Project Director Program Officer

MUSA ISHOLA SALAMI

E** Grace Street, El- Salem Estate off Phykasa Road Lugbe - Abuja FCT, Nigeria

+234 807-***-****; 812-***-**** **********@*****.*** Profile: System Strengthening & Institutional Development Expert Musa Salami is a Health System Strengthening and Institutional Development Expert with over 18 years’ experience in the design, management, and delivery of health programmes and institutional capacity development interventions. He holds a master’s degree in Management and Implementation of Development Projects from prestigious International Development and Policy Management, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, and Postgraduate diploma in International Development also from the University of Manchester following his BSc Degree in Chemistry and MSc in Environmental Management.

Musa is a Master trainer and versatile in developing training curriculum. He has trained numerous health workers in delivering tasks towards accomplishing project goals. He supported diverse clients to strengthen their organizational capacity and enhance program performance across a variety of public health technical areas including HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, OVC, Malaria, Reproductive Health and Health System Strengthening. Musa Salami has successfully delivered organizational design and performance improvement approaches, strengthened the performance and cohesion of management teams and structures, coached and mentored others to provide coordinated and quality technical assistance. He has been working in the last 15 years building Institutional/organizational capacity of federal and state institutions such as Federal Ministry of Health, State Ministry of Health, Education agencies and Civil Society Organization’s capacity in managing and implementing an HIV/AIDS, Malaria, OVC and education program funded by bilateral and multilateral organizations. His capacity building experience spans both the delivery of short-term technical assistance and the leadership of multi-year development projects. Building institutional / organizational capacity of Federal, State and Local Government institutions. He conducted and several health missions to United Kingdom, Cyprus, Sri- Lanka and South Africa. An accomplished leader that inspires multi-cultural teams to rally around a shared vision, goals and objectives to achieve organizational and program objectives and bring change even in challenging settings. Empowers staff and keeps them highly motivated and productive.

Proven success in forming and leveraging vital partnerships with donors, government agencies, and civil society organizations to advocate for, promote, and implement impactful programs. Expert in assessing community needs, developing solutions that fully address issues, and engaging diverse multi-stakeholders in execution and delivery. A systems transformational character that puts to question strategies and approaches and constantly works to identify sustainable people-centered cost-effective interventions; basically redesigning, or rationally reallocating program resources before considering pumping in more.

Strong turnaround and team leadership demonstrated by ability to overcome obstacles, build/repair relationships, and foster collaborative work environments.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE:

Program & Project Management Turnaround & Change Management Govt., Donor & Stakeholder Relation

Integrated Program Development Proposal Development Small Grants Management

Research Study Design & Execution Community Outreach Community-Based Service Delivery

Organizational / Institutional Development Strategic Planning and Operational Planning Development EDUCATION

2006-07 The University of Manchester, UK MSc in Management, and Implementation Of Development Projects

o Awarded with Merit

2005-06 The University of Manchester, UK PGD in International Development 2003- 05 University of Lagos, Nigeria MSc in Environmental Management o Pass with Distinction

1992-97 Lagos state University, Nigeria Bachelor of Science in Chemistry o Second Class Honours

Professional Experience

(April 2020 – October 2020) Sustainability Advisor (STTA) USAID / Chemonic International (Strategic HIV/AIDs Response Program, Task Order 1 Project) Overall Responsibilities: The USAID Strategic HIV/AIDS Response Program (SHARP) Task Order 1 focuses its service delivery support in nine intervention areas: HIV testing services (HTS), HIV diagnosis and treatment, HIV care and support, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), tuberculosis (TB)/HIV service integration, reproductive health/HIV integration, orphans and vulnerable children, laboratory services, and health systems strengthening. As the Sustainability Advisor to the organization, I play a key technical leadership role on Nigeria SHARP TO1 by leading efforts to increase capacity of local government authorities and relevant States to sustain program efforts beyond project duration. Also provides technical assistance to government and private sector to effectively engage in domestic resource mobilization, put in place sustainable financing and accountability mechanisms, and make progress towards national, and subnational health goals. Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Lead outreach on sustainability and program transition to government stakeholders in the five Task Order 1 states (Kebbi, Kwara, Niger, Sokoto and Zamfara States).

