Meredith Ellen Gaffney Email and Phone Number

Consulting non-profits, governmental agencies, and the United Nations with strategic planning including situational assessment, leveraging opportunities, resource generation, and evidence-based decision making.

Lead business development team responsible for overseeing growth opportunities and initiatives within CB. This includes acquiring funding, communication, identifying growth opportunities and ensuring successful integration of CB initiatives.

Assist with programming including strategic situational assessment, leveraging opportunities, evidence-based decision making. Created and facilitating the implementation of MGF’s fundraising strategy, relationship management plans, and indicators to inspire and hold the foundation accountable.

Oversee grants management including proposal submission, reporting, and communications with key updates.• Screen and assess prospective project proposals, work with key officials to refine plans and project budgets.• Monitor progress through the grant period via ongoing communication and conducting site visits when appropriate to assure that PPSNE is on track with the goals outlined in their project proposals.• Manage the evaluation of program initiatives and utilize the findings to improve the effectiveness of initiatives in a timely manner.• Analyze key data for situational assessment and reporting.

Conduct ongoing inventory of community data, assist the community to institute community data system, creation of tools/ dashboards to ensure in-time systemic evaluation and reporting, & maintain strategic relationships that ensure the wellbeing of children under age eight.

Technical oversight of survey protocol for Client Exit Interviews (including review of data collection tool, creation of data entry program, analysis of key indicators, and reporting guidance). Preparation of data for International Conference on Family Planning

Orchestrated grant preparation for USAID through situational assessment, consortium building, and document preparation.

Supported relevant Government partners in designing, implementing and monitoring the Child Survival & Development (ACSD) Programme in Angola. • Assisted articulating program objectives and communication with key stakeholders;• Determined of research priorities with scientific/ technical guidance for new scientific studies to ensure comprehensive knowledge of key factors influencing maternal and child survival;• Provided integrated, coherent, and coordinated tools to track specific healthcare programs to ensure results are translated into proper policy change and effectively reported in a timely fashion; • Operational and financial oversight of field research activities for reliable data collection, analysis, and dissemination;• Communicated results to various stakeholders.

Provided technical leadership and strategic direction to USAID/ US Embassy for infectious disease including HIV, Malaria, Tuberculosis (TB), Dengue and other public health threats (i.e. Influenza)• Advised the USAID Philippines mission on programmatic guidance in the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and research for the infectious disease (ID) portfolio.• Recognized and identify opportunities for integrating state-of-the-art infectious disease approaches into USAID’s ID activities while assessing the priority interventions to reach low performing areas; • Coordinated USAID infectious disease activities with DOH, UN agencies, World Bank, GFATM, and appropriate stakeholders. Participation reinforced through various technical working groups, (i.e. National Prevalence Survey, GFATM, & ACSM)• Oversaw monitoring and evaluation of the infectious disease portfolio including collection of reliable data, analysis of the corresponding information, and reporting to Washington.• Coordinated short term technical assistance (as needed) to ensure funding is allocated in the most appropriate interventions.

To assess malaria awareness (including demand for and knowledge of ITN) across Ethiopia in order to improve current programmes and inform design of future initiatives• Assessed malaria awareness across Ethiopia in order to improve current programmes and inform future initiatives. • Created malaria surveillance system in cooperation with Ministry of Health and Roll Back Malaria Partners.

Provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Health at the national and provincial level (i.e. Gaza, Zambezia, and Inhambane Provinces) for curative and preventative health care activities with focus on counterpart capacity building.HIV/AIDs Programming• Assisted the “Nucleo de Combate Contra a SIDA” and local government in the organization of a complex network of facilities created to assist people living with HIV. Malaria program activities• Participated in proposal design for long-term malaria programming including strategies for social marketing of ITNs at the community level.• Assisted with monitoring and evaluation (including KAP) of emergency malaria program activities with local government and NGO partners.• Initiated community based treatment of malaria program with local government and NGO partners.Nutritional programming and surveillance• Assisted in the coordination of drought emergency programs involved with monitoring and evaluating malnutrition, supplementary/therapeutic feeding, additional vaccination support, vitamin supplementation, and de-worming.