As a Consultant
What I can offer as Development Professional
I can offer courage, motivation, energy, advise, I am having difficulties in believing in sympathy but I can be empathetic, technical know-how in almost everything just to mention but not limited to Project Planning and Management and the aforementioned skills on the first page.
Accomplished and ongoing Assignments
2009: Lead Consultant, building the capacity of young people to engage in the National Poverty Reduction Frameworks for Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar Review process, Post Review Planning, Implementation and Follow-up. The Initiative supported by UNFPA-Tanzania Office.
2009: Lead Facilitator for the youth technical workshop developing the Youth Participation Strategy. From this workshop a Zero Draft document was developed.
2009: Lead Facilitator for District Youth Public Platforms establishment, a new concept facilitates youth engagement with Local Authorities in Tanzania. Currently there are over 10 District Youth Platforms across Tanzania. This concept has been highlighted in the Danish Africa Commission Report (2009)
2008: Team leader, reviewing the National Youth Development Policy (2007) implementation Strategy. From this exercise a first draft of the strategy document developed.
2008: TYC Lead consultant undertaking a study on the opportunities for enterprise development and mapping of youth entities in Mtwara and Lindi (southern Tanzania) as part of the UN Tanzania Joint Programme one. Study financed by ILO and Mandated by Ministry of Labour, Employment and Youth Development (MLEYD)
2007: Participated in the writing of the Training Manuals on Project Management, Entrepreneurship, financial Management and Youth Leadership. These Manuals are authored by the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Youth Development of Tanzania (MLEYD).
2006: Participated in the drafting of the National Strategy for Employment Creation and Promotion as Committee member of the National Employment Creation Committee.
2006: I took part as an installation artist for the Act 2 of the project “Rethinking Nordic Colonialism” in Greenland at Nuuk Museum and together with Inuit Youth International and Katrine Holmfeld organized and facilitated an international Youth Capacity Building Workshop on Digitalizing Art and portrayed artistic works on identity and citizenship. This international workshop collected 20 young people from Denmark and Greenland and used three languages, English, Danish and Greenlandic.
2006: Guest lecturer at the Reykjavík Academy- Iceland during the Act 1 of the international exhibition as part of the project “Rethinking Nordic Colonialism”
2005: I coordinated a nation-wide youth civic awareness programmes that was meant to reach out youth people with messages on democracy and rule of law, election and your vote and youth rights and the constitution. This awareness programme did cover 21 regions in Tanzania mainland Unguja and Pemba islands and reached 2100 young people prior to the 2005 Tanzania General Elections.
2005: Lead facilitator, International Youth Capacity Building Workshop on Sustainable Development in Morogoro. A three days workshop that collected experts, development practitioners, academicians and young people from Tanzania, Kenya and Denmark organized collaboratively by TYC and Nature and Youth Denmark.
2004: I devised a methodology for collecting youth inputs and opinions to the first draft of the government’s new Poverty reduction Strategy 2005-2009. This methodology made it possible for young people to gather their opinions and inputs to the PRS secretariat. The methodology made it possible to reach and consult 1900 young people. The outcomes of the consultations were shared to UNICEF, Division of Poverty Eradication and to young people.
2004: As a guest trainer, I trained a team of young consultants that were conducting a mid-term review of the URT/UNICEF Master-plan looking at children and youth participation. I trained the young consultants on research methodologies touching on Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and Participatory Learning and Action for Community Development (PLA-CD).
2003/04: I participated in the National Youth Policy 1996 review process as a resource person and facilitator for “PRS and youth engagement” during the National Youth Consultative Workshops.
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