• Under supervision of the Chief of Party, oversee the development and writing of project sustainability and transition plan within first 90 days.

• Liaise with project technical teams to review and revise activity designs to ensure maximum sustainability and ability to be transitioned to local actors.

• In consultation with government stakeholders, design and plan for innovative financing mechanisms to transfer health workers and other key interventions to government funding in the future.

• Assess both needs and capacity of government entities to take on funding and management of HIV interventions.

• Fosters and demonstrates a workplace inclusive of creating opportunity, serving others, building trust, innovation and exceeding expectations.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as required.

(June 2019 – March 2020) Lagos State Coordinator, Sustainable Health Financing USAID / Palladium Group (Health Policy Plus Project) – 185M USD Global funded project. Overall Responsibilities: Health policy Plus (HP+) is a USAID/Palladium Group Project aimed at supporting Government of Nigeria to strengthen and advance health policy priorities in HIV and TB, Family planning and reproductive health, and maternal health in selected Nigeria states. HP+ provides technical assistance to government and private sector to effectively engage in domestic resource mobilization, put in place sustainable financing and accountability mechanisms, and make progress towards global, national, and subnational health goals. As the State Coordinator, Sustainable Health Financing to the organization, I provide overall leadership and management of the HP+ Nigeria Sustainable Health Financing Programs activity in Lagos State. Staff: 3 direct reports

Key Responsibilities:

Programme Management

• Provided health financing technical assistance to State activities of the project, working with other technical staff and state government institutions as per project requirements.

• Provided technical support to Lagos State Ministry of Health in introducing health reform agenda backed by law that will improve the performance of the health system.

• Supported the establishment of the Health Facilities Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA).

• Facilitated the development of guidelines and checklist for monitoring both privates and public health facilities in ensuring registration, accreditation, and inspection of all health facilities in Lagos State.

• Increase the USAID engagement in implementation of national health financing reform initiatives such as Basic Health Care Provision Fund BHCPF and other health financing work in Nigeria.

• Analyses the economic and financing implications of enhanced access and improved quality of primary healthcare services

• Collaborate with Lagos State government officials, implementing partners, and other stakeholders in driving implementation of national and sub-national HCF strategies to strengthen PHC systems.

• Provides guidance to Lagos State MOH regarding budgeting for service delivery activities and Human Resource for Health planning

• Provide overall leadership and management for Health Policy Plus Sustainable Health Financing of HIV/AIDS and TB Programs activity in Lagos State.

• Provide technical support as necessary to support development of national blueprints for HIV and TB integration at the state level.

• Participate in co-design and development of an outcome-based provider payment model for TB at the state level.

• Coordinates closely with the Senior Health Financing Advisor and other project technical staff to introduce new payment methods and manage health financing and economics related activities

• Provides analytical and evaluative techniques to identify, consider, and resolve health financing policy issues or problems.

• Uses various quantitative and qualitative techniques to perform financing and policy analysis tasks.

• Guides and supports research, data collection, policy formulation, training and capacity building efforts in support of project activities and deliverables.

• Ensures quality of services and compliance per project/program requirements.

• Organizes as needed project/program trainings, conferences, workshops, and meetings.

• Document’s health financing success stories/lessons learned and produce publishable health financing materials including policy briefs and peer reviewed articles.

• Represents the projects, company, and programs in the health financing area in Nigerian and regional forums, as necessary.

