Abdul-Fataw Mumuni

Professional development course

Professional development course

Professional development course

Professional development course

Professional teaching program

" Donor: Global Affair Canada (GAC)
" As the Health Response Coordinator, I was responsible for leading and coordinating COVID-19 response activities in project districts, including development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of district programs. My responsibilities include overseeing the implementation of national COVID-19 response policies, reporting, collaborating with stakeholders, developing and disseminating gender-integrated SBCC messages, supporting community members, training and equipping healthcare workers, participating in coordination meetings, supporting emergency transport systems, and compiling periodic progress reports.
" Oversee the implementation of national COVID-19 response policies, procedures, SOPs, and trainings in the project districts.
" Report progress and issues pertaining COVID-19 response to project manager and project team at standing meetings with emerging issues reported to COVID-19 response point person (Emergency and Disaster Response Manager).
" Prepare regular and ad-hoc progress and scientific/evidence-based reports on COVID-19 activities being implemented in the project districts.
" Collaborate with GHS and other units in the project districts to achieve efficient implementation of activities, systematic utilization of resources and comprehensive development of study, research and analytical capacities required for effective COVID-19 control.
" Advise District Public Health Emergency Committee, District Assembly and GHS regarding COVID-19 response activities including COVID-19 prevention and case management strategies.
" Develop and disseminate gender integrated SBCC messages on hygiene, infection prevention, social distancing, mental health & MNCH/SRH (including SGBV prevention), equitable distribution of household roles, responsibilities and resources, women's and girls' decision-making.
" Develop comprehensive SBCC materials with pictorial illustrations (including text, pictorials, audio) on COVID-19 prevention protocols.
" Support community members and traditional and religious leaders to increase awareness on COVID-19, and promote positive coping mechanisms in IT-enabled or safe distance settings.
" Train and equip facility and community-based health care workers in IPC, case detection, referral, contact tracing and gender integrated key messages for risk communication.
" Support emergency transport systems for patient and specimen transportation and train and equip to provide a more hygienic, safe, gender and adolescent responsive referral.
" Support the provision of safe water, hygiene supplies, Health Care Waste Management and small-scale handwashing facilities in health facilities and public space.
" Participate in coordination meetings with health authorities and other actors on health & WASH sectoral meeting and advocating for gender responsive actions.

The Strengthening Health Outcomes for Women and Children (SHOW) Project is a gender transformative initiative aimed at increasing the quality, availability, utilization and accountability of essential MNCH/SRH services to reduce maternal and child mortality amongst marginalized and vulnerable women, specifically adolescent girls, and their children in targeted regions across five countries (Bangladesh, Ghana, Haiti, Nigeria and Senegal). SHOW is aligned with the UN's Every Woman Every Child global strategy, and will help to drive progress towards reaching targets within Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 5.
Roles and responsibilities:
" Assists Project Manager and the rest of the team to design and manage project activities in assigned project districts;
" Monitor health related activities in project communities through regular visits, and submits report of such visits to ensure quality supervision and monitoring leading to improvement in program delivery;
" Support implementing partners to ensure Plan International guiding principles, program quality standards and donor requirements are met throughout cash transfer implementation.
" Ensure adherence to humanitarian standards, principles and best practices.
" Ensure programmatic and operational Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are in place for partners, and that all team members and partners are aware of their responsibilities and implement accordingly.
" Participates in periodic health sector review meetings with GHS at the district level, and ensures greater collaboration with other strategic partners in health across the SHOW project districts;
" Under supervision of the Project Manager, facilitates capacity building of partners; CHWs, community Groups, etc. to ensure quality and timely delivery of project activities (including facilitation of training of partner NGOs and project communities);
" Facilitates empowerment of children and youth groups to be active participants in seeking prompt and appropriate health seeking behaviour; unlearning misconceptions and bad cultural practices that hinder access to quality and timely healthcare services at health facilities;
" Conducts regular visits to partners (LNGOs, GHS and Communities) in the assigned districts to provide technical support for effective implementation and management of project activities;
" Develops and maintains good relations with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and other partners (Both LNGOs and INGOs) who operates within the SHOW project districts so as to harness the possibility of building a strong network/partnership that can help shape or influence national or local level health policy;
" Collaborates with other Project Coordinators to ensure effective integration of Health, VSLAs, WASH and Child Protection in the project;
" Participates in development of action plans, budgets and provides assistance to implementing partners on how to achieve project results in a cost effective manner.
" Ensures Gender is mainstreamed into all SHOW related activities in the district - demonstrating gender sensitivity towards staff, partners, community members, and other associates;
" Ensures Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is well integrated in all health program activities to assure child protection in the project districts;
" Performs any other duties to be assigned to support the achievement of organizational goals;
" Prepares and summits annually, semi-annual, quarterly and weekly work plans detailing tasks (including monitoring plan) to be undertaken and indicators of performance and prepare progress reports for reference and support attainment of objectives;
Child Safeguarding Policy - As a Program Unit Point Person:
" Ensure that Plan International's Safeguarding of Children and Young People Policy (SCYPP) is understood by all staff and that it is integrated into all aspects of the team's work;
" Supports implementation by SCYPP Focal Points Persons of the various tasks linked with SCYPP induction, trainings and awareness raising, investigation and reporting on SCYPP cases and allegation.
" Liaises with the national SCYPP Specialist to timely review and update SCYPP risks and mitigation measures and to documents these.
" Always complies with Plan International's Child Protection Policy to prevent children from all forms of child abuse.

" I was responsible for the smooth and timely running of nutrition activities within the MVP cluster and also ensured that the key and suitable nutrition interventions are implemented according to MVP nutrition strategy and Ghana Health Service protocols. While focusing on nutrition, these interventions were integrated into the health programs as primary health care, malaria, HIV/AIDS, TB, Mother & Child Health and Sexual & Reproductive Health. A particular attention had been paid to the integration with the other sectors such as education, agriculture and gender.
" I worked directly with the MVP health team, clinic staffs and communities:
" Participated in the recruitment of Community Health Workers (CHWs)
" Trained Health facility staff and CHWs on different nutrition topics (Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition [CMAM], Growth Monitoring and Promotion [GMP], Infant and Young Child Feeding and practices [IYCF], Essential Nutrition Actions [ENAs], Targeted supplementary Feeding Program [TSFP], etc.)
" Supervised, monitored and supported clinic staffs and CHWs for implementation of nutrition activities both at facility and community level
" Supervised, monitored and supported health staffs and CHWs for implementation eHealth (electronic/mobile phone data collection) using CommCare App program
" Ensured that proper health and nutrition education activities including IYCF are done by the clinic staffs and CHWs
" Ensured proper implementation of GMP, IYCF, TSFP, nutrition BCC approaches, and CMAM activities as key component of nutrition strategy
" Planned, organized and trained and or re-train clinic based staffs and CHWs based on the needs identified
" Collected and cross check daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly nutrition related data from the clinics staff and CHWs
" Compiled weekly, monthly and quarterly reports for the nutrition program and analyze the nutrition situation and the performance indicators
" Identified any difficulties/challenges and propose adequate solutions
" Participated actively in any need assessment/surveys upon request and implementation of the Line Manager/Technical Advisor recommendations.
" Elaborated a comprehensive nutrition work plan for the site in collaboration with the MVP Health Team and Regional & District Health Management Teams
" Created a strong and constructive coordination and collaboration with other sector facilitators and local partners in the area, particularly Ghana Health Service, UNICEF and WFP.