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Yamyellé Housséini OUEDRAOGO

Ouagadougou,Kadiogo

Summary

KEY AREAS OF COMPETENCIES Key competencies: Programme leadership and strategic planning; Organisation risks management; Programme development and management; Grant development/writing Administration; Programme Human Resources Management; Representation and networking; Partnership building, Staff mentoring / coaching; Financial management; Policies and procedures development, Child sponsorship and Communication systems. Key sectors of experience and expertise: Community-based development, Livelihoods and food security, Women income generating activities, Adult training; Community organizational and capacity building; CBOs and community leadership training Nutritional rehabilitation and primary healthcare; WASH Civil society development; Child sponsorship, Reinforcement of civil society organizations Child sponsorship and communication, Humanitarian Mines Action, PSSR, Armed-violence reduction

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
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French

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English

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Bamabara (local language)

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Moore (Local language)

Work History

Programme Manager - Sahel Region (Mali, Burkina Faso and Nig

DDG - Danish Demining Group
Bamako, Mali
04.2016 - 05.2017
  • Under my leadership DDG has extended the programme in the Liptako Gourma from 05 border communities to 14 communities.
  • This was done through a community-based armed violence reduction approach run in close collaboration with 44 security services posts à the border and local authorities.
  • The community-based approach helped build and reinforce the acceptance of DDG within an operation area marked by a volatile security.
  • The main achievements include de following: Armed-Violence Reduction (AVR): 1).
  • 14 Community safety plans and 02 cross border community safety plans developed and being implemented ; 2).
  • 77 sessions of forum dialogue held between communities and the security forces at the border about 22 different topics; 3).
  • 239 sessions of risks education on SALW, ERW and mines that reached 4800 individuals; 4).
  • Capacity building of 44 security services units at the border through rehabilitation of their buildings, logistics support and training; 5).
  • 95 training sessions on conflict education held, reaching 1 917 community members.
  • Livelihood /economic recovery: 282 individual beneficiaries trained in using tools for income generating activities; 39 women village saving and loans associations were trained and now are able to conduct cash transactions; 10 organisations (of which 04 youth associations) provided with kits for animal breeding; 2 economic platforms involving 25 leaders (18 men and 7 women) set linked to the customs.

Country Director - Chad

MAG - Mines Advisory Group International
Ndjamena
10.2014 - 03.2016
  • In October 2015, I reopened MAG office in Chad and launched two programmes (HMA and AMD), respectively funded by the European Union and WRA.
  • I obtained all necessary administrative authorizations, including MAG organizational and technical accreditation in manual mine clearance and mechanical demining; ii).
  • I led the staff recruitment and set structure comprising 04 Multi Task Teams (Caseload of 74 staffs including 07 expatriates).
  • Under my leadership, the two programs have achieved the following results: HMA: i).
  • 101 suspected hazardous areas were surveyed in 21 communities affected by conflicts in the Tibesti Region, of which 90 areas confirmed dangerous were cleared and released to communities; ii).
  • 40 risks education sessions were carried out within 21 communities leaving near the contaminated lands; iii).
  • 635,000 sqm of lands and 1,750 sqm of roads cleared and released to communities; v).
  • Over 8,230 items (950 landmines seized from the communities or removed, 1,000 small ammunitions and 6,280 ERW) were removed and destroyed; vi).
  • It resulted in these main achievements a reduction of landmines and UXO victims by 90%, as compared to the period before the project start.
  • It directly provided over 27 000 nomadic people with safe access to pasture lands and water facilities for their animals, food and water and re-open a safe road to 125 000 people.
  • Arms and Ammunitions Management and Destruction: Conducted technical assessments of 60 weapons and ammunition storage facilities for security forces and the army units across the country.
  • Equipped 60 units with improved secure infrastructures and training in their management which simultaneously increased national capacity to safely store and manage weapons and ammunitions.

Programme Operation Director - Mali/Guinea

Save the Children International
Bamako
11.2013 - 10.2014
  • Led and carried out a process of an organizational self-assessment of the operational platform (09 sub-offices and bases with a caseload of 300 staff that led to developing twelve-month operational platform reinforcement, defining and clarifying roles and responsibilities in the programme cycle management.
  • I had implemented a portfolio of 15 grants related to humanitarian and development programmes including Education, Child Protection, Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH, etc.
  • funded by various major donors: USAID, OFDA, DFID, DANIDA, ECHO, Save Korea, etc.

