June Cherutich, Mph Email & Phone Number

Kenya

Nairobi County, Kenya

▶️ Key Contributions & Results✦ Systemizing program and project objectives ensuring they are related to the social, behavioral, and structural aspects to accelerate targets achievement.✦ Facilitating proper community mobilization, community entry process to ensure program sustainability and ownership by the community members and stakeholders.✦ Spearheading development of work plans, budgeting, monitoring targets, compiling quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports for the project.✦ Integrating accurate and timely project documentation through centralized Monitoring and Evaluation activities including generation and submission of monthly reports ensuring data accuracy and supporting the Data Officers in conducting 100% data audit to ensure synchrony of data.✦ Collaboratively facilitating data utilization, including guiding routine project performance monitoring, ensuring the use of analytical data to inform effective quality improvement. ✦ Establishing partnerships for effective linkages of EGIS beneficiaries including social protection, biomedical interventions, and social-economic approaches.✦ Establishing and maintaining regular donor reporting mechanisms within Girl Child Network. Working with the senior staff and communicators, create inspiring and impactful reports for donors within or outside of Support Office fundraising programs.✦ Designing and facilitating capacity-building initiatives/training to strengthen Girl Child Network and partner staff capacity to effectively and proactively contribute to quality project results.✦ Facilitating resource mobilization through consultative fundraising initiatives in proposal writing.

Kenya

▶️ Key Achievements:🏆 Contributed to USAID NAWIRI’s phase 1 (Learning and research phase) implementation of the Health and Nutrition component to ensure that nutrition-sensitive strategies and approaches are integrated into other thematic strategies.🏆 Continuously monitored activities during Phase 2 of implementation to ensure that project objectives were met and ensured timely follow-up on data collection and feedback to relevant County government staff and partners.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▶️ Key Contributions & Results✦ Supported implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all health and nutrition activities under Integrated Health and Nutrition USAID Nawiri project. ✦ Coordinated all health/nutrition interventions with government stakeholders and community structures. ✦ Led implementation of all health and nutrition activities of the project, prepared reports and built capacity of the health workers and respective focal persons.✦ Promoted best practices in health and nutrition programs and contributed to the overall success of USAID Nawiri, project.✦ Liaised with USAID NAWIRI consortium partners to ensure sequencing, layering and integration to ensure proper resource management.✦ Led in emergency response activities such as outreaches, cash transfer programming in Turkana county.✦ Provided general support, guidance, and served as focal point during field program planning, implementation, and reporting.✦ Represented Kenya USAID Nawiri project at the county level, including generalmeetings with stakeholders.

Turkana, Kenya

▶️ Key Contributions & Results✦ Provided strategic leadership and technical guidance to INGOs in the USAID Nawiri consortium, field Nutrition officers, and government authorities in the implementation of Nutrition-Specific and Nutrition-Sensitive interventions through the integration of various themes such WASH, Health, FSL, and GBV.✦ Led implementation of Maternal infant Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) and Community Health System (CHS) Operational Research through testing of low and high fidelity prototypes that utilize BFCI, ICCM+Nutrition, Family-Led MUAC, IMAM Surge, SBCC approaches to design feasible nutrition interventions for reduction of Persistent Acute Malnutrition (PAM).✦ Planned and Conducted Cost of the Diet (CoD) surveys in Turkana County to ascertain food habits and cost of local foods that meets the recommended intakes for energy, protein, fat and 13 micronutrients of an average family in five different livelihood zones.✦ Built capacity building both SCI and MoH staff on relevant health and nutrition training such as IMAM, MIYCN, ICCM+Nutrition, and Family-led MUAC (FLM), to ensure that they are well conversant with these nutrition protocols.✦ In conjunction with UNICEF, WFP, MoH, and other partners planned and coordinated Nutrition assessments such as Cost of the Diet (COD), SMART Surveys, MIYCN KAP Survey, Food Security Short and Long Rain Assessments, and SCQUEAC for monitoring nutrition outcomes.✦ Represented SCI in Health and Nutrition coordination meetings, Nutrition Technical Forum, multisector coordination forum, Weekly consortium meeting, government and stakeholders meeting, and community dialogues meetings organized by UN agencies, INGOs, and relevant government authorities.✦ Led in development, monitoring, and evaluation of the health and nutrition aspects of the USAID NAWIRI project.

