David Omondi Wamani

• Preparing and updating rabbit breeding records.
• Supervising feeding and nutrition and routine care and management of rabbit breeds through weaning, branding and castration.
• Preparing PowerPoint slides, poster adverts and other materials for rabbit training.
• Conducting quarterly trainings on Commercial Rabbit production and management, value addition and marketing, targeting rabbit farmers and all rabbit value chain actors.
• Providing farmers/ clients with professional advices on economic rabbit production and management practices.
• Supervising students on industrial attachment on rabbit production and management.
• Designing layout for rabbit feed production blocks.
• Participating in annual agricultural shows, show-casing best practices for Cuniculture to raise awareness on rabbits as an emerging livestock activity.

Project Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring, Evaluation and Controlling:

• Trained 1030 households on climate smart agricultural initiatives and agroforestry LVCD activities in collaboration with various MDAs.
• Supported 83 households on improved local poultry rearing management, marketing and value addition as well as 727 households in other agribusiness livelihood initiatives.
• Implemented 7 awareness raising training on socioeconomic empowerment, entrepreneurship, financial literacy improvement and business planning for 837 parents and caregivers of sponsored children.
• Captured, validated and updated project data on the M&E system, and prepared and uploaded progress reports via Google drive on time.
• Designed and applied appropriate controls and M&E tools in accordance with MWFK's protocol and standards of project design matrix (PDM).
• Prepared and discussed routine project progress reports physically and virtually with donors, senior management and other stakeholders.
• Contributed in streamlining MWFK's child safeguarding policies and government's child protection regulations in routine activity plans.
• Initiated the formation and registration of 22 new self-help development groups for 1030 beneficiary parents in collaboration with the Nyando sub-county Gender and Social Development office in consultation with Equity Bank and KRA- Kisumu office.
• Together with colleagues, planned and facilitated awareness raising on career and personal development for 57 learners in collaboration with 11 HoIs.
• Trained 22 registered self-help groups on Savings for Transformation (S4T), Table banking, savings with a purpose (SWAP) and Village Savings & Loaning (VSL). An initial sum of KSh. 3.2 million was shared out by 11 groups in a record 6 months as a result of excellent coaching and frequent monitoring and evaluation.
• Technically supported 22 self-help groups in brainstorming viable business ideas and preparing business proposals, 7 of which received full grant awards from the National Government Affirmative Action Fund.
• Prepared routine activity budgets and worked closely with the Project Manager in managing activity expenditures for 4 running projects.
• Prepared routine activity expense requests in line with budget thresholds.
• Conducted annual participatory rural appraisal of household livelihoods, assessed beneficiary needs and initiated innovative approaches and ideas for improving project activity impacts on 1030 beneficiary households.
• Launched quarterly community tree planting mobilization initiatives in collaboration with the 11 sponsored public schools and private sector stakeholders, particularly Shajaanand Company and Equity Bank through Corporate Social Responsibility Partnership MoU with MWFK.
• Provided technical support in planning meetings with stakeholders.
• Performed other duties and responsibilities assigned from time to time.

Research activities:

• Conducted on-station and on-farm experimental trials on Validation of best agronomic packages for selected breeding lines of 3 African Leafy Vegetables (ALVs).
• Participated in household demographic data collection on ‘Gender mainstreaming and social inclusion in climate-smart agriculture value chain’ and ‘Assessing fostering innovations for cassava production, value chain and marketing’ using ODK.
• Conducted screening of 3 ALVs for adaptability trials in smallholder farming systems within the Lake Victoria region.
• Accomplished germ plasm acquisition, seed multiplication, phenotypic and molecular characterization of 3 ALVs for seed multiplication with the support of Senior Research Scientists and KEPHIS Kisumu.

Revenue Generation activities:

• Drafted a 7-quarter implementation budget plan with justification, which secured KSh. 0.5M funding from the KALRO Headquarters for the revitalization and sustainability of KALRO-HRI Kibos Nursery.
• Achieved a 92.874% profit margin from the sale of assorted horticulture seedlings in the 2020/21 FY as a result of effective resource allocation and management and maintenance of good customer relations.
• Initiated routine market survey exercises for promoting and improving nursery seedling commodity sales.