Country Director - Mali

MERLIN - Medical Emergency Relief International
Bamako
08.2013 - 10.2013
  • As the Country Director, I was responsible for overseeing the field assessment followed by a subsequent re-alignment of Merlin's programme plans for Mali.
  • This is including responsibility for identifying and securing donor funding and an expectation to establish Merlin's profile through representation to external actors such as government ministries, local leaders and beneficiaries, UN agencies, INGOs and National NGOs and donors.
  • I was responsible for providing the overall leadership and strategic direction for Merlin's operations in Mali, and the overall programme development and implementation.
  • Responsible for the management of all Merlin personnel, Programmes and support functions and I ensured that relevant Merlin procedures, policies and best practices are followed in relation to logistics, security, finance and human resource and administration management.
  • In coordination with MERLIN Headquarters, I led the transition process that led to merging MERLIN Mali to Save the Children International Mali/Guinea, aftermath I took up the position of Director of Porgramme Operations with SCI.

Humanitarian Programme Coordinator - Niger

Oxfam International
Niamey
06.2012 - 07.2013

Concern Universal

Plan International - Burkina Faso
12.2002 - 07.2005
  • I was responsible for the management and implementation of multiple programmes totaling a budget of $12 million aimed at enabling people living in poverty to improve the quality of their lives through direct support of an integrated community-driven development with a focus on livelihoods, civil society development, emergency, gender and HIV.
  • I was involved in all aspects of the programme from its design to the implementation and from resources and finances management to staff supervision.
  • I developed and coordinated a programme strategy and led a team consisting of 12 staff members and 75 local employees to bolster a community driven approach.
  • As a reflection of my commitment to partnerships and capacity building of local NGOs, I negotiated and signed partnership agreements with 4 Guinean NGOs.
  • In this role, I developed relationships with government and partner agencies as he sought new funding opportunities and raised an average annual budget of $2-3 million in grants.
  • To reduce violent protests, street demonstrations and looting, my team trained 8,600 vulnerable youth, CSO leaders and local authorities in conflict mitigation, citizenship, public property, civic rights, duties and responsibility as well as income generating activities for women.
  • In a programme with multiple objectives and donors, I was able to skillfully coordinate and define the direction of this programme resulting in the trainings of 40 CSOs and CBOs in Governance, PRA, Project Design, Resource Mobilization, Traditional Advocacy/Negotiation Mechanisms, Literacy and Essential Texts and Law., I developed and implemented a three-year CBO leadership training and capacity-building grant funded by the Dutch Government and valued at $550,000.
  • Under my leadership, the project supported over 750 CBO leaders by setting them up with essential mechanisms for local governance and oversaw the upgrade and construction of the center's premises.
  • I prepared and conducted 15 training sessions that consisted of an integrated curriculum package relating: community PRA, development project outlining, child and mother healthcare, HIV/AIDS and household food security.
  • My experience was documented in the book, "Bangr Nooma Institute, a New Program for Community Capacity Building" that I edited.

Acting Head of Mission/Country Program Manager

Islamic Relief Worldwide
03.2007 - 10.2007
  • I led the strategic direction of the organization's long-term development programme in Niger for this $5 million project.
  • I designed a three-year Country Strategic Plan aimed at addressing the grassroots causes of food insecurity with a focus on household food security, primary health and nutrition improvement, WASH, non-formal education and orphan welfare.
  • This effort was consolidated with the achievements of the previous emergency and rehabilitation operations.
  • I led a team of 59 staff members to ensure that implementation was done in a consultative, participatory and gender sensitive manner, consistently assessing progress and designing new interventions to enhance programme activities.
  • My involvement not only contributed to the technical clarity of the project, but also to the financial and operational aspect of the programme.

Emergency Program Manager

Islamic Relief Worldwide
08.2005 - 02.2007
  • I launched and led Islamic Relief response to Niger's food and nutrition crisis.
  • Through my undertaking of the programme design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, I shaped and led roughly $3.6 million programme from being an emergency operation to a long-term development programme that involved a recovery programme as I oversaw 51 staff members.
  • The two emergency operations in the first phase of the project addressed the nutritional needs and concerns of 188,300 individuals and 164,000 children by establishing 34 operational community-based supplementary feeding centers and 4 therapeutic feeding centers.
  • In addition, I fostered a relationship with the Government, NGOs and other partners.

