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Muinami John P. O. Box 3770, 0200, Nairobi, Kenya

Mobile Phone 0729-659388 or 0774133690

E-mail: muinamij@yahoo.com, Skype: Muinamij, Linkedin URL: ke.linkedin.com/in/muinamijohn

A. SUMMARY PROFILE

Muinami is a results oriented, focused and proactive Programme Leader: A Kenyan citizen with unique blend

of 10+ years of experience in:- program design and management; grants and awards management; partnership

management, value chain management; cash based Interventions (CBI) in fragile operations, monitoring &

evaluation and leadership of integrated development programmers in developing countries in Africa- Somalia, South

Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Zambia. I have demonstrated skills in project management, budgeting & proposal

development; grants & financial management; value addition; accelerated turnaround time; mentorship; team

management and networking. I have acquired significant experience leading to reorganization and restructuring of

numerous project layouts, systems integration and processes flow to maximize program impacts. I offer excellent

leadership; problem-solving and decision-making abilities; strategic planning; financial acumen and relationship

building skills. Additionally, I have practical experience with a wide variety of international agencies including,

USAID, EU, CIDA, BftW/EED, SIDA, DANIDA, Global Fund, ,UNICEF, Comic Relief, Big lottery fund, WHO, ,

UNHCR and the Government of Kenya.

C. EDUCATION BACKGROUND

Institution Date Qualification

University Of Nairobi 2010 to 2013 Masters in Business Administration -Operations Management

Research Project: Organization systems and program performance

in Kenya NGOs. http://chss.uonbi.ac.ke/sites/default/files/chss/John%20Kaberi%20Muinami%20D61

-63013-2010.pdf

Moi University 1998-2002 Bachelor of Arts - Economics (Second Class Honors)

Research Project: The role of NGOs health care financing &

delivery system. A case study of Bungoma District

D. SHORT COURSES

2016: Basic and Advanced Security In The Field II B/ASITF - UNDSS

2015: Project Management Professional (PMP)- R/No 2015/09398 , ID: 1912699 - PMI

2014: Program Quality Assurance & Monitoring - BfdW

2012: Certificate in Monitoring & Evaluation - AMREF

2012:Certificate In Data use for Program Managers, Data Quality , M&E Fundamentals - Global Health

2012:Certificate In M&E Frameworks for HIV/AIDS Programs, Economic Evaluation Basics - Global Health

2012:Certificate In Demographic 7 Health Survey, Data use - Global Health

2012:Certificate In Gender & Sexual & Reproductive Health, Data use - Global Health

2011:Certificate in Monitoring & Evaluation - KU

2010:Certificate in financial Co-operative Management - CDC

2009:Certificate in Sun System Management - Ilanga

2006:Certificate in Public Accounting Private Studies , Section II -Private Studies

2005: Certificate in Research Ethics - FHI

B. EXPERTISE

Programme Management

Strategic Planning and Programme Development

Financial and donor Management

New Business Development/ Donor Fundraising

M&E/ Results Based Management

Grants and Awards Management

Continuous Quality Improvement

Organizational Development and Systems

Strengthening (ODSS)

Organizational capacity Assessment (OCA)

Knowledge Management & Learning

Facilitation and Communication

Mentorship and Coaching

Cash based Interventions (CBI) programming

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E. PROFFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS

ACTION AFRICA HELP INTERNATIONAL, SENIOR REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP OFFICER- EAST &

SOUTHERN AFRICA; JANUARY 2014 TO DATE

Provide technical targeted assistance to AAH-I Headquarter and Country Offices in East and Southern Africa on; -,

Business development; value chain management, Program performance and program operation management

.management. http://www.slideshare.net/MuinamiKaberi/stratregy-presentation-2015-aah-somalia, https://t.co/rA6p1NHWSo/s/T8om,

http://www.slideshare.net/MuinamiKaberi/final-aahs-somalia-country-strategy-2742016-muinami

Organizational Capacity

Building

Conduct program targeted capacity building /trainings to country offices on project

initiation, development, co-ordination, project management cycle, fund

management, monitoring and evaluation, quality assurance, reporting among others.

Provide technical advice on organizational development, proposal and budget

development.

Strengthening the financial aspects of grant and tender applications

Specific Countries strategy development and monitoring- Somali , Zambia, Kenya

S.Sudan and Uganda and project quality management

Program/

Business Development /

Quality Assurance

Synthesis organization system layout & alignment, managing donor funding

pipeline, track list, develop specific engagement strategy.

Develop AAH-I regional costings for grants and tenders

Develop organizational guidelines for financial/commercial proposals in line with

priority donor’s requirements.

Ensure that quality concept notes, proposals and equivalent are submitted on time

and to donor/client guidelines.

