Deborah Oyaro
Project Coordinator Sanitation And Hygiene
Nairobi,30
Summary
A seasoned WASH professional with over 10 years of experience in sanitation and hygiene coordination, specializing in market-based approaches, community-led initiatives (CLTS, CHAST), and disaster management. Holds an MSc in Project Planning and Management, a BSc in Environmental Health, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in International WASH. Experienced in implementing multi-grant WASH projects, capacity building, and international advocacy with exposure in Kenya, Ghana, Eswatini, and Somalia. Versatile [Job Title] with background successfully executing diverse project tasks to meet deadlines. Highly skilled at communicating with colleagues, monitoring status and achieving key milestones. Enthusiastic problem solver and talented team player with superior planning and decision-making skills.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
19
19
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Project Coordinator Sanitation and Hygiene
World Vision Kenya National Office
Nairobi, Nairobi Province
04.2020 - Current
- Provide leadership for Implementation of 15 WASH grants
- Innovated WASH Business centres in World vision that have Improved Livelihoods of communities and a game changer in Market based Approach of WASH implementation
- Experience working in Somalia, exchange visits to Ghana and Eswatini
- Participated in two conferences where I have presented my research work University of Nairobi, Zanzibar and my Abstract has also been accepted in waternet symposium in Lesotho
- Provide support in the implementation of Sanitation and Hygiene projects to ensure quality, effectiveness, and timely implementation in 11 programs across the country
- Provide technical support during Assessment, Planning, Designing, baselines, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation
- Advocacy, Engagement with strategic partners, Linkages and networks & partnership development
- Facilitate proper understanding of WASH policies, standards, business processes, and procedures
- Facilitate capacity building of staff and communities in WASH programming and implementation of WASH and Construction projects as well as promoting relevant advocacy on WASH issues
- Management of all WASH grants
- WASH Point person for Disaster management
- Part of the ELNINO response team for Kenya
- Kept projects on schedule by managing deadlines and adjusting workflows.
- Developed comprehensive project plans, outlining scopes, timelines, deliverables, and milestones.
Project Officer Sanitation and Hygiene
World Vision Kenya
Nairobi, Nairobi Province
10.2017 - 03.2020
- Effective Project Design, Planning, and Implementation
- Identify and implement viable sanitation and Hygiene promotion technological options within the AP
- Develop detailed implementation plans and monitor implementation of Sanitation and hygiene project activities in the AP
- Provide support in the implementation of Sanitation and Hygiene projects to ensure quality, effectiveness, and timely implementation
- Ensure that business processes, standards, and guidelines related to WASH initiatives developed in coordination with QA and NO-WASH are effectively implemented by staff within the AP
- Collaborate with QA and the National Sanitation and hygiene coordinator to provide the AP with the appropriate technical orientation needed to achieve proposed child and community well-being outcomes through sanitation and hygiene initiatives
- Ensure that AP staff monitor and support the timely and appropriate utilization of budgeted resources for S&H-related project activities
- Capacity building of staff and communities in programming and implementation of S&H activities
- Launched sanitation marketing in Kalawa through Sato, Saffy, and Sanplat technologies in partnership with KIWASH
- Preparation of bills of quantities for projects e.g
- VIP latrines and pre-cast sanitation slabs
- Participate in the development of timely and accurate funding proposals in line with donor requirements and WVK standards in collaboration with AP technical staff and other sector specialists in WVK
- Trained on International WASH in Ghana and Eswatini
- Celebrated 107 villages as open defecation free in Kalawa during my tenure
- Quality Assurance - Design Monitoring, Evaluation, and Budget Utilization
- Record number of people trained or reached by several hygiene promotion messages
- To record all community contributions either in materials, cash form, etc., and estimate their local monetary value
