My
name is Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje. I am a trainer of trainers (ToT), trainer,
facilitator, capacity building consultant and professional manager for health
and development. In 1998-1999, I was the director and
facilitator/resource person for 3 batches of training on ‘Overcoming Maternal
and Child Nutritional Anemia’ for civil society organizations [CSOs] and community
leaders and health workers in Badagry Lagos, 1998-1999. In 2005, I was
in charge of planning and overseeing the provision and programme of the CSO
activities at the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA). As the National Programme Coordinator, I provided
leadership, oversight and support in the capacity building of 125 persons from
the 36 States and FCT on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) under the Global
Fund Round 9 (GFR9); and training of 250 persons from all the states and FCT on
the provision of Home-Based Care (HBC) for HIV/AIDS; under GFR9 during
2010-2011 under the Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria [CiSHAN].
I was the lead facilitator for Monitoring and Evaluation
Planning for State Sector-wide Plan for HIV/AIDS in Imo State in June 2012; and
have provided effective leadership and oversight on the ongoing capacity
building/training certificate courses of Health Systems and Projects
Consultants Ltd since 2012, and programmatic and administrative leadership for the implementation of the
HIV/AIDS control programs of the Catholic Action Committee on AIDS (PACA) in
Abuja during 2008-2011. With the
commitment to sustainable throughout the project, programme and organizational
life cycles, I supported capacity development (CD) in partner-organizations of
CiSHAN, Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria (HERFON) and Afrihealth Optonet
Association (AOA); and provided opportunity development for member-CSOs of AOA
in accessing the grants in 2014 by organizing proposal writing and project
management capacity development workshops towards grants-application and
implementation of activities/projects, 2014. I provided routine immunization
(RI) CD through supportive supervision for partner health centres of the
National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) in Imo State,
2012–2014.
Since 2006, I have been designing and developing materials,
modules, manuals, methodologies/strategies for implementation for training
interventions and capacity building in the areas of Proposal Writing and
Development; Project and Programme Management; Fundraising and Resource
Mobilization; Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization; Monitoring and
Evaluation (M&E); Leadership Development, Career Advancement and
Organizational Management; Health Systems Strengthening (HSS); Community
Systems Strengthening (CSS), and Gender Mainstreaming in Programs and
‘M&E’. I designed and developed the capacity building on Monitoring and
Evaluation Planning for State Sector-wide Plan for HIV/AIDS in Imo State in
2012; Fundraising and Resource Mobilization for Lagos State MOH staff, 2014;
and Project and Program Planning/Design and Development for Ogun State MoH staff
in 2014. I have regularly been involved coordinating and maintaining
sustainable capacity of CSO partners in CiSHAN, HERFON and AOA.
I coordinated and supervised 6 zonal 3-days training on
Resource Mobilization and Financial Management for CBOs from the 36 states and
FCT in 2010; 6 zonal 3-days training on Organizational Development for CBOs
from the 36 states and FCT in 2010 under the National HIV/AIDS Fund (HAF). I
was a trainer and facilitating consultant for ‘AIDS, TB and Malaria (ATM)
national CSO Networks Leaders’ Training on the Coordination and Management of
CSOs’ Activities’ for ACOMIN, CiSHAN and TB Networks and Actionaid Nigeria
under the Global Fund in 2012. I was the resource person for the ‘Training on
Ward Health/Community Systems Strengthening (HSS/CSS) for 5 Batches of Chairmen
and Secretaries of Ward Health Development Committees in Ezeagu, Udenu, Udi,
Nsukka and Nkanu West LGAs in Enugu State during 2010-2011. I was also the
Resource Person for Orientation and Capacity-building Workshop for Chairmen and
Secretaries of Ward Health Development Committees in two LGAs in Ebonyi State,
under GFR8 HSS/CSS project, 2010-2011. With respect to the provision of quality
control and technical leads, I provided supportive supervision for about 600 (six
hundred) PHCs in the 27 LGAs of Imo State was the valuator, Data Quality
Self-assessment (DQS) of RI in Njaba LGA of Imo State on behalf of the NPHCDA
during 2012-2014.
I have been providing quality control through
oversight/site visits to Global Fund’s HSS/CSS,
HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria projects in Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Anambra and Kebbi States since 2012. I
was the sole national consultant to Federal Ministry of Health and Unicef,
Nigeria, for the Joint Annual Review [JAR] of National Strategic Health Sector
Development Plan [SHDP] in Akwa Ibom State in 2012. I am a trained management trainer
from Nigeria’s Centre for Management Development (CMD) in 2014, and Training of
Trainers’ (TOT) from DFID/PATHS in 2006.
On
awards, I received the 2014 Merit Award of Leadership and Role Model from Merit
Time Organization; 2014 Gold Award West African Leadership Icons from Global
Vision Communication (Publishers of African Voice); 2014 Distinguished
Leadership Award from the Imo State Towns Development Association Lagos Women
Wing; and 2014 Exemplary Leadership Award; Catholic Men Organization [CMO], St.
Kizito Parish, Kuje, Abuja.
I received my Virtual Leadership Development Programme Diploma course
from USAID in 2013. In 2006, I
participated in the Leadership Skills Development Training for the Revitalisation of
Immunisation Services in Nigeria by NPI/FMOH; and the Annual General Meeting (AGM)/Scientific Conference of the
Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) on Leadership in the Nigerian Health Sector:
the challenges before the NMA. I also hold a doctoral degree in Optometry from
the College of Medicines and Health Sciences of Imo (now Abia) State University
in 1988. I have travelled to/through all the States in Nigeria. I am
Fellow of the Academy for Capacity Building (FACB), member of the management
committee of the Nigeria Association of Evaluators (NAE), Nigeria Institute of
Management (NIM) and Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria
(CIPM).
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