Donor scoping, Intelligence gathering, development of multi winning proposals,

budgets, M&E frameworks and action plans.

Compliance Management - Ensure strategic synchronized/ consolidated country

planning, timely donor reporting; risk management, program quality assurance and

learning across the countries program.

Partnership Management

/ Donor Relations/

Contract Management

Mapping of development partners, including private, public and NGO partners

Initiate, engage and maintain donor relation, provide sound donor contract

management.

Support management of key organizational partnerships- Developmental and

Humanitarian.

Consultancy management-Ensure appropriate consultants are identified & recruited.

Performance Metrics

Management

Develop and measure countries operational and programmatic key performance

indicator (KPI) for senior management team (SMT) to assess overall organizational

performance.

Provide targeted Monitoring & Evaluation technical assistance to country offices,

Implementation teams and proposal cross functioning teams.

AAHI SOMALIA, CASH BASED INTERVENTION RRI MANAGER; JUNE 2015 TO DECEMBER 2015

Provide technical managerial and quality assurance to AAHI Somalia Country – Support to Yemeni Refugees and

Somalia returnees through cash based interventions projects; Livelihood project in Hargeisa and Logistics project in

South Central, Mogadishu, Somalia https://t.co/CDNhCLeC6i/s/uMYi

CBI program

management

Conduct Cash based Intervention (CBI) program management, building /trainings

to Somalia- Hargeisa & Mogadishu operation on project management, fund

management, monitoring and evaluation, quality assurance, reporting among others.

Provide oversight to Somalia country staff on project initiation, development, co-

ordination, project monitoring, evaluation and phase out.

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Timely Qualitative and Quantitative donor reporting as per agreed schedule

Key achievements include:

o Developed a Somalia Country AAHI strategy that was adopted by the AAHI

International Board.

o Developed Five (5) key steps to cash based intervention (CBI) focusing on

Yemeni Refugees and Somalia returnees which has been cascaded to other

countries CBI operation (PAIME).

o Developed a Somalia development model- dubbed striving for high impact

through innovations. This has created a unified AAHI multi-country thinking

towards programming. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-steps-cash-based-intervention-

programming-one-minute-muinami-kaberi?trk=prof-post;

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/organisation-methodology-simplified-muinami-kaberi?trk=prof-post

THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER (ADHRC) & BETHEL Consult

CONSULTANT; JUNE 2013 TO JANUARY 2014

Provide technical and consultancy services to projects across East Africa Region on; Facility/project design layout,

organization process flow layout, organizational capacity assessments (OCA), monitoring & evaluations, project

development and quality reporting, grants management, , facility flow and project business development.

Business Development

Develop proposals , budget, statement of work (SOW) as per the request for

proposal for different organizations

Conduct fieldwork for assignments.

Systems documentation

Guide in developing of the organization financial, human capital , supplies manual,

project management system and standard operating procedures. This will be

included in enterprise resource planning in phase II.

Program Surveys

Take lead in program surveys, baselines, mid Term and end term.

Recruitment of research assistants.

Incharge of field logistics.

Organizational Capacity

Assessment (OCA)

Assess organizational capacities, process flow layout for organizational system

strengthening and fund management.

Provide technical advice on organizational development , proposal and budget

development

Institutional

strengthening & Capacity

Building

Conduct program targeted capacity building /trainings to CSOs on project

management, fund management, monitoring and evaluation, quality assurance

among others.

Conduct on site and off site mentorship support to CSOs staffs.

Provide financial and grants management technical assistance, organizational

development and systems strengthening (ODSS), and training to the project staffs,

partners and CSOs.

CHILD & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROGRAMME M&E HEAD JANUARY 2011 – JUNE 2013

Provide technical and supportive leadership to twenty (20) Maternal & Child health projects across the country on;

project performance management, continuous quality improvement (CQI), operation research, documentation of

lesson learnt, database management and economic evaluations.

Selected Tasks and Achievements

M&E System

Lead in strengthening existing M&E systems in the CRH program and AMREF

Kenya Country Office levels.

Lead in assessing the reliability, completeness, validity, accuracy of CRH

programme/ projects data for informed decision making.

Create specific M&E system to capture programme key performance indicators

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(KPIs) for CRH programme performance management.

Initiated a 3D /integrated performance management system to assess overall

programmes performance (Financial, Programmatic & quality of service -QoS)

Programme

Development

Support the programme in development of concept notes, new proposals, budgets

and use of M&E plans, M&E frameworks/systems.

Monitor programme status and provide key strategic directions for growth.

Program Surveys

Take lead in program surveys, organizing and facilitating quarterly, bi-annual and

annual project review meetings with program staff and partners and giving feedback

on M&E activities and programmatic progress.

