Karen Muthoni Email & Phone Number

Nairobi County, Kenya

• Key Contributions:
• Providing technical supply chain and demand creation direction for a $5.4 million project, ensuring smooth progression and identifying potential issues and risks for timely resolution.
• Implementing evidence-based strategies and interventions to improve food and market systems under the Nawiri program, ensuring adherence to technical standards and guidelines.
• Strengthening relationships with consortium partners, stakeholders, and external organizations, organizing county-level engagements and workshops.
• Monitoring and ensuring the quality of food and market systems activities, delivering high-quality workplans, reports, and documents in accordance with organizational procedures and donor requirements.
• Collaborating with the communications team to effectively document the implemented work, ensuring accurate and comprehensive documentation.

Kenya

• Key Contributions:
• Spearheaded nutrition program interventions and strategies, ensuring they were context-specific, technically sound, and aligned with donor agreements, program proposals, and budgets.
• Collaborated with Program Grants, Finance, and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) Units to develop monitoring and reporting tools, ensuring compliance with reporting structures and timelines.
• Developed program budgets of up to $130 million, ensuring appropriate allocation and efficient utilization of resources in line with program priorities and donor guidelines.
• Conducted capacity building activities for over 10 program staff, including technical trainings on KHIS/LMIS, comPAS, and nutrition in HIV/AIDS, in collaboration with implementing partners.
• Played a key role in the development of new proposals and concept notes for the nutrition program, as well as the production of regular reports for donors, while adhering to approved protocols, policies, and guidelines.

Kenya

• Key Contributions:
• Supported over 100000 beneficiaries through the implementation the UNICEF funded Nutrition Project, focused on improving the nutrition status of pregnant and lactating women and children under five through the Baby.
• Drafted 100% accurate project documentation meeting agency and donor requirements, and contributed to the preparation of trends analysis reports, case studies, and best practices documentation.
• Evaluated projects and supported the Ministry of Health (MOH) in data collection and analysis using specified mechanisms, tools, and methodologies hence improving data accuracy levels to 95%.
• Bolstered relationships between CRS programming and the Ministry of Health, facilitating smoother project implementation and operations by providing logistical, technical, and administrative support.
• Provided accompaniment and on-the-job support to Ministry of Health processes and resources, ensuring timely project activity implementation and adherence to established process standards and procedures.

Kenya

• Key Contributions:
• Led nutrition technical support for health workers and Red Cross volunteers through joint trainings on High Impact Nutrition Interventions (HINI) activities.
• Collaborated with partners such as UNICEF and MOH to identify community and staff training needs and developed a training schedule to improve knowledge and skills.
• Drafted concept papers, progress reports, and annual reports to show achievements and areas of improvement for the nutrition component of the project.
• Spearheaded an emergency response activity in Tana River Region to monitor nutrition trends through screening and data collection.
• Conducted contingency planning for county governments, Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) and identified other stakeholders working with livelihoods and food security projects for linkage of beneficiaries.

Master'S Degree, Public Health

Bachelor'S Degree, Foods, Nutrition, And Wellness Studies, General, Second Class Honors

Higher National Diploma, Project Management

Masters In Psychology

Certificate, Compass Management Program