Dr Simon M. Muchiru

Strategic Plan Consultant

Technical Expertise

Dr Muchiru, is a Kenyan based Strategic Planning, Management and Development consultants with over 30 years hands-on consulting experience in Sub Saharan Africa. His experience spans around issues of strategy development, strategic planning, health care /HIV management, health and community systems strengthening, governance and leadership and organisational development.

Technical Expertise: Strategy and policy reviews and development; Strategic planning and management, health and community systems strengthening, Strategic information (MER) and knowledge management; Health and Community Systems Strengthening. financial sustainability planning, Communities engagement, and community led, organizational development (systems audits and strengthening, governance and leadership, HR planning, resource mobilization).

Operational / Process Skills: Strong and excellent communication skills, Excellent analytical and technical writing skills, Strong participatory team building and leadership skills, Experience working with multi-country and multidisciplinary teams; national governments, bilateral and multilateral development partners, private foundations, private sector companies and CSO, Computer literate. Experience working remotely – providing technical assistance, excellent project management skills.

Guiding Principles: Committed to Excellence, Professional conduct, Objectivity, Transparency, Trusted team player, gender and human rights sensitive and responsive, putting people first

My motivation is premised on the ability to inspire and shape policies, influence service delivery and development practices, and advance strategic information and knowledge management. My consultancy work has put clients on strategic cutting edge in their respective services and improved their comparative advantage. My recent clients range from national governments, bilateral and multilateral agencies (including the UN agencies), regional organisations, private sector, civil society organisations (CSO), to private donors and communities.

Education and training : PhD in Project Management (Health care management), an MBA in Health Care Management and BSc in Organisational development. He has further participated in a wide range of short-term training courses offered by organizations such as UNAIDS, UNDP, WHO, World Bank, Global Fund, PEPFAR, GIZ, and UNICEF, among others.

Hands on Experience

Over 30 years’ hands-on experience with TA services ranging from policy reviews and development, programme reviews organisational audits, strategic planning and programming, health and community systems strengthening, organisational development and resource mobilisation. Assignments range from organisational specific, to national, regional and multi-country assignments. Interventions also include ensuring services availability and coverage, development of services quality and sustainability frameworks. Dr Muchiru has supported over ten countries in developing resources mobilisation concepts notes, technical proposals and training requests to major bilateral, multilateral and private funding agencies and donors such as the Global Fund, PEPFAR, European Commission, UN agencies, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations, SIDA, CIDA, FCDO/DFID, IRISH aid, GIZ and the French Initiative. The success rate has been over 90%.

He has served as a lead consultant in over 17 different country assignments and effectively managed large multi-skills professional consulting teams, ranging from 3 to over 21 people at a time. He is skilled in strategic planning, critical analysis of issues, participatory approaches and team building.

Dr Muchiru has written 4 books, over 81 technical reports, 7 publications and over 30 articles on different thematic topics on health, HIV management, genetic resources, and organizational development among others. He is computer literate.