Leadership/Mentorship

Provide credible M&E leadership to the CRH programme, inspiring clear M&E

vision, team spirit in the programme.

Technical lead for Child & Reproductive Health programme Planning, Monitoring,

Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (PMEAL).

Conduct on site and off site mentorship M&E support to project managers and their

staff in their specific projects.

Support CRH projects in Organizational development and systems strengthening

(ODSS) through training, mentoring on/off -site support, learning exchange and

regular reviews.

Quality Assurance and

Supporting Capacity

Building

Ensure and foster projects continuous quality improvement - both programme

financial and quality performance.

.Ensure projects are aligned with and contribute to organization business plan,

national strategies, policies, operational guidelines and protocols as applicable.

Review compiled monthly, quarterly and other required reports with the project

/program team and derives strategic programme areas of focus (Hotspots) for

managerial decisions (PTC/SMT) and targeted support supervision.

M&E Knowledge

Management and

Operation Research

Assist in donor specific report writing.

Work with projects to document and disseminate lessons learnt/best practices.

Facilitate project stakeholder’s engagement and Integration management.

Participate and support projects in operations research and documentation and

learning.

Institutional

strengthening &

Capacity Building

Successfully developed reporting systems, M&E switchboards and training

managers on project management body of knowledge (PMBOK), Total quality

management (TQM), Integration management, Quality of service (QoS) and

orientation on PDSA and DMAIC methodologies.

Networking & Advocacy Manage programme integration strategy, synthesis and exchange visits.

Enhanced AMREF’s visibility through adequate representation in regional and

county meetings.

Developed AMREF county e-fact sheet and reporting tools for AMREF strategic

positioning at county level that was adopted recently.

CRH ASSISTANT PROGRAMME ACCOUNTANT (AMREF COUNTRY OFFICE), MARCH 2009 –

DECEMBER 2010

Provide technical financial support to CRH programme. CRH Programme is the largest in AMREF. Key

responsibilities include; Developing and maintaining systems to ensure proper data capture, analysing and reporting

financial performance of the project, producing financial reports to monitor performance of the project including

cash flow forecast and donor reporting, developing and compiling annual work programmes budgets, monitoring

variance and advising budget holders on management, Monitoring expenditure and advising budget holders on

controls and rreconciliation of financial reports with ledger accounts, Assist with review, drafting, developing of

Projects Budgetary Proposals and Annual Work Plans and other projects reports.

Selected Tasks and Achievements

Management Managed and coordinated programme resources, planning, and implementation,

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monitoring and reporting. This included managing the different project budget with

different donors; EC, USAID, UK, UNICEF, SIDA, CIDA and developing annual

plans guided by the detailed implementation plan, which I participated in

developing.

Member of AMREF Drought Response Core Team (DRCT) constituted by Country

Director to collated impact assessment reports from the field and develop devolved

concept notes with short and medium term interventions for the most affected

populations within programme areas (2011).

Grants

Management

Successfully managed contracts and grants with over 20 key donors in health and

development interventions.

Intrapreneurship Part of cross function team that developed finance document tracking system to

monitor and track document flow. This idea was amplified by the management and

developed to a functioning enterprise resource planning (ERP) that positively

improved turnaround time and efficiency by 41%.

Part of Assessment team for CSOs for Global fund malaria Rd 1- Developed

assessment checklist in line with Global fund/AMREF guidelines for CSOs

selection.

Developing financial standard operating procedures for field level usage. This has

improved financial and programmatic performance, turnaround time and increased

total quality management.

Proposal &

Budgeting Skills

Strategically developed multimillion winning and competitive budgets proposals &

work plans together with budget cross functional teams.

PROJECT ACCOUNTANT, BUSIA CHILD SURVIVAL PROJECT (BCSP) –AMREF, MARCH 2006 –

MARCH 2009

BCSP was funded by USAID, Netherland & Spain. A tripartite project for child survival programme. I provided

technical financial support, reporting and funds management to Busia child survival project.

Selected Tasks and Achievements

Capacity Building Provided targeted project financial assistance and support BCSP project. Trained project

officer & managers on project financial management, Financial reporting.

Grants

Management

Effectively managed BCSP, USAID and school health programme funds to extend that I

was honored for the best FSR report ever to be sent to Spain and USAID.

Operation System

Management

Facilitated linkages between CHWs, CSOs and Ministries of health structures

contributing to increased participation by CHWs, CSOs in planning annual operation

plans and continuous learning.

Monitoring Financial report development and fund monitoring

Field Supply chain management

Intrapreneurship

Designed and Introduction of detailed allowances payment tracking form in Busia Child

survival to monitor and track expenses for approvals. The Forms were modified and are

currently operational in AMREF in Kenya.

