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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateCandidate's Name SENIOR ASSOCIATE, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, GBEMAIL AVAILABLE PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE Silver Spring, MDLINKEDIN LINK AVAILABLESummary of QualificationsSkilled public health research analyst with expertise in project planning and oversight as well as monitoring and evaluation activities supporting public health and development projects and/or programs. Contributed to better results in maternal, child and adolescent sexual and reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa by supporting situation analysis efforts, determination of programmatic priorities, planning, Development of performance indicators, and MEAL. This involved ensuring development and validation of as many programming tools as clearly articulated logic models and action plans with a set of clearly defined strategic goals, a set of supporting objectives for each stated goal, a chain of the results that are intended at multiple levels of results, impact-seeking activities, and effective MEAL systems. I ensured that appropriate Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) approaches were used to build a strong culture of monitoring, evaluation, and learning in project management to ensure achievement of the desired results. CLA activities helped stakeholders maximize results and ensure success through discussion and use of lessons learned from M&E data to reduce inefficiencies and to implement activities most efficiently and effectively. Communication and programming efforts require a logic model that summarizes the key elements of an intervention and the assumptions regarding the internal logic of each intervention, resources, flexibility in planning, MEAL, and community participation.In the role of Senior Associate, Program Management, Global Health, my skills and qualifications will allow me to effectively provide program, administrative, and operational support to global projects in Save the Childrens Department of Global Health (DGH). This involves collaborating with relevant DGH teams and program partners, Country Offices, KM staff, and others across DGH and the agency to ensure achievement of the desired outcomes by ensuring that relevant stakeholders receive the support they need to work effectively and efficiently. Throughout my career, I have had the privilege of working with various organizations where I gained valuable expertise in MEAL and donor reporting. These experiences have equipped me with a deep understanding of the challenges and complexities involved in the management of the tasks and deliverables of MEAL systems. Evidence-informed decision-making entails identifying, appraising, and mobilizing the best available evidence for effective health and development programs. By implementing effective evidence-based decision-making processes in M&E, organizations can improve their programs and services, achieve better outcomes, and ultimately, positively impact the communities they serve. By providing a general sense of what programs accomplishments are, data generated by an emerging M&E system can significantly reduce levels of uncertainty and subjectivity in the determination of project success. CLA approaches will be used to ensure the achievement of the desired outcomes by strengthening project decision-making through use of learning and insights from M&E data and visualization tools. Management initiatives and activities are improved adaptively through use of actionable insights from M&E and CLA from intervention design and start through implementation monitoring, progress monitoring, and impact assessment. Areas of Expertise (Skills)Social Science and Public Health ResearchGlobal health programmingData analytics and visualization techniques and toolsMEAL for Projects: Progress Measurement, Effectiveness monitoring, and Impact StudiesDevelopment of CapacitiesReporting on Progress, Effectiveness, and ImpactData Collection & Data Analysis (program data, survey data).Education PhD in Demography & Development Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Master of Public Health, Walden University, Minneapolis, MN Master of Science in Demography & Development Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Master of Arts in Population Economics, Institute of Political Studies of Paris, Paris, France.Professional ExperiencePrevention of Sexual Risk Taking and STI/HIV among Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa (Consultancy Services), Silver Spring, MD, USA July 2017 PresentIndependent Public Health and Monitoring & Evaluation ConsultantConsultants address11601 Lockwood Drive #101, Silver Spring, MD 20904LocationSilver Spring, Maryland, USA & AfricaSupervisors nameDr. Candidate's Name (Self-employment)Supervisors phone numberPHONE NUMBER AVAILABLESupervisors email addressEMAIL AVAILABLEHours per week45Salary$40,000.00 50,000 per year.Adolescents are at risk for STI/HIV primarily through unprotected (unsafe) sexual