Chris Wambua

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Nelson Mutua

6/19/2022

"Great leadership skills"

John kangangi

6/13/2022

"A great proffesional"

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Experience

Chris Wambua

Work experience

Head of Program - Capacity Building & Research at MAMA Doing Good

March, 2021 - May, 2022
Fulltime

Spearheading the business component of enhancing financial inclusion, market access and quality, competitive fresh – farm produce by small scale women and youth agro-producers. Spearheading initiation and management and strengthening of production, aggregation, off-taking and liaison with back-end, forward contracting as well as increased market access and expanded advocacy around fair trade. This also includes identifying viable investors in the various processes and investment opportunities across the various value-chains. Position also brokers agreements among offtakers, engages in platforms to lobby for policies that promote fair trade, financial and market inclusion for BOP populations. Coverage – National.

Chris Wambua

Work experience

Program Manager - Financial Inclusion / Graduation Program at CARE International - Kenya Program

November, 2016 - July, 2019
Fulltime

Position was responsible for team leadership and oversight for the implementation for CARE’s Financial Inclusion – PROFIT Financial Graduation program in Kitui County (also scaled to Marsaabit & Samburu). Responsible for program implementation planning, roll-out and implementation (mentorship, coaching, seed capital asset transfer, food-aid cash transfer, WASH/healthcare support, VSLA mobilization/formalization, financial literacy, institutional linkages, value-chain mapping for sustainability), monitoring and evaluation, reporting, liaison with strategic investor / partner (IFAD & GOK), County Government and relevant strategic agencies, stakeholder briefing, Learning documentation and management of feedback mechanism. Position oversees institutionalization and aggregation of small-holder actor units into registered Group Savings and Loaning entities for further organizational development and linkages – currently at 52 smallholder entities set up and monitored on the MIS on-line platform. Position also offers support towards staff competency development, mentorship and coaching while conducting annual appraisal. Position involves both occasional local and international travel. Key achievements made include an impressive 82.5% graduation rate for the extreme poor participating households, production of knowledge products and production and launch of CARE International’s Financial Graduation handbook – social economic transformation of Kenya’s extreme poor populations in rural Kenya.

Chris Wambua

Education

M Sc Entrepreneurship and Development at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)

May, 2011 - November, 2013
Fulltime

Undertook coursework in research, project management, monitoring and evaluation, Technology and innovation in contemporary enterprise development, human resource as a component of economic growth and Research work. Undertook project research and generated critical findings on the research project ‘factors influencing uptake of community based health financing in Kenya’, a model currently being implemented to enable the rural poor build resilient livelihoods through schemes that enable them access quality and sustainable healthcare (published Manuscript on - line via the International Journal of Social Sciences and Entrepreneurship);
http://www.ijsse.org/articles/ijsse_v1_i5_509_521.pdf; editor IJSSE, author Waithanji C. W.

Chris Wambua

Work experience

Health Governance, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at Christian Aid

June, 2008 - June, 2016
Fulltime

Was responsible for spearheading the corporate donor – supported RTN innovative program model across 9 counties of Christian Aid's portfolio of partnerships and projects in Kenya. Working in close liaison with the county governments, Christian Aid UK Office and other supporting country programs. Position supported development of Christian Aid policy and strategy by providing the programme team with partner feedback and institutional capacity-building of partners, undertook program resourcing, planning, and implementation of project activities, budget tracking and project monitoring and annual evaluations, ensured an integrated approach into the country /thematic programmes to support delivery of the project to the highest standards and in line with the country, divisional and organizational strategy. Position also acted as the interface between participating partners and Christian Aid and/or donors including coordinating feedback, representing the organization key stakeholders meetings and contributing to strengthening of partner relationships. Other duties were Fund raising / Proposal writing, Identifying Regional Partner Institutions to implement Christian Aid select Enterprise projects, Entrepreneur training series development, entrepreneur training, supervision and oversight of partner institutions, roll – out of project components, supervision of partner project coordinators & Savings and Loan Association facilitators who are the direct reports, budget preparation, implementation, moderation and oversight of project budgets, report writing, conducting baseline surveys, projects appraisal and strategic plan development. Position engaged in extensive networking and relationship building and media relations. Directly accountable to corporate donor trusts and foundations office as well as the head of community health and HIV program, Christian Aid Kenya office.