I have been involved in Nigeria’s Health Insurance
Schemes and systems since 2006 when I participated in the certificate
course/training in Health Insurance and Health Systems Strengthening in Sao
Paulo Brazil, while understudying Brazil’s health insurance system hands on,
along with other Nigerian
stakeholders including members of the National Assembly, Representatives of
Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH), Board and management of the NHIS, Change
Agents, representatives of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), NHIS
Providers, Consumers, Civil Society and media. This training was used to review
and streamline the Nigeria Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) with substantial reference
to the published report of the Brazil training which I wrote while I was the
Programmes Manager at Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria (HERFON). I
participated actively and benefited well from the NHIS-organized activities and
workshop for stakeholders prior to the role-out of its community-based health
insurance scheme [CBHIS]. I served briefly as NHIS consultant on clinic audit
for the scheme.
I am at home with surveys in
research and evidence-generation, and have received the following additional monitoring
and evaluation (M&E)/evidence-generation related trainings from the
USAID/Measure Evaluation/MSH: Optimizing your M&E team's performance:
Improving internal communication and dealing with conflict; Overcoming the
challenge of building and leading effective M&E teams for public sector,
NGO and civil society organizations; The Virtual Leadership Development
Programme (a Diploma course); Country Ownership & Organizational Capacity
Building; and Creating an Enabling Environment for M&E Community of Practice
[CoP]. I have also received training in Statistical Package for Social Sciences
(SPSS) and Data Management; use and application of QuickBooks software; and
Peer Participatory Rapid Health Assessment for Action (PPRHAA).
I am an M&E consultant, resource person/facilitator and
trainer/capacity-builder, professional manager, health and community systems
strengthening consultant, primary care practitioner, researcher/reviewer,
programs/projects manager, negotiator/advocate, community leader, volunteer,
blogger and author/writer/columnist. My areas of focus are sexual and
reproductive health and rights (SRHR) including HIV and AIDS, Primary Health
Care (PHC), Vaccines/Immunizations, Energy/Environment, Nutrition/Food
Security, and Good Governance/Human Rights. I have more than 10 years’
experience implementing large-scale and complex monitoring and evaluations, and
surveys to collect individual, household, community and facility level data. I
was a Trainer/Resource Person and Supervisor for training of 125 persons from
the 36 States and FCT on M&E, and supervised the M&E of the Home-Based
Care component of the Global Fund Round 9 in the 36 States and FCT under the
Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria [CiSHAN] during 2010-2011.
I was a consultant to Federal Ministry of Health and Unicef,
Nigeria, for the Joint Annual Review [JAR] for the Evaluation of Nigeria’s
National Strategic Health Sector Development Plan [SHDP] in Akwa Ibom State in
2012. Since 2012, I have served as Technical Consultant to the Country
Coordination Mechanism [CCM] on oversight visitations to Global Fund’s Health
Systems Strengthening, HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria projects and sites in Kebbi,
Akwa Ibom, Anambra and Rivers States. I was the GAVI consultant that provided
monthly routine immunization (RI) monitoring and supportive supervision and
capacity building in 250 (two hundred and fifty) health centres in Imo State
during 2012-2014. I was also the consultant of World Bank and NACA that
developed Imo State Multi-sectoral HIV & AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation
Plan in 2012; and served as the sole consultant for the ‘Development of the
Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria Comprehensive Manual of Procedures’ for
Nigeria, 2012. In 2014, I undertook data quality self-assessment (DQS) of routine
immunization in Njaba and Owerri West LGAs of Imo State on behalf of the
National Primary Health Care Development Agencies (NPHCDA).
I possess strong capacity and experience in planning and
organizing surveys, field work/logistics in Nigeria; and have good network of
experienced enumerators, supervisors, and data entry clerks and ability to
mobilize and retain them all over Nigeria. I have proven experience with data
quality assurance mechanisms (field work management, data entry programming,
etc.) on Global Fund grants/projects; and have presided over the procurement of
necessary equipment, including laptops under the Global Fund grant/projects. I
am familiar and experienced with both field and central-based data entry
methods as may be desired. I am very fluent in written and spoken English and
Igbo languages, with fair understanding speaking of Hausa and Yoruba also. I am
very much at home with the health sector in Nigeria having worked with three
ministers of health and several commissioners for health in Nigeria in the last
10 (ten) years. I have more than 15 (fifteen) years’ experience
leading/managing large-scale and complex surveys to collect individual,
household, and/or provider/firm-level data. I serve as a consultant to the
Federal Ministry of Health and National Primary Health Care Development Agency
(NPHCDA) among other notable institutions in the country with demonstrated
capacity and experience in leading/managing survey field work and logistics.
Previously, I was the programme manager for advocacy and
communications at the DFID-funded Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria (HERFON),
as well as the Head of Management/Administrative Secretary and Programmes
Coordinator of CiSHAN. I have demonstrated/proven leadership ability and
effective communication competences by regularly facilitating communication
between different stakeholders, government, non-government, and academic
institutions, and leading and motivating teams of enumerators, data entry
staff, etc. I have a persistent knack for details and have also worked with/for
both private and public sectors of the Nigerian health and development sectors.
A widely-travelled person, I am a World Bank-trained Sexual and Reproductive
Health and Rights (SRHR) advocate and Health Economist, with involvement in
monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as an implementer, supervisor and trainer
since 2010. 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 am
currently a freelance consultant on health systems strengthening with M&E
evidence-generation, capacity building and trainings, as my core competences. I
am Fellow of the Academy for Capacity Building (FACB) and member of several
professional bodies including the Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM) and
Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM).
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