Emmanuel Senjo Yange; email: senjoyange@gmail.

com; skype:EMMA Senjo

CURRICILUM VITAE (CV)

Date of Birth: 09/07/1972
Nationality: Cameroon
Telephone: +4550634811

PROFILE
I am a teacher and a humanitarian professional by training with a genuine interest and commitment to make a
long term difference in the lives of those affected by disasters and crisis. I am looking for opportunities
where I can contribute to find durable solutions through social inclusion and consensus building. I bring
along a can do attitude and enjoy problem solving and multitasking in challenging environments. I hold
more than 20 years of work experience including teaching, project management, facilitation and capacity
building. Many of my assignments have been carried out at the community level and in the field including
five years of engagement with refugees and IDPs in volatile environments of North-East Cameroon and
Bangladesh.

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCES

Project Management and community mobilization;
Teaching, facilitation and capacity building;
Operational skills in humanitarian access, emergency response, rehabilitation and recovery;
Mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues like rights based approach, DRR, gender, protection,
environment, and accountability to affected people;
Data assessment and analysis;
Working in teams, consensus building, and cultural sensitivity.

WORK EXPERIENCE
2016-Present: Project Manager Key for Life Denmark (Part-time)
Assessment and analysis of target group's vulnerability, capacity and needs;
Research on prospective donors and drafting grant applications;
Coordinate and collaborate with other development oriented NGOs (incl. Youths for
Change in Ghana)
Monitor, Report and Evaluate on going projects.

2016-Present: Volunteer. Trampoline House Copenhagen

Provide psychosocial support to asylum seekers;
Contribute in assessing the needs of asylum seekers and make referrals;
Contribute in the development of concepts and design for promotional material.
Oct. 2015 to Sept.2016 Humanitarian and Information Assistant at International
Organization for Migration (IOM Cameroon)
Prepared activities and status reports to be shared on their global platform;
Develop and support livelihoods program strategy outcomes;
Carried out risk analysis, risk monitoring, and assisted in developing preparedness plans
for DRR;
Assisted in writing concept notes and project proposals for EUTF, OFDA, PRM, ADF
and ECHO;

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Represented IOM at meetings with donors, UN Agencies and government officials;

Participated in beneficiary selection for IOM projects;
Participated in community stabilization programs for IDPs and Host Communities;
Supported project managers with needs assessments, project implementation, monitoring
and reporting and project evaluations.
Achievements
Prepared and presented a dashboard of the results of three rounds of the Displacement
Tracking Matrix (DTM) to the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in Cameroon;
Contributed in mobilizing financial resources from the ADF on social security (210.000
Euro);
Assisted in targeted distribution of emergency NFI and shelter kits to refugees and IDPs
for emergency and recovery programs;
Provided sector data analysis and trend tracking for our protection, shelter and WASH
projects;
Participated in developing a three year Strategic Plan for IOM Cameroon.

April-June 2016: M&E (Internship at) White Dove Consultancy Cameroon WDC)
Worked with the WDC Director to develop business cases, KPIs, and presentations to
plan and track the delivery of the strategy;
Facilitated and assisted in training and capacity building on gender issues, social
inclusion, and livelihood diversification of IDPs.
Achievements
Assisted in upgrading the Disaster Response Plan for flood prone communities in
Cameroon;
Assisted Grants Manager and Executive Director with proofreading proposals and
reports;
Took part in participatory data collection for the evaluation of the lake Nyos IDP
resettlement project sponsored by the UNDP.

Jan. 2013 to Aug. 2014: M&E Officer at: Modern Consultants ltd. Cameroon
Developed, implemented and monitored quality assurance guidelines, M&E plan,
reviewed secondary data and developed implementation plans;
Facilitated participatory community data collection and analysis through FGDs,
interviews, social and institutional maps, hazard mappings and seasonal calendars;
Outlined management information system, and defined reporting requirements formats
for standard reports (e.g., quarterly and annual reports);
Developed main tools for data collection, recording and management;
Achievements
Assisted in doing midterm and end of project evaluation on the impact of community
water and sanitation for rural communities of the South West Region of Cameroon;
Institutional development and capacity building of local Civil Society Organizations
(CSO) in areas like leadership, communication, organizational and change management;
Developed questionnaires and determined the sampling methodology for evaluations.
Facilitated quantitative and qualitative surveys.