Introduced prudent fuel tracking sheet, controls and procedures in Busia Child Survival

project. Currently the Fuel monthly sheet is adopted by AMREF in Kenya transport unit

for monthly fuel usage and tracking.

PROJECT ASSISTANT, BUNGOMA DISTRICT MALARIA INITIATIVE (BDMI), FEBRUARY 2005 –

MARCH 2006

The organization was funded by USAID, GAP, EC to improve health care and well-being of children & women in

Bungoma district. As a Project assistant, I supported project operations such as planning and budgets, fundraising.

Selected Achievements

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Project

Management

Cash management- Petty cash, field advances,, surrenders

Assist with review, drafting, developing of projects budgetary proposals and annual work

plans

Collate and maintain projects detailed reports – Annual, Progress etc

Train, Supervise research assistants and data entry.

Monitor & evaluate project processes and indicators

To Code, Enter, Edit and analyze primary collected data.

Conducting quality data checks- accompanied interviews, repeat interviews etc

SUMMARY OF RECENT FUNDRAISING EFFORTS

Project Title Budget Donor My Role

Somalia CBI, Logistics,

Livelihood programming

$7,601,0472

(for 3 years)

UNHCR Proposal development regional team leader

(Writing of the technical proposal, log-

frame and budget)

Maridi Regional Primary Health

Care (MRPHC) and Maridi

Training School in South Sudan

€3,601,0472

(for 5 years)

BftW Proposal development regional team leader

(Writing of the technical proposal, log-

frame and budget)

ZAMFAM-Mayo Mpapa (Mother

care for me)

$15,698,000(for

5 years)

USAID Proposal development team leader (Writing

of the technical proposal, log-frame and

budget)

Maternal Newborn and Child

Health-Kitui County

€1,500,000 (for

5 years)

EC, European Union Delegation

to the Republic of Kenya

Proposal development lead (Writing of the

technical proposal, log-frame and budget)

Maternal Newborn and Child

Health-Turkana County

€1,500,000 (for

4 years)

EC, European Union Delegation

to the Republic of Kenya

Proposal development team member

(Writing of the technical proposal, log-

frame and budget)

Maternal Newborn and Child

Health-Samburu County

€1,350,000 (for

4 years)

European Union Delegation to the

Republic of Kenya

Proposal development team member

(Writing of the technical proposal, log-

frame and budget)

Linda Afya Ya Mama Na Mtoto $3,990,000

(for 4 years)

Micronutrient Initiative Proposal development lead (Writing of the technical proposal, log-frame and budget)

Maternal, newborn and Child

Health-Makueni County

£1,990,288 Comic Relief, United Kingdom Proposal development team member

(Writing of the technical proposal, log-

frame and budget)

Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (Unite for Body Rights)-

Magadi and Loitokitok, Kenya

€2,350,000 Ministry of Foreign Services, The Netherlands

Contributed to the project design, Context Analysis and Reviewing

Sexual Reproductive Health and

Rights-Turkana, Kenya

$1,600,000 DANIDA Contributed to the project design, sourcing

information and reviewing

Lamu MNCH €1,135,899.5 EC & Netherland Contributed to the project design, sourcing

information, writing and budgeting the

MNCH section

Health Sector Strategic Plan-Sexual Reproductive Health

$5,000,000 DANIDA Review of the technical proposal, log-frame and budget

Drought Response-an Emergency

Project

$5,000,000 Various (fundraised through

AMREF Germany, Italy,USA, Austria,France)

Member for proposals team targeting

Wajir,Turkana, Marsabit, Kitui, Lamu, Kajiado, Magadi and Kibera. Contributed

and reviewed to proposals targeting other

drought stricken areas

F. PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

Strong work ethics, hands on approach, analytical skills and business acumen.

Good communication and inter-personal skills.

Team player and creative individual.

Good planning and organizational abilities.

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G. OTHER SKILLS

Advanced computer skills in, Microsoft Word, Excel, Sun System Micrographic, PowerPoint, SPSS,

STATA, Internet and E-mail.

Clean Driving License- Class BCE

H. REFEREES Peter Ofware Obonyo

Ag. Deputy Country

Director/ Programme

Manager Maternal Child &

Reproductive Health

Programme

AMREF Health Africa

Cell. +254-720337856

peter.ofware@amref.org

ofwarep@gmail.com

Christine Wendy Humpherson

Country Director

AAH Somalia

Cell +254 715335862

ckalume@actionafricahelp.org

Christian Bühler

DKH Partnership Advisor

Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe

Cell +254 773054447

christian.buehler@diakonie

-katastrophenhilfe.org

Paul Kiage

Assistant Director

Universal Service

Obligations & Funding

Communication Commission

Authority of Kenya.

Cell +254-721574980

pakiage@yahoo.com