Japheth Muli Email & Phone Number

Nairobi County, Kenya

Kenya - Nairobi

Heading the Programs Department & a member of the senior management team at Hand in Hand Eastern Africa - a member of the Hand in Hand Global Network pursuing the shared goal of helping communities especially women beat the odds and succeed as entrepreneurs, lifting their families and their communities out of poverty. I have a wealth of experience in organizational leadership and over 18 years’ of program management spanning various thematic areas including; agriculture livelihoods, entrepreneurship, climate resilience, emergency and relief programming. I am responsible for the Hand in Hand Eastern Africa’s large, complex portfolio of development programs in 35 counties in Kenya. Some of my achievements in my current organization include; facilitation in developing a strategy on Regenerative Agriculture & Circular Economies, a Waste Management Strategy, Financial Inclusion strategy and a Resilience Guide. The Financial Inclusion strategy is helping in facilitating small loans (startup capital) to trained bottom of the economic pyramid entrepreneurs - all this to help in building sustainable resilient and creative economic solutions to Hand in Hand Eastern Africa’s 390,000-strong membership of beneficiaries. I have an MBA - Strategic Management and Leadership option from St. Paul’s University Kenya, and an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Engineering (Soil and Water option).

Nairobi

Led Trocaire's Resilience building program thematic area working with 5 implementing partners. Components involved; Climate Change adaptation components; (i) Natural Resource Management through Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR), Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM), Soil and Water Conservation (ii) Increasing Agricultural production through Agroecology (iii) Use of Nature Based Enterprises for Livelihood Diversification e.g. Bee keeping, Baobab and Tamarind value chain establishment (iv) Diversification of livelihoods through livestock; improved local Poultry establishment, Shoats keeping, pasture management & cattle rearing etc. (v) Economic strengthening through; market linkage facilitation and value chain development, Savings-Led Microfinance, production of high value crops through small scale irrigation among other approaches, and (vi) Advocacy on resource rights - access and use, (vii) Knowledge Management among others.

Machakos - Kenya

Provided Leadership & Administration to the Agroecology focused organization ensuring; Programs quality, Management quality, Human Resource Management, Advisory & Signatory and approval authority on Procurement and Logistics, Financial management & Budgetary control, Secretary to the Board of Directors, Strategic Planning (facilitated the development first strategic Plan 2016 – 2020 for Inades-Formation Kenya), Fundraising, Liaison; with INADES-Formation headquarters Secretariat at Abidjan Corte d’Ivoire, stakeholders, donors, collaborators, Government Departments among others.

Nairobi - Kenya

Provided leadership in the Livelihoods/Resilience component of the APHIAplus IMARISHA – USAID funded in Isiolo, Samburu & Marsabit Counties. I gave technical support to local implementing partners in implementing Household Economic Strengthening.

Nairobi

Coordinated a Agriculture/Emergency program - Arid and Marginal Recovery Consortium (ARC). Major activities - Provision of Technical support on Natural Resource Management & Agriculture, Vouchers and Seed Systems.(Tharaka, Makueni & Malindi). My programme emerged very successful in supporting recovery of beneficiaries from drought and led to great efforts in environmental management and increased agricultural productivity. Components of the project included – Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Agro enterprise development, and value chains development, Food Vouchers for Work Programming, Savings-led microfinance (SILC). Over 3 Million tree seedlings were established by beneficiaries against a target of 1 Million seedlings

Nakuru

I led an – ECHO funded emergency agriculture recovery project rehabilitating livelihoods for populations affected by the 2007/2008 Post-election Violence in Kenya. This project supported communities affected by the Kenya 2007/2008 post-election violence to go back to their homes and restart their agricultural livelihoods. Using a voucher based approach to help households access key agricultural inputs, the project enabled the target beneficiaries to cultivate at least one acre of farmland or access a number of small livestock e.g. sheep thus restating their livelihood activities. At the same time, I also supported a sister project that was establishing housing units for shelter to those displaced by the violence

Machakos

Managed a Catholic Relief Services funded Kenya Drought Emergency relief project using a cash based voucher for work approach that led to development of agriculture based soil and water conservation. This project led to improvement of agricultural productivity of the target populations in addition to meeting their immediate food and nutritional requirements. The project also led to skills and knowledge development on natural resource management in the participating target communities in Makueni county.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategic Management & Leadership

Bsc, Agricultural Engineering

Activities and Societies: Farm Machinery Operation Trainer at Engineering ClubLeadership in Christian Union - Praise & Worship Secretary.