Andrew Wabwire

Experience

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  Danish Refugee Council / Dansk Flygtningehjælp

  Jun 2009 - Dec 2009

  Assistant Information Management Officer for Mine Action (IMSMA)

  • Revamped and implemented an Information Management tool as part of a team, which optimized the clearance of 1,191,020 square kilometers of land in Northern Uganda, directly facilitating the safe resettlement of 80% of community members and reducing mine-related accidents by 95% in the region.

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  Amref Health Africa in Uganda

  Jul 2010 - Feb 2021

  •Supported the training of 176 midwives to Diploma level across 12 health training institutions, contributing to the national reduction of the maternal health burden and improving access to competent healthcare providers for 8.1million Ugandans.•Leveraged evidence to influence the Ministry of Education's adoption of distance education for health workers across 12 regional training institutions, resulting in a 25% increase in the number of trained healthcare workers •Participated in the design and later implemented an information system in Uganda which streamlined project data collection processes, reduced data entry time by 50% and increased data accuracy by 80%. •This intensified the utilization of collected data that led to informed decision-making, which improved project outcomes by 75% and resulted in a 25% increase in reporting rates.

  • Project Manager - Capacity Building of Health Workers Project

    Aug 2012 - Feb 2021

  • ICT Officer - Country Office

    Jul 2010 - Jul 2012
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  PATH

  Feb 2021 - Nov 2023

  Senior Program Officer - Regional Technical Assistance Project on DMPA-SC

  •Developed a comprehensive project work plan and budget, enabling the M&E project team to effectively measure progress through the adoption of M&E tools, resulting in a 25% increase in efficiency.•Led the development of a regional technical assistance tool, outlining the review cycles and mechanisms for over 100 applications at the regional level before grant awards, streamlining the process and improving efficiency by 30%•Guided the creation of a regional technical assistance tool that illustrated the various cycles and review mechanisms for applications at the regional level, improving clarity for over 100 potential applicants.•I was part of a team that contributed a 30% increase in catalytic opportunity awards to Anglophone countries through providing technical assistance in reviews and feedback to partner organizations scaling DMPA-SC and self-injection.•Supervised 1500 tutors from 92 health training institutions across the country on the adoption of DMPA-SC and Self-Injection training material at pre and in-service training. •Coordinated and convened 20 subject matter experts to develop, align and approve training materials regarding DMPA-SC and Self-injection for adoption in health service training and promoting effective classroom based teaching and practicums for 1500 health tutors. •Developed a comprehensive tracking tool to capture and analyze technical assistance requests across 15 countries and inform decision making regarding the kind of technical support required for scale up.•Conducted preliminary activities to the coordination and moderating of a regional webinar for regional technical advisors to re-evaluate the technical assistance tool and its objective in ensuring its impact for scale through capturing various analytics to support scale. •Worked with the team to provide input in developing and submitting an application to the Gates Foundation that was successfully funded for scaling up DMPA-SC and self-injection in the private sector Show less

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  Medic

  Nov 2023 - now

  Senior Project Manager - Scaling Digital Health solutions for Community Health Workers

  •Led a team of 15 digital health eco-system partners in developing key documentation to scale the community health information system in Uganda, benefiting over 4m citizens.•Collaborated with the Uganda Ministry of Health to lead a team of developers and a service designer in creating dashboards and analytics tools that informed data visualization and decision-making for over 30 health facilities.•Conducted a 1 year landscape analysis to inform country strategy and inform proposal development and assess the digital health ecosystem priorities based on partner and Ministry of Health objectives for community health information systems.•Led a co-creation session with Medic country and external affairs team in drafting and passing a strategic plan for 2024-2026, an annual work plan and budget to support in alignment with Ministry of Health priorities regarding digitization of community health workers.•Led organizing and moderating monthly regional squad meetings to address digital health technical requirements for upcoming projects, monitor country progress against planned indicators and review country priorities to inform business development.•Revised the annual project stakeholder matrix to ensure increased stakeholder engagement in areas related to business development, project and partner visibility in the area of digital health across the country.•Routinely provide technical support through the technical working group meetings to the Ministry of Health in scaling the community health information systems across 18 districts and contributing to full scale up of the community tool, eCHIS.•Provided an advisory role to the Ministry of Health in the planning and commissioning of the hierarchy change to allow for the institutionalization of the community health extension workers allowing for support supervision of village health teams and providing an opportunity for increased health service delivery at community level. Show less