Administrative / Fiscal responsibilities and Compliance responsibilities:

• Assures that expenses incurred are allowable, reasonable, and allocable to the project to which they are charged

• Seeks prior approval for budget changes when required

• Ensures that cost-share requirements are met

• Ensuring relevant standards, process and regulations are upheld

• Management of relations between Lagos Office, Abuja head office and Home Office based team

• Ensures accurate and timely effort reporting for project personnel

• Discloses conflicts of interest when required

• Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

(March 2019 – May 2019) Consultant - Human Resources for Health (STTA) PELTOM Global Services / Ogun State Ministry of Health As a Human Resources for Health Consultant engaged on a contractual basis (Short Term Technical Assistance) to support Ogun State Ministry of health with the below terms of reference:

• Systematic collection, documentation and presentation of information regarding human resources for health, health systems and health needs including inputs for key decision makers.

• Analysis/review of data from HMIS and other health sources and its use for decision makers and the support to states and districts.

• Building capacities at local and state level for making state and local human resources for health plans and for review and improving the plans, using both epidemiological and HMIS inputs and support on budgeting and financial planning as required.

• Provide Technical Assistance in areas related to health systems strengthening and Human Resources for Health

• Undertake other assignments, which may be assigned from time to time by the Reporting Officer.

(March 2016 – February 2019) System Strengthening Specialist Creative Associates International (NEI Plus Project) – 125M USD funded project. The Northern Nigeria Education Initiative Plus (NEI Plus) project is strengthening the ability of State Government in Northern Nigeria to provide greater access to basic education, especially for girls and out of school children; and to significantly improve reading outcomes for more than two million school-aged children and youth in sustainable manner. As a Senior System Strengthening Specialist, I am responsible for overseeing all systems and education policy- related activities.

Staff: 4 direct reports. Budget: $450,000 Annually (Thematic Unit budget) Responsibilities:

• Facilitate a process with state governments and other stakeholders to map and review existing education policy frameworks, especially around systems, access, reading instruction, and assessment.

• Work with FMOE, SMOEs, UBEC, NMEC, SUBEB, SAME, MORA to provide support to sustain existing policy initiatives and facilitate development and implementation of new policies, particularly in the areas of systems, access, reading instruction, assessment, and accountability.

• Support implementation and monitoring of policy action plans as part of the reading improvement strategy.

• Facilitate policy review meetings with regard to reading and access to track progress in implementing new policies, identify corrective actions to speed implementation, and develop tools to assess impact.

• Improve the capacity of government education officials to develop leadership, managerial, and supervisory skills to effectively implement policies and regulations with regard to access and reading.

• Provide coaching on various issues including data analysis and evidence-based decision making, monitoring, and staff mentoring.

• Support dissemination of new policies and opportunities for bottom-up feedback at all levels through state- level workshops involving government education officials; community meetings; IT; paper publications; and ongoing media campaigns.

Key Accomplishments:

• Supported State Ministry of Education to develop Institutional Capacity Assessment Tool (ICA-T) to Measure/describe managerial, technical and coordination capacity of state and LGA education institutions to support and sustain access and EGR interventions/programs

• Supported the states to developed Institutional Capacity Building Plan to address gaps identified during the Institution Capacity Assessment (ICA) of state and local government agencies managing education interventions in Bauchi and Sokoto States.

• Facilitated the development of the Initiative Education System Strengthening Strategy and implementation plan developed and is been implemented

• Instituted the State Education Account (SEA) process in Bauchi and Sokoto states to provide a framework for measuring total expenditure in basic education. In an effort to institutionalize SEA in the two supported states, there is now a line item for the SEA in the state MTSS and annual budget, indicating the state’s intention to sustain SEA process in the states.

• Increasingly attracting state government resourcing for access to educational opportunities and Early Grade Reading programs and ownership for example, Bauchi and Sokoto State Governments have together created a special code for the project on the 2018 budget with allotted funds of N500M and N400M respectively.

• Supported Nigeria Educational Research & Development Council and Federal Ministry of Education

(NERDC/FMOE) with an evidence-based information that help NERDC to lead the development of National Reading Framework in Nigeria.