behavior. Interventions that are intended to protect adolescents health and life prospects by reducing sexual risk-taking and STI/HIV among youths in the sub-Saharan region should be supported by biomedical, behavioral, and structural strategies. Evidence-based decision-making in M&E is a crucial aspect of progress and effectiveness for those interventions because decisions are grounded in valid and reliable data.Provided programming and MEAL services to support interventions aimed at preventing STI/HIV among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa, informing program adjustments and improvements, and ensuring accountability and effectiveness through systematic performance measurement, progress assessment, and donor reporting.Using M&E data for various purposes. Once indicators are defined for all the desired results, monitoring data are used to write the progress reports that must be periodically submitted to governments, donors, beneficiaries, and other stakeholders, and to provide evidence for evaluation and advocacy. M&E data are needed to ensure the measurement of all indicators selected or created for management and reporting purposes. Progress is discussed by highlighting issues such as underachievement versus overachievement against pre-established progress targets and the desired results, differences in achievement by population groups, and service recipients satisfaction with the quality of the provided service. In an ideal situation, every performance indicator should have a baseline and pre-established time-bound progress or performance targets. It is important that indicators are clearly defined, disaggregated by gender and major age groups where appropriate and realistic.Enhancing project decision-making by using insights from data analytics and visualization tools. I am using relevant data analytics and visualization tools to support programming and MEAL, focusing on interventions intended to prevent sexual risk-taking and STI/HIV among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa.Ensured development of computer-based management information systems to analyze survey data, ensuring identification of the determinants of high-risk sexual behaviors, and contributing to the identification and the development of targeted and effective intervention strategies.Supported programmatic efforts in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, and Kenya by guiding implementing partners on all aspects of MEAL, fulfilling donor requirements, and producing timely periodic progress reports.JSI. INC/APC Project, Conakry, Guinea November 2016 June 2017Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) AdvisorEmployers address1616 Fort Myer Drive, Suite 100, Rosslyn, VA 22209 USALocationConakry, GuineaSupervisors nameDr. Meba KagoneSupervisors phone numberxxx-xxxSupervisors email addressEMAIL AVAILABLEHours per week45Salary$70,000.00 per year.Spearheaded the design and implementation of all monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities for USAID-funded Ebola Transmission Prevention and Survivor Services project in Conakry, Guinea. This included providing guidance and assistance on the development of the project's monitoring and evaluation plan; development and monitoring of project indicators; and planning and implementation of project evaluation. M&E work plans are expected to ensure effective coordination and implementation of planned M&E activities.Contributed to better results for Ebola survivors by ensuring that planned project activities are supported by a work plan and a clearly articulated Gantt Chart. This chart provides the project's timeline that makes it possible to assess its progress.Led the design and implementation of M&E activities for the USAID-funded Ebola Transmission Prevention and Survivor Services project, including development of the project's M&E plan and monitoring of project indicators.Designed and executed a baseline survey to identify humanitarian needs of Ebola survivors and an end line survey to measure the impact of humanitarian assistance provided by the project and to assess survivors attitudes toward the project.Identified needs and Ebola survivors attitudes toward the project were used to strengthen programming.Ensured food security and timely and improved access to health services for Ebola survivors.Ensured food and economic security among survivors by promoting their participation in income-generating activities and in savings and loan groups or cooperatives and in small-scale finance opportunities.Reviewed and strengthened the community-based surveillance strategy through qualitative data analysis to prevent the resurgence of the Ebola epidemic by ensuring early detection of symptoms.UNICEF Equatorial Guinea, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea December 2015 November 2016Secondary Data Analysis ConsultantEmployers addressUnited Nations compound, Malabo, Equatorial GuineaLocationMalabo, Equatorial GuineaSupervisors nameMs. Mariana CoolicanSupervisors phone numberPHONE NUMBER AVAILABLESupervisors email addressEMAIL AVAILABLE, EMAIL