KHAMAPATRICK ZIYABU
Summary
Public health and development specialist with expertise in population and reproductive health, health systems strengthening, social policy and planning, youth development, and gender-transformative programming. Skilled in SRHR, health management, disease prevention, climate adaptation, humanitarian response, and child protection, with strong experience in capacity building, policy advocacy, and social innovation for sustainable community development.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Programme Analyst - Health Systems Strengthening
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
07.2025 - Current
- Contribute to the formulation, design, implementation and management of SRHR programmes, ensuring alignment with district, national and global health priorities.
- Provide technical guidance and operational support to government counterparts, civil society organizations, and implementing agencies on SRHR, HIV and FP integration.
- Support programme planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting in collaboration with Ministry of Health and other partners.
- Facilitate coordination and partnerships with stakeholders including UNAIDS, UNICEF, WHO, and other UN agencies under the UN 'Delivery as One' framework.
- Lead capacity-building initiatives for implementing partners to generate quality SRHR data for evidence-based decision making.
- Provide inputs to policy advocacy, knowledge management, and resource mobilization efforts in support of integrated SRHR/HIV initiatives
- Monitor programme financial expenditures, ensuring compliance with budgets and timely reporting.
- Represent UNFPA in district-level technical working groups and coordination platforms to enhance SRHR advocacy and programme delivery.
Technical Coordinator - Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights
Save the Children International
10.2024 - 07.2025
- Provides strategic and technical guidance in planning and budgeting of ASRHR program in accordance with the My Sexual Health and Rights Common Approach, guidelines, framework, policies and country strategy plan.
- Provides strategic guidance to partner organizations in designing cost effective and result oriented program in collaboration with the Government for immediate and long-lasting changes in the lives of adolescents and youth.
- Ensures that partners implement the plan and budget as set in the detail implementation plan and phased budget and provides support for recovery plan if required to achieve results.
- Works closely with technical teams to ensure adequate managerial and technical support to partner organizations to implement detail implementation plan and phased budget.
- Monitors the budget versus expenses tracking every month and provides feedback if required.
- Conducts regular field visits with appropriate tools and checklists, including discussions with beneficiaries on program effectiveness, and feedback on improvements.
- Prepares quality reports as per Save the Children international and donor requirements.
- Ensures partners conduct analytical discussion on project reports before submitting to Save the Children international.
- Ensures that quality reports are submitted on time by the partners and Save the Children international staffs.
- Leads, manages and motivates SCI and partner staff and makes sure they have clear objectives, results and work plans and receive meaningful feedback on their performance regularly.
- Leads on capacity building of partner staff through coaching, mentoring and training.
- Ensures adherence to all relevant Save the Children policies and procedures with respect to child protection, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies.
- Ensures that all partners meet the organizational policies, and donor requirements in time.
- Enhances Coordination linkages/networking with district line agencies and like-minded organizations for effective implementation of ASRHR programs, policy advocacy and sharing of best practices.
- Facilitates data review meetings with health teams in reviewing periodic progress against prioritized key performance indicators in adolescent health and disease surveillance.
- Conducts routine audit and spot checks to partner organizations.
- Conducts organizational capacity assessment and development for implementing partners.
Programme Officer - Adolescent and Youth
United Nations Population Fund
10.2021 - 09.2024
- Provision of technical guidance and operational support to government counterparts, NGO partners, UN system partners on policies, practices and methodologies on adolescent development and participation to support programme management, implementation and delivery of results.
- Contribute to the formulation and design of the country programme, projects and Annual Work Plans (AWPs) in line with Government priorities and according to UNFPA programme policies and procedures.
- Drafting of policy papers, briefs and strategic programme materials for management use and information.
- Devised, in collaboration with implementing partners, monitoring benchmarks, performance indicators and other UNFPA/UN system indicators to assess and strengthen performance accountability on adolescent and youth programmes and projects in Dedza District.
- Advocated and supported integration of youth sexual reproductive health/family planning in Dedza District Implementation Plan.
- Coordinate key stakeholders, youth groups and youth serving organizations, international cooperating agencies and other donor partners involved in supporting youth development, family planning programming and teams of the UN-Joint programme on girl's education, Action for teen mothers and adolescent girls, safeguard young people program and reaching those most left behind with CSE programs.
- Increased UNFPA's visibility and availability of comprehensive information on sexuality and youth development to young people through partnerships with local radio stations and social media platforms.
- Networking and partnership building.
