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Fanny Chitani

Lilongwe

Summary

Experienced professional with 7 years of field work in donor-funded projects. Skilled in interacting with diverse stakeholders at all levels. Expertise in demand creation, resource mobilization, planning, monitoring and evaluation, finance management, budgeting, liquidation, and effective reporting.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Community Development Officer

Water Mission
03.2024 - Current

Following up with all Safe Water Projects (SWC) and Rural Water Cooperative (RWC) programs, mentoring them and identifying opportunities for improvement

  • Responding to problems affecting uptime in all projects to ensure continuous flow of safe water in all target communities
  • Preparing project reports and timely updating Water Mission’s database
  • Providing capacity building and support to Safe Water Committees (SWC) in sustainable management of Safe Water Projects
  • Implementing community development activities in Water Mission’s Safe Water Project Areas
  • Collaborating with WASH stakeholders in ensuring smooth implementation of WASH services to communities
  • Monitoring and Evaluation of Safe Water Projects to ensure projects are serving communities
  • Conducting Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) education to safe water targeted communities
  • Implementing disaster response activities
  • Carrying out assessments in timely and efficient manner
  • Participating in development of project proposals for continuity of WASH services

Nutrition Facilitator

World Relief International
02.2017 - 12.2022
  • Company Overview: (SUN interventions)
  • Conducting WASH and Nutrition education to target beneficiaries
  • Designed, planned and facilitated project capacity building intervention for both various community members/workers (community mentors, offering support to rolling of training to CLANS and volunteers) and government frontline staff
  • Ensured program quality through regular monitoring of activities and ensured compliance to standard procedures
  • Facilitated community mobilization and awareness raising initiatives to ensure effective delivery of community interventions
  • Engaged with various community-based structures including local governance structures i.e
  • ADC, VDCs, and Nutrition Coordination Committees in Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) and WASH initiatives
  • Facilitated identification of 40 community mentors, 1128 cluster leaders and formation of 15 CLANS and 80 care groups
  • Assisted the nutrition coordinator in planning and coordinating activities of care groups and provided mentorship and technical assistance to the community mentors
  • Collaborated with and supported agricultural extension workers in the target community to implement nutrition related interventions
  • Planning and implementing disaster response activities
  • (SUN interventions)

Research Nurse

Ministry of Health
05.2016 - 07.2016
  • Company Overview: (Malaria Project)
  • Supervision of; Stock Cards, Malaria reporting forms, Village Clinic forms, OPD Registers, LA (Lumefantrine Artemether) Registers, MRDT (Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test) Registers
  • Data Entry of Research findings in Database
  • Provided report summaries to supervisor
  • Conducted basic data analysis for reporting
  • (Malaria Project)

Nurse Midwife Technician

Mzuzu Health Centre
04.2015 - 06.2016
  • Physical Examination and history taking for domestic clients
  • Conducting clean and safe deliveries
  • Helping mothers survive bleeding after birth
  • Monitoring health condition of baby and mother after birth
  • Health education patterning baby care and postnatal care for mothers
  • Assisted in over 100 successful births and provided post-partum counseling for struggling families to increase happiness and health of newborns and mothers.
  • Examined and monitored over 1000 pregnant women per year.

Education

BSc. - Community Development

Pentecostal Life University
Lilongwe
01.2020

Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery Technician -

St John’s College of Nursing And Midwifery
Mzuzu
01.2015

Skills

  • Interpersonal & communication
  • Training & facilitation
  • Counseling
  • Teamwork & leadership
  • Community mobilization
  • MS Office proficiency
  • Finance management
  • Supervision
  • Report writing

Training

  • ART and TB integration
  • Scaling up nutrition
  • Complementary feeding
  • Sanitation and hygiene
  • Lot Quality Assurance Sampling
  • Maternal health and nutrition
  • Prevention of Sexual Exploitation Abuse (PSEA)

References

  • David Mhango, M&E Coordinator, World Relief Malawi, P.O. Box 30717, Lilongwe, Lilongwe, DMhango@wr.org, +265 997006921
  • Wongani Msiska, The coordinator, Water Mission, P.O. Box 31871, Lilongwe, Lilongwe, wmsiska@watermission.org, +265 991818369
  • Maggie Msukwa, Project Manager, World Relief Malawi, magimsukwa@yahoo.com, +254 113 288 957

Timeline

Community Development Officer

Water Mission
03.2024 - Current

Nutrition Facilitator

World Relief International
02.2017 - 12.2022

Research Nurse

Ministry of Health
05.2016 - 07.2016

Nurse Midwife Technician

Mzuzu Health Centre
04.2015 - 06.2016

BSc. - Community Development

Pentecostal Life University

Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery Technician -

St John’s College of Nursing And Midwifery
Fanny Chitani