Dinesh Bhandari Email and Phone Number

I provided support to the AMRMSC Secretariat at the Ministry of Health and Population in Nepal. My responsibilities included identifying, implementing, and monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance programing and AMR surveillance. Key tasks involved coordinating with other ministries to ensure progress aligned with the National Action Plan (NAP-AMR) and assisting the ministry and Secretariat in implementing and monitoring AMR policy interventions.

1. Fully comprehend and analyze national health sector guidelines, policies, and procedures.2. Take charge of reviewing internal and external project documents, and confidently contribute to developing proposals and strategies based on the literature review.3. Confidently analyze international, national, and subnational trends, gaps, and challenges in UNOPS-led initiatives, and steadfastly strengthen partnerships.4. Proactively facilitate collaboration with government and multilateral organizations at all levels.5. Boldly identify policy and programmatic gaps in the current health system and processes.6. Assuredly document knowledge products for the Nepal office in collaboration with the Multi-Country Office (MCO) on health-based interventions.7. Provide unwavering technical support to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) for the seamless implementation of national strategies and guidelines.8. Take a confident lead in supporting project delivery and management in alignment with donor and partner agreements.9. Confidently assist in developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks for health-based interventions.10. Contribute with confidence to the development of impactful health-related proposals.11. Provide confident support in developing project budgets in collaboration with the health advisor and finance team.12. Confidently contribute to strengthening existing health proposals in partnership efforts.

- Take the lead in effectively implementing the "Impact of SDR-PEP under routine program conditions in Nepal" research, fostering a constructive approach within the team.- Provide constructive training, supervision, and mentorship to research assistants, focusing on empowering them in data collection, entry, and administrative tasks.- Develop constructive research protocols, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and essential tools and checklists for data collection, entry, and analysis in close collaboration with Principal Investigators, ensuring a constructive approach to achieving research objectives.- Constructively manage data, while closely monitoring progress and maintaining a constructive approach to generating reports.- Provide constructive training to research assistants on the RedCap Mobile app and server version before data collection, ensuring constructive adjustments in data fields.- Organize constructive orientation sessions on research protocols and methodologies at provincial, district, and municipal levels, fostering constructive collaboration with stakeholders.- Utilize statistical software such as SPSS, Excel, R, and other relevant tools in a constructive manner to analyze data and share findings within the scientific community in a constructive and meaningful way.- Work constructively with the Principal Investigator to conduct a constructive desk review and publish findings in peer-reviewed journals, contributing to constructive advancements in the research field.

• Supported in planning, designing, and budgeting of interventions under Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health (SRMH) and Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) components of the project• Managed project activities in the district, and provided necessary technical support to partner NGOs, government agencies, and consortium partners• Worked jointly with Health Office, Provincial Health Directorate, municipalities, health facilities, IPs, and other stakeholders in the district and provided technical backstopping during the implementation of red book activities.• Build capacity of health care providers, different management committee members, community groups, local NGOs and CBOs, and coordination committees via various training and onsite coaching• Ensured effective coordination and collaboration with local, district, and province-level government health agencies, consortium partners, and other related stakeholders at a different levels • Supported Local Government and provincial government for the budget planning, execution, and advocacy for the multi-sectoral Nutrition Plan • Conducted regular monitoring and supportive supervision visits to ensure the quality implementation of SPII’s activities in different delivery platforms.• Ensured the quality of PSAs and programs broadcasted from different radio stations across the district.• Documentation, dissemination, research, and data analysis

• Provided technical support to the project team and partners in the process of planning, implementation, monitoring, and advocacy of project approaches and activities especially the Health Services Component with GESI and Resilience integration across the project scope of work.• Provided technical assistance to DHO and Local level in planning, implementation, and monitoring of CBIMNCI, SRH, Nutrition, GESI, and Resilience services.• Facilitated the exchange of ideas; knowledge and experiences in the research field, sharing the lesson learned, and best practices through workshops/seminars, and exchange visits.• Facilitated, and ensured good monitoring mechanisms including technical support visits, Onsite coaching and mentoring, integrated supervision and joint monitoring, making regular field visits with consortium partners, and DHO staff for quality/sustainable output of the project activities. • Provided technical support and facilitated GESI strategy and action plan are followed and rolled out effectively and monitored regularly through the established system and process.• Shared periodic progress reports according to donor and government requirements.

