EDWIN MUMAH

Experience

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  State Department of Devolution Kenya

  May 2018 - Dec 2021

  Monitoring And Evaluation Officer

  • Strengthened rollout of Kenya devolution support program monitoring and evaluation strategy and tools including M&E plan to counties to enhance monitoring of the program output.• Supported team leaders with the maintenance of accurate project documentation through tracking attendance sheets.• Where required, supported the team’s operational needs, including planning travel and organizing events.• Initiated training of farmers on how to market and brand their products and services.• Initiated and organized regular learning events with other capacity-building teams, creating, and supervising the training of trainees (TOTs) and training of mentors (TOMs).• Oversaw M&E activities to ensure that program-based monitoring activities are being performed according to schedule. • Supported Programme and project managers to design and monitor MEARL budgets and spending in line with donor requirements.• Identified grantee MEL-related capacity needs and opportunities for capacity building and assumes responsibility for facilitating related trainings. Ensured timely entry and monitored data in the MIS system as well as supported the use of digital data collection for the M&E team to ensure data quality.• Integrated M&E into the program planning and implementation system and ensured adherence to departmental M&E minimum standards.• Collected program M&E data regularly and followed up with the program team on data collection and reporting. Show less

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  University of Nairobi Enterprise services

  Feb 2021 - Feb 2022

  Program Management Officer

  • Provided oversight and support to program leaders on M&E system plans and processes.• Liaised with implementing stakeholders to collect required data and report for M&E plan activities.• Maintained and Ensure project activities are on time, target, and budget, using effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems to reach desired impacts.• Assisted the Project Manager to trouble-shoot any project challenges during project implementation.• Provided regular and timely updates on progress and challenges to the Project Manager and other team members.• Supported the department in the development of a learning and knowledge-sharing platform for the internship and attachment programs.• Documented lessons learned and best practices for knowledge sharing and learning.• Managed and updated counties project result framework regularly.• Planned knowledge sharing and learning events Show less

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  Sequa gGmbH, GIZ

  Jan 2022 - Sept 2024

  Technical expert on monitoring Evaluation accounting and communicatin.

  • Ensured that at any given time the status of indicator achievement is available and as up to date as possible. • Managed gaps in data collection and provide enhanced data quality assurance.• Analyzed qualitative data collected during the site visits to help in the interpretation of the quantitative data and observations made during the data verification visits.• Achieved organizing and implementing stakeholders’ business model and youth entrepreneurship interventions training and workshops. • Achieved Planning, organizing, and implementing training of trainer’s model for farm business plan/proposal development, business law, and grant proposal application/writing topics.• Assisted the Team Leader in accounting, reporting, and documentation of the project budget. • Contributed to the exchange of information between the project office in Nakuru and Sequa headquarters. • Advocated full compliance with the project MEL plan, as well as GIZ Minimum Monitoring Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Standards. • Supplied regular updates for Machinery Rings’ internal and external communications, reporting progress made in field activities and projects.• Developed and established adaptable MEL tools and templates, including by translating finalized tools into local languages. • Supported machinery Rings’ communication and knowledge development teams in documenting, capturing, and sharing key learnings successes and challenges across the project regions and Sequa in Germany. Show less

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  Management School, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  Jul 2024 - now

  Researcher in Agricultural Economics with a focus on Global Food Security and Investment Strategies