Olasubomi Chuku

Experience

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  The Wellbeing Foundation Africa

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

  Research Officer

  ◾️Assisted in designing advocacy strategies that successfully led to the passage of Kwara State Safe Maternity Services and Child Rights Bills.◾️ Created over 4 impactful presentations to support campaigns promoting safe motherhood practices and children’s rights across Kwara State.

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  ICAP at Columbia University

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2011

  Program Assistant

  ◾️Designed and implemented ICAP Nigeria’s Gender Mainstreaming Strategy to promote inclusivity in public health programs and community-based interventions.◾️Reviewed state partner work plans and budgets annually to ensure 100% alignment with programme goals and compliance with donor requirements.◾️Prepared and submitted an organisation-wide monthly programme report summary to the U.S. CDC, ensuring accuracy and timely reporting.

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  CIHPNG

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

  Senior Programme Associate, State Coordination

  ◾️ Developed scopes of work and performance management tools, including costed workplans for 30 health facilities and 23 CBOs across 6 Nigerian states.◾️Conducted on-site quarterly reviews with donor and partner teams, providing technical assistance on child protection, gender mainstreaming and livelihoods.◾️Co-developed the CIHP Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy and summarised health facility and CBO strategic information reports as fact sheets.◾️Represented CIHP on the Social Mobilisation Proposal Development team for Nigeria’s Global Fund Round 10 grant proposals, contributing to grant acquisition efforts. Show less

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  Solina Health

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2015

  Programme/Grants Specialist

  ◾️Evaluated the 2012 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Immunisation Leadership Challenge, measuring the impact of political commitment and funding for routine immunisation in Nigeria. Performed desk reviews of performance data and interviews of state stakeholders, including the Executive Governors, Deputy Governors, Commissioners of Health and traditional rulers in 6 out of 12 states.◾️Managed a virtual community of the R4D Center for Health Market Innovations as the West Africa Regional Broker, fostering collaboration among health innovators to improve healthcare access for vulnerable populations.◾️Acted as a liaison for health innovation ecosystem development with the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria, co-designing its innovation challenge grant and reviewing over 150 grant applications. Show less

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  International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA Nigeria)

  Jan 2018 - Jan 2020

  National Programme Manager

  ◾️ Secured $1.25M in grants from the UN, EU, and Ford Foundation to fund girls and women’s rights and legal protection programmes against violence.◾️ Managed a portfolio of $600,000 in grants from MacArthur Foundation and Oxfam Novib to promote access to justice and mitigate gender-based violence across 14 states in Nigeria.◾️Represented FIDA as a speaker at high-level stakeholder dialogues, such as being a panellist on the Nigerian Vice-Presidential Conference on Gender-Based Violence, 2018.◾️Facilitated innovative GBV workshops for 100+ national stakeholders, including federal and state legislative bodies, disability rights groups and Nigerian security forces.◾️Designed and implemented a peer educator programme, training 40 Nigerian university students across 2 states on gender-based violence prevention. Show less

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  Action Against Hunger | ACF-USA

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

  Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist

  ◾️ Integrated gender equality and inclusion-sensitive indicators into the Household Uplifting Programme (HUP) delivery and measurement frameworks to enhance the delivery systems of the Federal Government of Nigeria’s $500 million National Social Safety Nets Project (NASSP).◾️Delivered technical assistance to the National Coordinating Office and the National Cash Transfer Unit for capacity building, focusing on mechanisms to prevent gender-based violence and address grievances.◾️Orchestrated the promotion of positive social norms around gender equality and social inclusion among beneficiaries of the FCDO-funded Child Development Grant Programme (CDGP) by designing gender mainstreaming strategies and inclusive communication messaging.◾️Mainstreamed gender and social inclusion into ACF humanitarian programmes on health, nutrition, WASH, food security, livelihoods, emergency response of shelter, and distribution of non-food items. Show less

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  The World Bank

  Jan 2021 - now

  Gender Equality Specialist, Women, Business and the Law Nigeria Sub-National

  𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧, 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐰 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭◾️Serving as the legal and gender advisor for the Women, Business and the Law Sub-National Survey in Nigeria, analysing survey responses across 10 gender equality indicators, customary and Islamic law.◾️Collecting and validating data from legal and gender experts in 8 states on women’s economic opportunities across labor and employment, family life, and gender-based violence themes.𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚 (𝐀𝐍𝐑𝐢𝐍) 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭◾️ Led hands-on technical guidance and capacity building to 6 federal institutions (Agriculture & Food Security, Budget & Economic Planning, Health & Social Welfare, Education, Women Affairs, and National Social Safety Nets Project) on the convergence of multisectoral programming for nutrition under the $232 million Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria (ANRiN) project.◾️Provided technical guidance on the development of World Bank Social and Environmental Safeguards micro-plans and a grievance redress mechanism strategy for 12 ANRiN implementing states. ◾️Contributed to the design of 2 World Bank proposals issued by the Rapid Social Response and Nutrition and Education Early Learning Partnership Multi-Donor Trust Funds. Show less