- Supporting organisational growth and development - building entrepreneurial ecosystems and enabling environments for young organisations determined to deliver basic services 'the last mile'.- Use of technology to build outreach from medical professionals and create open source basic processes facilitating women's promotive health practices- Actively building the organisation, developing the organisational structure, supporting the CEO and senior team in building networks with complementary organisations and quality people motivated to be part of an organisation / network delivering basic servicesThis builds on mentoring the CEO during the Entrepreneurial World Cup (MobiKlinic in top 100 Globally) where we have worked to get MobiKlinic established since June 2020

Member of the UNES, University of Nairobi Enterprise and Services, team complementing academia with business and organisational experience and expertise. - Inclusive economic development; fitting with educational work on curriculum development- Public-private sector engagement; bridging betweeen the corporate and government at critical levels of engagement- Policy development and related strategy building for clients across the East Africa region- Strategic thinking facilitation for clients seeking approaches to address intractable problems - development of design thinking and adpative management. Supporting academia to show how theory underpins good practice and impactful delivery- Work on the use of foresight approaches drawing together all key stakeholders in defining and seeking resourcing for delivering defined goals

- VNG-I building on previous work, developing local economic development with inclusion and good governance key deliverables. Concentration on critical government engagement as part of a tripartite approach for good governance and inclusive local development - Internal evaluation for a Rockefeller Foundation funded nutritional program looking at the innovative approaches in supply and value chain work alongside project management to sponsor replication. - Country Programme Evaluation Somalia for the Food and Agricultural Organisation - building knowledge and furthering opportunities for organisational learning- Support to Somaliland Bank and the independent Financial Intelligence Unit in developing the strategic planning building on innovative thinking and resourcing approaches- Delivered Green Climate Fund engagement in Afghanistan and Iran - organisational analysis and development of key stakeholders across the public and private sectors building climate resilience, adaptation and mitigation programming - Generating strategic business analysis with insightful evaluations, building learning - Guaranteeing lessons communicated for actions by all relevant stakeholders - Developing business strategy and cases for the delivery of socio-economic projects for governments, UN and NGOs – focus economic inclusion and purposeful business- Creating innovative approaches for employment generation in diverse settings building effective foundations for global engagement- Delivering organisational development facilitating Green Climate Fund engagement in the Middle East and Asia - Set up efficient cost-effective market-oriented operations for the public and private sectors in East Africa and the Middle East- Offering leadership and mentoring support to others building management credentials. Director, non-executive director, producing demonstrable financial and social returns for five not-for-profit across East Africa and Europe

SIDCN’s amplifies the voices of small international development charities by building on the sector’s community support approach and further advocacy within the UK. The Small But Mighty campaign fits with wider MSMEs policy and practice development. The engine of positive change is with networked motivated people.Continue to be part of the supportive working group International policy and practice being amplified; feeding policies and practices across the UK#localisation #participation #goodgovernance #qualityservicedelivery #climatechange #decentwork

Working at distance (coronavirus plus in difficult times) to mentor and support business development services building the next steps for Berbera Economic Forum. DP World's massive investment in Berbera driving local enterprise support and entrepreneurial development - VNG right people to lead this type of work.Accomplishing impact through support to quality people working on local governance and local employment

• Built business cases and technical approaches for the analysis of the present setting to develop case for transfer of skills to government and local stakeholders• Facilitated and generated innovative approaches to address high cost of delivering cash based programming - produced thinking for cost efficiency and socially effective delivery

• Directed all aspects in building a team delivering US$10million annual programme• Accomplished major impact generating over 100,000 jobs through entrepreneurial development, enterprise infrastructure and immediate work creation. This supported by building good labour governance and related community development, green jobs/natural resource management• Delivered the first fragile state Decent Work Programme - addressing key underlying causes of instability and enhancing resilience – infrastructure (enabling environment), employment, empowerment and basis of social protection platform• Led the development of the Employment for Peace Programme the African Union and Inter Governmental Authority for Development addressing causal issues of migration and recurrent crises

• Established the fund management unit building a portfolio of over £200million of programme funds (Early Recovery, Common Humanitarian Fund and two Global Fund Principle Recipients). Managed the recruitment and development of people taking responsibility for financial risk management and programming.• Built positive relations with donor and Sudan’s governments. Facitiated the strategic thinking to generate tangible financial commitment to support the north-south peace agreement • Led the set-up of working practices for 20 sub-contracting NGO consortia delivering projects as dividends of peace and over 45 recipients of Common Humanitarian Fund funds ensuring delivery as per agreed performance targets • Developed programming capability, notably work on community resilience and early recovery through engagement and empowerment

Delivered results and made impact in all sectors across cultures and geographical settingsSkills, knowledge and experience from:- business consultancy, including management training, productivity consultancy and organisational development- work in humanitarian sector working in conflict settings- evaluation consultancies granting fresh insights into management of projects in all settings- work with the UN in establishing fund management arrangements (Sudan, Nepal directly and advising Congo, China, Vietnam)- work with various NGOs across countries as diverse as Armenia through to Zimbabwe

• Created excellent relations with Somaliland’s Government, from the Presidential Office through Ministries to key local government supporting managerially and technically where appropriate ensuring visibility of the EC• In liaison with sectoral experts, advised and guided projects to deliver €20million annually effectively - all sectors: infrastructure / basic services, governance (supporting the first elections), economic development, environmental protection

Building on the technical learning from Henley MBA, support the development of people leading out work in complex settings. Become involved with multi stakeholder scenario development as means to take new perspectives on protracted crises and seizing opportunities for inclusive growth and development.

• In Rwanda, integral member of team responding to all the physical and mental scarring of the Genocide - Learning about myself, real team working in settings of vortical changes • In Somalia, developed the Fund's operations increasing the project portfolio by over 100%. Built a distance management approach three sites, five projects and multidisciplinary teams• Built innovative approaches to working in complex, fast changing, environments delivering demonstrable results and cross generational impact.

Applying my business knowledge to different, often challenging, governance settingsLearning now organisational and people leadership skills in fast paced humanitarian situations.

• Delivered positive return on investment skills training for entrepreneurs • Worked in a team wrote aspects of the National Vocational Qualifications’ supervisory and management competencies.• Involved with small business networking in support of legal developments for viability of MSMEs

Family business running a niche garden centre undertaking landscape design and developments with a manufacturing component creating a unique product, Literoc.Undertook all elements of managing a business including serving my apprenticeship in how to resolve issues within family and business.Built the basis for how to work with people whilst delivering results - task, team, individual personified