Soumana Zamo

Dynamic professional with extensive experience in disability inclusion and project management at CBM. Proven track record in proposal development and training facilitation, successfully enhancing stakeholder engagement across multiple countries. Adept at monitoring and evaluation, driving impactful community-based inclusive development initiatives in West and Central Africa.

• Director of the community-based rehabilitation programme for blind and other persons with disabilities in Niger (PRAHN). Supervising and coordinating the activities of each department within the programme. Lead the drafting of funding proposals and reports to donors (e.g. AusAid/DFAT, EU). Supervise 33 international and national staff. Train technical project staff in the CBID approach with a focus on health, education and livelihoods. Represent PRAHN with government authorities to lobby and support policy reforms in favour of persons with disabilities.
• Consultant for CBM in the field CBID training and proposal development. Head of the evaluation team for the 'Mission contre la lèpre's multi-year CBR project in Niger', which focuses on livelihoods. Member of the evaluation team for the Malawi Council for the Handicapped (MACOHA) CBR project (Malawi). Member of a peer review team for the Kinshasa Disability Cluster programme in the DRC, organised by CBM.
• Secretary General of the Network of 56 international development organisations working in Niger. Member of the Board of Directors of CBR Africa Network. President of the CBR Africa Network.
• Extending mental health care in the Republic of Niger: priorities and barriers to service improvement (Research paper 2007): Alison Hwong; Djibo Maiga Douma; Soumana Zamo; and Julian Eaton.
• Presentation of a paper on 'Transition from CBR to CBID: Towards sustainability and ownership of CBR programmes' at the 6th CBR Africa Network Conference in Lusaka/Zambia, May 2018.
• Community-based rehabilitation, a strategy for reducing poverty, the case of Niger, July 2008, published on the Africa-CAN CBR Network website: www.can.org.
• 'The survival garden programme in Niger as a contribution to MDG goals 1, 2 and 6: Improving the quality of life of people with disabilities through survival gardens in Niger', an article co-authored with Karen Heinicke-Motsch (2011).
• Providing community services to reduce poverty. October 2009, article included in the publication 'Stories on the practices of CBR, what can they teach us' published by the CBR CAN network - CAN: www.can.org.
• Inclusion, improving quality of life and empowering communities. Survival gardens, a community-based development programme in Niger, West Africa, paper presented in Agra, India, in November 2012 at the 1st CBR World Congress.

• 07/01/17, Training (TOT) on gender and disability mainstreaming in organisations and projects organised by the African School of Project Management (ASPM) in Nairobi/Kenya.
• 05/01/17, Training on disability inclusive development, including accessibility and reasonable accommodation in Manila (Philippines) organised by CBM.
• 06/01/16, Regional training on monitoring, evaluation and learning in Lomé/Togo provided by the International Training and Research Centre (INTRAC).
• 03/01/08, Training of trainers in community-based rehabilitation (CBR) in the Netherlands, organised by Enablement.

• 09/01/17, College of Ophthalmology & Allied Vision Science, Lahore, Pakistan.
• 06/01/15, CBR Africa Network -CAN.
• 07/31/11, Niger Federation of Persons with Disabilities (FNPH).
• 07/24/10, Ministry of Population, Women's Promotion and Child Protection.
• 11/01/05, National Union of the Blind of Niger.

• Date of Birth: 01/01/65
• Gender: M
• Nationality: Nigerienne

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• Halina Weyers, ProjectAide, Freelance Consultant, Germany, +49 15175379561, halina@projectaide.org
• Karen Heinicke-Motsch, CBM Global Advisor CBID, +1 458 210 1223, Karen.Heinicke-Motsch@cbm.org
• David Lewis, Former CBM CBID Advisor (retired), +61414184372, David.lith.lewis@gmail

• 03/01/15 - 12/31/16
• 11/01/07 - 06/30/15
• 01/01/14 - 06/30/15

• 05/01/25 - 07/31/25, Human rights-based approach with a focus on persons with disabilities, Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID) & Disability Inclusive Development (DID) approaches, Mainstreaming disability in disaster risk reduction (DIDRR), Mainstreaming disability and gender in development organisations and projects, Organisational diagnosis and technical and organisational capacity building, Project management, monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, Inclusive project cycle management (IPCM), Expertise in advocacy/lobbying, networking and alliance-building, Expertise in safeguarding children and adults at risk.
• 01/01/25 - 06/30/25, Lead Consultant for ODI-Niger (Organisation for Inclusive Development) - Development of modules on associative Life, good governance, Disability-inclusion, gender and disability and proposal development and fund raising. Delivering three (3) training workshops on the different topics above.
• 01/01/25 - 06/30/25, Consultant for Christoffel-Blindenmission - Participate in the development, kick-off workshops, review and evaluations of CBID programmes (3-way working methodology across the entire programme cycle). Facilitate CBID trainings and other trainings. Support country offices in maintaining strategic alliances with key actors internally and externally including with national and regional OPDs to advocate for disability inclusive programming.