My key responsibility is to provide technical assistance in PATH's interpretation, design and implementation of the DREAMS project in 34 wards within six sub-counties of Kisumu and Homa Bay counties. DREAMS seeks to reduce new HIV infections in adolescent girls and young women. Its sub-objective is to prevent unintended pregnancies. The ultimate goal of the partnership is to help girls develop into Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe (DREAMS) women.As a… Show more My key responsibility is to provide technical assistance in PATH's interpretation, design and implementation of the DREAMS project in 34 wards within six sub-counties of Kisumu and Homa Bay counties. DREAMS seeks to reduce new HIV infections in adolescent girls and young women. Its sub-objective is to prevent unintended pregnancies. The ultimate goal of the partnership is to help girls develop into Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe (DREAMS) women.As a senior technical advisor I oversee the technical aspects of the implementation of DREAMS and coordinate technical engagements with partners, including DREAMS Innovation Challenge awardees, Implementing Science partner, national and county governments, civil society organizations, corporates, parents and guardians and AGYW. I have developed and manage sub-agreement scopes of work/contracts for six Implementing Partners who are engaged for efficient delivery of the stated objectives and targets.I am tasked with building and managing relationships with government agencies, PEPFAR, USAID, DREAMS stakeholders and recipients, and ensuring compliance with PEPFAR strategic direction on the implementation of DREAMS.In the last year and a half of DREAMS implementation, I have managed to integrate 6 implementing partners as PATH sub-contractors, developed scopes of works, adopted the Safe Space concept to suit AGYW access to biomedical services, and designed interventions to improve girls and young women's health, economic, literacy and social assets. In that duration, my key achievements have been the application of the safe space concept to increase number of newly tested AGYW, improved access by AGYW to contraceptive methods mix education and commodities, ensuring typical male sex partners of the AGYW are identified and afforded access to highly effective HIV prevention services and the development of the DREAMS Child Protection Code of Conduct and the Safe Space Code of Conduct for Adults. Show less

The strategic goal of APHIAPlus is the sustained improvement of health and well-being of Kenyans. As a Senior Technical Advisor for Youth, my main result focus is the increased use of quality health services, products and information by young people. My key responsibilities include providing strategic direction on the design and implementation of the Youth Focus component of APHIAPLUS Western Kenya, ensuring compliance with USAID strategic direction and implementation of the APHIAPLUS Project… Show more The strategic goal of APHIAPlus is the sustained improvement of health and well-being of Kenyans. As a Senior Technical Advisor for Youth, my main result focus is the increased use of quality health services, products and information by young people. My key responsibilities include providing strategic direction on the design and implementation of the Youth Focus component of APHIAPLUS Western Kenya, ensuring compliance with USAID strategic direction and implementation of the APHIAPLUS Project, managing relationships with Government agencies, USAID, local implementing partners and project recipients, and developing and managing sub-agreement contracts and budgets for Local Implementing Partners (LIPs) and providing quarterly project reports to the USAID.In the course of the project, I have been able to support the Government to roll out and implement the Life Skills Intervention in Schools, build the capacity of 5 local NGOs to implement youth-focused interventions, improve youth-friendliness in health institutions and improve young people’s uptake of services in Government health facilities. I have built the capacities of over 150 youth organizations in Western and Nyanza regions of Kenya to mobilize communities for health besides improving their access to economic empowerment by initiating income-generation activities for all of them. I continue to manage an average budget of $500,000, and for which I have ensured the achievement of the ‘reach-more-with-less’ by implementing such initiatives as the Maswala Krucial Comic Series that have saved the project approximately $100,000 had we gone for the classic book production. Show less

This project was aimed at providing technical assistance, financial support, and capacity building for HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment for members of the Non-Military uniformed services of the Republic of Kenya under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, PEPFAR.My key responsibilities included providing project leadership and guidance in the development and implementation of Op-ARIFU communication strategy and in the development of training curricula and materials;… Show more This project was aimed at providing technical assistance, financial support, and capacity building for HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment for members of the Non-Military uniformed services of the Republic of Kenya under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, PEPFAR.My key responsibilities included providing project leadership and guidance in the development and implementation of Op-ARIFU communication strategy and in the development of training curricula and materials; developing innovative and effective prevention interventions and tools targeting uniformed officers, their families and neighboring communities; supporting and supervising the Operation ARIFU Behavior Change interventions to ensure quality and timely intervention within established budgets; interpreting donor needs and providing leadership in the implementation of Evidence-informed Behavioral Interventions within Op-ARIFU as required by our donor, the CDC; developing the prevention work-plan and budget as required by the project’s design; and effectively participating in the EBIs TWG headed by NASCOP.For the period I led the prevention initiative in the project, I was able to build the capacities of the AIDS Control Units of the Kenya Police Service, Administration Police Service, Kenya Wildlife Services and National Youth Service to implement prevention programs within their organizations and also mainstreamed the implementation of the Families Matter Program and Healthy Choices for a Better Future EBIs in all the Services. I was able to develop and updated and more responsive Kenya Police Service Workstation Policy on HIV and AIDS and to initiate the process for all the other Services. I developed the Condolympics, Sexauction and Maswala Nyeti Comic Series interventions which reached a total of over 120,000 uniformed officers. I developed the ARIFU CHONJO Knowledge Reference Pack and the ARIFU CHONJO Peer Educators Guide during this period. Show less