- Facilitated and promoted establishment and access of community-based youth friendly health services especially family planning services in 22 health centers in Dedza districts.
- Analyzing and reporting on project and programme progress in terms of achieving results.
- Prepare project proposals and share information about UNFPA tools for co-financing and funding.
- Monitoring programme expenditures and disbursements to ensure delivery is in line with approved programme budgets and to realize targeted delivery levels.
- Advising and preparing implementing partners for spot checks and audits for quality assurance.
Programmes Coordinator
Malawi Girl Guides Association
01.2018 - 09.2021
- Provide overall strategic and technical leadership in the design, development, planning, budgeting, and implementation of all MAGGA Programs and projects in 24 districts of Malawi.
- Provided technical input and advocacy as part of policy development committees that initiated the enactment and implementation of youth friendly policies: revised National Youth Policy, Age at Marriage Bill, Labor Policy and revised Gender Act.
- Mobilized and mentored 125 youth groups and members of national association of young people living with HIV in meaningful youth engagement in decision-making, demand generation activities and capacity building in HIV and the ICAN package in 6 districts of Malawi.
- Coordinated national, regional, district stakeholders in adolescent reproductive health increasing prioritization, service delivery points and integration of services for adolescents among stakeholders.
- Supported all program officers in designing, implementing and reviewing of youth programs in participation, empowerment, health, monitoring and evaluation to ensure effective coordination of adolescent girls and young women's programs and projects.
- Successfully redesigned the theory of change for the organization.
- Achieved high quality adaptation and implementation of the Happy Family program in Malawi.
- Championed the implementation and rollout of the Menstrual cup in Malawi.
- Designing Sexual Reproductive Health and orientation materials for trainings and campaigns.
- Assess and identify staff capacity building needs and facilitate the provision of relevant technical assistance.
- Created a stimulating working environment for programme and support staff by being motivated, enthusiastic and confident.
- Enhanced an efficient and relevant staffing structure at MAGGA.
- Manage the recruitment, capacity building and performance evaluation of 12 staff, consultants (short and long-term).
- Monitored and evaluated all project activities including project resource needs ensuring the continuity of projects and timely communication to stakeholders.
- Doubled the organization's budget line from 2018 to 2021 and developed partnerships with local and international donors; SAT-SRHRAfricaTrust, UN Women and strengthened working relationships with FORUT Norway, Christian aid and the UN in Malawi.
- Reviewed and made recommendations for organization's strategic plan for the period of 2016-2021 to include populations most left behind in programming.
SRHR Program Manager
Malawi Girl Guides Association
06.2017 - 12.2017
- Successfully maintained effective communication and networking with partners including civil society, government offices and donors, that built and maintained partnerships.
- Ably represented MAGGA at technical working groups at all relevant levels to support partnership building and collaboration with stakeholders.
- Led, without fail, the planning, implementation, reporting and management of SRH activities at national and district levels whilst ensuring quality standards and outputs were met.
- Managed project and activity budgets in close collaboration with the finance department.
- Oversaw that all operational performance standards are consistent with project indicators and work plans.
- Created a stimulating working environment for program and support staff by being motivated, enthusiastic and confident.
- Ensured the cordial relationship between program staff and volunteers at National and District levels as per MAGGA's structures.
- Facilitated trainings for school authorities and teachers.
- Facilitated trainings for secondary and primary school girls in SRHR, HIV, Life skills, and other socio-behavior change communication.
- Oversaw all data collection and management processes.
Program Manager
Social Innovation in Health Initiative (hub), College of Medicine, University of Malawi
03.2016 - 05.2017
- Responsible for overall project oversight, quality assurance for all work plans, outputs and deliverables, effective implementation, project delivery and reporting within set timelines, budget and compliance to College of Medicine and donor.
- Conducted a landscape analysis on healthcare innovations which informed the design and establishment of a social innovation in health platform at College of Medicine and development of a 3 years' implementation strategy.
- Mapped over 60 social innovations in Malawi through national crowdsourcing contests and developed an innovation repository to guide implementation, testing and innovation research Science and Technology that lead to inclusion of social innovation into the small grants scheme.
- Designing and delivering appropriate education online and in person on social innovation, community engagement and research in academic and public spheres.
- Establishing and maintaining partnership with Ministry of Health and leading all advocacy efforts to test, scale and replicate effective innovations addressing key priorities and challenges.
- Extending the application of social innovation and its uptake through enhancing multidisciplinary collaboration between: academia (student and faculty); government (Ministries of Health and national research bodies); underserved communities and citizen social innovators; private sector and health implementers.