Capacity building and collaboration:

• Participated in routine farm visits in collaboration with Kisumu County Agriculture staff to promote climate-smart agricultural initiatives for soil and water conservation.
• Coached 33 students on industrial attachment in monitoring and evaluation of selected NRF and KCSAP-funded activity project cycles.
• Conducted 4 trainings to 9 CIGs on Tomato IPM strategies and agro-ecology training in collaboration with Practical Action.
• Conducted 3 trainings to 1 Women Group, on Value addition for invasive guava species in Lambwe Valley through grafting and fruit processing with the facilitation of World Vision Kenya, in collaboration with KEFRI Maseno.
• Provide immense technical contribution towards the development of 1 training manual in Avocado value chain for SMEs in a joint task-force with various County government staff, staff from KALRO, KEFRI, KIRDI and other stakeholders from the Micro Enterprise Support Programme Trust (MESPT).

Other achievements:

• Participated in conducting lobby and advocacy for training of various stakeholders on focal restoration approaches for climate smart agriculture, soil and water conservation techniques and regeneration of communal pastoral lands.
• Provided technical support in the preparation of annual progressive reports (APR) and Performance Contract (PC) reports.
• Shared routine activity progress reports regularly during routine staff sharing meetings.

Internship Achievements:

• Prepared weekly activity reports, monthly and quarterly plans.
• Provided technical support to new clients seeking agricultural knowledge and skills acquisition.
• Facilitated routine nursery activities such as propagation of clean horticulture seedlings, timely pest and disease control, watering and hardening off of seedlings prior to sale and sale of seedling commodities to clients.
• Provided technical support to students on industrial attachment through activity work plan preparation and review and assessment of progresses.
• Maintained routine updating of laboratory and field data entry sheets.

• Conducted community sensitization and mobilization to initiate, plan, guide, and evaluate community based health and food security systems.
• Organized 5 preventive health promotion campaigns on hygiene promotion, effective handwashing and typhoid sensitization awareness in 50 partner public schools within 2 project areas in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation.
• Conducted 2 annual food security festivals and 3 exchange visits to showcase Globally accepted Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) on standard kitchen gardens.
• Facilitated several tree planting initiatives within 50 public schools in Gem, Alego and Rachuonyo East sub-counties (3 project areas).
• Implemented 12 meetings with community groups to influence mindset processes about gender equality and transformative masculinity, in partnership with various stakeholders.
• Prepared activity budgets on timely routine and submitted them for review and approval and made budget drafts for pending activities according to CISS guidelines.
• Facilitated 7 sub-county and ward-level stakeholder meetings with various government ministries, local leaders, Key Informants, and target groups for joint planning and implementation of peace promotion campaigns prior to the 2017 general elections.
• Represented CISS in 1 county-level forum for dispute resolution at organized by the Interior Ministry during the 2017 Kericho-Kisumu border ethnic clashes.
• Prepared and compiled activity progress reports for 4 program objectives and shared with staff during regular meetings.
• Created and implemented monthly apiary inspection plans targeting 348 beneficiaries.
• Implemented routine monitoring and evaluation of kitchen gardens, dairy goat pens, schools and community woodlots and table banking processes in groups.
• Conducted routine visits to community groups to strengthen viable income generating activities identified by youth, women and other vulnerable member groups.
• Participated in the Decha I Project end-line evaluation exercise.
• Planned, designed and implemented Decha II baseline survey for 360 households in all the 4 project areas together with staff.
• Performed data entry, analysis, and intepretation for Decha I end line evaluation and Decha II baseline survey using IBM SPSS software through co-ordinated team work.
• Prepared training manuals together with staff.
• Facilitated trainings for Community Owned Resource Persons (CORPs) in key technical areas such as food security, environment conservation and apiculture.
• Conducted routine morning devotions involving all staff.