Skills

  • Project Management
  • Agriculture

Experience

Mutuma Stanley

Work experience
  • Oversees designs, targets, and rolls out USAID Nawiri program resilient livelihoods interventions and strategies in layering, sequencing, and integration of activities’ design & implementation.
  • Offers in-depth technical guidance and mentorship in climate-smart agriculture and natural resources management.
  • Provides overall technical leadership and vision for on-farm climate-resilient livelihood interventions for improved nutrition in Turkana and Samburu.
  • Develops CSA technical tools and approaches and trained over 50 staff and oversaw implementation resulting in a quality improvement of 50%.
  • Researches and provides tailor-made information to producers on crop and livestock suitability, climate risks, cost-effectiveness, and viability of interventions.
  • Collaborates with the M&E team to conduct field monitoring & evaluation activities to ensure projects are implemented within set standards and procedures.
  • Coordinates with other technical areas to ensure integration of other Nawiri approaches such as Wash, SBC, Health, GESI, DER, and CLA for successful implementation of resilient livelihood interventions.
  • Synchronizes and allocates timely technical support to the county teams and regularly improves these approaches based on substantive quality control, technical monitoring, training visits, and program learning processes.
  • Influences the key government stakeholders, peer agencies, civil society organizations, and private sector actors to replicate and scale up the best practices and learnings of the USAID Nawiri program

Mutuma Stanley

Work experience
  • October, 2020 - January, 2022
  • Fulltime
  • Led in the integration of climate-smart agriculture & environmental compliance into the KCDMS monitoring and evaluation system.
  • Collaborated with Regional Coordinators and other sector technical leaders and staff to implement environmental program activities within set deadlines.
  • Oversaw the review and implementation of KCDMS Climate-smart agriculture strategic plans and policies, and provided technical advice on environmental risks, costs, and legislative compliance associated with KCDMS activities.
  • Directed the organization on drought mitigation practices and led the technical activities for access & use of climate information, crop insurance, water harvesting, and other climate-smart agriculture practices and technologies.
  • Compiled quarterly and annual reports and publications on environment sector components and application of environmental impact mitigation measures as outlined in the KCDMS approved monitoring plan.
  • Conducted environmental audits and risk assessments of environmental performance, and provided a recommendation to ensure compliance with USAID and Kenya Environmental Protection Agency regulations.
  • Steered pre-award environmental examination to determine compliance levels of grants partners and identified additional evaluation, mitigation, and monitoring necessary to fulfill environmental requirements.
  • Ran collaborative engagements with program stakeholders including trade associations, NGOs, government agencies, universities, research agencies, value chain actors, and strategic partners on the implementation of the environment program.
  • Planned and participated in environmental evaluations, selection of research activities, and baseline surveys that included staff, partner exchanges, and all staff meetings.
  • Monitored the performance of environmental activities and documented all qualitative and quantitative changes in line with the program’s M&E framework.
  • Assisted in farm and enterprise-level economic modeling of the impact of environmentally sustainable best practices including cleaner production (CP) technologies.

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