NAKITTO PEACE
Kampala,102
Summary
A trained Public Health Nutritionist with progressive experience working with multi-sectoral programs in both humanitarian and development context. I hold more than 5 years’ hands on experience in maternal and child nutrition related programming including strategic planning, implementation, capacity building, monitoring, and evaluation. Am passionate about transformational approaches for rural communities.
I am a dedicated professional, with highly developed organizational and man-management skills with proven ability to work independently, can manage complexity with self-drive and meet deadlines.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Nutrition, Gender, WASH Advisor
Self Help Africa Uganda
04.2019 - Current
- Dispensing internal and external expertise as a technical resource for the country program including technical review of existing projects and recommendation of improvements including area of maternal, child health and nutrition
- Supporting integrated program quality delivery including donor reporting and operational management support
- Analyzing data collected to identify food and nutrition security-related gaps (to include maternal and child nutrition) and designing corrective action plans
- Preparing range of written communications, documents and reports working with the M&E and other advisory teams (including success stories of mother-child dyads at household level)
- Promoting inter-project best practices and taking the lead in sharing best practices including the area of maternal child health and nutrition
- Developing training programs and leading training using expert learning techniques for staff, implementing partners, and other stakeholder representatives
- Engaging with trained nutrition champions to enhance program impact through on job mentorship sessions
- Actively take part in aligning country programme strategy and community of practice learnings
- Conduct regular field visits, to monitor and document achievements and anomalies
- Exploring opportunities for positioning, innovation, up scaling, and potential follow up
- Advocating for maternal and child nutrition integration within new proposals and supporting grass root technical support
Acting Head of Country Programme
Self Help Africa Uganda
03.2020 - 02.2021
- Provided oversight for high quality programme implementation and technical excellence for more than 5 projects (bilateral and UN funded)
- Engaged in collaborative grant development efforts to support program needs and innovations
- Met schedule using excellent planning and coordination skills including business development formulation
- Met budget targets through responsible planning and resource allocation including over 90% burn rate
- Provided clear and concise step-by-step technical support to more than 5 project teams (of which 2 had element of maternal and child nutrition)
- Developed and supervised staff by providing orientation, capacity strengthening, and technical direction
- Leveraged partnership opportunities including ICT driven initiatives for small holder farmers
- Prepared periodic reports, financial statements and records on program activities, progress and status for management.
Nutrition-Technical Lead
Action Against Hunger
04.2017 - 12.2018
- Developed national nutrition programming and coordinated effective implementation working closely with Ministry of Health, Civil Society Organizations, Academia, and UN agencies
- Established linkages and networking with partners and institutes working on nutrition and health (including the technical working groups)
- Provided needs-based technical support to the nutrition field teams (including optimizing their professional development)
- Co-strategically influenced national programmes including the home-based food fortification as well as the maternal infant young child and adolescent nutrition (MIYCAN)
- Represented Action Against Hunger and its positioning in the field of nutrition and health matters which repositioned the organization strongly at national level
- Supervised work of contracted technical staff to meet donor targets
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge of latest research and trends through extended education and professional development courses
Nutrition Specialist
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, EGPAF
12.2013 - 02.2017
- As part of the USAID funded- Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Southwestern Uganda (RHITES SW), USAID Strengthening TB and HIV/AIDS Response in South West Uganda (STAR SW) and USAID Strengthening Partnerships and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) projects, major achievements included:
- Successful integration of Nutrition, Early Childhood Development (ECD) and WASH services in a predominant HIV/AIDS health facility and community setting-through hands on coaching to medical teams both within the organization and the diverse 10 supported district structures
