PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Hearts 4 Peace, Team-Leader, Calgary Alberta and Kampala, Uganda. 2010 – 2018

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 16 facilitators in Adult and Peace Education
• Facilitated workshops and seminars for development organizations
• Developed curriculums and course manuals for client institutions
• Developed projects and administer/oversee contracts

Families Matter Society   Coordinator Fathers Parenting Programs, Calgary, Alberta (2008 – 2010)

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated the development process for the iDad program
• Managed a team of facilitators on parenting projects
• Developed training and facilitation manuals and materials
• Facilitated parenting workshops
• Built partnerships and networks for dads in Alberta

United Nations Development Program (UNDP)  Taskforce Chair: Restructuring and Reprofiling the Private Sector in Western Uganda. (2000 – 2004).

A project implemented under the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development in partnership with the World Bank

Responsibilities:

• Chaired all Taskforce meetings
  • Mobilized and organizing various stakeholders in the private sector
  • Facilitated workshops and seminars for member organizations
  • Spearheaded the formation of KABUKYE Microfinance for members
  • Handed over a newly restructured company called PRICON with over 200 member institutions.

Save The Children International – Uganda. Health Education Consultant on HIV/AIDS and Children’s Health in and out of school. 2002

Used music, dance and drama as a communication methodology in schools and communities to create awareness among children about HIV/AIDS, hygiene and sanitation, and Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health (ASRH).

Plan International – Uganda. Behavior Change and Communication (BCC) Consultant. 2002 – 2004

School Health Clubs and Community Health Clubs Trainer/Facilitator. Focus areas included: HIV/AIDS, Malaria, hygiene and sanitation, Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health (ASRH). Theater for Development (TFD) and Stepping Stones Methodologies were the main approaches used during community meetings, mobilization and organizing community health clubs.

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Behavior Change and Communication (BCC) Consultant. 2002 – 2003

Trainer in Theater for Development (TFD), Stop Action Theater (SAT) and Stepping Stones Communications Methodologies. Focus areas were on: Reproductive Health, Human Rights, Safe motherhood, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Gender equality and equity.

Agency for Cooperation in Research and Development ACORD – Uganda. Behavior Change and Communication (BCC) Consultant. 2003.

Training Trainers in Stepping Stones and Theater for Development Methodologies to work in Internally Displaced Peoples Camps (IDPs) throughout Gulu District on northern Uganda following the Lords Resistance Army war with the government of Uganda. Focus areas were on HIV/AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Conflict Transformation, and Gender Based Violence.

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) – Uganda. Community Development and Program Sustainability Consultant. 2002-2005.

Trainer for staff professional development, trainer for community health, youth and women clubs. I used various community mobilization, organization and planning methodologies such as: Theater for Development, Stepping Stones, Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope (PATH) and other community engagement tools.

Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development – Behavior Change and Communication (BCC) Consultant. 2002

Training of Trainers on using Theater for Development and Stop Action Theater in a countrywide campaign to eradicate gender based violence, promote workers rights and general national development. Training targeted university students willing to initiate community music, dance and drama clubs in their communities.

National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU) – Training Consultant. 2003

Countrywide campaign against community and self stigma, campaign to change the language to ‘people with different abilities’ with a slogan ‘disability is not inability’, promotion of human rights and the rights for people with disabilities.