Douglas Atambila Nyaaba
Tamale
Summary
Dependable Coordinator provides excellent office management and administrative support. Possesses strong communication and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines. Creative problem solver with strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Regional Coordinator
Plan International Ghana-Tamale
05.2023 - Current
- Worked with Project Manager and team members to develop annual work plans and reviewed partners' plans and progress reports
- Lead identification of beneficiary communities and individuals for project activity
- Organized conferences and workshops for stakeholders, implementing partners and community leaders to examine project reports
- Planned travel routes, received Canadian partners and ensured provision for security for them
- Provided technical support to partners and stakeholders to fully implement project activities
- Guide project partners in writing, and reviewing activity reports and submit finalized versions to donors
- Worked with partners to conduct training needs assessment and conduct training for Community Based Volunteers
- Provided direction and guidance for Air ticketing, road transportation arrangements and accommodation reservations for our Canadian partners and other local partners
- Responsible for planning field visits for our foreign and local partners and also act as laison between the project over 150 communities across five Regions of Ghana
- Worked with stakeholders to train 300 women in Green Businesses such as Mushroom, Snail rearing, and beekeeping to improve Women's Economic condition and household diet diversification
- Developed and implemented soybean cultivation for Women farmers in Northern Ghana to enhance women’s participation and contribution to the agribusiness value chain
- Trained 250 women groups to use soya farm produce to prepare diversified nutrition recipes for sale and home consumption
- Formed and trained 500 Village Savings and Loans Association in project communities to improve women economic position and household nutrition
- Work with Ghana Health Service/CHPS health staff to conduct monthly growth monitoring on children in the 126 childcare centers
- Trained 240 child caregivers on infants and young child feeding practices, including child protection and safeguarding
- Supported, and coached women groups and organized 5 community-level cooking demonstrations by using locally available foodstuffs
- Worked with Mentors to mentor selected women entrepreneurs to exhibit a variety of food products at the Associations of Ghana Industries exhibition 2023
- Received, and oriented Canadian volunteers and linked them to project communities
- Developed disaster and epidemic preparedness plans for the disaster response component of the project
- Organized 2 shared learning sessions for implementing partners and stakeholders
- Conduct quarterly Data verification and validation for all project activities
- Worked with stakeholders to operationalize 56 community safe canters for child care
- Worked with Business Advisory Centers to build the capacity of 300 women entrepreneurs on packaging, and marketing of women-owned products to improve household incomes and nutrition
- Supports the development of a community-based training manual for community advocacy against Gender-Based Violence.
Health Coordinator
Plan International Ghana-Tamale
12.2021 - 09.2022
- Worked with Ghana Health service to provide training in Infection prevention, with focused on WASH for COVID-19 prevention
- Provided coaching and mentoring to community health workers and volunteers
- Developed and pre-test data collection tools for collecting project service delivery data
- Performed Quality Data Analysis and provided feedback to partners
- Capacity building on Household nutrition and gender themes for 400 community Mother–to–mother Support groups
- Provided training on Nutrition, COVID-19, and gender themes for 190 adolescents in the West Mumprusi Municipal, Nanumba North, and North Gonja Districts
- Trained 500 youth groups/adolescents in youth development issues, including adolescent Nutrition, confidence building, prevention of wayward behaviors, and the importance of completing their education
- Set up 240 youth/adolescent clubs and mentored them through senior high schools in West Mampurisi, Nanumba North, and North Gonja Districts
- Organized a one-day seminar on youth empowerment of students at Bimbilla Senior High School and Wasipe (North Gonja) Community Day School
- Built capacity of 120 youth leaders in various themes, including the national youth policy and opportunities for the youth
- Procured and distributed dignity kids to 3000 youthful girls in Nanumba North, West Mamprusi, North Gonja, and Mamprugu Maduraii Districts
- Coordinated with the Ghana Health Services to provide training for key stakeholders to prevent COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
- Provided training on Nutrition, COVID-19, and gender integration for 540 Community Health Committees and Community Health Volunteers in North Gonja, Nanumba North, Karaga, and Mampurugu Moaduri Districts
- Provided and distributed COVID-19 prevention materials to 60 health facilities and 120 adolescent and youth corners in communities in North Gonja and Nanumba North
- Developed, printed, and distributed, Gender and COVID-19 Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) materials to 420 communities, health facilities, and local stakeholders in 4 districts
- Identified, procured, and distributed Hygiene items to communities, health facilities, and other stakeholders for COVID-19 prevention
- Supported the Ghana Health Service and Regional Coordinating Councils to organize a one-day stakeholder consultation on COVID-19, and Gender themes in the North East Region
- Provided supportive supervision, mentoring of Community Health workers, and volunteers
- Provided technical support for the formation and training of the Village Savings and Loans Association in Nanumba North and North Gonja
- Led in the formation and training of Mother-to-Mother Support Groups and Daddy’s clubs in various themes including Nutritional needs of women, and children, and COVID-19 prevention
- Provided supportive supervision and quality data for MEAL to populate Indicator Tracking Tables of the project
- Represent Plan Ghana at the Northern Development Authority to develop Medium-Term Development Plans.
