Mr. Gervais BAZIGA, MBA, MPH

Tel. +***- ***-**-**-56

Email: adxgw1@r.postjobfree.com

Kigali/Rwanda

Profile:

Mr Gervais Baziga served as senior Strategic Planner at the Ministry of Health for years. He came to this position after holding a series of position in the Ministry of Health and in an International non-governmental organization in the field of Decentralization, Finance and Administration. Gervais has extensive experience of more than 10 years in public health, strategic planning and costing, budgeting, finance, administration and monitoring and evaluation and project design and management. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Eastern Africa/ Baraton- Kenya and a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Rwanda/ College of Medicine/ School of Public Health, He also holds a Diploma in Health Management Systems from the Galilee International Management Institute, Israel. Professional history

Position: Director of Planning and M&E

Period: April 2021 to date

Employer: Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (Rwanda FDA) Responsibilities:

- Develop, coordinate and Monitor the implementation of the Rwanda FDA strategic planning process, policies and operational plans and its costing,

- Coordinate the development and implementation of the budget of the Authority

- Development of regular budget execution and advise the management for action

- Support the initiation and coordinate the development of partnership projects for Rwanda FDA,

- Overseeing and coordinating the development and implementation of annual work plans and M&E for Rwanda FDA,

- Provide support in the negotiation of collaboration agreements with stakeholders of Rwanda FDA,

- Coordinating the planning processes and, M&E of interventions by Development Partners at Rwanda FDA

- Coordinate capacity building of Rwanda FDA staff in the use and streamlining of M&E systems into the Rwanda FDA planning and reporting processes,

- Oversee and coordinate activities related to research at Rwanda FDA

- Coordinate the development of monthly, quarterly, mid yearly and annual progress reports.

- Coordinate projects and Development Partners’ work plans and support to Rwanda FDA Professional history

Position: Sector Strategic Planning Specialist

Period: May 2011 to April 2021

Employer: Ministry of Health

Responsibilities:

- Coordinated the development of the health strategic plan and its costing, health policy, health financing strategic plan, Community Health Programs Strategic Plan, National Strategic Plan for HIV-AIDS, TB and Malaria and other health sub strategic plans

- Participated in the development of National Strategic for Transformation (NST) and Country Vision 2050 (acted as focal person to the health sector)

- Supported 30 districts and coordinated the development of the of the district health strategic plans

- Coordinated the development of the health sector planning and budgeting

- Coordinated the technical review of the Performance Based Financing indicators (PBF) to accommodate health care indicators for health facilities and the related budget integrated in the overall sector MOH budgeting process.

- Developed the health sector annual performance based budgeting

- Regularly developed the health sector budget execution and advise the management for action

- Prepared the annual required health resources to be earmarked to districts and health facilities

- Preparation of annual overall health performance indicators for both the Ministry of Health, MOH affiliated agencies and decentralized entities (Administrative District and Health Facilities)

- Coordinate and prepare the health sector mid-term expenditure frameworks

- Prepare quarterly progress performance of the health sector projects

- Develop and strengthen relationship with stakeholders and organize meetings for annual review and reviews at the end of programs

- Coordinated the process of the development of the district health system guidelines

- Ensure the integration of sector policies and strategies and health sector priorities in the district development strategies, annual plans, budgets and provide support to Local Government in areas of planning, health financing, budgeting and M&E

- Coordinated technically the process of mid-term review of the districts Health Strategic Plans

- Provided technical support in the development of the Performance based financing procedures manual on the sector planning and budgeting

- Supported hospitals in the development of the business plan for their health financing sustainability

- Provided technical support in the development of Global Fund application to support Rwandan Health Systems

- Provided technical support in the USG/CDC- CoAG continuation application for MoH- Rwanda

- Led the Procurement Tender Committee of the Ministry of Health

- Provided technical support to decentralized health structures in planning, budgeting, costing and Monitoring & Evaluation

Position: Director of Finance and Administration

Supervisor: Permanent Secretary

Dates: April 2010 to April 2011

Employer: Ministry of Health

Responsibilities:

- Coordinated and implemented the health sector budget preparation and its execution

- Coordinated the procurement of goods and services in the health sector

- Health resources management and reporting,

- Overseeing the management of human resource, materials and financial resources of the Ministry;

- Coordinated the annual capacity building plan of the institution and assessing the performance of the staff of the unit and coordinate assessment of the Ministry

- Acted as Director of intervention to the BTC- Minisante 4 project co- managed between MoH and Belgium Cooperation Agency currently known as ENABEL Position: Officer in charge of Finance and Administration Employer: American Refugee Committee International (ARC)/Rwanda Dates: July 2007 to March 2010

Responsibilities:

Providing leadership and direction to Budgeting, Administration and Logistics departments of Kibuye field office, enabling it by providing efficiently and effectively services to support the well-functioning of other units of the ARC Program. Thesis conducted for the fulfillment of Master Program in Public Health Comparative Study of Factors Associated with Stunting Among Children Under Five Years of Age in Rwanda Using RDHS 2014/2015 and 2019/2020

Reference

1) Ambassador Dr Dianne GASHUMBA, Former Minister of Health and Ambassador of Rwanda the Kingdom of Sweden

Email: adxgw1@r.postjobfree.com; Tel: +250********* 2) Dr Charles KARANGWA, Director General of Rwanda Forensic Laboratory, former Director General of Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority,

Email: adxgw1@r.postjobfree.com; Tel: +250*********

3) Valens NDONKEYE, Director General of Corporate Services / Ministry of Health Email: adxgw1@r.postjobfree.com; Tel: +250********* I certify that the above information provided is true and correct Gervais BAZIGA

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