Lodwar,Turkana

▶️ Key Achievements:🏆 Coordinated the life-saving emergency projects during the 2016/17 Horn of Africa drought, whose main objective was to prevent a further deterioration in the health and nutritional status of children 6-59 months, pregnant and breastfeeding women (< 6 months) in four sub-counties in Turkana County.🏆 Achieved 99% food assistance in the target population distribution translating to 2644.078 metric tonnes of specialized therapeutic food delivered.🏆 Achieved 95% unconditional cash transfers to the same vulnerable target group to alleviate their suffering from the effects of the drought.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▶️ Key Contributions & Results✦ Provided programmatic and technical management during the roll out and implementation of Maternal Child Nutrition Programme II (MCNP II) grant aimed at contributing to improved children wellbeing outcomes within Turkana County.✦ Established and sustained working relationships with County government departments and Agencies relevant to the project focus area at all county levels.✦ Ensured timely submission of quality reports in line with WV/donor guidelines.✦ Ensured linkage of community mother-to-mother support groups to available social protection programs available within the county.✦ Participated and offered technical support of SMART surveys in the county.✦ Built on technical knowledge and understanding of the operations related to nutrition policy and services in Kenya, and how these policies can best work for the needs and dynamics of Turkana County.✦ Led implementation of ENCORE (COVID-19) response project in West Pokot County by ensuring capacity building and harmonized coordination of Covid-19 response with Ministry of Health and other key implementing partners.

Turkana County, Kenya

▶️ Key Contributions & Results✦ Coordinated the Logonet Finnish Baby Aid project by supporting distribution of mama baby kits in Kalobeyei settlement and select Turkana County health facilities.✦ Ensured implementation, contributed to increased antenatal, delivery, and postnatal attendance for new-born in target facilities, and Improved knowledge practices on maternal and new -born health.

Turkana County, Kenya

▶️ Key Contributions & Results✦ Provided leadership in management of BSFP project budget and work plan, daily management and supervision of staff.✦ Coordinated proactively with WFP, UNICEF, IRC, GAA, SCI, MoH, KRCS and other partners in Turkana to ensure a coordinated, smooth implementation and well linked with existing interventions such as outreaches.✦ Engaged with Ministry of health and field level as required and provide Government authorities, UNICEF, WFP and other stakeholders with information regarding beneficiary registration, commodity/food distribution plans, and project progress.✦ Ensured that all commodities delivered at the FDP are properly accounted for based on the approved distribution plan to the donor and to WV CCTS system.✦ Coordinated all field logistical operations for the program in conjunction with the Logistics department.✦ Worked closely with the Project Officer/MoH staff and site supervisors to request accurate food commodities in time to ensure availability of BSFP commodities and other supplies required at the BSFP site.✦ Actively participated in relevant coordination and progress update meetings within the county level and outside on need basis.✦ Ensured timely reporting of all BSFP Annexes i.e. stock summary report, Distribution report, screening report accurate and quality reports as per the donor guidelines and WVK guidelines.

▶️ Key Contributions & Results✦ Conducted anthropometric assessments (Weight, height and MUAC) for children under five in different schools within Kibera to determine their nutrition status.✦ Carried out Vitamin A supplementation and deworming for Children 6 59 months and other school going children.✦ Conducted nutrition counseling and education to caregivers.

Nairobi, Kenya

✦ Supported development of the M&E frameworks for the projects and ensure adherence.✦ Supported program areas with implementation plans on a quarterly basis to ensure donor compliance.✦ Ensured project evaluation and survey findings were disseminated to the districts and action plans developed and followed up as appropriate.

Kenya

▶️ Key Contributions & Results✦ Instructed patients and careers clearly on what to eat and when.✦ Contacted patients on an outpatient basis to ensure compliance of diet.✦ Collected patient data for surveys, analyzing it and producing reports.✦ Assisted clients with nutritional goals and offered sound nutritional plan for optimizing health.✦ Recognized appropriate behavioral-change modifications and dietary approaches for different ages and populations.✦ Assisted the head nutritionist in daily ward rounds and outpatient clinic visits.✦ Prepared diet forms with meal plans for inpatients.✦ Conducted Nutritional counseling on both outpatient and inpatients for nutritional review.✦ Assisted in data entry and record keeping.

Kenya

▶️ Ares of Exposure:✦ Conducted nutrition assessment on the children, mostly under-fives using Muac, weight for age, length or height and checking for presence of oedema. This was done at the nutrition center.✦ Community outreaches conducted involving door-to-door visits to identify moderately and severely malnourished children. Admission to the center done or administering of therapeutic foods based on the condition.✦ Nutrition counseling and education given to the children’s mothers on die, hygiene and breastfeeding practices.✦ Assisted Community Health Workers in community projects such as installing of hand washing facilities, health talks, waste management etc.

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Public Health

Bachelor’S Degree, Human Nutrition And Dietetics, Second Class Honours

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