AVAILABLEHours per week45Salary$380.00 per dayAdvocated for development of equity-based and child-sensitive social protection system in Equatorial Guinea.Used findings from the analysis of the 2015 census data to identify development priorities and to recommend the policy actions that are needed to reduce inequality in child poverty rates by identifying the steps that have to be taken to reduce not only disparities in access to the resources for children that are available in the country, but also the impact of other factors related to inequality (e.g., residence area, education, SES, gender, and ethnicity).Created reports on Childhood Poverty and Vulnerability in Equatorial Guinea, informing development of strategic and operational plans for UNICEF.FHI 360, Accra, Ghana May 2015 September 2015Monitoring & Evaluation SpecialistEmployers address1825 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington DC 20009 USALocationAccra, GhanaSupervisors nameDr. Joseph KoromaSupervisors phone numberxxx-xxxSupervisors email addressEMAIL AVAILABLEHours per week45Salary$80,000.00 per year.Spearheaded M&E activities for national neglected tropical disease (NTD) programs in West African countries of Burkina Faso, Cote DIvoire, Ghana and Sierra Leone, implementing processes to strengthen planning, programming, and M&E.Strengthened data collection processes to enhance monitoring of progress toward program goals.Bolstered the ability of the Burkina Faso and Ghana NTD programs to conduct baseline and post-baseline prevalence surveys, improving the accuracy of infection level assessments in endemic districtsEnsured use of the standardized forms developed by USAID and WHO to aid NTD programs in regular reporting of disease-specific district-level data.Varied Organizations, Silver Spring. MD October 2012 May 2015Monitoring & Evaluation ConsultantConsultants address11601 Lockwood Drive #101, Silver Spring, MD 20904 USALocationSilver Spring, Maryland, USASupervisors nameDr. Candidate's Name (Self-Employment)Supervisors phone numberPHONE NUMBER AVAILABLESupervisors email addressEMAIL AVAILABLEHours per week45Salary$ 45,000.00 per year.Developed the MLE strategy intended to support a variety of projects and programs by ensuring effective monitoring of the activities, examination of the outputs and coverage, and periodic assessment of progress and interventions outcome.Ensured development and validation of strategic and operational plans, and of M&E frameworks and plans for national HIV/AIDS programs supported by GFATM and PEPFAR in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa, ensuring effective monitoring and periodic assessment of interventions' outcomes.Implemented a non-experimental impact assessment strategy to evaluate the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS intervention efforts in Guyana and Ghana.Wrote financial and technical responses to requests for proposals from United Nations agencies and international Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs).MERLIN, Goma, DRC March 2012 September 2012Provincial Monitoring & Evaluation CoordinatorEmployers addressMERLIN compound in Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the CongoLocationGoma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the CongoSupervisors nameDr. Sekou CondeSupervisors phone numberxxx-xxxSupervisors email addressEMAIL AVAILABLEHours per week45Salary$47,000.00 per yearEnsured development of clear goals, deliverables, and performance indicators for effective delivery of humanitarian medical and public health assistance in North Kivu, DRC; planned and executed all related M&E activities.Spearheaded monthly work plan reviews and quarterly performance and effectiveness assessments to ensure effective delivery of healthcare in post-crisis communities and achievement of the desired outcomesMonitored and ensured adherence to established work plans and M&E plans by closely coordinating field work and by conducting supervision visits.Tracked progress reports from field teams and/or implementing partners and ensured reports are received in a timely manner.Established clear and measurable goals, deliverables (outputs) and the necessary performance indicators for each project. Indicators were used to regularly monitor progress in the delivery of the desired results. A month-to-month performance monitoring system made it possible to quickly identify indicators with trend data that were not moving in the expected direction and to take the necessary corrective measures.Conducted before and after mixed-method studies (qualitative and quantitative data analysis) to evaluate the impact of the health sector support.Management Sciences for Health, Georgetown, Guyana February 2011 March 2011 Monitoring & Evaluation ConsultantEmployers address4301 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 400, Arlington, VA 22203 USALocationGeorgetown, GuyanaSupervisors nameDr. Navindra PersaudSupervisors phone numberxxx-xxxSupervisors email addressEMAIL AVAILABLEHours per week45Salary$367.00 per dayCollaborated with implementation