Blessing Ugwunne

Blessing is high-performing MEAL personnel with expertise in planning, implementation, and evaluation of integrated public health services in Nigeria; these include Nutrition, Tuberculosis Control, TB/HIV integration, Malaria, OVC, Health System Strengthening, Knowledge Management, Organizational Capacity Assessment/Building, and Strategic Partnership. Blessing is currently leading the programme monitoring and improvement unit with Global Alliance for Improve nutrition Nigeria.

My experience has prepared me to make an immediate impact to your organization and to a great extent has geared me towards understanding how to approach issues and finding solutions. Am currently working with Global alliance for improve nutrition (GAIN) Nigeria as the Country program monitoring and improvement manager where I lead/oversee program monitoring across the GAIN Nigeria in-country portfolio and ensure that the learnings from monitoring and research are used to make improvements to program and to strengthen strategy while providing regular project status updates with critical analyses and possible solutions. Prior to joining GAIN, I was the Monitoring and Evaluation/ Strategic Information Lead for Caritas Nigeria where she led on the establishment and coordination of effective Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, and Learning (MERL) systems for over 461 faith-based health facilities in the areas of TB prevention, treatment, and care, across 20 states in Nigeria under the Global Fund public private mix TB project; while providing MEL support  on  USAID Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE), and UNICEF nutrition projects.   Her works including consultancies span over 25 states across Nigeria. 

I has expertise in Project monitoring, health system strengthening, knowledge management, organizational capacity assessment/building, interactive problem-solving methodologies and strategic partnership, which she has applied in planning, implementation, and evaluation of integrated public health services while working for Caritas Nigeria and other organizations including Catholic Relieve Services (CRS) on several projects intervention cutting across Tuberculosis Control, TB/HIV integration, Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLIN) malaria campaign, orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) program and nutrition, with funding's from USAID, Global Fund, Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and UNICEF. Her ICT skills in operational field monitoring and data analysis (Power Bi, ODK, Kobo collect toolbox, advanced Excel, DATIM and DHIS2) has led to remarkable success stories in her years of work experience.

I am studying my doctorate degree in public health (PhD in-view) with Texila American university and holds a Masters’ Degree in Public Health Management (MPH) from International Telematics university Rome-Italy, an advanced Post graduate diploma (APGD) in Public Health and Research from James Lind Institute India and a Bachelor of Science Degree (B.Sc.) Applied Microbiology from Enugu State University of Science and Technology.

With several professional certifications including advanced project management for development professionals; Leadership and management skills for Managers; Data Quality management; Demographic and Health Survey; Gender Monitoring and Evaluation; Project design and proposal writing, MEAL DPro, PMD Pro 1&2; Finance for Non-Financial Manager; Preparing Data for Impact Analysis; SBC Program Monitoring; Social and Behavioral Change  communication (SBCC) in program monitoring; and Economic Evaluation Basics.

2022: PhD Public Health management in-view; Texila American University Guyana.

2021: Masters in Public Health Management (MPH); International Telematics university Italy, Rome.

2019: Post graduate diploma Public Health and research (APGD); James Lind Institute- India.

2014: Bachelor of Science Applied Microbiology second class honors upper division (BSc); Enugu                     State University of Science and Technology.

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Caritas Nigeria certificate of completion resource mobilization (2021)
• Certificate of completion Project design and proposal writing (2021)
• Certificate of Completion Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning–MEAL DPro (2021)
• Certificate of participation Safeguarding Matters E-Learning - UKAids (2021)
• PMD Pro Level 2 in Advanced project management for development professionals (2020)
• DKC Certificate Course Leadership and management skills for mid-level managers (2019)
• GFA Certificate Course in Finance for Non-Financial Manager (2019)
• PMD Pro Level 1 Project management for development professionals (2019) 
• Global Health E-Learning Certificate Course in Preparing Data for Impact Analysis (2019)
• Global Health E-Learning Certificate Course in Gender Monitoring and Evaluation (2019)             
• Global Health E-Learning Certificate Course in Advanced TB (2019)
• Global Health E-Learning Certificate Course in SBC Program Monitoring (2019)                       
• Global Health E-Learning Certificate Course in Economic Evaluation Basics (2019)
• Global Health E-Learning Certificate Course in social and behavioral change in program                                         monitoring (2019)
• CRS Certificate of Completion Advance Security personnel in Emergency environment (2018)
• Global Health E-Learning Certificate Course in mHealth Basic Introduction to mobile technology for health in crosscutting (2018)
• Global Health E-Learning Certificate Course in Demographic and Health Survey (2018)
• Global Health E-Learning Certificate Course in Data Quality (2018)
• Global Health E-Learning Certificate Course in Monitoring and Evaluation Fundamentals (2018)