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United Kingdom

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

South Africa

Juba, South Sudan

Loughborough, England, United Kingdom

Abuja, Nigeria

Greater Seattle Area

• Responsibilities include shaping and driving strategies for identifying best practices in delivering sustainable city-wide inclusive sanitation services, developing a platform that allows for replication and.
• Managed an annual budget of US$25 Million
• Led a 5 member team managing 30 separate grants
• Created grant strategy and coordinated with potential grantees regarding city wide inclusive sanitation platform proposals
• Developed partnerships with Department for International Development (DfID) and USAID
• Promoted programs and provided advocacy to government agencies through African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW)

Nairobi, Kenya

• SUWASA was a six-year USAID funded regional program promoting innovative reforms in the urban water and sanitation sector. Provided oversight and guidance in the design and implementation of projects. Most projects.
• Responsible for budgetary management of US$41.6 Million technical assistance program from regional headquarters for a team of 49 in Nairobi.
• Managed project activities in nine countries including Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia.
• As Chief of Party I was responsible for ensuring that we delivered on this complex program with different thematic areas in the nine countries where we had operations –the themes included policy and regulatory reforms.
• Held fiduciary responsibility for program implementation and all project deliverables.

Nairobi, Kenya

• SUWASA was a six-year USAID funded regional program promoting innovative reforms in the urban water and sanitation sector. Provided oversight and guidance in the design and implementation of projects. Most projects.
• As Deputy Chief of Party I was responsible for the identification and initial design of the projects in the different Countries before approval by the Chief of Party.
• Led the Technical team within SUWASA, identified and designed projects in six of the nine countries in the programme.
• Collaborated with key stakeholders to develop Reform Work Plans (project plans), shared with the Chief of Party before being sent for final approval with USAID.

Nairobi, Kenya

• The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. The Water and Sanitation Program was funded by development partners through a trust managed by the World.
• Responsible for the identification, design and implementation of urban water and sanitation activities in 11 program countries with focus on services to the urban poor.
• Developed policies and strategies with utilities on providing water and sanitation to the urban poor specifically in Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia and Burkina Faso.
• Designed and delivered organisational structures to address the challenges i.e. establishment of pro-poor units, determine payment mechanisms, and create methodologies allowing the urban poor to have better access to.
• Contributed to knowledge base for delivering water and sanitation services to the urban poor at the global level in Bangladesh and India -through promoting benchmarking of utilities with key performance indicators on.

Lusaka, Zambia

• Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company is responsible for the provision of water and sanitation services to the city of Lusaka (population two million). Serving 44,000 customers, the company had 700 employees with annual.
• Rapidly improved company performance by reducing customer wait time for new connections to three weeks from six months, improved revenue collection, staff morale, vision, ownership, etc.
• Developed a clear roadmap for performance improvement including short term, medium and long-term objectives.
• Collaborated between staff and management to create a company vision.
• Implemented a decentralisation programme by opening offices in eight areas (five in formal residential areas and three in informal residential areas).

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

• WUP was a vibrant capacity building programme in the urban water supply and sanitation sector with special emphasis on provisioning services in a sustainable manner promoting autonomy of service providers and providing.
• Responsible for project implementation, mobilisation of donor funds, focusing on promoting good utility management and establishing partnerships.
• Encouraged establishing autonomous utilities that are accountable to their customers and when appropriate, encouraging the involvement of the private sector.
• Liaised with very senior government representatives throughout the water sector in Africa, including Ministerial levels.
• Facilitated institutional reforms in the water sector, developing of good practices, and promoting exchange of information on how best to provide sustainable and efficient water and sanitation services in Africa.
• Managed and lectured training workshops on water sector reforms in South Africa and Dakar (training presented in English and French).

Lusaka, Zambia

Responsible for the design and implementation of the water sector reform programme for Zambia. Led the development of a clearly defined policy and institutional framework on the provision of urban water services. Liaised and coordinated donor input to the programme by GTZ, NORAD, World Bank and Irish Aid. This resulted in the establishment of the first.

Lusaka, Zambia

Lectured third-year civil engineering students. Represented the School of Engineering in the University Senate admission and examinations committees. Developed the Engineering School session timetable and compiled school examination results.

Phd, Economic Regulation Of Urban Water Services

Mwanza, D. D. (2010), Economic Regulation of Urban Water Services in Africa, PhD thesis

Master Of Science (Msc), Civil Engineering

Mwanza, D. D. Design of ground supported concrete floors by Computer. MSc dissertation, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Sept. 1992.

Beng, Civil Engineering, Merit

Diploma, Water Engineering, Distinction