partners to review and strengthen the Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention Project Phase II (GHARP II) work plans and M&E plans.Strengthen survey research (household sample surveys) to ensure improvement of data collection and analysis on HIV/AIDS risk factors.Conducted a quasi-experimental before-and-after survey to assess the mid-term effectiveness of the HIV/AIDS program: I presented findings at the 2011 Population Association of America annual meeting.UNFPA South Sudan, Juba, South Sudan October 2010 October 2010International Consultant/Demographer & StatisticianEmployers addressUnited Nations compound, Juba, South SudanLocationJuba, South SudanSupervisors nameMr. Laila LokosangSupervisors phone numberxxx-xxxSupervisors email addressEMAIL AVAILABLEHours per week45Salary$360.00 per dayPerformed secondary analysis of census data and organized a workshop to educate UNFPA and government ministries staff on using data for development planning (establishment of priorities and goals for development initiatives), focusing on poverty, illiteracy, and healthcare disparities.Created capacity development training materials and designed workshop on use of census data in development planning.UNFPA South Sudan, Juba, South Sudan December 2009 March 2010International M&E SpecialistEmployers addressUnited Nations compound, Juba, South SudanLocationJuba, South SudanSupervisors nameMr. Laila LokosangSupervisors phone numberxxx-xxxSupervisors email addressEMAIL AVAILABLEHours per week45Salary$360.00 per dayDeveloped M&E systems for selected ministries (Education, Health, Water and Sanitation and Social Affairs and Gender) in Juba, South Sudan: I trained ministries planning and M&E staff on survey research, needs assessment, determination of programmatic priorities, and the development of information management tools for effective data collection and analysis.Used the elements of the results chain logic model and the assumptions about the logical relationships between project elements to support and strengthen planning and M&E practices within those ministries.Secured financial support from three major UN agencies (UNDP, UNICEF, and UNFPA) to organize and lead a five-day workshop on monitoring of progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in South Sudan.UNICEF Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya June 2007 July 2008Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation SpecialistEmployers addressUnited Nations compound in Gigiri, Westland, Nairobi, KenyaLocationNairobi, KenyaSupervisors nameDr. Olivia YambiSupervisors phone numberxxx-xxxSupervisors email addressEMAIL AVAILABLEHours per week45Salary$75,000.00 per yearSupported UNICEF Kenyas programmatic efforts by supporting situation analysis efforts, needs assessment, determination of programmatic priorities, and for each public health or development project or program in various program areas (areas of action), development and validation of action plans with a set of clearly defined goals, a set of supporting operational objectives for each stated goal, and an M&E plan with appropriate indicators for all the results that were desired at different levels of results.Coordinated M&E activities for UNICEF Kenya's projects to support decision-making and inform program improvements.Designed and implemented the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey in 40 Kenyan districts: I ensured analysis of the survey data to get the descriptive statistics for progress assessment reports.Assessed and examined the impact of Oral Rehydration Therapy Programs on child health and survival in Kenya with comprehensive before-after evaluation studies.Co-led Operations Center (OPSCEN) and coordinated UNICEF field teams to guide needs assessment, programming, service delivery, and M&E activities in the districts of Nakuru, Kisumu, Kakamega and Isiolo that were affected by the 2007-2008 post-election violence.Partnered with staff from the University of Nairobi and the National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development (NCAPD) to design workshop on monitoring progress toward MDGs in Kenya.WHO-AFRO, Harare, Zimbabwe August 2003 September 2006Monitoring & Evaluation OfficerEmployers addressUnited Nations compound in Brazzaville, Republic of CongoLocationHarare, ZimbabweSupervisors nameDr. Magda RobaloSupervisors phone numberPHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLESupervisors email addressEMAIL AVAILABLEHours per week45Salary$76,000.00 per yearSupported HIV/AIDS and Malaria programs across sub-Saharan Africa by ensuring the development of the action plans with a set of clearly defined goals, a set of supporting objectives for each stated goal, and M&E plans and systems with appropriate performance indicators.Supported achievement of the desired results at national and sub-national levels in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa by supporting needs assessment and determination of priorities in each individual country, and by ensuring that programmatic efforts (public health projects and/or