CV - Samuel Munyuwiny - Child Rights Public health n ME - Aug 2016
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CURRICULUM VITAE
OF
MR. S. MUNYUWINY,
Expert in Child Rights and Child Protection,
Public Health & Monitoring and Evaluation
BSc, (Kenyatta University, Kenya);
MPH. (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agri & Tech, Kenya);
M&E for Population and Health Programs (University of Nairobi-IPSR, Kenya).
ADDRESS Office Address
African Institute for Children
Studies
Address: REPEN Centre, Mombasa
Road
P.O Box 21262, Code 00100,
Nairobi, Kenya
www.institutechildstudies.org
Cell: +254 731 827 366
Email:
samuelm@institutechildstudies.org
www.institutechildstudies.org
Home Address
P.O Box 363 - 00517 Nairobi,
Kenya
Cell: +254 723 359 783
Email:munyuwiny@yahoo.com
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PERSONAL DETAILS
NAME: SAMUEL O. MUNYUWINY
ADDRESS: PO BOX 21262 - 0000100 NAIROBI, KENYA
CELLPHONE: +254 723 359 783
EMAIL: munyuwiny@yahoo.com
YEAR OF BIRTH 1978, MAY
MARITAL STATUS MARRIED
NATIONAL ID No.: 20424991
PROFILE
A highly self-driven and result oriented person. Knowledgeable and skilled with thirteen years’ experience in
Project Management and Resource Mobilization; Monitoring and Evaluation; Policy development and Advocacy;
HIV management; Gender, Child Protection and Rights Based Programming; Child Labor; Health systems and
financing; and Community Development Work. I am trained Public Health specialist, effective communicator,
able to prioritize issues, with excellent interpersonal skills. I firmly believe in a world of justice and equal
opportunities for all. I am team player who can engage colleagues at all levels.
SUMMARY OF SKILLS RELEVANT TO THIS ASSIGMENT
I have training and hands-on experience which have refined the following skills
• Research, Monitoring, Evaluation and Documentation of learning processes in Child Rights and Public
Health
• Designing Child Rights Based Programs; Public Health Education Programs including HIV research and
Behavior Change Communication for Most at Risk Populations (MARPs)
• Human Rights Based Approach to Programming
• Strategy development and costing of development programs
• HIV & AIDS Workplace Training and Training of Trainers on HIV and AIDS
• Gender and Social protection programming
• Organization capacity assessment and development
• Project Management: Project cycles, budgeting, project financing
• Strategic Planning
• Participatory approaches in development and Community Mobilization
EDUCATION & TRAINING
May 2016 Master in Public Health, Institute Of Tropical Medicine And Infectious
Diseases, Jomo Kenyatta University Of Agriculture And Technology,
Nairobi, Kenya (Published research on Factors Associated with HIV risk
sexual behavior among Female Domestic Workers in Nairobi, African
Journal of Health Sciences, Volume 25, Number 2, April-June 2013)
1997 - 2001 Bachelors of Science Degree, Second Class Honors, Upper Division,
Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
1992 - 1995 Kenya Certificate In Secondary School Education, Pass With
Distinction, Sawagongo High School, Sawagongo, Yala Division, Kenya
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES & CONFERENCES ATTENDED
• Monitoring & Evaluation for Population and Health Programs, Institute of Population Studies and Research,
University of Nairobi, August 2008.
• Bullet Proof Manager® Programme – Completed a 12 month course for executives and managers, offered by
Raiser Group Ltd, Nairobi, Kenya, August 2010
• Logical Framework Approach to Programming, Nairobi, Kenya, sponsored by Save the Children Finland, April
2008
• Strategic Planning and Resource Mobilization, Nairobi, Kenya, sponsored by NEFPAK, July 2007.
• Certificate Course In Child Health, African Medical Research Foundation & Kenya Ministry Of Health, Nairobi,
Kenya, Sept 2006
• Training on Project Cycle Management, Logical Framework Approach, September 2006, International
Swedish Institute for Public Administration, Stockholm, Sweden
• Workshop for development of training programs - International Training Programme on Medical and
Psychosocial Services for Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances, September, 2006, Stockholm,
Sweden, Organized by Save the Children Sweden and Uppsala University
• HIV &AIDS and Children: The Challenges of Care for and Protection of Children in Africa. (5th
African
Conference On Child Abuse And Neglect 27th
To 29th
March 2007 At Kampala, Uganda)
• International Field Exchange Program for Practitioners in Child Domestic Work, May – June 2007, Tanzania
CONSULTANCY/ SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS RELEVANT TO THIS ASSIGMENT:
Child Protection and Rights Based Assignments
May 2016 – Dec 2017 Member, National Taskforce on Children Matters. National Council for Administration
of Justice. Key tasks: to review legislations, policies, guidelines, procedures and
institutions on children matters; and provide recommendations to Judiciary,
Department of Children Services; Law Reform Commission and National Police.
