Newton Oliver Obbuyi

Experience

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  Millenium Villages Project

  Feb 2015 - Aug 2015

  Agribusiness Intern

  Duties and Responsibilities:1.Initiating plan and executing sales and marketing produce2.Creating,maintaining and updating membership database3. Assessment,appraisals,loan processing and recovery to clients.4.Accounting and maintaining accurate ,computerized and manual financial records.5.Securing of societies'(GEM HORTICULTURE COOPERATIVE) accountable documents .(register , cheque books and certificates)6. Registration of new members and maintaining of procedural records.7.Farm management and outreach8.Farmers training and conducting business during sessions9. Field supervision, compiling and conducting business during sessions.10. Data collection and enrty Show less

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  Juhudi Kilimo

  Aug 2016 - Jun 2017

  Assistant Business Development Officer

  Duties and Responsibilities :1.Market outreach to generate new leads and client training.2.KIVA fundraising initiatives by submitting profiles and documentation3.Building positive client relationship and customer service4.Growing branch portfolio size through targets.5.Leads conversion into clients and managing of delinquency. 6.Conduct pre intake assessment and appraisal to clients.7.Loan disbursement and recovery.8.Conducting client feedback and market intelligence for use in research and innovation. Show less

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  Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF)

  Jul 2017 - May 2019

  Scaling up rural youth access to inclusive financial services for entrepreneurship and employment project was an IFAD funded project whose aim was to support at least 10,000 young people engaged in agribusiness. The project main target were the youth and provided technical assistance, incubation services and investment/partnership opportunities to youth groups and individuals in agriculture. During my tenure ,my roles and responsibilities included but not limited to:1. Focal point for administrative coordination of project implementation by building relationship and collaborations with team, actors, and beneficiaries across Eastern Africa.2. Identified and linked over 300 Agri-SMEs to opportunities access finance to facilitate growth and development of their business ventures. 3. Prepared and updated contracts for at least 50 service providers, concept notes and periodic reports for the project activities across Eastern Africa. 4. Compiled, summarized and present basic information on specific program entrepreneurship and related topics and coordination of business advisory services for at least 300 Agri-SMEs using a market facilitation approach.5. Identified and Organized partnership opportunities for Agri-SMEs, training workshops, staff, and stakeholder’s forum across the region. 6. Developed annual work plan, budget, selection and pitching of investor ready proposals. 7. Verification of contract budgets as per approved budgets.8. Tracked and shared relevant calls for proposals. 9. Developed and maintained an overview of all grants, donor requirements, rules and regulations, internal and external deadlines, including filing of grant documen Show less Duties and Responsibilities :1.Ensure proper record keeping of projects activities within CBOs/ Farmer groups and documentation of success stories and case studies.2.Coordinate and participate in implementing follow ups ,ToT training and retraining of farmer groups and giving an update on the same to EAFF secretariat.3.Weekly reporting to EAFF secretariat on follow up,training,support provided to groups ,monitoring,evaluation and farm productivity.4.Formulation of detailed work plans to implement activities which addressed good agronomic practices hence improving livelihood of rural small scale farmers.5.Marketing of farm inputs,loan products and crop insurance.6.Mobilization of farmer groups into e Granary platform (registration *492#)7.Mobilization of farmer groups on crop insurance ,joint input purchase and produce aggregation through supply contracts.8.Organizing field visits for EAFF secretariat and her partners.9.Follow up on loan collection(inputs)from the farmers by their groups ,CBOSs and cooperatives Show less

  • Project Assistant

    Jan 2018 - May 2019

  • Field Assistant

    Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
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  Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

  Jun 2019 - May 2023

  GAIN and CARE are implementing the CAtalyzing Strengthened policy aCtion for heAlthy Diets and resiliencE (CASCADE) that aims to improve food security and contribute to the reduction of malnutrition of at least 5 million women of reproductive age and children under 5 in Benin, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Mozambique. The programme has two strategic objectives: it aims to increase access to and consumption of healthy diets, as well as increasing the resilience of households to economic and climate change-related shocks across the six countries, with a focus on women of reproductive age and children. Show less The Commercialisation of Bio-fortified Crops (CBC) program is a partnership between the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and HarvestPlus that shares an ambition to expand coverage of bio-fortified nutrient-dense foods to at least 190.6 million consumers in Africa and Asia by 2022.In Kenya,the current focus is to expand the coverage of nutrient dense crops to over 2.9 million consumers by 2022 while transiting over 168,000 smallholder farmers from subsistence to commercial farming. My roles and responsibilities include but not limited to : • Execution of overall project management , monitoring and evaluation to assesprogress and determine impact. • Provide high level end to end technical assistance to grantees , private serviceproviders and government institutions.• Regular monitoring activities including site visits to ensure maximum impact andcontinuous improvement of communication effort and profiling of organizationalrequirements.• Guiding the programme set-up, including developing work plans and budgets• Establish business models that are economically and agronomic viable for granteesi.e SMEs, small holder farmers/ co-operatives and farmer groups.• Building, strengthening and management of strategic relationships withgovernments, key partners,grantees, institutions and stakeholders in alignmentwith project objectives.• Deliver market and value chain related outputs in collaboration with the projectteam.• Develop sustainable rural agripreneurs to offer last mile linkages to smallholderfarmers.• Provide guidance in piloting and scaling of interventions across the food systemdevelopment.• Management of consultants and grantees ensuring understanding, goals andexpectations.• Monitoring , Evaluation, Communications and Outreach Show less The Marketplace for Nutritious Foods (MNF) was a knowledge. networking and financing platform for SMEs in Kenya , Rwanda and Mozambique to improve the market availability of nutritious foods. It facilitates partnerships and knowledge sharing across the agriculture value chain and catalyzes innovations that support SMEs whose product and services have potential to improve the diets of vulnerable communities. My main roles and responsibilities include but not limited to: 1. Participate actively in team events, including but not limited to planning , facilitating and execution of conference and seminars on Zoom, Microsoft Teams.2. Working closely with grantees ,service providers and partners to contribute towards systematic learning and reflection processes that lead to continuous adaptive management.3. Pipeline development of appropriate SMEs, business modelling, technical assistance, due diligence and quantitative analyses of SMEs and market intelligence.4. Work with program team on the management of a portfolio of grants within the project, which includes understanding the capacity and effectiveness of potential grantees, research potential grantees, designing and writing grant memos and other key documents, maintaining grantee relationships, participating in site visits and other monitoring activities.5. Collect, review and document monitoring data from project stakeholders and beneficiaries on salesforce.6. Prepare documents for internal communications (quarterly reviews, reports) and external convening (event organization, briefing reports, talking points, input into speeches)7. Development and processing of legal documents (grant agreements, consulting contracts, travel letters, amendments, travel expenses and claims)8. Contribute towards the development of internal and donor reports including monthly, quarterly, and annual monitoring and financial expenditure reports. Show less

  • Project Manager - CASCADE PROJECT

    Jan 2023 - May 2023

  • Interim Project Manager

    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

  • Project Associate - Business Development

    Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Project Associate - The Marketplace for Nutritious Foods Project

    Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
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  World Resources Institute

  Jun 2023 - now

  • Finance and Operations Manager (Africa) - Energy Program

    Jul 2024 - now

  • Project Coordinator - Energy Program

    Jun 2023 - Jun 2024