30% → 0%
Learner attrition
An equity-centered clinical training redesign in Tanzania. Every learner graduated.
Program leader. Systems builder. Community connector.
Joan Githinji
I bring the moving parts together.
So the impact moves forward.
Give me a program with many moving parts. I’ll manage its multiple priorities, and build a system that ensures nothing falls through the cracks.
For 15 years, I’ve worked at the intersection of program management, operations, community, and learning design. All of it in social impact — across health, education, gender, conservation, and international development.
GOOD WORK, WITH
PURPOSE-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS
WFPMaliasiliEdge EffectAUDA-NEPAD / GIZSciDev.NetI-TECH
A few things that made a difference
The work. The impact.
70+
Innovation partners connected
One Airtable system for WFP. Still the team’s go-to source for donor reports.
80%
Community survey response
Up from 33%, through personal invitations and a community built around its members.
40+
Journalists across 6 countries
Connecting science researchers with people who help their findings reach public audiences.
How I work
Good systems.
Human at heart.
“I push the busy work to software, and save the human parts — trust, judgment, and care — for people.”
I’m a generalist with a Program Manager’s core. I own the plan, keep it moving, and build what’s needed so it keeps moving without me. I ask who a default design quietly excludes, then redesign for that person first.
Sometimes that means an automation. Sometimes it means a better question, a safer learning space, or a community that learns to run itself.
A career in social impact
Experience, at a glance.
Learning & Community Consultant
SciDev.Net / CABI
Manager, Leadership Development Programs & Community
Maliasili
Global Training & Community Officer
Edge Effect
Impact Measurement & Learning Design Advisor
UN World Food Programme
Regional M&E, Knowledge Management & Communications Advisor
AUDA-NEPAD / GIZ
MA, Gender and Development Studies · BA, Sociology and Communication
University of Nairobi