Anand Jose Manarkattu (He/Him) Email & Phone Number

Sudan

• Monitor, analyze, and reports on humanitarian developments, disaster relief/management, and/or emergency situations in the assigned area. • Organize or prepare studies on humanitarian, emergency relief and related issues; leads / participates in inter-agency meetings to support humanitarian work and decision-making on humanitarian issues. • Drafts and prepares situation papers / reports, highlighting relevant operational issues affecting the humanitarian situation in and response efforts. • Ensures appropriate monitoring and reporting; provides information and advice on a range of related humanitarian issues. • Partners with other humanitarian agencies to plan and evaluate humanitarian and emergency assistance programs; and help ensure that the latest findings, lessons learned, policy, guidelines, etc are incorporated into these activities, including gender and AAP related considerations. • Leads / support as required inter-agency coordination efforts • Leads / supports the production of appeals for international assistance, ensures the proper use and spending of donor contributions channeled through OCHA – such as SFH, CERF, etc. • Establishes and maintains contacts with government officials, other humanitarian partners, diplomatic missions, and non-state actors to facilitate principled humanitarian interventions • Undertakes and provides support and technical assistance to field missions • Prepares or contributes to the preparation of various written reports, documents, and communications e.g., drafts sections of studies, papers, policy guidelines, briefings, case studies, presentations, etc. • Organizes and participates in work groups, meetings, conferences, consultations with other agencies and partners on humanitarian and emergency relief-related matters. • Support administrative functions in line with UN rules and regulations

Leer South Sudan

Program Management/Development, Technical Support & Coordination:Provide emergency nutrition, health, general protection/MHPSS and WASH services paving the way towards durable solutions and early recovery for a population of 41,293 people.Increased the area budget portfolio by 33% over a period of three years that resulted in the opening of 4 new sub-offices resulting in a total of 7 sub-offices under the Leer Area Office.Re-established Medair’s Area Office in Leer Town and transitioned from remote management to on the site management for the first time since the 2017 destruction and evacuation.Reinforced preventive, responsive and remedial child and women protection components through a network of 36 care groups by registering 5100 women.Generated 88 Accountability to Affected Population (AAP) feedback in 2020 from beneficiaries, community members and local authorities.Operations (Resource Mobilisation, Compliance, Finance, Logs, Admin and HR):Manage the Leer Area master budget of $ 2.4 million by concurrent monitoring of expenditure and flagging any significant variances for reclassification.Effects due diligence and confirm compliance to organizational and donor policies and protocols; train staff in data security, PSEA, fraud prevention, environment protection standardsIdentify project risks and mitigate the risks in consultation with technical staff assure mitigation strategy has organisational and donor buy-ins.Assess, anticipate and respond by planning optimal program and operational staffing requirements; 100 % increase in staffing in line with the expansion of Area Office operations.Security Management and Context Analysis:Maintain awareness of and analyse the ongoing political, developmental and humanitarian affairs in South Sudan with special emphasis on Unity State and use this to anticipate changes and adapt program operations.Conduct security risk assessments and prepare security brief for senior executive/donor/embassy field visits.

Patna Area, India

Budget Responsibility: US$ 650,000Led the LSTM International Health Department’s India Country portfolio with The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.Headed the third-party evaluation of CARE India’s CML techniques as per the contractual agreement with BMGF.Transitioned the project into a no-cost extension and exploration of new possible engagements.Reduced time lag in information sharing between collaborating partners resulting in timely submission of donor reports and work package progress.Designed the mop-up of large scale LQAS surveys in 2 districts with a qualitative survey by designing survey tools; recruit and train data collectors culminating in data collection working in collaboration with technical staff.

Patna Area, India

Steered the coordination of reporting the project implementation status between 16 development partners supported by BMGF in Bihar and the Investment in charge at BMGF.Organised events, conclaves and critical round-tables to assess project progress, identify bottlenecks and build strategy.Liaised between government bureaucracy, executing partners and BMGF in attaining operational permissions and establishing MoUs.Assured quality of external evaluators training of large scale LQAS survey covering two districts in Bihar State and deliver field supervision to the data collection exercise.Produced and submitted high-quality narrative reports about the implementing partner progress to the investment in-charge at BMGF.Coordinated with different stakeholders to ascertain information needs and work plans are in alignment.

Mumbai

Budget Responsibility: US$ 175,000Supervised capacity building efforts across three zonel offices and 15 sub-offices in the South, North-East and Eastern regions of India by providing program and operations strategy.Executed the contracting, designing, testing and successful implementation of Quality Assurance System (QAS) to offer uniform basic service delivery 38 project locations across India.Created a pool of 500 Master Trainers across 5 HIV/AIDS themes by conducting training needs assessments and customising training modules to verify quality counselling services at the first point of contact for HIV/AIDS testing. Completed the design and deliver in-house staff capacity building training for a team of 42 peers including senior management at the project headquarters. Orchestrated the negotiating and contracting of 1 for-profit and 4 not for-profit stakeholders for specific project deliverables.Addressed operational impediments with different state bureaucracies in 18 states to support local implementing partner.

Pala

Fund raising, media liaison, public relations, printing and publicationPlayed a key role in establishing self-help groups to set up rural livelihood support initiatives.

Diploma, Humanitarian Assistance

Subject to confirmation in June 2017.

Master Of Philosophy (Mphil), Planning And Development

Passed with distinction. Defended MPhil thesis titled "Development Evaluation: Stakeholders, Processes &Implications- The Case.

Master In Medical Science, Global Health

Major in Global Health by writing a thesis on Health System augmentation in rural South-India

Master Of Arts (Ma), Social Work

Ma in Socail Work

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology, Distinction- University Topper