Elizabeth Atieno Onyango

• Managed cross-functional teams within the organization for successful project completion within deadlines and budgets.
• Managed and supervised administrative and daily program operations and designing projects that best address the unique needs of female sex workers.
• Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring support for program initiatives and organization sustainability.
• Streamlined communication channels to facilitate efficient collaboration among team members and stakeholders.
• Collaborated with sex workers and feminists leaders to set priorities based on sex workers needs, resource capacity and risk exposure.
• Writing annual and programmatic reports/submitting annual reports to donors
• Designing sex workers led programs and facilitating advocacy campaigns for and by sex workers
• Coordinate meetings with donors and partners of Coast Sex Workers Alliance
• Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams.

• Enhanced ICW-Global social media visibility by developing and implementing strategic communication campaigns that target women living with HIV with resources and tools for advocacy.
• Generated clear, concise and innovative online engagement content and written communications for ICW Members.
• Coordinating ICW work in the Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children by 2030 and ensuring that the Alliance prioritizes interventions that address the needs of women affected by and living with HIV.
• Recruiting ICW Media Team Members for the annual Young Media Team Training for young women living with HIV.
• Reinforced organizational vision and mission with innovative and fresh communication style.
• Interacting with ICW partners on social media and other platforms

• To provide strategic advice to ensure Young Emerging Leaders (YEL) are successful in strengthening and supporting YEL Advocates’ capacity to strategize and voice the priorities from their communities at Global levels
• Coach and mentor Young Emerging Leaders (YEL) selected from communities of People Living with HIV
• Support GNP+ to develop and implement a learning plan for the YEL members
• Hold monthly check-ins and or bi-monthly group sharing calls to follow progress of learning plan and to identify coaching needs and cross learning opportunities in areas such as communication, advocacy, and tactics (advocacy documents writing, dynamic public speaking), digital activism, effective advocacy, planning / convening
• Sharing opportunities for professional growth and advocacy opportunities, this can include inviting them to work in joint advocacy assignments such as yielding speaking time, writing joint papers, and position documents

• Drive a high-level advocacy-initiative to achieve political ownership and commitment of the 12 Heads of State for the alliance priority countries and Ministers to support the Global Alliance, with investments to tackle inequalities experienced by children, adolescents, and pregnant and breastfeeding women, especially those who are marginalised
• Reinforce and foster community leadership, advocacy and accountability mechanisms
• Increase the visibility of the Global Alliance by engaging a mass audience of individuals and governments
• Partner with communities, influencers, champions, and senior UN leaders and stakeholders within the Global Alliance, to drive more action and investment across online and social media platforms

• Nominated by the International AIDS Society to represent young people globally at the AIDS 2024 organising committee, this is a committee that organises the world’s biggest HIV conference that brings together scientists, governments and community activists for an AIDS conference annually
• HYPERLINK "https://www.iasociety.org/conferences/aids2024/about/organizing-committee/elizabeth-atieno-onyango"
• As part of this role I was elected the Co-Chair of the AIDS2024 Global Village where I co-lead the planning and programming of the Global Village.
• Organized and led IAS local community outreach activities

• Contributed to HIV prevention research activities by providing evidence-based input based on lived experiences of sex workers who use drugs.
• Authored professional position statements that aims to address the importance of integration of SRHR/HIV and Harm Reduction services.
• Developed and led an advocacy project focused on improving access to HIV, Harm Reduction and SRHR services access amongst sex workers who use drugs.
• Applied research technique to determine effectiveness of interventions targeting women and sex workers who use drugs.

HYPERLINK "https://www.avac.org/fellow/elizabeth-atieno-onyango"

• Project management including the design, management and implementation of health promotion activities for sex workers
• Conducted SRHR awareness raising campaigns via presentations, trainings, workshops and health talks with sex workers
• Conducted advocacy campaigning for the adoption and/or enhancement of health promotion and preventive policies/measures
• Provided expert guidance on evidence-based practices for program development and implementation, leading to more effective Sex Workers strategies.
• Developed health policy and schemes to assess health needs
• Responsible for project report writing