Jan - Sept 2016 Deputy Chairperson: Organizaing Committee of International Conference on “Best
Interest for Children in the Justice System”, 17th
– 19th
August 2016, Daystar University,
Valley Road, Nairobi, Kenya.
Partners: Government of Kenya (Department Children Services, National Council for
Administration of Justice, African Institute for Children Studies, UNICEF ESARO, Plan
International, Daystar University. www.childjusticesystem.net
Mar 2016 Lead Consultant: Mapping and Identifying Project Areas and Potential Partners for The
East Africa Children's Fund in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. Lead consultant for Kenya
targeting Kajiado, Turkana, Kiambu and Machakos Counties.
Client: Development Consultants Ltd, Kampala Uganda
Feb 2016 Lead Consultant: Facilitate development of organizational strategic plan, M&E plan
and fundraising strategy.
Client: Pendekezo letu
Nov 2015 Peer Review: Report on Human Trafficking in Kenya.
Client: National Crime Research Centre, Kenya.
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Nov 2015 Lead Trainer: International Course on M&E from Child Rights Lens held at Daystar
University, Nairobi, Kenya (9th
– 21st
Nov, 2015).
Client: AICS Kenya and AICS Uganda
July – Ongoing Convener of Heads of Organizations, Children Agenda Forum
www.childrenagendaforum.org. African Institute for Children Studies serves as
secretariat.
Client: Voluntary service by AICS.
Sept – Oct 2015 Lead Consultant: Policy brief on kinship as an alternative care arrangement for
children without parental care
Client: Save the Children International in Kenya.
June – Oct 2015 Deputy Team Leader: Learning agenda on situation of girl child in Uganda. A Service
contract to the African Institute for Children Studies- Uganda and Makerere University
Client: QED and USAID Uganda.
May – July 2015 Lead Consultant: Child Rights Situation Analysis in South Sudan.
Client: Save the Children International in South Sudan.
May – July 2015 National Consultant: End of project evaluation of project ‘Combating child labor
through skills training for out of school children” in Bolivia, Indonesia, Mali, Kenya and
Uganda.
Client: ILO/IPEC Geneva.
Mar – July 2015 Consultant: Development of Stakeholder Engagement Plan for Child Protection
Information Management System (CPIMS).
Client: GoK, Department of Children Services in Kenya and MEASURE Evaluation
PIMA (USAID-PEPFAR Fund initiative).
April – June 2015 Lead Consultant: Gender and Power Analysis in five slum communities in Nairobi –
towards empowerment of women. A Service contract to the African Institute for
Children Studies (NGO) where I am CEO and Associate Consultant.
Client: Oxfam GB (Kenya) and partners, Kenya.
Feb – April 2015 Lead Consultant: Baseline Survey of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Prevention
Program: Pope Francis Home (Safe Shelter) Project. A Service contract to the African
Institute for Children Studies (NGO) where I am CEO and Associate Consultant.
Client: Catholic Relief Services and Diocese of Malindi, Kenya.
Nov 2014 – Mar 2015 Lead consultant: Mapping of child protection policy and legislative landscape in
Kenya. A Service contract to the African Institute for Children Studies (included a
presentation of lessons learnt to government and NGOs in Zimbabwe (May, 2015)
Client: African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) Ethiopia.
Nov 2014 – Mar 2015 Lead Consultant: Child Rights Situational Analysis among Pastoralist Communities in
in Kajiado, Garrisa and Marsabit, Kenya. A Service contract to the African Institute for
Children Studies (NGO) where I am CEO and Associate Consultant.
Client: Kenya Alliance for Advancement of Children (KAACR), funded by Eriks
Foundation and Pastoralists Network for Children (KPNC).
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Aug – Nov 2014 Lead Consultant: Building capacity for effective child participation in human security
and development in Turkana County. A Service contract to the African Institute for
Children Studies (NGO) where I am CEO and Associate Consultant.
Client: ILO/IPEC, Kenya
April – Aug 2014 Lead Consultant: Impact Evaluation of Child Rights Awareness Program. A Service
contract to the African Institute for Children Studies (NGO) where I am CEO and
Associate Consultant.
Client: Terre des Hommes, Netherlands, Kenya.