- Develop monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and end of projects reports on Sanitation & hygiene and ensure that the reports are prepared in a timely manner and in accordance with WV Kenya and Donor requirements
- Document and disseminate best practices on sanitation & hygiene projects
- Rolling out M and E online in making clusters for southern region staff as well as representing the cluster
- Provide technical support during Assessment, Planning, Designing, baselines, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation
- Advocacy, Engagement with strategic partners, Linkages and networks & partnership development
- Collaborate with the Ministry of Health and other relevant departments in implementing the S&H activities
- Liaise with consultants and government line ministries in providing relevant S&H technical advice to the WASH project Manager and Community
- Promote advocacy on sanitation and Hygiene issues within the program area
- Participate in Sanitation and Hygiene coordination and other meetings as may be required in the program area
- Liaison with the County government in the identification of projects
- Engage with key stakeholders, community, government, church, and other civil society representatives within the ADP in order to maximize the impact of ADP efforts
- Any other relevant responsibility as may be assigned by the ADP leadership or other relating supervisors
Project Officer-Sanitation and Hygiene Stone family foundation Grant
World Vision Kenya
10.2018 - 09.2019
- Effective Project Design, Planning, and Implementation
- Monitored various construction activities offering a supervisory role
- Celebrated 77 villages declared open defecation free in WEMA ADP in Solai Nakuru putting Rongai Sub County in Nakuru up to date on the roadmap of ODF
- Successfully put up an Advocacy team in WEMA that is vibrant and has advocated for a regular supply of drugs and an increase in personnel that has been approved by the county government to improve the health of the WEMA community through Citizen Voice and Action (CVA)
- Monitoring various WASH projects in schools and communities also launched an automated way of fetching water using the m-pesa platform to manage finances and minimize wastes on unaccounted for water
- Identify and implement viable sanitation and Hygiene promotion technological options within the ADP
- Develop detailed implementation plans and monitor implementation of Sanitation and hygiene project activities in the ADP
- Provide support in the implementation of Sanitation and Hygiene projects to ensure quality, effectiveness, and timely implementation
- Ensure that business processes, standards, and guidelines related to WASH initiatives developed in coordination with QA and NO-WASH are effectively implemented by staff within the ADP
- Collaborate with QA and the National Sanitation and hygiene coordinator to provide the ADP with the appropriate technical orientation needed to achieve proposed child and community well-being outcomes through sanitation and hygiene initiatives
- Ensure that ADP staff monitor and support the timely and appropriate utilization of budgeted resources for S&H-related project activities
- Capacity building of staff and communities in programming and implementation of S&H activities
- Preparation of bills of quantities for projects e.g
- VIP latrines and pre-cast sanitation slabs
- Participate in the development of timely and accurate funding proposals in line with donor requirements and WVK standards in collaboration with ADP technical staff and other sector specialists in WVK
- Quality Assurance - Design Monitoring, Evaluation, and budget Utilization
- Record number of people trained or reached by several hygiene promotion messages
- To record all community contributions either in materials, cash form, etc., and estimate their local monetary value
- Develop monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and end of projects reports on Sanitation & hygiene and ensure that the reports are prepared in a timely manner and in accordance with WV Kenya and Donor requirements
- Document and disseminate best practices on sanitation & hygiene projects
- Provide technical support during Assessment, Planning, Designing, baselines, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation
- Advocacy, Engagement with strategic partners, Linkages and networks & partnership development
- Collaborate with the Ministry of Health and other relevant departments in implementing the S&H activities
- Liaise with consultants and government line ministries in providing relevant S&H technical advice to the WASH project Manager and Community
- Promote advocacy on sanitation and Hygiene issues within the program area
