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About Candidate
Location
Education
Post graudate in Monitoring and Evaluation
Bachelor Degree in Information and Communications Technology
Diploma In computer Science
Work & Experience
• Successfully maintained and updated project MEAL and measurement tools and systems consistently and promptly. • Led Capacity building activities for the project team to enhance quality reporting and data management. • Effectively identified, documented, and shared client feedback, leading to enhanced services and improved outcomes for clients. • Supported research efforts under the ECW-Watoto Wasome project, contributing to the generation of valuable insights and evidence to enhance, expand, and sustain program initiatives. • Coordinated and documented weekly and monthly meetings at the field level in collaboration with the ECD Senior Officer. • Attended and provided comprehensive reports for zonal and sector working group coordination meetings at the settlement and sub-county levels in coordination with the ECD Senior Officer and Field Coordinator. • Led MEAL sessions during project review meetings, presenting progress on project indicators against targets and ensuring adherence to planned timelines. • Trained and supervised research assistants in data collection and entry, ensuring reliability, completeness, and consistency in data handling. • Took a leadership role in tracking the progress of the ECW-Watoto Wasome project, monitoring work plans, indicators, and targets. • Ensured timely execution of project monitoring, accountability, and evaluation events, including needs assessments, baseline surveys, final evaluations, data quality audits, project monitoring, and field supervision. • Regularly tracked and updated the numbers of beneficiaries reached during ECD (Watoto Wasome) project activities. • Conducted regular data quality checks and verification exercises to ensure high-quality data collection and reporting. • Actively participated in and contributed to MEAL team activities, including system assessments and the development and implementation of new systems and tools to strengthen MEAL practices for the ECW- Watoto Wasome project. • Provided MEAL inputs for report writing during project implementation.
• I have been responsible for collecting data from both primary and secondary sources. This involves gathering relevant information from various channels to ensure we have comprehensive datasets for analysis. • I have been able to develop data collection tools using the various mobile app like Taro-Works and kobo this eased data collection activity and the reduce on the expense of hiring data entry clerks. • I supported and supervised collection and analysis of data in accordance with timeframes set in the project work-plan. • I have been actively involved in cleaning and preprocessing the collected data. This crucial step ensures that the data is free from errors, inconsistencies, and missing values, ultimately enhancing the accuracy and reliability of our analyses. • I have utilized statistical methods and various data analysis techniques such as Salesforces, Tableau, SPSS, and Excel to delve into the collected data. This analysis has provided valuable insights that aid in decision-making and problem-solving strategies. • As part of my responsibilities, I have been able to create data visualizations, such as charts, graphs, and dashboards. These visual representations help present complex data in a clear and understandable manner for stakeholders, facilitating a better understanding of the insights derived from the data. • I have been actively involved in preparing comprehensive reports and presentations that effectively communicate analytical findings and insights to management and other team members. These reports play a crucial role in supporting informed decision-making processes.
• As the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Assistant, I was primarily responsible for coordinating all M&E activities for the UNDP project across two districts, with support from the Project Manager and Response MEAL Coordinator. My key responsibilities included leading knowledge management and learning efforts by collecting and analyzing program data, evaluating strategic project approaches, measuring program impact, and capturing and sharing lessons learned and best practices. • Key Achievements: • Organized a highly successful joint monitoring and evaluation session for donors and stakeholders. • Conducted post-distribution monitoring, enhancing the project's learning and accountability. • Responsibilities: • Supported the design, development, management, and implementation of the project’s research, learning, and evidence-generating activities, including needs assessments, baseline surveys, post- distribution monitoring (PDM), and midterm evaluations. • Produced high-quality data analysis, reports, presentations, and dashboards of key findings, fostering learning and decision-making, and shared these in key meetings such as project cycle meetings and donor and stakeholder meetings. • Developed data collection tools and instruments, conducted data collection training, and monitored the progress of project activities in the field, leading to high-quality findings for organizational decision- making. Additionally, supported field teams with mobile data tools. • Entered beneficiary data at different output levels into the beneficiaries' reached database for OPM and UNHCR. • Trained and supervised research assistants for data collection and entry activities, ensuring reliability, completeness, and consistency of the data. • Built the capacity of staff on achieving project outcomes that contribute to the overall project goals. • Conducted routine data quality assessments on program and project monitoring data, including baseline study data. • Compiled project data reports to inform evidence-based decision-making at the project level and for the preparation of quarterly, semi-annual, and annual project reports.
In this role, I actively supported the MEAL Officer to facilitate field-level learning events to capture, document and disseminate lessons learnt for internal and external purposes, Ensuring the appropriate archiving of all MEAL related documents, data and sources of verification and update the Cesvi’s monitoring database. • I developed, implemented, and monitor quarterly, monthly, and weekly activity plans to achieve expected results. This includes planning of activities, budgets, and procurement. • I took lead to ensure that all planned activities such as those for Protection cases identified and referred in coordination with the protection team • Technically I supported the development of data collection tools and carried out assessments which helped in shaping implementation strategies for the Program staff. • I submitted weekly and monthly reports to the Monitoring & Evaluation Officer on achievements and challenges related to monitoring • I build the capacity of the different project stakeholders on the outcome and impact of project activities. • I trained the different research assistants on the different data collection tools and to collect. • I successfully supported the preparation and dissemination of progress reports, end of project reports and others reports as per donor requirements. • I supported the analysis and triangulation of qualitative and quantitative monitoring data. • Integrated gender equality, age sensitivity and the inclusion of marginalized groups into M&E and learning activities. • Prepared reports and analyzed data as required by the World food field logistic team and World food data officer. • I actively improved the Information Management System of the organization according to project and management needs, a case in point is the piloting of Mobile Data Technology on General food assistance Project to enhance the timeliness and quality of data collection, analysis, and visualization.