Dec 2013 – Feb 2014 Lead Consultant: Situation Analysis of Working Children in Nakuru, Kiambu, Embu
and Nairobi Counties in Kenya. A Service contract to the African Institute for Children
Studies (NGO) where I am CEO and Associate Consultant.
Client: Kenya Alliance for Advancement of Children (KAACR), funded by Save the
Child Alliance, Kenya.
Sept – Dec 2013 Lead Consultant: End-of-Project Evaluation of Project on “Defending the Rights of Girl
Children Living/ Working in the Streets. A Service contract to the African Institute for
Children Studies (NGO) where I am CEO and Associate Consultant.
Client: Pendekezo Letu Kenya, funded by Every Child and Comic Relief.
Sept – Nov 2013 Lead Consultant: Capacity building of TDH partners (government and NGOs) in
designing, implementing and monitoring child labor projects in South Sudan,
targeting worst forms of child labour. A Service contract to the African Institute for
Children Studies (NGO) where I am CEO and Associate Consultant.
Client: Terre des Hommes, South Sudan.
Aug – Nov 2013 Consultant: Technical Support to ILO/IPEC Kenya. A consultancy supporting project on
“Supporting National Action Plan on child labor”, with funding from US Department of
Labour.
Client: ILO/IPEC, UN Complex, Nairobi Kenya office
Feb – July 2013 Consultant: Technical Support to ILO/IPEC Project State and Non-State Actors in
Sudan, South Sudan and Kenya, An consultancy supporting Africa Regional
Coordinator of ILO/IPEC program Tackling Child Labor through Education - TACKLE
(implemented in eleven African Caribbean and Pacific Countries with funding from
European Union. Client: ILO/IPEC, UN Complex, Nairobi Kenya office.
Feb – May 2013 Lead Consultant: Assessing Conduciveness of School Environment for Working
Children and those Removed from Child Labor. Client: ILO Kenya
Mar – June 2013 Lead Consultant: End-of-Project Evaluation of Project on “Child Re-integration project
(CRI) in Kenya”. A Service contract to the African Institute for Children Studies (NGO)
where I am CEO and Associate Consultant.
Client: Samaritan’s Purse Kenya.
Mar – April 2013 Lead consultant to develop a functional Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for
the Global Education Fund Kenya’s Young Leaders Program. A Service contract to the
African Institute for Children Studies.
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Jan – April 2013 Lead Consultant: Situational Analysis on Child Domestic Work and Mapping of
Relevant Social Services in Kenya, A Service contract to the African Institute for
Children Studies by ILO GAP 11 project.
Client: ILO, Geneva.
August 2012 Trainer: Child Protection Training to support Primary Math and Reading (PRIMR)
instructional coaches in urban slums in CfBT Safeguarding Policy
Client: CfBT Educational Trust (UK) – Kenya Regional Office, Nairobi.
Sept – Dec 2011 Technical Adviser: Child Protection interventions among Urban Refugees and
Development of National Framework for Child Protection System. A Service contract
to the African Institute for Children Studies.
Client: International Rescue Committee (IRC, Kenya)
June 2011 Consultant: Audit of Gender Based Violence Services in Kenya: Case Studies of
Nairobi and Suba Districts.
Client: The CRADLE, conducted by RUCBIC Consultants & African Institute for Children
Studies, Nairobi, Kenya
July - August 2010 Consultant: Child Rights Situational Analysis in Kenya.
Client: Save the Children Alliance in Kenya
Contract Awarded to African Institute for Children Studies
May- June 2005 Child Labour Project Consultant
Task – Conduct Rapid Assessment on Child Labour in Rubber Plantations in
Liberia. Client: - UNICEF Liberia
Public health related assignments
Nov 2015 – Jan 2016 Lead Consultant: End-term Evaluation of Mother, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH)
Program in Semi-Arid and Pastoralist Communities, Kajiado County, Kenya. Client:
World Friends. Funded by EU
Nov 2015 – Jan 2016 Lead Consultant: Drafting of road map for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
engagement in implementation of Kenya fast track plan (2016-2019) for prevention
of HIV in Kenya.
Client: LVCT Health.
Nov 2014 – Feb 2015 Lead Consultant: End of project evaluation of Liverpool VCT Health Project –
Supporting Sexual Minority Groups in Kisumu and Nairobi to Access Quality Non-
Judgemental HIV Services. Client: LVCT Health, Comic Relief (UK) and Widows &
Orphans International (UK).
June – July 2014 Lead Consultant: Mid-term Evaluation of Mother, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH)
Program in Semi-Arid and Pastoralist Communities, Kajiado County, Kenya. Client:
World Friends. Funded by EU.
