Elijah Kahira

WASH Specialist
Location: Sierra Leone

Elijah is a WASH Specialist with over 10 years of experience in WASH programming across multiple countries in Africa. He possesses outstanding experience facilitating high-level WASH humanitarian programs across Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. His experience includes technical, managerial, and operational leadership and direction that has ensured programmatic and financial integrity for different projects. Elijah has served with various organizations such as ADRA, OXFAM GB, MEDAIR, and Samaritan’s Purse. Within the different roles held in these organizations, he coordinated and managed multimillion-dollar budgets under different donors (UNICEF, UNHCR, BHA, Poolfund, etc), and facilitated process improvement, Infection prevention control response, and overall planning efforts to meet program objectives. He has solid communication, time management, and problem-solving skills that allow him to excel in coordinating all facets of program and project life cycles. He is  well versed with a wide range of Hygiene promotion approaches i.e. PHAST, CHAST, CLTS, SLTS, F-diagram and leads in the development of various WASH IEC materials, Job aids, and SoPs.