- Development of long-term capacity strengthening strategies for new and existing employees across multiple departments (including front line workers at facility and community level)
- Leading monthly staff meetings for the project multi-disciplinary teams with the view of communicating updates, process improvements and shifting program priorities
- Aligned efforts of multiple departments through cross-functional management, achieving and surpassing KPI targets
Nutritionist, Program Officer
Action against Hunger
06.2009 - 09.2009
- Supported national level roll out of the ENA-SMART methodology for front line stakeholders (Ministry of Health, partners)
- Provided technical input to the data collection, analysis and reporting for the ENA-SMART survey
- Collaborated with community non-profit agencies and community leaders in pursuit of shared goals
Consultant- Food Safety Trainer
UNIDO
01.2008 - 05.2008
- Inspected or evaluated workplace environments, equipment or practices to verify compliance with safety standards and government regulations
- Provided hands on food safety management training on the ISO 22000 standards for over 5 SMEs
- Recommended methods to reduce ongoing hazards with improved methods, processes and materials along with Uganda National Bureau of Standards team for a variety of SMEs
PUBLICATIONS
Self
- Abstract: Reinforcing engendered nutrition-food systems for sustainable livelihoods amongst rural communities in Eastern and Northern Uganda, presented in the February 2023 Uganda Nutrition Symposium
- For Effective Climate Action, We Must Empower Women, 2022, https://selfhelpafrica.org/ruralwomen/for-effective-climate-action-we-must-empower- women/?utm_content=buffer2266e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buff er
- Assessing Chronic Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Karamoja Region of Uganda: A Human Rights Perspective, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/2.1.3771.2962
- Occurrence of Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp in street-vended foods and general hygienic and trading practices in Nakawa Division, Uganda, 2013 doi:10.5251/ajfn.2013.3.3.167.175
Other Experience
Variety
- Project Assistant for the Rwanda Food Consumption re-survey conducted by IFPRI Harvest Plus in collaboration with Health Development Initiative (HDI) in Rwanda
- Volunteer Nutritionist for the UNWFP community based Supplementary Feeding program in Karamoja-Uganda. Here, I provided care ranging from nutrition education to nutrition support for patients with variety of medical conditions. I also supported partnership building with multi-stakeholders to accomplish set objectives. I provided continuous evaluation of program operations including the post food assistance monitoring technical support
Education
Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation -
Makerere University
01.2012
Master - Nutrition Sciences
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
01.2011
Bachelor of Applied Science - Food Technology And Processing
Kyambogo University
01.2008
Skills
- Ability to translate technical information into practical guidance
- Strong inter-personal, coaching, and supervisory skills
- Remarkable organizational skills and attention to detail
- Extremely flexible and can multi-task easily
- Extensive experience in community-based nutrition interventions, gender transformative approaches, WASH, climate change and the nexus approach
- Proficient in the use of statistical computer packages such as Excel, SPSS, ENA-SMART
- Strong networking capacity
- Creative and Innovative
- Analytical Thinking
- Data and Information Management
References
REFREES
Nancy Adero, Deputy Chief of Party, USAID Advancing Nutrition; Mobile: +256782116615; Email: nancy.adero@gmail.com
Mr. Gilbert Buzu, Head of UN World Food Program- Moroto Sub-Office, Uganda. Mobile:
+256750466599/776778047, Email: gilbert.buzu@wfp.org
Mr. Michael Bamuwamye, Lecturer at Kyambogo University, Department of Food Processing Technology,
P.O. Box 23820, Kampala, Uganda. Mobile: +256772585459, Email: micky831@yahoo.com
Work Availability
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Timeline
Acting Head of Country Programme
Self Help Africa Uganda
03.2020 - 02.2021
Nutrition, Gender, WASH Advisor
Self Help Africa Uganda
04.2019 - Current
Nutrition-Technical Lead
Action Against Hunger
04.2017 - 12.2018
Nutrition Specialist
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, EGPAF
12.2013 - 02.2017
Nutritionist, Program Officer
Action against Hunger
06.2009 - 09.2009
Consultant- Food Safety Trainer
UNIDO
01.2008 - 05.2008
PUBLICATIONS
Self
Other Experience
Variety
Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation -
Makerere University
Master - Nutrition Sciences
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bachelor of Applied Science - Food Technology And Processing
Kyambogo University
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