programs) are supported by action plans with a set of clearly defined goals, a set of supporting operational objectives for each stated goal, and an M&E plan with appropriate indicators for all the results that were desired at different levels of results.Ensured development of M&E plans and systems that were needed to support HIV/AIDS and Malaria programs in several countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa. This included working collaboratively with relevant stakeholders to ensure selection or creation of the indicators that were needed to assess progress towards the desired results and to demonstrate effectiveness and impact.In selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa, I ensured use of qualitative and quantitative data to conduct as many M&E processes as process evaluation, SWOC/SWOT, implementation monitoring, results monitoring, effectiveness monitoring, performative evaluation, and impact assessment. Findings from these processes made it possible to strengthen HIV/AIDS and Malaria programs through identification and monitoring of shortfalls and gaps in program coverage and effectiveness.Designed impact studies to evaluate the impact of Oral Rehydration Therapy programs on diarrhea among young children and the impact of Insecticide-Treated Net interventions on malaria morbidity among pregnant women and young children in sub-Saharan Africa.Coordinated workshops on diagnosis and strengthening M&E systems for malaria prevention and control programs in sub-Saharan Africa.Bolstered technical and operational capacities at the district and provincial levels of HMIS in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Kenya, and Zimbabwe to strengthen the collection of data on malaria prevention during pregnancy. In each country, I conducted exit interviews to collect data from a randomly selected sample of pregnant women enrolled in prenatal care or antenatal care (ANC) to assess their status on intermittent preventive treatment of malaria (IPTp) and their opinion and attitude about this treatment.Additional ExperiencePublic Health Research Analyst, ORC Macro, Calverton, MDPostdoctoral Research Associate, University of Maryland, College Park, MDResearch Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NYAssistant Professor, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the CongoTechnical ProficienciesMicrosoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)STATA/SPSSMS DOSProfessional AffiliationsPopulation Association of America (PAA)International Union of Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)American Public Health Association (APHA)Papers & PublicationsUchudi J., Magadi M., and Coolican, M. 2018. Child Poverty and Its Impact on Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prepared for the international conference "Putting children first: Identifying solutions and taking action to tackle poverty and inequality in Africa," October 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Uchudi J., Magadi M., and Kimuna S., 2020. Socioeconomic Disadvantage and High-Risk Sexual Behavior among Adolescent Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multilevel Analysis. The manuscript is intended to be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal for publication.Uchudi, JM, 2018, Gender context and fertility behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa, Paul-Denis Nzita Kikhela (ed.), A l'heure de lEmergence. Atouts et Dfis de la R.D.C., Numro Spcial des Cahiers conomiques et Sociaux de l'IRES, Presses de luniversit de Kinshasa: 193-220.Magadi M. and Uchudi J. 2015, Onset of sexual activity among adolescents in HIV/AIDS-affected households in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Biosocial Science, Vol. 47/Issue 02: pp. 238-257.Uchudi J., Magadi M., and Mostazir M., 2012, A multilevel analysis of the determinants of high-risk sexual behavior in sub-Saharan Africa Journal of Biosocial Science. 44: 289-311.Uchudi, JM, 2001, Socioeconomic Characteristics and Fertility Differences in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does Spouses Education Matter? J. Biosoc. Sci. 33: 481-502.Uchudi, JM, 2001, Covariates of Child Mortality in Mali: Does the Health-Seeking Behavior of the Mother Matter? J. Biosoc. Sci. 33: 33-54.Uchudi, JM, 1999, Seasonality and fertility in rural Mali: the role of socioeconomic resources, African Population Studies, 14(1): 107-119.Uchudi, J.M, 2006, Monitoring and Evaluating Progress in Malaria Control in the African Region, African Health Monitor, WHO-AFRO.Uchudi, J.M. and Ba-Nguz A., 2005, Socioeconomic Differentials in ITN Coverage among Children Under Five Years in Burkina Faso and Kenya, Communicable Diseases Bulletin, WHO-AFRO, Division of Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases.Uchudi, J.M., 1993, Education et sant, facteurs de rgulation dmographique et de dveloppement: Analyse de la situation des femmes africaines, in Livenais P. & Vaugelade J. (editors), Education, Changements Dmographiques et Dveloppement, Quatrimes journes Dmographiques de lORSTOM: Paris, France. |