Regional Community Mobilization Advisor for CHPS
Plan International/USAID Systems for Health Project
01.2015 - 01.2019
- Supported GHS and 120 Community Health Planning and Service (CHPS) zones to improve health delivery services (Penta3, Family Planning, and skilled delivery) using Quality Improvement methods
- Received and led URC foreign teams to monitor project activities in 120 communities in project locations
- Supported Ghana Health Service (GHS) to Monitor PDSAs in 120 CHPS zones
- Applied Quality Improvement (QI) tools and methods to enhance health staff skills in identifying undernourished children, Anaemia in Pregnancy, and their management
- Coordinated assessment, scoring, and development plans of 200 CHPS zones on the Ghana Community scorecard, a community-level quality improvement tool
- Mentored, and coached community-level health staff to review their PDSA, tracked their data collection, and validated data collected
- Supported, coached, and mentored health staff to analyze data, present data and take action
- Organized peer-to-peer learning sessions for health staff to present their respective CHPS zone projects and inputs made to improve service outcomes
- Supported, mentored, and coached health staff to implement their respective change ideas and tracked to identify improvements for adoption and modification
- Supported health staff to use DHIMS2 data regularly to help track their change ideas
- Coordinate and provide technical support for the training of District Trainers, Community Health Officers, and Community Health Management Committees in varying health themes to enhance CHPS service delivery in all 25 districts of the region
- Provided technical support to community health workers on Behaviour Change Communication activities of the project including Demand Generation for Nutrition Services uptake
- Team lead for the development of annual activity budgets and coordination of status, quarterly, mid-year, and annual reports for the Volta CHPS team
- Quality Improvement support to improve Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (MNCH) in 120 CHPS zones
- Collaborate with GHS/Regional Health Directorate to conduct coaching and mentoring on Integrated Management of Maternal, Neonatal, and Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI) and Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (MNCH) to GHS staff in the Volta Region
- Provided technical assistance for the development and training in the use of community Scorecards as quality improvement tools for health delivery at the community level.
Upper East Deputy Regional Nutrition Officer
Ghana Health Service Regional Health Directorate
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Provided technical support to the Centre for International Potato (CIP, a USAID Supported Project) the in development of different recipes using the orange Flesh Sweet Potatoes (OFSP)
- Provided capacity building to health workers, farmers, and other stakeholders in the cultivation of OFSP to improve food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana
- A regional team member for conducting EPI cluster surveys and analyzing data using Wincosa
- A regional team member for monitoring routine vaccination and provided coaching to enhance the quality of vaccination
- A regional team member for the investigation of Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI)
- Supported the Regional Nutrition Officer in oversight responsibility for nutrition activities in 13 Municipalities/Districts in the region
- Mentored and coached health workers in thirteen Municipalities/Districts in the implementation of nutrition programs
- Responsible for improving micronutrient, malnutrition (Vitamin A Deficiency, Iodine Deficiency Disorders, Iron Deficiency Anemia) in the region
- Assessed nutritional needs, and provided nutritional counseling to prevent lifestyle diseases
- Managed data on nutrition activities in the District Health Information Management System (DHIMS2) which and it used to forecast and plan for improved service delivery
- Lead person in coordinating the Nutrition and Care Support (NACS) for People Living with HIV (PLHIV) and Tuberculosis program in the region
- Coordinated engagements with relevant stakeholders (UN-REACH, UNICEF, WFP, and CRS) on nutrition and other relevant public health areas in the region
- Conducted capacity-building programs for health staff at the districts and sub-districts levels on Community Infant and Young Child Feeding (c-IYCF), and Community-based Management of (severe) Acute Malnutrition [CMAM]
- Provided technical guidelines to the Centre for International Potato (a USAID-funded Project) in the implementation of activities towards improved Vitamin A status of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers through the promotion of the consumption of orange flesh and sweet potato
- A regional TB team member who performed a peer review of TB management at the Health facilities and community levels and ensured the DOTs program was focused
- Member of the national team that conducted a nationwide survey on The Prevalence of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD).
Municipal HIV/Tuberculosis Focal Person
Ghana Health Service
01.2008 - 01.2014
- Coordinated HIV/TB interventions according to national protocols
- Built up community Volunteer Systems for TB case detection, Sputum collection, and effective referral and treatment
- Improved TB case detection rate from 55% to over 90% and cure rate from
- Developed guidelines to improve TB Case management and tracking
- Managed and analyzed TB data for decision-making and dissemination to partners
- Monitored all TB cases and contacts including treatment failures and picked samples for laboratory investigation
- Managed TB/HIV co-infection cases effectively and ensured compliance
- Established home-based care for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) in collaboration with the Presbyterian Health Service in Bawku Municipality
- Mobilized 78 communities (40%) for the ‘Know your HIV Status Campaign’ and carried the out same campaign in Senior High Schools (96% coverage) in the Bawku Municipality
- Planned, managed, and promoted condom use through Community Durbars, Peer education, and ‘The Model of Hope” concept
- Scaled up Prevention of Mother -To- Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS to all the 26 government health facilities and 9 private health facilities in the municipality
- This reduced infant HIV infection from at least 6 per year to 1 per year from 2008 to 2013
- Conducted quarterly monitoring and supervision of both patients and family members in selected homes to ensure adherence to treatment regime and documentation
- Key team player who set up the Bawku Childhood Development Center assists in the proper development of children till date
- Led the DHMT to demarcate an additional 10 CHPS zones in the Bawku Municipality.
