Projects
RF-GVI-SEAR_ M&E
Year: August 2023 – Current
Location: Cambodia and the Philippines
Client: Catalyst Management Services Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India.
Position Held: Consultant
Main Project Features: The main objectives are achieving routine immunization by incorporating adult vaccination and emerging disease preventive measures while ensuring equity to strengthen Asian health systems.
Activities Performed:
- Analysis of the current situation addressing barriers to vaccine uptake, especially among the hidden population (women, indigenous) and vulnerable groups.
- Advocate with local government to develop joint operational plans to target equitable vaccine access.
- Strengthen the health system in the region and establish an experimentation hub to further innovate for health equity.
Reviewing the performance framework of the SKPA Grant (QMZ-H-AFAO)
Year: 2021
Location: Malaysia
Client: Results In Health Position
Held: Consultant
Main Project Features: The main objectives were a) to review the implementation of community-based monitoring to inform service redesign and use findings to inform KVP service delivery, b) to review the feedback mechanisms to reduce stigma and discrimination in health care settings in six countries (focusing on Malaysia).
Activities Performed: Provided a report on the Performance Framework.
Supporting the meaningful engagement of KVP groups from Pakistan to advocate their community's strategic engagement in the Global Fund process, from funding requests and grant-making to implementation.
Year: 2019
Location: Pakistan
Client: Frontline AIDS
Position Held: Consultant
Main Project Features & Activities Performed:
- Facilitate a 2-day meeting with key population representatives and women-based community groups from different constituencies to provide them with knowledge on Global Fund processes, with particular attention to the country dialogue and funding request development processes.
- Conduct and document specific in-depth interviews/focus groups with key population groups to help them define the priority actions that must be shared with the writing team.
- Based on the specific interviews/focus groups, support APLHIV in working with KVP leaders to prioritize key interventions and a strategy for implementation in a final multi-level, multi-KVP engagement plan to inform the funding request development.
- Facilitate a validation meeting with the relevant stakeholders to ensure that the information captured in the engagement plan is accurate and responds to the needs of civil society and community groups
"Case Management” - Addressing treatment barriers focused on enhancing gender-specific issues and promoting health-seeking behaviors among the marginalized/KVP
Year: 2016
Location: Malaysia
Client: Malaysian AIDS Council
Position Held: Consultant
Main Project Features:
- Enhancing health linkages between marginalized/KVP primarily by promoting uptake of STI-friendly & HIV clinic services enabled by the Ministry of Health Malaysia.
- Enhance the capacity of primary health care providers and NGOs on a converged service delivery model for the targeted populations.
- Enhance capacity on program management skills and M&E processes for partners who will be promoting treatment uptake.
Activities Performed: Assess and manage stakeholder engagement, provide training, and facilitate the processes of operational guidelines.
Updated Gender Strategy for National Civil Society Organization to advocate evidence- based intervention within Cambodia's Context
Year: 2014
Location: Cambodia
Client: KHANA Technical Assistance HUB, Alliance Cambodia
Position Held: Consultant
Main Project Features: The primary objective was to update KHANA’s. Gender Strategy and Assess Gender Integration in KHANA’s Harm Reduction Program.
Activities Performed: Applied triangulation on secondary data analysis and developed strategic, operational approaches in aligning gender sensitivity on harm reduction interventions.
Review of Monitoring and Evaluation system of three health programs (HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis) in Timor Leste
Year: 2014 Location: Timor Leste
Client: Alliance and USAID
Position Held: Consultant
Main Project Features: The assignment’s primary goal is to ensure an integrated approach to M&E is adopted into the national Health Management Information System.
Activities Performed: The project stretched over three months to ensure knowledge transfer through capacity-building activities to sustain the quality of M&E processes.
Technical adviser to the government of Viet Nam on managing three provincial public health interventions for People Who Use Drugs (PWUD)
Year: 2013
Location: Vietnam
Client: AUSAID Vietnam
Position Held: Consultant
Main Project Features & Activities Performed: Provided technical expertise on a project sponsored by AusAID to work with MOH Viet Nam on applying evidence-based public health interventions for PWUD within incarcerated and community settings in most geographically, economically, and socially challenged areas Bac Can, Ho Binh and Tuyen Quang.
Application of WHO tool (RAR) on assessing Hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV co-infection among people who use drugs within two states in Malaysia
Year: 2006-2012
Location: Malaysia
Client: UNICEF, Malaysia Position
Held: Consultant
Main Project Features: As the Harm Reduction program’s technical adviser to the government of Malaysia, I streamlined the government’s strategy for applying harm reduction programs at the national level.
Activities Performed: Applied a Rapid Assessment Response (RAR) methodology to assess the impact of HIV and HCV co-infection among people who use drugs in Kuantan and Pahang, Malaysia.
Evaluate project outputs (quantitative and qualitative, including triangulation of intervention data) on public health strategy applied in the most challenging geographical, economic and sociological aspects of India's sites.
Year: 2012
Location: Manipur and Nagaland, India
Client: Bill & Melinda Gates India
Position Held: Team Leader
Main Project Features & Activities Performed: Managed a team of experts contracted through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to review the effectiveness of harm reduction programs in Manipur and Nagaland, India.