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Recently started a new role as Scaling Advisor for the Graduation Approach to poverty reduction.“The Graduation approach is a holistic livelihoods programme designed to address the multidimensional needs of extreme poor households. It consists of five core components: time-limited consumption support; a savings component; an asset transfer; training in how to use the asset; and life skills coaching and mentoring. The theory of change underlying the model is that this mix of interventions, offered in the appropriate sequence, would help the ultra-poor to “graduate” out of extreme poverty within a defined time period.” - Ford Foundation, 2016Sola is one of the leading voices advocating for the application of Multi-dimensional Index (MPI) in understanding grassroots poverty in Nigeria. She coordinated this at her former role at the National Social Investment Office (NSIO) under the Office of the Vice President of Nigeria. Key partners included the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).She likeiwse provided technical support on Behavioural Economics and insights into the choice architecture of beneficiaries of projects in the 2020 Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan. The aim was to nudge beneficiaries towards informed choices ultimately leading to improved policies and sustained impact.Sola is the Founder of SHE (Social Impact, Healthcare, Education) Foundation. Recently, she was appointed a member of Technical Working Group for the preparation of 2021-2025 Medium-Term National Development Plan (MTNDP), by the Honourable Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning.
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Monitoring And Evaluation SpecialistFederal Ministry Of Finance, NigeriaAbuja, Federal Capital Territory, Ng
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Scaling Advisor, Ultra-Poor Graduation InitiativeInnovations For Poverty Action Sep 2024 - PresentFederal Capital Territory, NigeriaScaling Advisor for the Graduation Approach to poverty reduction.“The Graduation approach is a holistic livelihoods programme designed to address the multidimensional needs of extreme poor households. It consists of five core components: time-limited consumption support; a savings component; an asset transfer; training in how to use the asset; and life skills coaching and mentoring. The theory of change underlying the model is that this mix of interventions, offered in the appropriate sequence, would help the ultra-poor to “graduate” out of extreme poverty within a defined time period.” - Ford Foundation, 2016 -
FounderShe Foundation Jan 2019 - PresentNigeriaSHE (Social Impact, Healthcare, and Education) Foundation’s theory of change believes that not until underlying causes of poverty are multidimensionally assessed, the world would yet again miss the opportunity to End Extreme Poverty by 2030. The Foundation believes that fundamental to achieving this goal is the participation of social enterprises who create innovative market opportunities for the under-served, excluded One Billion, living at the Bottom of the Pyramid. SHE Foundation works with Data labs, economists, social enterprises, innovators and civil societies to provide evidence-based sub-national data for policy change that leads to sustained economic wealth.Since inception in 2019, it has achieved the following: 1. Submitted joint proposal with the UNDP in Nigeria and secured the approval of USD1.6m from the UN COVID Basket Fund for the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), to conduct the Nigeria 2020 COVID-19 impact assessment and National Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) survey 2. Provides technical support to projects on the Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan (NESP), on behavioural insights and analysis.3. Published five policy papers on Impact of COVID-19 on Education, Health and Financial sectors; Out of school children and Almajiri; and on the recent National Assembly Tertiary Institution Sexual and Gender-based violence bill 4. Monitoring and evaluation support to the At Risk Children (ARC) project.
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National Coordinator, MpiNigeria Sep 2019 - May 2023Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) analysisBehavioral economics; choice architectureDecision and design thinkingNigeria Economic Sustainability Plan2021-2025 Medium-Term National Development Plan (MTNDP)
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Social Impact/Programme Monitoring And Evaluation AdviserThe Presidency, Federal Republic Of Nigeria Apr 2017 - May 2023Abuja, NigeriaIn this advisory role, i led and coordinated the overall Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) of the portfolio of programmes of the National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP), under the oversight of the Vice President of Nigeria.Four programmes under this portfolio are: Home Grown School Feeding programme (HGSFP), Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (CCT), Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), and the N-Power programme. These programmes with an annual budget of $1.6B (2016 budget), seek to address underlying systemic failures that trigger increased poverty levels, impact country's livelihood and human capital development indices, stunt economic growth, and significantly contribute to political instability. Working with various development partners such as Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Food Programme, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank, Action Aid, and others, i provide both technical and strategic direction on the identification, monitoring and reporting of measurable indicators against set targets, through a consultative and participatory approach that promotes institutional capacity building, secures buy-in/co-ownership of process, and importantly, ensures programmes deliver evidence-based, long-term impact for beneficiaries.
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Founder/Lead ConsultantProject Monitoring And Evaluation Academy May 2015 - Dec 2017NigeriaTraining and expertise consultancy: Social Return on Investments (SROI), Social Impact, Value for Money (VfM), Impact Assessment, Beneficiary Monitoring, Logic model, Results chain, Theory of Change, Outcome Mapping, R&D.
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Monitoring And Evaluation ManagerFoundation For Partnership Initiatives In The Niger Delta (Chevron Foundation) May 2015 - Mar 2017Abuja, NigeriaLed annual planning of four programmes with cumulative five-year budget of US$50m, which have in the last five years leveraged in new investments, a total of £14.4m from DFID, US$25m from USAID and a further US$450k from UNICEF.Member of seven-person committee Niger Delta Way Forward (NDWF), working with The Presidency, Federal Government of Nigeria, to develop a 2016-2019 Development Compact for the conflict afflicted Niger Delta region.
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Monitoring And Evaluation Manager, Solarnigeria ProgrammeAdam Smith International Nov 2014 - Apr 2015NigeriaContributed to project implementation that led to more than 140,000 Nigerian households acquiringsmall solar light and power systems in the first nine months of 2016.Developed Monitoring and Evaluation framework for project that went on to win the 2016 International Award, at the prestigious British Expertise annual award ceremony in London. -
Monitoring And Evaluation Activity Manager Niaf ProgrammeAdam Smith International Jul 2013 - Oct 2014AbujaSupervised senior managers at Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of the Subsidy Reinvestment Programme (SURE-P), which had a four-year cumulative budget of US$2.3B with over 500,000 jobs created.
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Monitoring And Evaluation Lead, Gems-Dfid ProjectCoffey International Ltd Jan 2013 - Jun 2013LagosM4P- Making Markets work for the Poor (M4P); DCED; M&E; LogFrame, DFID-IMEP (Independent Monitoring and Evaluation Project) -
Regional Monitoring And Evaluation Manager, Sub-Saharan AfricaBritish Council Jul 2009 - Jan 2013Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, GhanaSupervised M&E of over 50 projects in 23 sub-Saharan African countries with a cumulative annual budget of over £100M. -
Planning, Monitoring And Evaluation ManagerBritish Council Dec 2007 - Jul 2009
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Hr Consultant (Work Experience)Human Dimensionz Associate, Luton Uk Oct 2006 - Nov 2007
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Hr AssistantDe Montfort University Jan 2006 - Sep 2006 -
Aviation JournalistGuardian Newspapers May 2000 - Oct 2005Lagos
Olushola Afolayan Skills
Olushola Afolayan Education Details
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Evidence In Public Policy- Blavatnik School Of Government -
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University Of IbadanLinguistics (German, Latin, Comms And Language Arts) -
OlcaPsychology
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