• Facilitated the development of guideline for mainstreaming learners from Non-Formal Learning Centres into Formal School.

• Deployment of new micro soft access database for participatory development of Project FY4 work plan, that also serves as PMP tool and resource allocation and management tool

• Facilitated the development of the Nigeria Northern Education Initiative Plus results framework and new results-based work plans resulting in orientation and influencing staff on sustainable and people centered activities whilst improving their communication of results

(Nov 2012- Feb 2016) Health Systems Strengthening Advisor (HSSA) USAID/Management Sciences for Health (ProACT) Project - 80M USD Funded project. Pro-ACT is an MSH implemented project (2009-2014) aimed at supporting Government of Nigeria (GoN) to deliver comprehensive HIV/AIDS/TB services in five States in Nigeria (Kebbi, Kwara, Niger, Sokoto and Zamfara States). As Health System Strengthening Advisor to the organization, I provide technical assistance for the project health systems strengthening approaches, building sufficient and sustained capacity at Federal, State and LGA levels in HIV/AIDS/TB coordination, strategic planning, financing, leadership development and other related health sector-specific systems strengthening and monitoring for results.

Staff: 3 direct reports and 5 in-direct reports. Budget: $350,000 Annually (Thematic Unit budget). Responsibilities:

• Facilitated strategy development and implementation to improve and sustain state and local government planning, financing and health and HIV/AIDS/TB resource management.

• Assisted the states and local governments in analyzing the economic and financing implications of implementing enhanced health systems, increasing access to and improving quality of primary healthcare services, including integrated reproductive/family planning, maternal and new-born health, malaria and HIV/AIDS/TB.

• Worked with SMOH and SPHCDA to Provides guidance regarding budgeting and for service delivery activities and HRH, risk pooling, innovative financing.

• Provided technical input in the development of an integrated LMS Pro-ACT project plan in collaboration with the Directors, Advisors and State Teams.

• Provided high level technical contribution towards design and implementation of LMS Pro-ACT Nigeria health financing technical assistance to strengthen priority state health financing planning and implementation in conjunction with the Project Director and the technical leads;

• Provided technical leadership towards successful implementation of all Pro-ACT Nigeria health financing activities at the state level in partnership with State Team Leaders in five priority states;

• Supported the State Team Leaders build capacity of state and LGA management teams to undertake strategic and annual planning, resourcing and monitoring HIV/AIDS and TB programs.

• Assisted state and local governments to build and support vibrant public-private partnerships for health and HIV/AIDS that promote participatory decision-making in key processes of state programs.

• Established system and support state and local governments to map resources for HIV/AIDS and TB, budget resources according to priorities and evidence, monitor disbursements and budget performance.

• Worked with the LMS CB project and consultants to develop grantee CSOs organizational systems capacity to plan, manage and monitor small grants (governance boards, planning, budgeting, human resources management, grant management, M&E, proposal writing etc.).

• Provide clear documentation of programmatic achievements and keep LMS senior management informed on monthly, quarterly and annual basis.

Key accomplishments: Program Management

• States field operations staff highly motivated and meeting 70% work plan implementation and 80% of targets

• Implemented with government a sustainability strategic plan in three of the five supported states while transition capacity assessment and support in all supported states.

• Instituted new systems for states accounting for and reporting results (monthly/quarterly results expectations)

• Deployed new micro soft access database for participatory development of project work plan, that serves as PMP tool; resources allocation and management tool.

• Increased our USAID target attainment across prevention, OVC, PMTCT and ART. Health System Strengthening

• Instituted model for Political inclusion and Technical inclusion leading to improved political commitment

(strategic engagements) resulting in 2015/2016 budgetary allocation for transitioning PEPFAR supports

(lab services, O.I and marginal ARV scale up) to states.

• Leadership, Management & Governance development program for civil society organizations working on health care financing in Nigeria

• Facilitated and Coordinated five ProACT states Capacity Assessment in Kebbi, Kwara, Niger, Sokoto and Zamfara States to identified Institutional and Technical Capacity gaps of the states HIV/AIDS response using the new National Harmonized Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool (NHOCAT).