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Mar 2013 – Dec 2014 Lead Consultant: Action Research to evaluate effectiveness of a combinational HIV
prevention project for MSMs implemented by Ishtar (a CBO) in Nairobi, Kenya,
Client: AmfAR, The Foundation for Aids Research, New York, USA.
Mar – Dec 2011 Consultant: Training, mentorship & quality assurance for a HIV Prevention Program
among Adult Sex Workers and Children in Sexual Exploitation in Refugee Camps in
Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya. Lead human rights and protection expert. Developed
program strategy, SOPs and guidelines for responding to gender based violence in
refugee camps.
Client: UNHCR Regional Support Hub, Nairobi, Kenya (Women and Children Unit)
July – Dec 2011 Consultant: Monitoring, evaluation and learning for HIV interventions for sex
workers among urban refugees in Nairobi.
Client: IOM, Nairobi, Kenya
July – Dec 2010 Consultant: Baseline Survey and Development of HIV Prevention Workplace program
for Lamu Port Construction Project in Lamu, Kenya. Client: Dejobs Consultancy Ltd and
Japanese Port Consultants.
Publications I have contributed to:
1. ILO (2013). Situation Analysis on conducive learning environment for children withdrawn and prevented from
child labor. Authored by Munyuwiny S. Published by ILO, Geneva.
2. Kenya Alliance for Advancement of Children and Save the Children Alliance in Kenya (2014): Situation Analysis
of Working Children in Nakuru, Kiambu, and Meru Counties in Kenya. Authored by Munyuwiny S, Musingila P,
and Rakuomi J. Printed in Nairobi, Kenya.
3. Munyuwiny S. et al. (2013) Factors Associated with HIV Risk Sexual Behavior Among Female Domestic Workers
in Nairobi Kenya. African Journal of Health Sciences, Volume 25, Number 2, April-June 2013.
4. IOM (2012) Empowering Migrant Female Sex Workers against HIV and Other STI: Experience from the
Implementation of a pilot project on combination prevention of HIV for migrant female sex workers in Eastleigh,
Nairobi Kenya. International Organization for Migration (unpublished)
5. Dejobs Ltd (2009) Baseline Survey Report: HIV Mitigation Program for Lamu Port Construction Project.
Presented to Government of Kenya as a subcontract from the Japanese Port Consultants.
JOB EXPERIENCE
Mar 2009 –
Current
Executive Director & Head of Child Health Unit African Institute for Children Studies
P.O. Box 12814, 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Coordinating services offered by AICS:
• Training in childhood & children services
• Research, monitoring and evaluation on childhood & children services
• Advocacy and policy advisory services on children
• Organization capacity development and Project management
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Nov 2008 – Mar
2011
PROGRAM MANAGER, HIV PREVENTION PROGRAM TARGETING SEX WORKERS AND OTHER
HIGH RISK GROUPS, HOPE WORLD WIDE KENYA, NAIROBI, KENYA (Supported by USAID APHIA
II)
Duties & Accomplishments:
• Provide leadership in planning of HIV Behaviour Change Communication and Voluntary
Counseling and Testing Services in Nairobi and Central Provinces
• Provide leadership in Monitoring and Evaluation of program in liaison with M&E
Departments of HOPE worldwide Kenya and APHIA II Consortium
• Ensure integrity in data collection and reporting
• Prepare workplans and budgets for the program
• Identify new partners and mobilize resource
• Oversee 13 staffs and volunteers to ensure quality service delivery.
Others
2002-2008
Program Manager, Child protection projects, African Network for Prevention and Protection
against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN Regional Office)
Program Manager, Child Protection, ANPPCAN Liberia, post conflict era – (2004-2005).
HIV Training Facilitator – Training for UN Staff and Dependants, UN Head Quarters, Gigiri,
Nairobi, Kenya (contracted by Community Aid International, Nairobi, Kenya).
REFEREES
1. Ms. Angela Nyamu
Country Manager, Kenya
Terre des Hommes Netherlands,
East Africa
P. O. Box 76340-00508, Nairobi,
Kenya
M: +254 722 209581 / +254 786
209581
Email : a.nyamu@tdh.nl
3. Hon Lady Justice Martha Koome
Court of Appeal Judge,
Kenya Court of Appeal,
Email: martha.koome@judiciary.go.ke
or marth_koome@yahoo.com
2. Mr. Kiura Bernard
Child Protection Specialist
UNICEF KCO,
United Nations Complex
P.O. Box 44145-00100Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254-20-7625652
Email: bkiura@unicef.org or bernardkiura@yahoo.com