Academic-Academic excellence in Strategic Human Resource management. Competency skills in Peoples management, work culture, organizational development.

Academic-Academic excellence in Strategic Human Resource management .Competency skills in Peoples management, work culture, organizational development.

Experience & Competency -Besides Academic qualifications, Raphael skills and expertise span from founding and managing start up grassroots and national initiatives with creation of several NGOs across Nigeria, Tanzania and Kenya .Consulting for grants making and management.

As an alumni of Consulting Community Consulting Practices in Seattle Washington, USA. Raphael defines himself as a hub of knowledge and a catalyst where he has continuously utilized his skills and experiences in transforming and collaborating with the emerging grassroots leaders and organization across Africa namely in Kenya, Nigeria ,Tanzania as a move to scale system level transformation in communities socioeconomic and health agenda.

Employment -At Onesight EssilorLuxottica Foundation (OSELF), we are Empowering Humans. Currently supporting OSELF Africa Mission Team as an Associate Director for Africa Partnership and Advocacy. With 9years at OSELF, Raphael directly supports Partnership Strategy and Government engagement framework for a multilevel system transformation and change in Africa. These include Continuous mapping of Partners and partnership opportunities. Collaboration with NGOs for joint programming. Positioning OSELF as go to partner for an alternative supply chain solutions for NGOs eyeglasses initiatives.

The Key Interest -engaging and accelerating shared ownership through working within coalitions, alliances while networking to drive the current WHO SPECS 2030 Initiative in Africa. This would ensure National government drives the systems transformation while the NGOs remains as the catalyst for continuous access to quality service delivery.

Milestones –

Partnership: Managing a partnership portfolio of over 50 NGOs and Institutions both local and international across Africa for delivery of eye health services that contribute to the global agenda for eye health. Advocacy supporting staff leading the OSELF Priority countries integration of WHO SPECS 2030 Initiative within the National Governments systems and policies.

System Change and Transformation –Human Resource-Supported the creation for Government Approved Optical Training curriculum. Managed its implementation with accredited Government Institutions that resulted to creation of Kenya Leading grassroots of over 150 rural optical network shops distributed in Kenya. This disruptive model has now led to emerging of formal optical business into the rural networks thus scaling ACCESS.

Empowering Humans

The rural network empowers humans by offering livelihood opportunities, community access to refractive services and catalyzing behavior change towards eye health at the grassroots against the traditional urban centered.

Innovations

Piloted the implementation of Tele-Refraction in Kenya with successful validation of the model by WHO as an accelerator for scaling access to refractive errors services through Task shifting and sharing.

A Support staff and link in managing Multilevel NGOs funded Programs for eyeglasses access, Facilitating Partnership Agreements with National Governments. Successful implementation of eyeglasses integration within the Kenyan Government procurement system. Alternative supply chain solutions for donor funded eyeglass programs in Africa.