- Participate in Sanitation and Hygiene coordination and other meetings as may be required in the program area
- Liaison with the County government in the identification of projects
- Engage with key stakeholders, community, government, church, and other civil society representatives within the ADP in order to maximize the impact of ADP efforts
- Any other relevant responsibility as may be assigned by the ADP leadership or other relating supervisors
Sanitation and Hygiene Officer UNICEF School WASH grant
World Vision Kenya
05.2014 - 09.2015
- Effective Project Design, Planning, and Implementation
- Supervised contractors during implementation to ensure quality workmanship, safety, and value for money are achieved within schedule
- Preparation of the tender documents in line with prepared (Technical Specifications, Drawings, Bills of quantities, and Terms of Reference)
- Participated in the ADP tender committee to offer all the technical advice
- Facilitated Site-possession, handing over, and commissioning of projects
- Enhanced Empowerment & Capacity building
- Payment of the ongoing works
- Branding of project reports
- Training of the established community WASH structures (water user committee, hygiene, and sanitation committee school health clubs)
- Commissioning of all the completed project(s) and hand over to established community structure (WUC, SMC, H&S, and County Government Water, and sanitation sectorial office)
- Quality Assurance - Monitoring, Reporting, and Documentation
- Support preparation and conducting hygiene and sanitation promotion training sessions
- Development of Project Designs and Annual Operation Plans
- (4D matrices, DIPs, Annual Budgets)
- Facilitate WASH project surveys (Assessments & Baselines) and evaluations
- Develop quality monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, annual, and end-of-project reports in accordance with donors and WV Kenya requirements
- Ensure budgetary utilization is within acceptable limits/range
- Facilitate regular WASH & Construction review meetings for the WASH team as well as participate in the ADP review meetings
- Advocacy, Engagement, Networking & Partnerships
- Establish and sustain working relationships with Government Departments and Agencies relevant to the Program’s focus area at the Ward, Sub County, and County levels
- Participate in the Annual County Government’s Planning and Budgeting process and influence resource allocation to the priority needs of the most vulnerable groups within the Program Area
Health HIV and AIDS Response Intern
World Vision Kenya
10.2012 - 09.2013
WASH Intern
AMREF Kenya
06.2012 - 09.2012
Education
MSC - Project Planning and Management
Nairobi University
09.2020 - 12.2023
BSC - Environmental Health
University of Eastern Africa Baraton
09.2008 - 07.2012
KCSE - undefined
Sironga Secondary School
02.2002 - 11.2005
KCPE - undefined
Daraja Mbilli Primary School
01.1994 - 11.2001
Skills
Project coordination
Project management
Problem-solving
Time management
Team leadership
Team coordination
Attention to detail
Flexible and adaptable
Decision-making
Certification
Post-Graduate Diploma – International WASH, PDM, CCI, and WVSEM, University of Nevada Reno – Desert Research Institute, 02/01/19, 11/30/19
Publications
- Project execution procedures and its impact on long-term viability of communal water projects in Kenya., A Case study Mwala sub-county in Machakos county., Mand E conference University of Nairobi, 2022
- Effectiveness of Play-based learning approach towards sustaining WASH Behaviors among primary school children., A Case of the WASH UP! Program in Kajiado and Machakos Kenya., 2023, Zanzibar
- Breaking cultural barriers: The impact of WASH based MHM intervention in demystifying barriers on school going children in pastoralist communities of Kenya., 2024, Maseru Lesotho
Timeline
MSC - Project Planning and Management
Nairobi University
09.2020 - 12.2023
Project Coordinator Sanitation and Hygiene
World Vision Kenya National Office
04.2020 - Current
Project Officer-Sanitation and Hygiene Stone family foundation Grant
World Vision Kenya
10.2018 - 09.2019
Project Officer Sanitation and Hygiene
World Vision Kenya
10.2017 - 03.2020
Sanitation and Hygiene Officer UNICEF School WASH grant
World Vision Kenya
05.2014 - 09.2015
Health HIV and AIDS Response Intern
World Vision Kenya
10.2012 - 09.2013
WASH Intern
AMREF Kenya
06.2012 - 09.2012
BSC - Environmental Health
University of Eastern Africa Baraton
09.2008 - 07.2012
KCSE - undefined
Sironga Secondary School
02.2002 - 11.2005
KCPE - undefined
Daraja Mbilli Primary School
01.1994 - 11.2001
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