Alice Muwanga Kituuka

Alice has extensive experience in knowledge & communications management, business development, project management, monitoring & evaluation, capacity building, grant management and Stakeholder management. She has a unique blend of experience that cuts across the private sector, NGO, UN and Government having worked in all institutions during her career. In WYG International (formerly Delta Partnership), a UK-based International Development Consultancy firm, she managed the East Africa region that had two offices in Uganda and Kenya leading the local efforts of identifying opportunities, building the local networks of experts, partners and growing the business. She was a project director for several projects including the Zanzibar Non state Actor Programme, an EU funded 3-year programme aimed at strengthening democratisation and good governance, through support to civil society initiatives on accountability, participatory development and policy advocacy. She has managed projects funded by DFID including the Enhancing of Resilience in Karamoja - Phase I: Development of M&E framework and Phase II: Development of a Transformational indicator the Peace Recovery and Development Plan III. For both these projects she worked closely with local governments and the Office of the Prime Minister along with parliamentarians, UN and local leaders to facilitate the process of developing the Peace Recovery Development plan. Prior to joining WYG International, she was the Deputy Chief of Party with the Civil Society Fund, a funding mechanism set up to improve and strengthen civil society organisations to which multiple funders contributed. The fund was managed by Deloitte Uganda. Alice led the development of the financial monitoring framework, manual and tools used in the financial monitoring of over 200 diverse CSOs funded. She conducted financial, M&E and communications capacity building to the CSOs. She also liaised with the M&E agent, the provider of the technical M&E services, to develop the indicators for program reporting for the CSOs train CSOs in these tools and regularly attended the PEPFAR indicator review meetings on behalf of the CSF. She conducted organizational capacity assessments prior to granting CSOs, specifically looking at the CSO financial management, M&E, communications, governance and human resources capacity. She conducted annual performance assessments for the CSOs funded to determine follow on funding from the CSF. This process included the development and pre-testing of tools, conducting the assessments, report writing and provision of feedback. She had a project management role that included the development and monitoring of the CSF joint work plan that involved establishing the performance indicators and reviewing of the work plan annually. She also led the management agent coordination meetings for quarterly reviews of the work plan with the stakeholders. She facilitated the midterm reviews for the CSF project and was responsible for the handling of information pertaining to the project and using that information to guide the decision making for the steering committee, management of the CSF project and key stakeholders including UAC, line ministries, local government, AIDS Development Partners and others. Alice was directly responsible for stakeholder management and managing the communication with the ADPs, Government agencies and CSOs. Before she joined Deloitte, Alice worked in Sudan with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Sudan first as a registration coordinator in Darfur region (North Sudan) and then as a Tracking and Monitoring coordinator in South Sudan. Her main responsibility was to set up systems for tracking the movements of the internally displaced persons and the internal and external returnees to provide the UN team with statistics upon which planning for AID and support could be based. As a central information hub for the UN team, her task demanded accuracy in collecting and analysing the information and speed in sharing this information to provide meaningful support to the target beneficiaries. She has also worked with the Government of Uganda, in the Office of the Prime Minister as an M&E officer. Her main role was to monitor and report on all government projects and programmes with the main sector focus of Health and Education. She has an Honours degree in Statistics and Applied Economics and is a qualified accountant with ACCA. She also possesses an MBA from Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute (ESAMI). All of which she uses to add value to the projects she commits to work on. She is driven by a strong desire to improve the lives of the men, women and children living in poverty. Country experience: Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania/Zanzibar. Availability: Ready to work on a short-long term role if given a two weeks' prior notice.