Priscilla Achakpa

Experience

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  Savanah Bank Plc

  Nov 1989 - Feb 2001

  Senior Operations Manager
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  Caritas /Catholic Province of Abuja

  Feb 2001 - Feb 2006

  Executive Secretary

  Serves as the Secretary to the Group of Coordinators, Justice, Development and Peace/Health/ Caritas; development and follow up of partnership opportunities; representation, collaboration and partnership between Caritas Africa and the global level; fundraising, interfaces between donors, partners and the church institutions.

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  Women Environmental Programme

  Feb 2006 - Mar 2019

  Founder/Executive Director

  Founding Member/Executive Director, development planning; follow up of partnership opportunities; interfaces with partners and donors, fundraising, coordination and creating linkages and building of alliances

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  WSSCC: Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council

  Nov 2012 - Mar 2019

  National Coordinator

  The National Coordinator ensure strategic engagement of WSSCC at the country level, in a way that adds value to the national WASH sector, aligns with WSSCC priorities, and in consultation with the Council’s secretariat, builds on the regional and global linkages. WSSCC’s National Coordinators are pivotal to the success of WSSCC at country level, and in ensuring that appropriate amplification and integration takes place across the various interventions that WSSCC supports in each country. National Coordinators are part of the Council’s operational structure Show less

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  United Nations Office for Project Services

  Apr 2019 - Jun 2020

  Partnerships Specialist

  Partnership and programme development planning; Development and follow up of partnership opportunities; Representation, inter-agency collaboration and partnership development; Knowledge management and innovation

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  Federal Ministry of Environment, Nigeria

  Jun 2020 - May 2022

  Special Advisor(Technical) to the Honorable Minister for State Environment

  Support for policy development and implementation; provide high quality technical guidance to the HMS; track opportunities for possible intervention by the ministry and identify trends that will drive partnership opportunities; contribute to the identification, design, formulation, negotiations of new programs and projects in alignment with the government policies and core mandate of the Ministry; development of knowledge- based initiatives for effective delivery among others.

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  International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

  Apr 2023 - Aug 2023

  Senior Consultant

  Consultant for the development of COSOP 2024-2029, Technical support for the United Nations Food System Stocktaking Moment 2023, and Regional workshop on Financial Management for West and Central Africa

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  International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

  Apr 2024 - Jul 2024

  Gender and Social Inclusion Expert

  Life ND project lead writer for request for additional fundGender and Social Inclusion Expert for LIFE ND supervision mission

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  UNDP Tajikistan

  May 2024 - Jul 2024

  Gender and Social Inclusion for NAP in Tajikistan

  Review current issues on gender and climate, develop gender sensitive indicators, develop an implementation, develop stakeholder inclusive analysis, prepare learning materials for conducting workshops on mainstreaming gender into NAP