) and a host of other OSF thematic programs spread across the world in Washington DC, Berlin and London. In this role, I provide overall managerial oversight and thought leadership for the more than five portfolios of work/subthemes that seek to address various forms of exclusion (socio-economic, civic and political) of various marginalized/socially excluded and criminalized populations in six countries within the Eastern Africa region, using health as an entry point but pushing for the broader social justice for the moralized groups. I sit in a number of OSF global working groups on various thematic issues including anti-corruption, narrative change, global drug policy amongst others. I am also part of the OSF – Africa regional office select team of strategy champions, a team that supports development of the regional strategy for the next fours.

Nairobi, Kenya

Served as the technical lead for the Girls Advocacy Alliance, a multi agency initiative that brought together Plan Netherlands, Terre des Homme and DCI/ECPAT under the common objective of addressing serious forms child rights violation in 16 countries in Africa and Asia. As the technical lead for advocacy initiative, I successfully led the process of developing the theory of change and operationalizing the roll out in Eastern Africa and India.

Nairobi, Kenya

I led the advocacy and policy reforms work to scale up the HIV programming for the Kenya population in Kenya. During my stint in this position I managed to steer the development of the National Policy for HIV response for Key Populations in Kenya; the first of its kind in the region which laid out robust framework for combination prevention with emphasis on provisions to address the structural barriers of access to health rights and specifically HIV and SRHR services for Key Populations in Kenya. I also spearheaded the creation of a national multi-stakeholder advocacy platform which has continued to spearhead coordinated advocacy to address barriers of health access including violence, repressive legal and social environment as well as the health system.

Kenya

I managed the Advocacy and Campaigns portfolio, supporting national policy advocacy reforms to enhance child protection mechanisms in the Kenya as well as supporting Plan Kenya's eight development units in Coast, Eastern, Nyanza and Nairobi regions in Kenya to mounty local advocacy in their Counties. During this stint, I led the developmenty of the Plan Kenya's first Advocacy strategy that helped it streamline targeted advocacy work with relevant collaborators trageting various government organs to effect the neccesary transformation for enhanced child protection. I led the process of robust evidence generation to inform the advocacy work, notable achievments included the National study on child labour and child sexual exploitation through transactional sex which informed the domestication of Plan Internation campaign on Because I am A Girl in Kenya.

Kisumu, Kenya

During my stint in this organization I was involved in designing and managing a number of Gender and child rights projects including:• Role Modeling project for Girls and boys in Nyanza province; this was a child rights focused project that sought to enhance positive engagement of all actors around the child including children themselves in enhancing children’s development, participation and protection. It was a holistic program that addressed the cultural and legal barriers to child rights enjoyment. • Rite of Being project; this was a child rights anchored project that worked with communities in the Saboat ethnic group in Mt. Elgon towards eradicating FGM and other retrogressive cultural practices that undermine child rights realization. • Gender Development project; this was a child rights and gender focused project that was implemented in Girls and mixed schools (primary and Secondary) and was focused on empowering the girls and boys of adolescent age to deal with cultural (Gender stereotypes) that push them to risks of HIV & AIDS and other sexual/ reproductive health problems. The project was anchored on child leadership development as a basis of personal transformation. • Education for All/ Global Campaign for Education; I was in charge of this annual global campaigns and played the pivotal of role linking the organization with other state and non-state actors in reviewing the education policies and practices which were part of the campaigns.

Master'S Degree, Gender And Development

Bachelor'S Degree, Arts (Sociology And Lingiustics), Second Class Honors