Mwamandi Munthali

• In line with the Institutional Learning Strategy, collaborating with programme and non-programme departments to determine staff training needs through skills gap analyses and other analytical tools.
• In line with the Institutional Learning Strategy, developing training workshop curricula for generic workshops.
• Liaising with the OSC departments in developing training workshop curricula in line with adult learning principles.
• Effectively implementing best training practices and adult learning principles in planning and creation of instructional materials.
• Reaching out to vendors to evaluate available curriculums and associated materials.
• Conducting post-workshop evaluations to determine participant learning experiences.

Project planning (project management) for activity implementation around diversity, equity and inclusion (with an inherent focus on gender, as a diversity dimension, and prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment [PSEAH]).

Gender analyses, gender audits and gender-sensitive evaluations in MSF Holland’s project continuum.

Quality assurance of the MSF-Kenya DEI initiative – input and process quality assurance.

Baselines (surveys) – staff consultations for DEI-related and mission-based problem identification.

Designing, content validation and delivery of approved trainings and workshops to prepare staff for consultations for the formulation of country-specific DEI vision and implementation plans.

Strong liaisons with the country management teams (CMTs) in each of the four countries for the validation of country-specific gender and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Communication, collaboration and further development of gender and diversity, equity and inclusion strategies in liaison with the DEI Global Lead.

Initiating, developing, implementing and evaluating gender and DEI program communication and alignment activities - to further accelerate, synergize and improve DEI developments across MSF-Holland’s missions.

Development of MSF-Holland’s DEI repository and toolkit material on DEI across MSF-Holland’s missions.

Developing the ‘DEI Framework’ to help MSF Sections and other MSF entities to define strategic plans around DEI and connect to other initiatives within MSF.

DEI strategy development and review.

Inclusive educational programming – focus on strengthening equity in the distribution of education as a public good.

Inclusive practice module research and content development.

Gender, diversity and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) audits.

Capacity strengthening - synchronous and asynchronous module content delivery with a focus on disability and gender inclusion.

Gender and disability inclusion in programming.

Research, action research and learning - systems strengthening.

CPD awareness raising – systems strengthening.

Mentoring support - to promote inclusive classroom practice.

Institutionalizing the Teacher Competency Standards Framework (TCSF) for new curriculum.

Enhancing linkages between inclusive education and numeracy in the ‘numeracy for all’ project continuum.

Enhancing linkages between educational inclusion and social inclusion.

Capacity strengthening (training) and technical support to project teams within the operational spectrum of inclusive education programming.

Design and development tools and trainings to support teachers and partner staff capacity strengthening functions in inclusion (gender and disability inclusion).

Provided technical support in conducting surveys, including qualitative research (phenomenologies, ethnographies, and case studies).

Provided support to the Early Childhood and Girls Education teams on topics related to inclusion of children with disabilities.

Development of a gender and disability strategy.

Development of a GEDSI (gender, equality, disability, and social inclusion) analysis for the project.

Provided strategic direction to the organizational capacity building functions in the domains of monitoring and evaluation for the organization’s projects that focused on the vulnerable and marginalized sections of the society, including girls and persons with disabilities.

Contributed to the management of the organizational resource mobilization functions: donor mapping; donor value mapping; partnership mapping and competitor analysis.

Successfully provided input for donor proposal development and reporting, in consultation with project leads.

Qualitative and quantitative research.

Successfully led in the planning, design, and implementation of relevant program surveys (at baseline, midline and endline levels) for the organization’s programming functions in the domains of sexual and reproductive health, girls’ education and education of children with disabilities.

Successfully incorporated the results of surveys, assessments, and evaluations in programme reviews for programme design, redesign, and where necessary, and for decision-making.

Developed training programs on inclusive programming with emphasis on children with disabilities.

Provided customised professional development options for practicing teachers to equip them with requisite competencies for inclusive pedagogy.

Provided advice and support to parents with children with identifiable learning difficulties.

Curriculum adaptation to meet variant student needs that included children with disabilities (CWDs).

Constantly working on improving schools’ educational programmes to reflect inclusive education orientation.

Application of differentiated assessment regimens.

Application of multi-sensory learning to enhance student access to the curriculum.

Context-specific action research to help solve some of the challenges for the implementation of sound inclusive education practices.

Taught Inclusive Education and Social Research to pre-service and in-service primary and secondary education teachers.

Successfully managed examinations - setting, moderation, administration, invigilation and marking - for students that were registered for my courses.

Successfully led in the conduction of specific research activities that were commissioned by the Social Studies Department at the institution.

Successfully contributed to the dissemination of research findings to target audiences.

Successfully contributed to the departmental resource mobilization function that served college-based, as well as non-college-based clientele.

Successfully contributed to curriculum development functions for the pre- service and in-service primary and secondary education teachers.

Managed student classroom-based practicum that focused on assessing the students’ pedagogical management of children with disabilities in the inclusive classrooms.