• Facilitated and Coordinated Capacity Assessment of five ProACT supported states to determine readiness for states ownership of HIV care and treatment program.

• Support NACA in the development of National Monitoring and Evaluation Supportive Supervision tools which received NACA commendation.

• Integration of HIV/AIDS service into mainstream health services in 15 of 35 supported Health facilities

• Supported the Kwara State Ministry of Health to develop a 2-year annual costed Operational Plan (2013- 2014) from the State Strategic Health Development Plan (2010-2015) and use plans for improvement of Health and HIV/TB service delivery

• Strategic TA and engagement with key leadership for health has resulted in increase in health budgeting and improvement in health infrastructures, Kwara state in addition to massive renovations of health facilities have also procured laboratory equipment for HIV& AIDS services.

• Leadership for health capacity enhanced in Kwara states using modified MSH Leadership Development Programme; resulting in improved capacity of health managers to address challenges and get results; Kwara State Health Facilities specific work plans for uptake of PMTCT were developed for 6-months.

• Supported the development of Niger State Laboratory Task Team costed operational plan for 2013; and also collaborate with MSH PlanHealth to support Akwa Ibom state SACA in developing HIV/AIDS Costed Unified Operational Plan for 2013 – 2014.

• Facilitated and coordination of transition of technical and commodities support of HIV/AIDS Services in all ProACT Supported States.

• Lead MSH Nigeria integrated Country Strategy (ICS) strategic objective “to improve integration and delivery of health services leading to improved access to and coverage of basic health services”. Mapping of Guidelines, policies and practices for MSH health service integration.

• Facilitated and development of MSH – ProACT Sustainability Plan with Kwara State Government.

• Established linkages for collaborative relationship with other health system and health financing partners such as USAID/HFG, USAID/TSHIP, DFID/ENR, NACA, FMoH and Global Fund /Pathfinder International

[May 2011- Oct 2012] Options Consultancy Services, UK Systems Strengthening DFID / Enhancing Nigeria’s Response to HIV/AIDS project (ENR) Technical Advisor ENR (UK-DFID supported 102M funded programme in Nigeria) - is a six-year funded program (2009-2014) which responded to the growing of HIV/AIDS epidemic in Nigeria and aimed to expand the reach of the Nigerian efforts at responding to HIV/AIDS epidemic through strengthening the State AIDS Control Agencies/committees (SACA) in selected states of Nigeria namely: Akwa Ibom, Benue, Cross River, Kaduna, Lagos, Nasarawa and Ogun State. As Systems Strengthening Technical Advisor, I provided leadership and coordination of ENR Output 1 work in Lagos and Ogun State; served as the point of contact of ENR with state government officials; coordinated and collaborated with all public sector, NGOs and other developmental partners in the states; coordinated all capacity building activities for partners at the state level; provided programmatic/technical assistance to state-level Tactical Partners as appropriate in the design, implementation, modification, monitoring and evaluation of project activities. Staff: 4 directs. Budget: 500,000 Annually (Thematic Unit budget) Provide support to SACA with the development and maintenance of efficient and effective planning, budgeting and financial systems to aid planning processes; strengthen financial controls and decision making. Additional responsibilities include:

• Work with SACA to improve resource mobilization, funding strategies and budgeting capabilities.

• Ensure compliance with public sector funding and reporting requirements.

• Facilitate the reporting of any donor funding contribution.

• Provide support to strengthen the relationships between SACA finance team and State Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Budget and Planning.

• Provide technical support for budgeting and costing for strategic issues such as state strategic plans.

• Coordinate the development of the annual Strategic Plan documents with other technical staff; and Coordinating inter-ministerial collaboration between the SACA and other relevant line ministries (Ministries of Health, Agriculture, Education, Information, Youth and Sport, Local government, and Women’s affairs) with reference to the planning and budgeting functions. Capacity building:

• Assist in program planning, design, review, monitoring, and evaluation including programmatic reporting.

