About

Program management and Communications and Public Relations expert with over a decade’s experience working in humanitarian and development sectors focusing on communications for development, partnerships, project management, and media relations. Additional proficiency include strategic planning, training, and events management.

Experience

Donnah Midigo

Work experience
  •  Developing and implementing strategic business development plans to achieve company goals and objectives
  •  Identifying and pursuing new business opportunities to expand the company's market presence
  •  Building and maintaining strong relationships with potential clients and partners
  •  Conducting market research and analysis to identify trends and opportunities in the financial services industry
  •  Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop innovative products and services
  •  Preparing and presenting business proposals and presentations to potential clients
  •  Monitoring and evaluating the performance of business development initiatives and adjust strategies as needed.

Donnah Midigo

Work experience
  • January, 2023 - December, 2023
  • Fulltime
  •  Developed advocacy and communications plans to steer various advocacy priorities for programs’ teams; Health, Nutrition, WASH, Peace-building, Education, Food Security and Livelihood and protection.
  •  Stakeholders mapping, engagement and management of National NGOs, International NGOs, UN agencies, government ministries, and other local partners collaborating in health, nutrition, peacebuilding, education, and protection sectors.
  •  Media engagement support through the development of media releases, news features, and talking points during media appearances and various donors’, diplomatic and public functions.
  •  Documentation of human stories across various programs (Health, Nutrition, WASH, FSL, education, peacebuilding, and protection projects), demonstrating impact.
  •  Frequent field travels for photography and videography documentation of project activities
  •  Social media engagement and management
  •  Training and mentorship of programs teams on communications and media engagement.
  •  Internal communications support through policy dissemination, knowledge management, and capacity-building training.

Donnah Midigo

Education
  • September, 2022 - December, 2024
  • Fulltime
  • International terrorism
  • Conflict resolution, peace-keeping and peace building
  • International relations of the Middle East
  • Inter-African relations
  • Strategic Security
  • Foreign policy analysis

Donnah Midigo

Education
  • Negotiation Skills for Humanitarian Aid Workers

Donnah Midigo

Work experience
  •  Developed South Sudan's Constitution Making Process(CMP) dissemination engagement plan.
  •  Co-facilitated state envisioning of South Sudan's Constitution Making Process (CMP) within the 10 states.
  •  Drafted key messaging info-packs to facilitate CMP process.
  •  Co-authored the CSOs/media engagement strategy on South Sudan's Constitution-Making Process

Donnah Midigo

Work experience
  •  Supporting actualization of work plans, spending plans, and budget monitoring of peace projects funded by USAID and UNDP.
  •  Ensuring timely implementation and reporting of project activities.
  •  Coordinating joint activity implementation with consortium partners in Unity State(Leer, Mayendit, Rubkona, Guit, and Mayom Counties), and other peace-building partners and actors.
  •  Identifying peacebuilding actors(women and youth groups, National NGOs, International NGOs, UN Agencies and government) in Unity state and at the grassroot, county, regional and national levels. And collaborate in complementary community interventions and partnership for an enhanced community impact.
  •  Developing communications and advocacy plans to create awareness on select issues for various peace-building activities.
  •  Fostering collaboration with other peacebuilding actors to enhance impact in various project locations
  •  Coordinating media engagement and coverage for peacebuilding project activities
  •  Data collection, analysis, and information management on conflict and peacebuilding issues.
  •  Developing proposals to enable funding of peacebuilding activities.
  •  Facilitating conflict sensitivity training for project staff.
  •  Conducting periodic community engagement meetings to collect feedback from various projects, to enable improvement on the quality of programming.

Donnah Midigo

Work experience
  •  Developed Kenya's National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP 2018- 2022) public/media engagement plan.

Donnah Midigo

Work experience
  • Technical Support Specialist; Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA) Project at   African Union (AU)
  • Piloted a Data Management system for Kenya's Ministry of Education, in collaboration as part of Lab Afrique consultants.
  • Collaborated in the development of a data collection and monitoring tool for the African Union Education Commission, aimed at complementing various AU member countries education management systems.
  • Conducted a comparative analysis between of Kenya's education management system and the pilot AU system to determine compatibility and complementarity in data collection, analysis and reporting.
  •  Data Analytics
  •  Data management systems
  •  Data reporting

Donnah Midigo

Education
  • Understanding Brand Identity
  • Building Brand Equity
  • Managing Brand Communication
  • Brand Portfolio Management
  • Brand Performance Measurement

Donnah Midigo

Work experience
  •  Developed and managed periodic information and communication materials for internal and external audiences at the National Association and Eastern Southern African region.
  •  As partnership liaison, identified partnership opportunities in various sectors, executed collaboration, and managed relationships partners and kept track of MOU obligations.
  •  Resource mobilization through partnerships, social and corporate events, and expedition activities such as hikes among other adventure-sporting activities.
  •  Supported the production of newsletters, graphic design, production of publicity materials, and press releases, in addition to managing the website and all social media networks.
  •  Disseminated internal communication such as reports, minutes, and policies to national staff as part of knowledge management.
  •  Facilitated national program teams with media relations, photography and videography; including editing, and production of human touch stories.
  •  Coordinated country strategic planning and review to monitor traction of various organization targets.
  •  Managed the Country Director's diary, coordinated board meetings, and followed up on partnership and funding conversations initiated by the national and regional directors to fruition.

Donnah Midigo

Work experience
  • October, 2012 - February, 2013
  • Fulltime
  •  Coordinated a mineral water pilot project: a reverse osmosis water purification plant, as a social-business targeting 500 households.
  •  Supervised management of boreholes and the production plant
  •  Coordinated procurement of mineral water bottles, packaging materials and reverse osmosis equipment.
  •  Supported community vendors with product market sourcing and marketing of the end product(Imst Water), to enable vendors push sales in various strategic locations.
  •  Project reporting and budget monitoring.

Donnah Midigo

Work experience
  • September, 2011 - September, 2012
  • Fulltime
  •  Coordinated implementation of WASH, child protection, health and nutrition and education program activities as part of the emergency response activities.
  •  Stakeholders' management and partnerships lobbying for the emergency program activities with the local government and its line ministries, NGOs, INGOs and UN Agencies.
  •  Coordinated advocacy activities for FSL, Nutrition, Health, Education and Child Protection activities in collaboration with various sectoral stakeholders.
  •  Supported procurement processes
  •  Security monitoring and reporting
  •  Asset management
  •  People management
  •  Program reporting and preparation of frequent situation updates
  •  Supported financial reporting and budget tracking
  •  Coordinated donor visits to various program locations.

Donnah Midigo

Work experience
  •  Resource mobilization through direct funding and
  •  Partnership Liaison
  •  Administrative support
  •  Photography and videography support to program teams
  •  Media relations management

Donnah Midigo

Work experience
  • August, 2009 - September, 2010
  • Fulltime
  •  Conducted brand activation campaigns for Zain (now Airtel) Uganda in the Northern region: Gulu, Arua, Kitgum, Apac, Pakwach, and Lira towns, and onboarded 300,000 subscriptions.

Donnah Midigo

Education
  • Trauma Theory and Impact
  • Trauma Counselling Techniques
  • Trauma Assessment and Diagnosis
  • Cultural Competence in Trauma Counselling
  • Self-Care and Professional Ethics

Donnah Midigo

Education
  • August, 2005 - November, 2009
  • Fulltime
  • Project Planning and management
  • Economics of spartial development
  • Public policy and management
  • Forced migration and refugees
  • Gender and development

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