Dorcas Nyasani

• Preparing analysis and reports regarding gender and social inclusion analysis reports as well as collecting and formulating gender- responsive indicators and sex disaggregated data.
• Designing, organizing, and leading stakeholder engagement and local community mobilization.

• Coordinate and take a leading role in the development and implementation of the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Strategy (GESI) with a strong focus on inclusion of people with diverse SOGIESC.
• Coordinate all Gender result activities for CARE Kenya under projects to ensure the project achieves its gender outcomes.
• Oversee the development, update, and implementation of the Country GESI Action plans as well as the GESI strategy including support to the Strategic partners Capacity Building plans.
• Design specific approaches and activities to identify and address intersectional gender issues and needs and participate in the design and planning of interventions in the country to ensure a gender-sensitive, gender-inclusive approach is integrated into all assessments, activities, and outcomes.
• Ensure mainstreaming of MEAL approaches in the MEAL system design and implementation with support from the MEAL Coordinator and CARE Kenya Program Quality and Accountability Manager.
• Facilitate participatory processes with project's partners for the development and implementation of the gender strategy.
• Support gender related tools development, testing, and management that will ensure timely and user-oriented gender related data collection and reporting.
• Promote and support the dissemination of gender related Program information among the Program team.
• Coordinate and guide partners in their gender equality results reporting and documentation responsibilities. Ensure that the reporting meets the evidence and communications needs of the projects.
• Review project gender equality outcome results achievements against indicator targets with a view to strengthening reporting, planning, implementation as well as decision making.
• Keep up to date project gender related data and reports for reference by the program team as well as other stakeholders.
• Support in conducting gender equality targeted evaluations, including design, support in data collection, management and analysis working closely with MEAL Coordinators.
• Provide gender outcomes data for internal and donor reports as well as internal documentation and reporting systems (e.g. CARE International PIIRS).
• Provide technical support in filling in the Gender marker accurately during reporting and designing new projects for layering on the existing ones.
• Design and implement a gender outcome capacity strengthening strategy based on a participatory capacity assessment and capacity strengthening and building plans.
• Guide and support the strategic partners staff, in the implementation of the Gender strategy and any other agreed gender equality results in line with Program proposal/Design.
• Support preparation of concept notes and proposals working closely with the Program Manager, GESI Project Lead, CO Gender Focal point and Program Quality Manager and respective technical team/ advisors.
• Support CO effort to position for new business opportunities by capturing and documenting best practices for increased visibility and strategic partnership with close collaboration with Project Manager.

• Landscape Analysis on GBV and Harmful Practices solid analysis of the funding landscape considering the existing gaps within GBV and harmful practices where Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation may consider lending/adding its strategic weight and modest funding to maximize impact.
• A desk review and assessment of the most relevant organizations working on GBV and harmful practices. The scoping needs to: - include current BMGF partners, CSOs, and funds/umbrella organizations within this thematic area and broader gender equality. - include countries they operate in, their current financial supporters - include south-based CSOs with regional reach (several countries) in Africa. Lead development of the data analysis plan and the analysis workshop immediately following data collection.

• Support capacity building of local WLO working on GBV and Protection.
• Give technical support and guidance on design of project activities to empower women and girls to organize themselves in terms of their rights,
• Support advocacy, agency, awareness, access to services, educational and economic opportunities etc.
• Support Interventions to engage women, girls, men, and boys to work with communities to change norms;
• Empower, actively engage, and closely work with traditional and customary institutions in prevention, early identification, referral, and treatment of victims of SGBV and impact mitigation;
• Coordinating the project related GBV actors in the target areas with the government-led and/or community owned
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• Support Knowledge management, documentation of good practices, and lessons learnt to inform and influence policies.

• Assessing existing gender policies, programs and initiatives on UHC to identify gaps and opportunities for increasing gender sensitivity.
• Assessing existing programs that make UHC benefit packages, services and entry points responsive to the diverse needs of men and women.
• Support the development and implementation of gender responsive monitoring and evaluation frameworks for UHC programs. Regularly track progress on key gender-related indicators.
• Make recommendations on strategies that can be used by governments to eliminate all forms of barriers militating against women’s rights as well as access to affordable quality health care services.
• Sensitize policy makers, health providers, community groups among other stakeholders involved in UHC about integrating a gender perspective into their work
• Involving women’s groups or civil society organizations in planning and decision making processes related with expanding access to UHC.
• Gender mainstreaming in universal healthcare through representation at government levels.
• Preparation of briefs, reports, presentations about ongoing efforts aimed at enhancing gender responsive initiatives; challenges faced; best practices learnt; lessons drawn.
• Provide technical support in designing targeted interventions aimed at reducing financial barriers facing marginalized populations.

Mapping existing capacity needs with County Health Management teams on gender/youth responsive and inclusive planning, budgeting, data for decision-making and SRH supportive supervision.

Mapping existing coordination gaps with Technical Working Groups (TWGs) at County level on gender/youth responsive and inclusive planning, budgeting, data for decision-making and SRH supportive supervision. I provided One (1) mapping report highlighting coordination gaps of TWGs in the project implementation areas and recommendations to address these gaps were developed at the end of this process to provide information that was important in informing a mentorship plan and training for the TWGs to ably address these gaps in their respective counties.

• Develop/adapt existing training modules on gender/youth responsive and inclusive planning. Budgeting, data for decision making and SRH supportive supervision based on capacity needs: I utilized findings of the mapping report developed to develop as training modules aimed at supporting the training of County Health Teams in gender/youth responsive planning, budgeting and decision making to promote SRH supervision in their work.
• Conduct training for CHMTs: I conducted a three (3) day training bringing together a total of 15 CHMT members including health management committee members who are mandated with the duty of monitoring general administration of Health units on behalf of Local government.
• The training equipped participants with knowledge and skills in gender/youth responsive planning, budgeting and decision making to promote SRH supervision and service provision in their work, an aspect that enabled them to deliver on their mandate more effectively.