Municipal Nutrition Officer
Ghana Health Service
01.2007 - 01.2014
- Conducted daily review of data collected by maternity health staff to track change ideas to improve skilled delivery in the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital
- Supported the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital in testing some change ideas to improve on skilled delivery in that facility
- Coordinated the implementation of the World Bank-supported Nutrition and Malaria Control for Child Survival Project (NMCCSP) which was implemented in 126 communities in the Bawku Municipality resulting in improving children’s adequate growth from 40% (baseline) to 92% (end term) over a period of three years
- Coordinated and supported child growth monitoring and promotion activities at health facilities and in the communities
- Coordinated World Food Program (WFP) Supplementary Feeding, Health and Nutrition Education (SFHNE) Program in the Municipality
- Coordinated WFP emergency and protracted Relief operation in the Bawku areas during the 2008 flood disaster
- Lead person for the establishment of the Bawku Early Child Development Center, where more than a hundred children within the conflict zone received psychological and nutritional support
- Member of the Ghana school feeding program team that made recommendations and supported the planning of menus to ensure quality nutrition for school pupils
- Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for Relief, Ghana Red Cross Society during the ethnic conflict in Bawku Municipality
- Research team member, Nutrition Surveillance Survey for Bawku Municipal and Bawku West district of the Upper East Region of Ghana
- Supervisor/Data Collector, Emergency Maternal Obstetric and Newborn Care Needs (EmONC) Assessment for the Upper East and Eastern Regions of Ghana
- A volunteer for the Ghana Red Cross Society that took part in the registration of internally displaced persons during the ethnic conflict in Bawku.
Education
MPhil. Community Health and Development -
University for Development Studies
05.2015
BSc. Community Nutrition -
University for Development Studies
05.2006
Advance Diploma in Communicable Disease Control -
Rural Health Training School
05.2000
Skills
- Fluency in English and good writing skills
- Great Communication, Interpersonal and Leadership skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc)
- Proficiency in EPI Info, SPSS software packages and data collection tools such as Kobo collect and ODK
- Research, Facilitation, Training and Presentation skills
- Good team player, ability to multitask and meet deadlines
Keyqualificationstatement
I am a resourceful public health and development worker with vast knowledge and over ten (10) years practical experience in Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Implementation, Community Mobilization, Immunization, Community-based Nutrition, Disease Control/Surveillance, Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH), HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and other public health programs from the Ghana Health Service and pro-poor international organizations including Plan International Ghana and USAID Systems for Health in which I worked in various capacities. I also have sound knowledge with over ten (10) years of practical experience in Research.
Consultancyresearchexperience
- American Peace Corps, Nutrition facilitator, Kumas, Ghana, 08/2023, 08/2023
- Anglican Diocesan Development and Relief Organization (ADDRO), Co-consultant, Garu District, Ghana, 04/2022, 04/2022
- PATH-Ghana, Supervisor/Enumerator, Ghana, 12/2020, 12/2020
- Prestige Consult, Proposal writer, Ghana, 03/2020, 10/2020
- USAID Advancing Nutrition Project, Consultancy, Ghana, 04/28/2021, 05/25/2021
- National Iodine Deficiency Survey, Research Assistant, Ghana, 04/2015, 05/2015
- Nutrition Surveillance Survey, Team lead, Ghana, 06/2014, 12/2014
- Colombia School of Public Health and The Ghana Health Service, Supervisor, Ghana, 04/2010, 10/2010
- Treatment Acceleration Program (TAP), Supervisor, Ghana, 06/2007, 12/2008
- Catholic Relief Services, Data Collector, Bongo District, Ghana, 01/2007, 03/2007
References
- Zakaria Abotiyiri, 0249104341, zakabotiyiri@gmail.com
- Akugre Apania, 0244565716, Pat_apania@yahoo.co.uk
- Mr. Ansbert Amoro, +233-200158876, ansbertamoro@uds.edu.gh
Hobbies and Interests
- Volunteering
- Ecotourism
- Travelling
Timeline
Regional Coordinator
Plan International Ghana-Tamale
05.2023 - Current
Health Coordinator
Plan International Ghana-Tamale
12.2021 - 09.2022
Regional Community Mobilization Advisor for CHPS
Plan International/USAID Systems for Health Project
01.2015 - 01.2019
Upper East Deputy Regional Nutrition Officer
Ghana Health Service Regional Health Directorate
01.2014 - 01.2015
Municipal HIV/Tuberculosis Focal Person
Ghana Health Service
01.2008 - 01.2014
Municipal Nutrition Officer
Ghana Health Service
01.2007 - 01.2014
MPhil. Community Health and Development -
University for Development Studies
BSc. Community Nutrition -
University for Development Studies
Advance Diploma in Communicable Disease Control -
Rural Health Training School
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