Mohammed Kudu Bawa
(ICAS Chief Executive Officer)

Mohammed has schooled home and abroad including famous Ahmadu Bello University Zaria obtaining master’s degree in Agricultural Economics with specialized trainings acquired from University of Wolverhampton UK (technical trainers award), Natural Resource Institute Chatham UK (post-harvest technology), and Imperial College London (tropical pest management). Other impactful trainings acquired include consultancy management, organisational development, participatory organisational self-assessment and development, participatory rural appraisal, community level educational planning, log frame construction using problem and objective tree analysis, conflict management, community Friendly Child Initiative: Issues of convergence – Nutrition, education, child protection, health, water, and sanitation; CFCI Process involving stakeholders’ identification of issues, analysis, action planning and monitoring. CFCI participatory exercises such as Growth Monitoring and Promotion, pully exercise, marble exercise, community mapping, transect walk, seasonality calendar, bottle cap exercise etc.

Early Grade Reading (EGR) and Assessment: Northern Education Plus 6T model (tongue, text, teaching, time on task, test and curriculum); EGR formative and summative assessments (Early Grade Assessment, Group Administered Learners’ Assessment, Local Education Monitoring Approach; Teacher/Continued Professional Development including using school cluster model and cascade training method, mentoring and coaching as well as formation teacher learning cycles; Promotion of access with respect to out of school children with emphasis on girls using both specific demand and supply sides interventions

Mohammed Bawa, an Agricultural Economics by training offers two-decade of experience as a National Consultant with extensive work experience in public, civil society, private and development spaces. Social sector wide experience cuts across health, nutrition, child protection, education, water and sanitation, agriculture and livelihoods, energy, humanitarian, environment, democracy, and governance with considerations for diversity, inclusion, and equity. Quality work experiences cut across donor community (World Bank, EU, UN agencies, DFID, USAID) and their supported programmes (such as FCDO PERL Project, DFID M4D Project, DFID ESSPIN Project, EU ERPD Project, EU INSIDE Project, WB Malaria Boosted Project, WB/DFID Community Education Project) as well as international NGOs (ITAD UK, QED, Futures Group, R4D, Action Aid, Save the Children, Mercy Corps, International Centre for Energy, Environment and Development (ICEED), PLAN, West Arica PACT, Financial Volunteer Service Corp (FVSC) Volunteer Service Organisation (VSO), Malaria Consortium etc.). With extensive donor community engagements in many consulting assignments including high profile ones, Mohammed skill in reporting, meets donor and international NGO standards.

Expertise is broad and spans across organisational and human resource development, community level educational planning, school-based management, resource mobilisation, designing participatory methods and exercises, results-based management, tropical pest management, post-harvest management, policy and advocacy, reviews, assessments and evaluations, political economy analysis, strategic planning, training, facilitation, team building, operational research, and participatory methods.

Mohammed’s expertise in sector planning and systems strengthening is appreciable and has been demonstrated in the development of evidence based sector planning frameworks and strategies, sector policies, performance scorecard, policy implementation benchmark protocol, policy environment score, impact model as well as policy briefs contributing to attainment of policy goals and impact in education, health, reproductive health, child survival across USAID COMPASS 5 intervention states including Lagos, Kano, Nasarawa, Bauchi, FCT as well as including DFID PATHS 1 and PATHS 2 focal states (Jigawa, Kano and Kaduna). His Monitoring and Evaluation experiences-based OECD criteria spans across theory-based evaluation, development evaluation involving preparation of evaluation methods and frameworks, designing easy to use evaluation tools and protocols as well as producing learning briefs that draw insightful lessons for wider implications including scale up and replication. Mohammed has served successfully as a lead or national consultant in more than 30 M&E assignments in the last 3 years to date.

Through FCDO PERL (ECP) project, from 2018 to 2023, led and influenced the adaptation and implementation of Confluence Influence Assessment (CIA) quantitative index tool in measuring citizens’ influence in governance reforms leading to improved social service delivery in SE and SW regional hubs, Federal, Kano, Kaduna and Jigawa states. The CIA is currently sustained and replicated by the non-state actors as a more inclusive self-evaluation and planning framework with their stakeholders across the states. In 2013 to 2018, through DFID ESSPIN Programme and as School Based Management Consultant key role played has aided the design, implementation and monitoring of School-Based Management policy, SBMC training manual and guide in 6 states of Nigeria (Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Enugu, Lagos) leading to the establishment of functional SBMCs and enhancing school level governance by School Based Management Committees.

Through DFID CBDD project, as a POSAD consultant led in the adaptation of POSAD as a concept and organisational development model of enhancing performance, viability, and sustainability of NGOs across the country. POSAD model has been readapted by many organisations such as Action Aid Nigeria and in use to support many NGOs they are working as partners. During the CBDD project too and as a Nigeria Participatory and Rural Appraisal Network (NIPRANET) Coordinator, PRA concept was brought to the limelight producing many PRA practitioners in the country and contributing to positive shift towards putting communities at the driver seat in community development.

Furthermore, Mohammed has brought to bear his skills in organisational development in most social sectors to deepen understanding of OD models and concepts paving ways for functional analysis, clarifying organisational and sector vision, mission and core values, a shared understanding of OD issues and adaptation of OD interventions in providing solutions to complex organisational issues including managing resistance and change. His experience and expertise in sector planning, review of how human development (HD) is understood in Nigeria, its link to sustainability of many donors supported programmes and government policy thrusts lay strong foundation for OD interventions. Also, expertise and experience in human resource development transverses across performance management system involving a realistic performance target, development of job description, establishment communication strategy and performance evaluation framework.

Mohammed as a system, process and result oriented person, he effectively works in a team and brings different skills and expertise to bear in optimizing team performance towards achieving or exceeding organisational goals. Mohammed is equipped with problem solving, conflict management, facilitation, interpersonal communication, community entry and engagement skills. Also, his flair in designing, adapting, and applying participatory tools and exercises, development models and approaches (Market systems analysis, M4P, POSAD, PLA/PRA and OD is enviable has increased success in understanding and facilitating sustainable solutions to complex and sensitive organizational and community challenges and problems. Mohammed’s diverse background propels him to provide innovative, practical, and sustainable solutions to complex problems or issues that are context specific combining appropriate mix of both process and result as well as systematic approaches.

Mohammed has taken up Senior Management roles as Education Evaluation Manager, FCDO Delve Project; Data Quality Adviser to Independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (ITAD) – DFID Stamp out Modern Slavery (SOSIN) Programme in Nigeria; In Country Coordinator ITAD UK (DFID-M4D Programmes); Deputy Team Leader, QED Group (US), Independent Evaluation Manager, DFID Mobilisation for Development (M4D) Chief Agricultural Officer, Federal Ministry of Agriculture; Senior Policy and Advocacy Adviser, USAID-COMPASS Project