During this period, I rose through the ranks from Project Associate to Project Officer 2, providing technical support to various projects at PATH including IMPACT (USAID), Scouting for Solutions (USAID), AVAHAN Key Populations Project-India (GATES FOUNDATION), ROADS Project – East and Central Africa (USAID), KHUSELA PMTCT Project – South Africa (USAID), Kenya Red Cross HIV Program (PATH Consulted), CARE-Garissa HIV Program (PATH Consulted), AMREF HIV Program - Nairobi (PATH Consulted) and APHIA… Show more During this period, I rose through the ranks from Project Associate to Project Officer 2, providing technical support to various projects at PATH including IMPACT (USAID), Scouting for Solutions (USAID), AVAHAN Key Populations Project-India (GATES FOUNDATION), ROADS Project – East and Central Africa (USAID), KHUSELA PMTCT Project – South Africa (USAID), Kenya Red Cross HIV Program (PATH Consulted), CARE-Garissa HIV Program (PATH Consulted), AMREF HIV Program - Nairobi (PATH Consulted) and APHIA 2 (USAID).My main achievement during this period was the development of the capacities of implementing organizations to deliver interventions to various target groups including MSMs, IUDs, Truck Drivers, Youth, Low Income Women, Teachers, Scouts and breastfeeding mothers. Within the same period, I was awarded in 2007 (together with C. Y. Gopinath and PATH), the AFRICOMNET Award for HIV Excellence in Africa in the Best Folk-Media Initiative category for my contribution to the development and implementation of Magnet Theatre. I also developed numerous curricula including Scouts Activity Packs, Nuru comics Books, Maisha ya Nuru radio program, Tuko Pamoja Life Skills Education Manuals, Community Health Workers Manual, Magnet Theatre Guide and Magnet Theatre: A Trainers Guide. Show less

As a creative writer, I continue to produce creative works in the genres of Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature and Fiction. Two of my works, IN THE LAND OF THE KITCHEN and THEN WE WERE FOOLS NO MORE are already published. I am currently working on short-stories and plays. My second children's book, REVENGE OF THE CLEVER TREES, published in 2018, promises to blow away the minds of readers for its creativity and magic. Amazingly unputdownable, if I may say so myself!

I am tasked with writing a weekly column that is light, witty and relevant to a young, energetic and eager farming audience. The storyline should be lively and laced with tales and experiences that everyday farmers an relate to. The column's byline is The RIB CRACKER and appears on the Saturday Standard 'Smart Harvest' Magazine.Since my appointment, I consistently submitted the weekly column, gaining a readership and creating an interest in farming in more people and humorously dealt… Show more I am tasked with writing a weekly column that is light, witty and relevant to a young, energetic and eager farming audience. The storyline should be lively and laced with tales and experiences that everyday farmers an relate to. The column's byline is The RIB CRACKER and appears on the Saturday Standard 'Smart Harvest' Magazine.Since my appointment, I consistently submitted the weekly column, gaining a readership and creating an interest in farming in more people and humorously dealt with current issues in the farming sector in Kenya. Show less

TASK: Strengthening the skills of the master trainers so that they are able to improve the ability of community dramatists and actors to develop scripts that are entertaining as well as educational and build their capacity to conduct interactive forum theatre – which entails creating a conducive and attractive atmosphere to engage the audience in discussions of health issues affecting their community.My deliverables, which I successfully fulfilled, were:1. Develop and provide a… Show more TASK: Strengthening the skills of the master trainers so that they are able to improve the ability of community dramatists and actors to develop scripts that are entertaining as well as educational and build their capacity to conduct interactive forum theatre – which entails creating a conducive and attractive atmosphere to engage the audience in discussions of health issues affecting their community.My deliverables, which I successfully fulfilled, were:1. Develop and provide a trainer’s guide for master trainers to use in training community theatre groups;2. Develop and provide a manual/guide for training community theatre groups to include: Script writing, performance timing and location, engaging audiences, facilitating discussion on issues and how to train community drama groups;3. Develop a community theatre discussion guide;4. Finalized training tools to be submitted prior to the workshop;5. Provide a Process Documentation write-up;6. Workshop report on drama TOT;7. Debrief report. Show less

TASK: Mitigating the ICC conflict through dramaMy key responsibility was to develop the capacities of youth groups in Naivasha to use community theatre to engage communities in peaceful coexistence in the face of the ICC process after the post-election violence. My deliverables were designing acceptable and memorable peace slogan and designing and developing drama pieces that would address justice issues and provoke reflection, dialogue and action towards helping the audiences in… Show more TASK: Mitigating the ICC conflict through dramaMy key responsibility was to develop the capacities of youth groups in Naivasha to use community theatre to engage communities in peaceful coexistence in the face of the ICC process after the post-election violence. My deliverables were designing acceptable and memorable peace slogan and designing and developing drama pieces that would address justice issues and provoke reflection, dialogue and action towards helping the audiences in Naivasha towards appreciating the ICC process and build inter-tribal cohesiveness and peaceful coexistence, hence reduce any acrimony that may arise as a result of the ICC trials.I designed and delivered a 3-day workshop, designed a pre- and post-performance assessment tool, directed youth groups on the dramas, created a performance schedule, supervised performances and presented a project report. Show less