CV Profile No.40634

Experience in the following industries :

• Research and development
• Social, public and human services
• Sports, cultural and social action

Professional experience

• Project Officer
• Naguru Teenage Information & Health Center
• Since 08.2020
• Duty station: Bukedi sub-region (Tororo, Busia, Kibuku, Pallisa, Butaleja& Budaka) in Eastern Uganda-with regular travels to Kampala Key duties& Responsibilities • Work with the project manager to initiate and coordinate the planning of activities to ensure that project objectives are achieved with optimum utilization of project resources. • Coordinate the implementation of mitigation activities to potential risk of project activities on gender relations including identifying and referring of community mental health related cases, sexual harassment, gender based violence and violence against children • Establish, manage and maintain the relationship with the relevant district authorities, community leaders, CSOs and religious structures where appropriate to achieve project objectives and facilitate project implementation in the project districts. • Promote active participation of community, local leaders, rights holders and intermediaries in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of project activities. • Work with the relevant departments to ensure that all capacity building and advocacy activities are implemented as per work plan for the project. • Prepare period work plans and reports on project activities and achievements in line with the requirements stipulated in the project documents.

• Heritage Programme Officer
• The Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU)-Kampala
• 08.2019 - 08.2020
• Major Function: To provide technical / programme support to the Foundation’s Heritage Development Programmes of Child Protection with specific focus on Heritage Education (Secondary, Universities and Tertiary institutions), Gender and Culture. Key duties& Responsibilities • Develop& implement youth, gender& child protection strategic plans and ensure their effective implementation • Lead in monitoring and evaluation of project and advise on areas of improvement • Lead in discussions and review of legislative and policy processes related to cultural heritage education and culture and gender. • Establish& maintain strong work relationships, networks and collaborations with key stakeholders at the district, regional and national • Design protective mechanisms (both formal& informal) against youth, girls and women abuses (GBV, SRHR& access to justice) • Designed a guiding tool kit to support the youth engagement in culture promotion and preservation in schools through the heritage clubs • Designing concepts and ideas protection programming in humanitarian response • Develop and maintain a monitoring mechanism for the heritage education and historical buildings programmes • Conduct researches & share findings on how cultural resources that responded to Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)& other cross cutting issues • Designed a toolkit to guide child protection and heritage education among women and youth

• District Programme Coordinator-Kitgum& Gulu
• African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN), Uganda Chapter
• 07.2015 - 07.2019
• Key duties and responsibilities • Design programmes and responses suited for Refugees, Asylum seekers and IDP situations. • Identify suitable beneficiary refugee individuals and families, making intakes, carrying out assessments, follow ups and some program activities such as teaching. • Support in developing& review of concept notes, budgets& work plans for activities to be implemented periodically. • Establish& maintain strong work relationships, networks and collaborations with key stakeholders at the district, regional and national • Conduct capacity building & re-training to child protection actors like Child Protection Committee (CPCs) on Child protection& GBV, Psychosocial support • Support in conducting baselines, mappings, monitoring & evaluations of regional projects • Ensure all cases of child/ women abuse are clearly documented in database • Develop budgets, concept notes& activity work plans. • Successfully lobbied for increased child protection funding in Kitgum district from US$ 163 (2015) to US$ 434 (2017/19) • Participated in CSOs submission& review of Uganda’s responses on Universal Periodic Report (UPR) alongside partners like UNOCHR, LWF, COW Foundation, UPR Info, etc. between 2015&2017

• Programme Officer
• African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN), Uganda Chapter
• 01.2012 - 07.2015
• Duty Location: Gulu & Kitgum, Uganda Major Function: To coordinate and support the planning, implementation and monitoring of child protection activities. Key duties and responsibilities • Participated in all awareness programs at community and district level • Participated in developing budgets, concepts and work plans for field activities • Regularly accounted& submitted all reports (activity& financial) review in time • Supported and supervised work of interns, caseworkers& Program Assistants in office • Supported in fundraising for field office through writing concepts and proposals (Request for Proposals) & submitting in time • Built capacity of various child protection actors including police child& Family protection Unit (CFPU) to sustainably handle cases of child abuse& link them to justice • Regularly updated Orphans& Vulnerable Children/ Management Information System data and submit to the ministry • Documented all good practices and shared • Documented & followed up all cases of child abuses received and ensure access to justice

• Field/ Programme Assistant
• African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN), Uganda Chapter
• 01.2010 - 01.2012
• Jan 2010 – Jul 2012 Programme Assistant: African Network for Prevention & Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) Uganda Chapter Duty Location: Kitgum, Uganda Major Function: To support programme implementation at all levels. Key duties and responsibilities • Received, documented and supported survivors (women and children) to access justice. • Referred/ followed up 720 different cases of child abuses like defilement, physical abuse, and neglect, among others. • Participated in identifying 340 extremely vulnerable children (in& out of schools) and youth (child mothers) for re-enrollment in schools or apprenticeship programs • Ensured that all good practices and success stories were documented and shared. • Followed up all cases of abuses and ensure that they are fully entered in the database.