Mudukula Mukubi

Biography

Mudukula Mukubi is currently the Program Technical Advisor at Ndola Nutrition Organisation, a nutrition and livelihoods focused NGO working to end malnutrition and combat poverty in his country of origin, Zambia. Up to September 2017, he was Program Coordinator at American International Health Alliance, where he was responsible for institutional capacity building support and program coordination for the development of professional social work in Zambia.

He holds a Bachelor of Social Work degree from the University of Zambia and is a candidate for the Master of Business Administration (Expected 2019) from Edinburgh Business School. His area of interest is macro social work, particularly community development and food security.

Mudu began his career in 1997 as Community Development Coordinator at Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia. There he provided management oversight of a drought mitigation program (1997 to 2001) and later (2002 to 2004) a food security program. He also personally conducted the baseline survey of the drought mitigation program and was a key figure in the feasibility study of the food security program. He provided technical advice to the District Development Coordination Committees (DDCCs) in both rural councils and helped with transformational support for 400 farm households from subsistence-oriented to nascent entrepreneurial entities. He also managed several food aid projects, including the Two Million Euro 1999 European Union funded operation in the drought-prone Luangwa district of Zambia.

From 2004—2007 he was Community Development Coordinator at Care International Zambia. His responsibilities included planning with and coordination of stakeholders, including the Lusaka City Council, the Chaisa Residents Development Committee (RDC), and the donor, Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). Notably, he trained community-based development volunteers, including the Residents Development Committee in lobbying and advocacy for improved service delivery by local authorities. Later he pioneered ecological sanitation and hygiene awareness in peri-urban settlements, bringing together the Environmental Health department of the Ministry of Health and the Public Health department of the Lusaka City Council to collaborate with the Residents development Committee.

In  2009  he  moved  to  a  new  role  as  Project  Coordinator  at  World  Vision  Zambia  and  was  responsible  for  coordination—and  later  full  management  oversight—of  the  US$5.7  million  Sustainable  Program  for  Livelihood  and  Solutions  to  Hunger  (SPLASH),  with  support  from  the  United  Nations  World  Food  Program  (WFP).  Later  he  became  Resource  Mobilization  Officer  at  the  same  organisation,  with  oversight  of  the  grant  acquisition  team,  tasked  with  raising  funds  to  support  field  operations.

Seeking  a  new  challenged,  he  moved  in  2013  to  serve  with  World  Vision  Niger  as  Food  Assistance  Manager  where  he  provided  management  oversight  of  a  $7million  portfolio  of  food  assistance  for  relief  and  nutrition  projects,  including  supplementary  feeding  (SFP),  cash  transfers,  and  general  food  distribution. 

Mudu  has  worked  in  the  private  sector,  previously  as  Regional  Manager  of  Ecodome  Systems  Zambia  Limited,  a  private  sector  company  that  produces  ecological  sanitation  hardware  in  Zambia,  with  a  market  covering  Central  and  Sothern  Africa.  He  also  supports  local  start-up  NGOs  with  project  design  and  proposal  development  as  well  as  staff  capacity  building. 

He  supported  the  design  of  an  intervention  called  the  Children  and  Women  Headed  Households  in  Self-Help,  funded  by  the  Swedish  Program  for  Information  and  Communication  Technology  in  Developing  Regions  (SPIDER).  The  project  is  implemented  by  the  organisation  he  represents,  Ndola  Nutrition  Organisation.  The  project  seeks  to  transform  the  livelihoods  of  households  headed  by  women  and  children  through  a  cocktail  of  e-learning-based  capacity  building  activities.