Ayo Oladini

Ayo Oladini is an educator and a project administrator with over 30 years of experience who had managed and administered technical personnel/subcontractors in implementing large complex activities to improve the educational system, foundational skills in literacy and numeracy, providing access to quality and safe education for conflict/crises affected children and youth in formal and non-formal education and mobilizing communities and stakeholders to support inclusive education. He actively engaged government partners, community stakeholders, and civil society organizations to achieve these. Ayo has been Chief of Party/Project Director of five USAID-funded Education Projects- Northern Education Initiative (NEI), Education Crisis Response (ECR), Addressing Education in Northeast Nigeria (AENN) and USAID-funded Opportunities To Learn (OTL) . Ayo also worked in the Middle East managing the Gateway to Yemen Education (GTE) in consortium with Save the Children. Ayo has worked in the several consortia including International Rescue Committee, PLAN International, America University of Nigeria (AUN), FHI360, Save The Children, RTI, JHU/CCP and primed mostly with Creative Associated. Ayo not only managed these and other complex project activities, but he also strengthened the capacity of staff in the consortia, local partners, and other key stakeholders. Ayo has over 15 years of USAID/FCDO experience in ensuring that all activities conform to the terms and conditions of project requirements, project scale-up, and sustainability with efficiency. Ayo is a pioneer in implementing education in emergencies in northeast Nigeria and moved the needle on Yemen curriculum development for early grades in literacy and numeracy and teacher training activities under USAID-GTE Project. He had also worked with the Nigerian at federal and subnational levels for about 18 years and over a Year with Yemeni government at federal and governorates levels. Ayo has a good knowledge of government systems with its key parastatals in both Nigeria and Yemen. He had coordinated and supported state ministries of education to develop the Education Sector Analysis (ESA) plan with support from UNESCO and mobilized community and public private partners to support delivery of education services. Ayo expanded his partnership with public private partnership on using technology as alternative to providing quality access to education for out of school children in Nigeria (Rabni & Schoola); alternative to printing of textbooks and teacher training using the using the Aseefar platform (Asafeer Education Technologies FZ LLC - the first and largest award-winning platform for learning Arabic for native and non-native students from K-12. Ayo coordinated and was on top of all mid-term and end of projects' evaluations conducted by independent bodies. Likewise, his strong community engagement earned the USAID-funded Education Crisis Response project a USAID Collaborative Learning Adaptive (CLA) award among the 10 top cases out of 100 entries, which won the 2017 Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) for better development results from 22 USAID missions, and 47 implementing partners in 41 countries. Ayo has experience coordinating key stakeholders at the Federal, state, and local government levels. He was awarded the Best Chief of Party of the Year in 2015 and the ECR Project as the Best Project of the Yearin 2016 by Creative Associates International. Ayo is very fluent in both written and spoken English language.