• Build the skills of ENR Counterpart key staff in report writing; planning; budgeting; financial management; tracking funding sources; using standardized planning formats; ensuring appropriate data transfers from SASCP to NASCP; and SACA to NACA;

• Train and mentor the SACA officers in data collection and utilization and provide support in strengthening streamlined data collection and reporting systems;

• Supporting SACA to provide more lump sum grants to CSOs directly; and creating an Idea Fund” that the SACAs will manage to commission studies and reports at the state and local levels;

• Support the development an advocacy training curriculum to build the capacity of SACA to influence decision- making, and strengthen the capacity of the SACA in advocacy to reduce stigma and discrimination and increase meaningful involvement of PLWHA;

• Support the mapping of donor partner funding and its disbursement in the state;

• Perform capacity building exercises on developing and costing operational plans with LACAs and other state level partners;

Increase coordination:

• Facilitate agreements on roles, responsibilities and modes of operations of SACA and SASCP of the state, to ensure coordination across the budgeting and planning process, and a strengthened role of the SASCP in their sectoral coordination response.

• Support the states to establish a schedule for various critical coordination meetings throughout the year, such as quarterly meetings of donors funding programs in the state, quarterly meetings of the technical working groups

(TWG), and annual meetings of all partners implementing HIV/AIDS activities in the state to map all interventions across the state and to realign ongoing HIV/AIDS activities with SSP priorities.

• Ensure linkages across other governance programmes operating in the state, which may include: PATHS2; ESSPIN; SPARCS; and SAVI.

(2009–2011) Links for Children OVC Project State Team Leader

(USAID / Save the Children UK /ARFH)

Provided overall state project leadership, motivation, direction and representation for an 8 million USD (over five years) USAID/PEPFAR funded performance-based contract for:

• Care & support for orphans and vulnerable children;

• Strengthening organizational capacity of CSO to design, implement & manage programs; and

• Strengthening capacity of government to set up policies, structures & action plans Staff: 14 direct reports. Budget: $1.5M over 5 years (State Budget) Responsibilities:

1. Provided programmatic/technical and administrative support and coordination of the work of the Links for Children Program to the state level tactical partners in Bauchi State 2. Overseeing implementation plans, ensuring timely and effective implementation, and working with staff to identify and address constraints

3. Strategic engagement of the State Ministries particularly the Ministries of Women Affairs, Health, Justice, Education, Information and Youth development in building their capacity for the provision of care and support services.

4. Supervised the Program Officer and Program Assistance in documentation of Bauchi program activities. 5. Managed all communications with Project Office in Abuja; this includes reports and other project documents as required and ensuring that communications are strongly maintained in both directions. 6. Served as main state representative for the project, managning and overseeing all external relationships; which includes: Project Partners, State Government Ministries, agencies, OVC service providers and other organizations and relevant stakeholders operating in Bauchi State. 7. Assisted the M&E Advisor in collating all PM&E reports, data collection systems, related documents, and ensuring timely/accurate transmission.

8. Managed overall relationships with partner organizations. 9. Worked with state teams and finance staff/Abuja management to prepare monthly budget and cash projections that match project implementation plans and are in line with overall project budget projections 10. Worked with state teams and finance staff/Abuja management to monitor monthly spend reports, monitoring

& accounting for variances, adjusting, and re-phasing activities and cost items as needed 11. General approval and oversight of all financial transactions and related documentation at the state level (these are directly handled by the field teams and finance officer, but responsible for overall approval), and ensuring that all processes are in line with USAID and ARFH / SC policies. 12. Oversight of office administrative and support systems. 13. Any other duty as may be assigned by the Country Project Director Key Achievements:

1. Participated in the development of Quality standards for the national OVC program 2. Aided in the design of the model training

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