2010-2012: WASH Team Leader in Emergencies (Northern Cameroon) ACEEN (NGO)

Scope: Responsible for all WASH, Livelihood, Hygiene kits and NFI distributions;
Ensured access of portable clean water, toilet facilities and hygiene education to
refugees and IDPs in Lagoone and Chari;

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Promoted safe WASH practices, including appropriate use and maintenance of WASH
facilities and services;
Designed, implemented, and monitored WASH activities that are appropriate to specific
sectors of the community, e.g. children, youths, women, and men;
Participated in joint assessments and plans with other agencies and represented ACEEN
Cameroon in cluster coordination meetings.
Recruited, trained, and managed Hygiene Promoters and Community Mobilisers;
Achievements
Improved health and sanitation of targeted communities and the most vulnerable;
Successfully implemented WASH and livelihood projects where more than 60,000 IDPs
and refugees benefited;
Successfully distributed WASH NFI kits to households and installed effective hand
washing kits in community installations;
Provided oversight and led the construction of more than 1000 traditional and
institutional latrines with subsidies and active community engagement;
Established community WASH committees, recruited and trained volunteers and
hygiene promoters;
Facilitated reporting of monthly Cash Flows and prepared periodic reports;
Prepared baseline and End-line Surveys.

2006-2016: Project Coordinator at: Yer Area Development Authority (YADA), Cameroon:
Coordinated community development projects for Yer in Upper Dzekwa Cameroon;
Drafted project proposals, concept notes, memoranda of understanding, and funding
requests;
Established a monitoring and evaluation system and result-based framework.
Coordinated the activities of HIV/AIDS mainstreaming and different sectors
(Environmental, Rehabilitation of community infrastructure, livelihood diversification,
capacity building, Hygiene promotion, etc.) in a participatory manner.
Achievements
Applied and received hospital equipment for the community hospital from MS-
Denmark;
Established well functional and inclusive health and Sanitation Committees;
Coordinated feasibility studies for a sustainable community water project;
Mobilized the community to carry out human investments to repair community
infrastructure (taps, bridges and farm to market roads);
Strengthened men and women cooperative societies for savings, loan and credit creation;
Improved health, sanitation and livelihoods of Yer community.

2007-2015: Various jobs in the service industry in Denmark.

I worked and held positions of responsibility with the following service providers (ISS,
SODEXO, DBR, and Forenede Rengring)
Worked in warehouses, and as cleaning, and kitchen assistant.

Sep. 1997-Jun.2005: Teacher of Geography and History at St Joseph's College Sasse-Diocese of Buea.
Responsible for the holistic development of students including their spiritual,
intellectual, physical, cognitive and linguistic skills;
Teacher of Cameroon and African history and prepared students for the General
Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Level;
Teacher of Geography in the first cycle;

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Sports master and football coach.

Achievements
Part of the team that developed a new curriculum on fight corruption in schools;
Participated in developing a new syllabus for Cameroon History;
Participated and succeeded to advocate for the creation of an independent examination
board for English speaking Cameroon.

EDUCATION
2015 Master in Disaster Management: University of Copenhagen Denmark.
2015 Conflict Resolution and Mediation: United Nations Institute for Training and Research.
2007 Guest Student, International Humanities Basic Studies Program Roskilde University.
1996 Bachelor of Arts (BA) Hons: History with a Minor in Environmental Science; University of
Buea-Cameroon.

TRAININGS
August 2015: Practical Training in Personal Safety in War Zones: Military University of
Technology, Warsaw-Poland.
Feb-March 2015: Practical Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA/DRR) course in
Gaibanda-Northern Bangladesh.
January 2016: Training in Online Reporting System (ORS) OCHA-Cameroon.
May 2016: Gender Marker and Gender Mainstreaming (ECHO-Cameroon).
June 2016:Contingency/Emergency Response Preparedness (ERP)Workshop
(IASCCameroon).
June 2016: Humanitarian Access and Protection Workshop for DG ECHO and Partners-
Yaounde-Cameroon.
May 2017: Humanitarian Essentials (SIDA-RedR Partnership)

LANGUAGE SKILLS
English: Native Proficiency
French: Professional Proficiency
Danish: Beginner

REFERENCES
Roger Charles Evina; Chief of Mission IOM Yaounde, Cameroon, email: revina@iom.int ; Tel:
00237, 652234640;
Prof. Flemming Konradson: Director Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen; email
flko@sund.ku.dk Tel: 00453531014;
Samson Lamlenn, UN New York: email: lamlenn@yahoo.com Tel: 00237 652222183.

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