Staff and Associates
The staff and associates of the Nottawasaga Institute bring many years of experience to the services provided by the organisation. Lead competencies are outlined below. Individual profiles are provided separately.
Rob Sinclair - president
- Strategic planning and process design
- Inclusive governance processes
- Communication and advocacy strategies
- Institutional strengthening and partnership-building
- Fundraising and marketing strategies
- Monitoring and evaluation
Nishu Aggarwal - director
- Networking strategies
- Facilitation and consensus building
- Lobbying and Advocacy
- Community conservation and community natural resource management
- Organizational Development
- Conflict management
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Geographical Information Systems
Ada Pouye - community development, HIV/AIDS associate
- Family planning, marketing studies coordinator, and IEC/BCC survey consultant
- Advisor in modern communication methods used in combating the pandemic of HIV/AIDS and malnutrition
- Monitoring and evaluating projects
- Conducting marketing surveys
- Managing food security programmes, referral traditional health centres
- Negotiating and sustaining national, regional and global partnerships and advocacy
Arun Elhance - water and environment policy associate
- Policy research design and coordination
- Quantitative and qualitative research (natural sciences focussing on water, political economy)
- Environmental awareness-raising materials design & development
- Policy dialogue facilitation
- Editing and publishing
Nahum Okwiya - management systems associate
- Business Planning, Analysis and Review
- Institutional Assessment and Development
- Management Information Systems (MIS) design, development and Implementation
- Financial Planning, Management, Accounting and Reporting
- Youth Economic Empowerment and Development
Canute Temu - community development associate
- Performance monitoring and evaluation
- Project Management including Results Based Management methodologies & participatory approaches
- Community-driven education approaches
- NGO organisational capacity strengthening
- Linguistics and translation
Kathleen Sinclair - communication skills associate
- Language and writing skills training
- Editing
- Educational materials design & development
- Drama and alternative communication for development
Fridah Githuku - operations manager
- Business management geared towards the development and implementation of organizational strategies, policies and practices
- Financial management for the organization's financial functions
- Human resource management
- Business marketing
Temwa Msiska - programme/research officer
- Project administration and coordination
- Programme support and research
- Logistical arrangements of events and assignments
- Producing informational and marketing materials
Carren Opiyo - administrative assistant
- Operations support
- Institutional administration
- Information management and dissemination