Molly Canty Email & Phone Number

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Coordinator of the Alliance for Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health secretariat (partners include USAID, DFID, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and trade, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation).
• Lead writer for all Alliance publications, documenting partnership successes at both the global and country level
• Provide technical assistance to the Window of Opportunity Project, which focuses on integrating maternal and newborn health services at the facility level in South Africa and Mozambique
• Analyzing and identifying opportunities for improved integration of reproductive health services into the 1000 Days nutrition platform
• Supported the Sure Start Project October 2012-February 2013, including qualitative and quantitative research and analysis. Facilitated workshop with India PATH staff to discuss results and identify opportunities for.

Atiak, Uganda

• Managed a team of birth attendants in creating image-based, best practice protocols, and determining safe, culturally appropriate understandings of the protocols
• Coordinated the organization and implementation of local sustainability programs by establishing cooperative groups of women who worked and lived locally
• Developed a scheduling system among traditional birth attendants, ensuring that the clinic was appropriately staffed
• Worked with village leadership to facilitate the community's first international adoption
• Occasional ambulance driver!

London, United Kingdom

• Designed and wrote a strategy proposal for a social media campaign in order to encourage policy makers to increase foreign aid budgets for child immunization in developing countries
• Developed an estimated budget of the proposed campaign
• Designed and led a presentation of the strategy for the organization’s Deputy Director of External Affairs

• Conducted research on maternal health policy among indigenous populations, specifically in Latin America
• Drafted scoping paper that was used as an advocacy tool at the World Health Assembly in May 2011
• Provided administrative support to advocacy campaigns

Assisted case managers for families with special needs children with client casework, organized a file archiving project which required partnering with an outside organization, organized mailings, managed files, and compiled informational brochures and packets.

Researched and connected with organizations doing similar work on the importance of economic development to peacebuilding and conflict resolution. Attended conferences as a representative of the journal and as a participant in development-related dialogues.

• Assisted permanent staff members with casework and grant research with a focus on immigration and housing
• Wrote letters to constituents
• Worked with other government organizations in order to bestmanage casework.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Coordinated with teachers and administrators to organize health workshops for students
• Drafted a grant and budget proposal for a school medical center
• Organized a fundraiser with partners in the US, raising over $2,000 to ship over 100 children’s books for the school

• Wrote and edited an updated informational brochure for the political action committee, which endorses
• Democratic women running for elected office. Organized training programs for campaign fundraisers and managers. Researched and compiled a book of candidates which the organization supported.

• Assisted permanent staff members with casework and grant research
• Assisted in the organization of the Annual Grant Writing Forum.
• Attended briefings and conferences with staff members.

Msc, Development Management

Ba, Political Science; Comparative Politics

Study Abroad Semester, International Politics