Samuel K. Email & Phone Number

Global

-Capture Global Advocacy and Other Systems-Level Impact-Facilitate Knowledge Management and Learning-Strengthen Capacity for Project and Program Design-Thought Leadership

Kenya

My current roles include:• Overseeing the implementation of the GEC-T programs with a financial budget of GBP 4,803,489.5. •Managing a team of 21 project employees and 2 partner organizations, overseeing hiring, training, and professional growth of employees. •Liase with local and national government units to strengthen systems around disability mainstreaming.•Compliance and Quality assurance over program delivery based on internal and donor-based standards. •Work closely with the Country Senior Management Teams and support departments to maintain optimum levels of communication and effectively and efficiently complete projects and document the achievements. •Facilitating financial and narrative reports for the Fund Manager (PWC/Mott McDonald/FCDO), Regional and HQ(UK) Offices on progress of the project.• Keeping project costs manageable, while ensuring quality and program delivery.• Setting short and long-term strategic plans for the project.• Designing project interventions and Facilitation of project review and adaptation meetings.• Signing off on Key project documents including Consultants ToRs, Project Reports, Evaluation Reports and Documents, Finance Reports etc

Nairobi/Kisumu

At Leonard Cheshire my roles mainly include overall oversight over the Monitoring and Evaluation Departments of the Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania Country offices, with a specific focus on systems development and staff capacity building on matters of Monitoring and Evaluation. I also provide technical guidance in all evaluations and studies that are conducted on the ground and providing input, sign off and approval of the tools developed and the research methodologies to be employed during the various surveys. My major achievements so far include:1. Roll out of a Monitoring Evaluation and Learning toolkit in East Africa, hence standardizing documentation of output and outcome level data across the region which includes Monitoring tools and reporting templates. 2. Managing Evaluations within the East African Region for various Leonard Cheshire projects, with the most comprehensive being a DFID funded project(Girls Education Challenge - T) which had to comply with the fund manager’s(PWC) global evaluation standards and strategies

Kenya

SHULE Baseline Evaluation Survey:Conducted a Baseline survey for the SHULE. The Baseline covered mostly issues to do with life skills, remedial classes for vulnerable girls and reasonable accommodation in schools for girls with disabilities. Its objective was to determine way in which to strengthen the quality of education provision for refugee girls in Northern Kenya to improve transition outcomes, particularly for girls with special needs and over-aged learners.

Kenya

The objective of the task was to conduct a mapping of Sustainability Development Goals within the operations of sampled KAM members; Hence reviewing the implementation of SDGs Financial options, analysis of existing donor initiatives and their relevance to SDG worthiness, existing SDG initiatives in Kenya’s private sector and then develop a roadmap for strengthening SDG integration among KAM members.

Nairobi

End of Project Evaluation for the Royal Netherlands Embassy project - Promoting Access to Justice and Enhancing Respect for Human Rights in Kenya as an end of project evaluation.The evaluation sought to understand the value and for whom the project added, in the context of access to Justice and Enhancing Respect for Human Rights in Kenya. The evaluation further sought to understand whether the project responded to the real needs of the beneficiaries in the intervention areas.The evaluation made a number of findings, on the basis of which the Consultants have made conclusions and relevant recommendations to improve aspects of the project and future projects in that thematic area. The evaluation chose to use the OECD evaluation criterion which is a globally recognized evaluation standard that focuses on the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the interventions. These findings and analysis of the end-term project evaluation as reported below focused on the fivesix (56) evaluation criteria of project: Relevance; Effectiveness, Efficiency; Sustainability and Impact.

Dadaab, Kenya

At NRC, my roles included providing support to the Dadaab and Mandera area offices. Hence Supervising 3 M and E assistants(2 in Dadaab and 1 in Mandera) in delivering the NRC Monitoring and Evaluation Mandates. Specifically, it involves regular capacity building of program staff on basic M and E Concepts, ensure that programs abide to both internal and donor M and E standards, Streamlining M and E and Accountability standards throughout projects implemented by NRC in the Dadaab Refugee Complex and Mandera area office. The main program areas include Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Education (Formal, Non-Formal and Vocational), Livelihood and Food Security and the Voluntary Repatriation.My Major achievements while at NRC include:1. Roll-Out of a Complaints Response and Feedback Mechanism in the Dadaab area office2. 3 Studies on Legal issues in the Camp include VolRep, Housing, Land and Property, Community Dispute Resolution Mechanisms.3. Development of project reporting tools

Conduct and coordinate reviews of:a. an institutional M&E plan incorporating objectives, procedures and tools andb. a Logical Framework matrix providing performance and impact indicatorsand corresponding means of verification„X In collaboration with stakeholders, develop an overall framework for both programme and project M&E that includes (but is not limited to) annual reviews, participatory impact assessments, process and operations monitoring, and lessons learned Guide the process for identifying and designing the key indicators for eachcomponent to record and report physical progress against the Strategic and AnnualAction Plans. Steer the process for designing the format of such progress reports.Guide the process for identifying key performance questions and parameters formonitoring performance and comparing it to targets. Design the format for suchperformance reports.Clarify core information needs including: Board, Members, SMT;programmes /projects and staff; funding agencies; cooperating institutions/partnerimplementing agenciesReview the quality of existing social and economic data in the programme/projectareas, methods of collection and provide a baseline for impact evaluation. Draw upthe TOR for, design and cost out a baseline survey and a needs assessment survey.