Provided technical support to the project team, partners, municipalities, health facilities, and schools during the implementation, monitoring, documentation, and reviews of the Adolescent Health, Nutrition, and WASH program, especially at the district, municipalities, and school levels. Conducted district-level sharing workshops, and training (teachers and students) and ensured quality implementation of the overall package at schools.Regularized school-level adolescent activities, collection, and documentation of relevant information, implementation of SHNSB (School Health), and routine reviews. Furthermore, provided backstopping support to frontline workers, teachers, and resource students by maintaining close coordination and collaboration with municipalities, nearby health facilities, and school-level SMC/PTA, focusing onthe adolescent component. Support for regularizing IFA supplementation at schools and timely reporting of the program activities.

• Provided technical support to the project team and partners in the process of planning, implementation, monitoring, and advocacy of project approaches and activities especially the Health Services Component with GESI and Resilience integration across the project scope of work.• Provided technical assistance to DHO and Local level in planning, implementation, and monitoring of CBIMNCI, SRH, Nutrition, GESI, and Resilience services.• Facilitated the exchange of ideas; knowledge and experiences in the research field, sharing the lesson learned, and best practices through workshops/seminars, and exchange visits.• Facilitated, and ensured good monitoring mechanisms including technical support visits, Onsite coaching and mentoring, integrated supervision and joint monitoring, making regular field visits with consortium partners, and DHO staff for quality/sustainable output of the project activities. • Provided technical support and facilitated GESI strategy and action plan are followed and rolled out effectively and monitored regularly through the established system and process.• Share periodic progress reports according to donor and government requirements.

• Ensured quality implementation and overall management of Health and Nutrition component of SABAL project.• Supported D/PHO staffs and trainers to organize and implement trainings, workshops, orientations, and other sensitization activities as well as support to implement adolescent health technical sessions.• Ensured effective coordination and collaboration with DPHO, health facilities, and other related. • Conducted regular monitoring and supportive supervision visits to ensure the quality implementation of SABAL activities in different delivery platforms.• Revitalized low performing HFOMCs or PHC/ORC Management Committees through orientation at VDC/HF level to strengthen FP, MNCH and Nutrition, GMP, IMCI Services• Documentation, dissemination, research, and reporting

• Ensured smooth implementation of nutrition and health program as per Suaahara Guidelines.• Provided technical support to the project team, partners, health facilities, and field-level staff in the implementation, monitoring, and documentation of nutrition and health promotion activities.• Taken a lead role in the expansion of Suaahara nutrition and health service promotion and represented the organization and program in different forums.• Supported the conduction of nutrition surveys at project sites and analyzed quantitative and qualitative information.• Support provided to DHO/DPHO staff and trainers to organize TOT on Partnership Defined Quality.• Orientation provided on Strengthening Nutrition through Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) and Nutrition Counseling at the district and Community levels.• Support and guidance provided to implement CB-IMCI-related training activities in the district.• Supported to strengthen low performing HFOMC or PHC/ORC Management Committee through orientation at VDC/HF level for strengthening FP, MNCH and Nutrition, GMP, IMCI Services

• Supported and guided subject specialists to produce training materials and manuals.• Managed, organized and ensured all training materials are adequate, appropriate, and timely procured.• Developed need assessment process, created an instructional design process with the appropriate delivery method, and post-training evaluation.• Managed and facilitated MTOT and TOT to produce trainers for district and health facility level Training.• Developed training plans and implemented training programs.• Coordinated with Partner organizations in obtaining dates for the training.• Designed quality control mechanism for the training.• Provided technical support in preparing training materials for Community level