Mary Thamari, Phd Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

Nairobi, Kenya

1. Providing gender analysis, political economy analysis and program design support 2. Research design, research management and evidence uptake for policy and programmatic development work3. Development of learning tools, social behavior change strategies, and M&E frameworks4. Qualitative research - ethnography, user experience research (UX) and research.

• I supported provision of technical assistance through Tanager's IGNITE (Impacting Gender and Nutrition through Innovative Technical Exchange in Agriculture) program. To build capacity of African institutions’ ability.
• I provided gender technical assistance in design, implementation, and evaluation of agriculture interventions to increase nutrition outcomes and women’s empowerment.
• I offered advisory service in development and implementation of gender strategies to improve the ability of African agricultural institutions to incorporate nutrition and gender equality into their policy priorities.
• I provided operational guidelines to strengthen African agriculture institutions to mainstream gender in their value chains and market systems.My technical assistance served institutional clients in Ethiopia, Tanzania.

• I supported the mainstreaming of gender and inclusion standards and best practices in the global programmatic and advocacy work in Tearfund
• Led gender and inclusion analyses in multiple countries - Ethiopia, DRC, Malawi, Burkina Faso among others. This included developing data collection tools, managing research assistants, data analysis and reporting.
• Designed and developed gender and inclusion toolkit for the organisation to provide guidelines in gender integration and mainstreaming in multiple thematic areas such as WASH, Economic and environmental sustainability.
• Developed training tools, delivered training and mentored program managers on gender integration in programmatic and advocacy work.
• Supported project development processes including co-creation, review and providing technical support

LIA Center, Silanga ROAD, Karen

Key Responsibilities: Country team leader; Spearheading of quality assurance including results-based planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of empowerment projects including girls’ education promotion, entrepreneurship and employability; Ensuring donor and statutory compliance; Networking and management of partners; Resource mobilization.

Nairobi

Key responsibilities: Supporting and coordinating Country Directors in strategic development programs focusing on social justice in education, health, employability and entrepreneurship; Leading in quality assurance for learning and action; Research on emerging practices and strategies in empowerment of vulnerable persons; Capacity building of regional.

United Kingdom

Applied ethnographic research on gender relations in settings of strained livelihoods ■ Research design in gender relations and livelihoods■ Management of research assistants and research participants■ Networking and collaboration with key government agencies■ Writing and reporting

Kenya

Leadership, life-skills development and education promotion for girls in Kenya and Rwanda.■ Program design and management ■ Stakeholders engagement and management ■ Targeted girls'/women rights advocacy - FGM/C programming, education support and mentorship■ Resource mobilization and donor management■ Quality assurance

Women empowerment and social enterprise development ■ Team leader for Kenya office and coordination with USA office■ Income generating skills training; managing a women’s social enterprise ■ Quality assurance of export products■ Capacity building and mentorship of women’ entrepreneurs■ Funds development

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, African Studies And Anthropology - Gender Relations And Livelihoods

Thesis - In dhako moromo? Gender relations, femininity and livelihood vulnerabilities in Kenya

Master Of Arts, Missions (Intercultural Studies)

Social cultural anthropology, contextualization, theology and poverty. Thesis - An investigation of poverty mitigation models employed by.

Bachelor Of Education: Home Science And Technology, Family Consumer Science | Extension Education

Food and Human Nutrition; Curriculum development and instruction; Adolescent health and development; Education administration; Learning.