Food Security Program Coordinator

Gaoua
03.2001 - 11.2002
  • In partnership with the Grassroots-based Government Agricultural Departments, I developed a five-year country plan to strengthen household food security and create income generating activities for women.
  • I was responsible for the implementation of a DFID granted food security project, ($250,000) which constructed 25 open wells and developed 25 hectares of wetland for dry season market gardening activities.
  • I also managed 50 hectares of wetland for rain-fed rice production.
  • In addition, I designed a $300,000 household-based food security programme.

Sponsorship Production Manager

12.2000 - 02.2001
  • I oversaw the sponsorship Department composed of 23 staff.
  • In this role, I assessed the needs for technical assistance to five (05) Program Unit Teams and the Sponsorship Managers.
  • I led the effort to set up and refine the operational production management system by developing a new communication system that helped coordinate and streamline communication to the five Programme Unit offices resulting in reducing the number of unsatisfactory responses by 15%.
  • Between 40,000 sponsored children living in 400 rural communities and their "foster parents based in 08 Northern countries.
  • I was also responsible for the sponsorship department staff while assessing the needs for technical assistance to the Program Unit Teams and the Sponsorship Managers.

Community Organizational & Capacity Building /Assistant

09.1999 - 11.2000
  • I revamped PLAN's community development approach in Burkina Faso where I monitored the implementation of the project's activities.
  • I coordinated the establishment of 140 Community Development Committees and trained the committee leaders in community managed-project implementation, partnership building and negotiation.
  • In addition, I led the training of 70 staff members in community participatory rapid need assessment, and was instrumental in the development of a training manual for the community-managed project.
  • I provided technical assistance to the establishment of local management committees in 400 communities as I developed in-house criteria for on-site programme monitoring and evaluation.
  • I served as Plan's liaison to government hosted meetings.

Community Organizational & Capacity Building Coordinator

10.1997 - 08.1999
  • I contributed to the design of this community and organizational capacity-building programme with an annual budget of $1,200,000.
  • I organized and led three workshops for stakeholders and actors on the issues of Community Development Plans.
  • I set up 45 Community Development Committees and designed development plans for each.
  • I also constructed and equipped 4 Community Development Centers (CDC), trained CDC members on leadership, community-managed project policies and procedures.

Program Unit Team Leader &Community Capacity Building Coordinator

Plan International Lake-Bam - Burkina Faso
10.1996 - 09.1997
  • I pioneered the position of a Program Unit Team Leader within Plan's Burkina management system.
  • In this role I was responsible for the overall management and implementation of this $750,000 programme, with a focus on community capacity building, health, water and sanitation, livelihoods and natural resources management, micro-credit development, and education that directly supported 124 vulnerable rural communities.
  • In addition, I managed the sponsorship caseload of 16,000 children and oversaw the design and implementation to ensure compliance with donors requirements and Plan's policies.
  • Under my leadership, the new role of "Program Unit Team Leaders" was introduced as part of a pilot management structure as I managed my team of 22 staff members, including 8 reporting to this position.

managed Project Coordinator

Leadership Training & Community
09.1995 - 09.1996
  • I was responsible for conducting a training needs assessment for 35 community-based organizations managing rural socioeconomic infrastructures in community cereal banks, grinding mills, hand-made soap factory, community centers, and community essential medicines.
  • I led a participatory assessment of 35 community project management committees on the basis of the findings I designed training courses focused on improving management tools and operations based.
  • In addition, I designed tools and materials for monitoring and evaluation of local management committees ultimately leading community self-assisted evaluation sessions at each target village.

Multi-disciplinary Research Team Member

ORSTOM -Burkina Faso
10.1993 - 09.1994
  • As a rural geographer in a multidisciplinary research team, I participated in the evaluation of various small scale agricultural development projects.
  • In this role, I led focus group interview ( project beneficiaries, leaders and members of community based organizations, community leaders and heads of Government departments).
  • As such, I carried out community participatory mapping and designed 20 village mappings.
  • My work contributed to the assessment of 20 small scale agricultural development projects implemented by 10 various national and international NGOs.