Nairobi, Kenya

I was part of a team that carried out an evaluation on the Kenya Essential Education Program that was being implemented in the Dadaab and Kakuma Refugee Camps. My main role was to do the qualitative part of the study and compile the report.

Mombasa

At Madrasa Early Childhood Programme,, I reported to the program director. My roles mainly revolved around overseeing proper implementation of programs by program staff through effecting the Monitoring and Evaluation plan, Capacity building for staff and community members on M and E skills, collection and documentation of lessons learnt and success stories, Data Management and analysis for decision making, ensuring proper documentation of the benchmarks achieved by the project. I also partly assisted in I.T support and facilitating in specific community and teacher training programs. Report writing and ensuring compliance for the different donors that funded the program (6 Grants: CIDA (DFATD), EMACK/USAID, Johnson and Johnson, Lions Club UK, Aga Khan Foundation, Trust Africa). A major achievements at Madrasa Early Childhood Programme (Aga Khan Foundation-EA), Kenya, includes; Major Successes at TI-Kenya: • Being part of a 2 man team that managed to secure a USD 55,000 grant from Trust Africa to implement a literacy project at 80 community preschools in the coast region. • Co-coordinating 4 baseline studies 2 on early grade reading skills for pre-school children 2 on care for child development for children aged less than 3 years. • Developing a logic model and a results framework for the MECP-AKF Kenya Programme

Nairobi

At EMACK I helped the organization meet its data requirements. I fully participated in development of the EMACK 2011 Baseline tests. I played an active role in data collection. I was put in charge of the entry and management of the collected baseline data. I also actively took part in analyzing the different data sets from the baseline. As part of EMACK’s M and E team I regularly participated in cleaning of data and making sure that the data in the M and E worksheets is consistent. Together with the M and E officer in the Nairobi regional office we managed to come up with a pilot digital M and E data management system on MS Access. I also had an active role in facilitating some of EMACK’s community and teacher training programs in the field.

Mombasa, Kenya

Analyzed data collected during a mapping study for a project to be implemented to support the Nyumba Kumi Initiative in Kwale County. The work involved analyzing data, report writing and review of previous similar works done around similar initiatives.

Mombasa, Kenya

Trained 4 cohorts of youth and adults from various parts of the coast region on how to use basic ICT tools to implement leverage and complement business ideas.

Mombasa, Kenya

My job was on reporting on the Impact of Malindi Youth Development Group, a group that was funded by KTI to use music to help youth understand and articulate reform gains since the enactment of the 2010 Constitution, defuse secession ideology and extremist ideology, and encourage peaceful participation in the 2013 general elections. My role was to conduct multiple focus group discussions and report on the change in ideology and opinions of the participants in the various events that were held by the group.

Mombasa, Kenya

I consulted with KTI to monitor and report on the progress of Kikozi Program Group, a community based organization in Lamu county funded by KTI that was implementing a "Women as Leaders" campaign that sought to increase women’s' presence in elective office beyond the stereotypical women’s' representative positions, enabling them to benefit from the 2010 Constitution, both by encouraging women to vie, and encouraging voters to be more open to voting for women candidates. My role was to attend the forums and interview the candidates and conduct various focus group- discussions with sampled electorate to seek their opinions on electing women as leaders.

Nairobi, Kenya

At CIP – CGIAR I participated in a workshop to develop a regional work plan for 6 countries implementing a food and nutrition project in Africa. My role was mainly to consolidate the work plan into a single document and map the activities into a Log frame that had been earlier developed.

Nairobi

Hardware MaintananceData CleaningSoftware InstallationNetwork TroubleshootingWorkshop Management.

Network infrastructure design and Implementation.Router, Switch and Wireless access point configuration, networking surveys.

I attended to families who had been affected by the Post-Election to offer psycho-social support and assist the families to access legal action in cases where their rights had been violated. As a result in volunteering I managed to attend a psycho-social counseling workshop where we were taught on different skills of dealing with families and children in particular that have been affected with any form of violence at home and creating child friendly spaces for children to play safely without being threatened by any form of rights abuses.

My major role was training and doing follow ups on the advances made by various women groups on the usage of their funds, basic ICT support, relief food distribution, and Gift distribution for children. I also managed to do follow ups and reporting on the activities of various HIV – AIDS Support groups and Individuals.

Bachelor, Business Information Technology 4Th

Certificate, Statistics And Spss, Credit

M And E Proffession Certificate, M And E

Monitoring And Evaluation Proffession, Monitoring And Evaluation

High School Certificate, High School Certiificate

Mombasa Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, Mean Grade: B+