Consultant: Technical Advisor - Youth Engagement Advisor
Engender Health
Malawi
01.2015 - 02.2016
- Increased long acting reversible and permanent contraception methods by 4% by mobilizing and providing technical input to MOH, reproductive health national and district actors, district management teams and donors.
- Increased identification and application of local solutions to healthcare delivery, access to contraceptive, improved logistics management by implementing a quality improvement tool, the Client Oriented Provider Efficient Services approach for contraceptive security in 18 health facilities in Mangochi and Salima districts.
- Coordinated key stakeholders including the directorate of reproductive health, youth groups and youth serving organizations, international cooperating agencies, USAID/Malawi and other donor partners involved in supporting youth development, family planning programming and long acting reversible contraception including UN agencies, PSI Malawi, Marie Stopes, Jhpiego and line ministries (Youth, Gender, Education and labor), the Joint United Nations Programme on Adolescent Girls in Malawi consortium members.
- Supported capacity building of 40 logistics management national stakeholders, DHMT members in application of data for decision making, district and over 120 health facility staff in USAID supported districts in holistic programming to increase expanded awareness and access to modern contraceptives.
Civic Education Coordinator
Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation
04.2014 - 12.2014
- Supported national and community level advocacy on stop early marriage campaign with community based youth organizations, parents, local and traditional leaders and government officials through collaboration with Ministry of Youth.
- Mentored 12 and facilitated participation of 40 young people in national, regional and continental programmatic and policy platforms under the African Union and Southern Africa Development Commission, Adolescents Network on Population and Development.
- Supported the implementation of a back to school program for at-risk adolescent girls (40)-twinning program and comprehensive condom programming in district health facilities and youth organizations, reducing number of districts with stockouts of condoms and increasing condom utilization by 10%.
- Supported all program officers in designing, implementing and reviewing of youth programs in participation, empowerment, health, monitoring and evaluation to ensure effective coordination of CHRR youth programs and projects.
Lead Research Assistant
Center for Social Research
06.2013 - 09.2013
- Supervised the study team, Data collection using questionnaires; Conducting key informant interviews; Conducting Focus Group Discussions and community conversations; Data quality management and cleaning; Data entry; Transcribing qualitative data; Conducting Household Listing and fulfilled all reporting requirements to center of social research.
Education
Master of Public Health -
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Blantyre, Malawi12.2020
Bachelor of Arts - Social Science
University of Malawi
Zomba, Malawi10.2013
Skills
- Program Management
- Technical Support
- Policy Analysis
- Advocacy
- Monitoring
- Evaluation
- Knowledge Management
- Community Engagement
- Quality Assurance
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Effective Group Leadership
- Coaching
- Facilitation
- Mentoring
- Qualitative Research
- Quantitative Research
- STATA
- NVivo
- Manuscript Development
- Report Writing
- Grant Management
- Funds Management
- Curriculum Development
- Capacity Building
- Development of Cross-Sectoral Partnerships
- Storytelling
- Communications
- Monitoring and Evaluation
References
1. Dr. Benjamin N. Kaneka, Lecturer and Head of Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, P.O. Box 280, +265 888 435 368, bkaneka@cc.ac.mw
2. Mr. Deus Lupenga, Chief Youth Officer, Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, Private Bag 384, Capital City, Lilongwe, +265 0991 135 518, dlupenga@gmail.com
3. Mr. Thomas Sendeza, Executive Director, Child Focus Organisation, P.O. Box 273, Balaka, Malawi, +265 882 436 337,
sendezath@gmail.com
Timeline
Programme Analyst - Health Systems Strengthening
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
07.2025 - Current
Technical Coordinator - Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights
Save the Children International
10.2024 - 07.2025
Programme Officer - Adolescent and Youth
United Nations Population Fund
10.2021 - 09.2024
Programmes Coordinator
Malawi Girl Guides Association
01.2018 - 09.2021
SRHR Program Manager
Malawi Girl Guides Association
06.2017 - 12.2017
Program Manager
Social Innovation in Health Initiative (hub), College of Medicine, University of Malawi
03.2016 - 05.2017
Consultant: Technical Advisor - Youth Engagement Advisor
Engender Health
01.2015 - 02.2016
Civic Education Coordinator
Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation
04.2014 - 12.2014
Lead Research Assistant
Center for Social Research
06.2013 - 09.2013
Master of Public Health -
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Bachelor of Arts - Social Science
University of Malawi