Intern

Kongoussi, PATECORE/GTZ - Burkina Faso
09.1992 - 07.1993
  • I formulated a research topic and defined pertinent socio-economic criteria to target the three most relevant communities for a project that aimed at integrating traditional pastoralist production systems into sustainable natural resources management and soil conservation techniques.
  • I designed the data collections tools and conducted interviews with set focus groups including agro-pastoralist households, farm households, community-based organizations, community leaders and local authorities.
  • I designed monographs for each village and drew village maps, which I included in my final internship report.

Education

Certificate of M.S, Rural Sociology - undefined

University of Ouagadougou
1992

B.S - Geography of Rural Development

University of Ouagadougou
1991

High Diploma of Geography - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

University of Ouagadougou
1989

Secondary School Leaving Certificate, Natural Science, Chemistry, Mathematics, Lycee Philippe Zinda Kabore, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - undefined

1987

. SPECIFIC JOB RELATED TRAININGS - undefined

December 2009

Certificate of attendance - WASH in Emergency Situation in Western and Central Africa: - Project Cycle Management

October 1994

: Certificate of attendance- ECHO Framework Partnership Agreement: - undefined

November 2006

: Certificate of attendance Sphere Project - undefined

April 2006

Certificate of Trainer of Trainers in Rural Development items scaling up - undefined

June 2004

Gender courses - undefined

April 1999

Certificate - Community Development Approach and Participatory Planning: Participatory Rapid Appraisal, Mapping - undefined

December 1999

Certificate of Team Building and Management - undefined

September 1996

Project Cost Control - undefined

December 1994

Skills

Signed: Housséini Yamyellé OUEDRAOGO

  • Strategic planning
  • Financial management
  • Risk management
  • Cross-functional team management
  • Staff management
  • Partnership development
  • Decision-making
  • Conflict resolution
  • Stakeholder management
  • Team leadership
  • Project planning
  • Negotiation

Timeline

Programme Manager - Sahel Region (Mali, Burkina Faso and Nig

DDG - Danish Demining Group
04.2016 - 05.2017

Country Director - Chad

MAG - Mines Advisory Group International
10.2014 - 03.2016

Programme Operation Director - Mali/Guinea

Save the Children International
11.2013 - 10.2014

Country Director - Mali

MERLIN - Medical Emergency Relief International
08.2013 - 10.2013

Humanitarian Programme Coordinator - Niger

Oxfam International
06.2012 - 07.2013

Acting Head of Mission/Country Program Manager

Islamic Relief Worldwide
03.2007 - 10.2007

Emergency Program Manager

Islamic Relief Worldwide
08.2005 - 02.2007

Concern Universal

Plan International - Burkina Faso
12.2002 - 07.2005

Food Security Program Coordinator

Gaoua
03.2001 - 11.2002

Sponsorship Production Manager

12.2000 - 02.2001

Community Organizational & Capacity Building /Assistant

09.1999 - 11.2000

Community Organizational & Capacity Building Coordinator

10.1997 - 08.1999

Program Unit Team Leader &Community Capacity Building Coordinator

Plan International Lake-Bam - Burkina Faso
10.1996 - 09.1997

managed Project Coordinator

Leadership Training & Community
09.1995 - 09.1996

Multi-disciplinary Research Team Member

ORSTOM -Burkina Faso
10.1993 - 09.1994

Intern

Kongoussi, PATECORE/GTZ - Burkina Faso
09.1992 - 07.1993

Certificate of M.S, Rural Sociology - undefined

University of Ouagadougou

B.S - Geography of Rural Development

University of Ouagadougou

High Diploma of Geography - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

University of Ouagadougou

Secondary School Leaving Certificate, Natural Science, Chemistry, Mathematics, Lycee Philippe Zinda Kabore, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - undefined

. SPECIFIC JOB RELATED TRAININGS - undefined

Certificate of attendance - WASH in Emergency Situation in Western and Central Africa: - Project Cycle Management

: Certificate of attendance- ECHO Framework Partnership Agreement: - undefined

: Certificate of attendance Sphere Project - undefined

Certificate of Trainer of Trainers in Rural Development items scaling up - undefined

Gender courses - undefined

Certificate - Community Development Approach and Participatory Planning: Participatory Rapid Appraisal, Mapping - undefined

Certificate of Team Building and Management - undefined

Project Cost Control - undefined

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