Fara Emile Tenguiano
Social Policy Manager
Conakry,Guinea
Summary
With over 18 years of experience in international development and operations across Guinea, Mali, Haiti, and Senegal, I bring a strong background in contract management, stakeholder engagement, and strategic program coordination. For the past 11 years with UNICEF, I have successfully managed contracts with national and international firms and individual consultants, overseeing procurement, compliance, and performance in fragile and emergency contexts. My work has focused on cross-sectoral programs in social protection, local governance, and community resilience, aligned with the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus. Earlier in my career, I served as Community Relations Manager at SMD Mining Company in Léro, Guinea, where I led community engagement, supported HSE interventions, and managed contracts related to mining operations. Fluent in French and proficient in English, I combine strong analytical, supervisory, and partnership-building skills with a deep understanding of operational dynamics-making me well-positioned to contribute to BIA Group's mining projects and contractual operations.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Social Policy Specialist (Resilience and Social Protection)
UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUNDS (UNICEF)
Bamako, Mali
12.2020 - Current
- Provide strategic leadership in planning and implementing social policy interventions in emergency contexts, working closely with central and subnational governments, regional and HQ offices, and key decision-makers.
- Responsible for managing contracts with national and international firms and individual consultants, ensuring compliance, performance monitoring, and alignment with program objectives.
- Coordinate and represent UNICEF in several working groups on the triple nexus approach (humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding).
- Responsible for coordinate generating evidence, lessons learning and knowledge Production with documentation through social policy projects and activities.
- From December 2020 to December 2023, I coordinated and implemented the second phase of the Building Resilience program in Mali, funded by BMZ for over $48 million, reaching more than 2 million people across crisis-affected regions.
- I developed the resilience measure index coupled with nexus approach to support and monitoring interventions in the field including humanitarian access (https://www.maliresilience.info/).
- To strengthen access to shock-responsive and nutrition-sensitive social protection, I reached a total of 28,858 children under five years of age, out of the 30,000 targeted, and 1,200 pregnant women in their last trimester received cash transfers (30 euros per beneficiary) across Gao, Ménaka, Mopti, and Timbuktu.
- In 2023, I supported the development of a national risk analysis guide and coordinated studies on social protection systems.
- I coordinated and implemented humanitarian cash transfers (HCTs) program in Mali financed by BMZ/KFW for 38 million USD.
Social policy specialist (Multiple Partnership Management through Programs implementation)
UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUNDS (UNICEF)
12.2020 - Current
- In the same period and through projects activities implementation, I was in charge of programs and projects activities implementation also including Partnership Management.
- Engage and maintain partnerships with key shock-responsive social protection and resilience stakeholders, including national Governments, National and Sub-National Cash Working Groups, and International Development Partners.
- In 2023, I contributed to building and maintaining partnerships with government counterparts and managing contracts with private stakeholders.
- I developed a framework on social protection coordination mechanisms at the government level, Coordination of partners and projects in Mali through a Quadripartite Plan.
- I organized regular virtual and face-to-face meetings at different levels to ensure a coordinated approach with national stakeholders.
Social Policy Manager
UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUNDS (UNICEF)
Port Au Prince, Haiti
02.2018 - 05.2018
- Coordinate Social Policy issues in Haiti Country Office (HCO) and assist the office in these crucial months after Hurricane Matthew destruction and impact.
- Coordinate, implementing and monitoring shock-responsive social protection and represent UNICEF in the multiple emergency clusters with national departments and PTF.
- I developed in the first month, a workplan for UNICEF social policy relative to the hurricane crisis and evaluated UNICEF priorities during the emergency period.
- I supported and was key lead to develop a roadmap for Haiti social protection policy development.
Social Policy Specialist
UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUNDS (UNICEF)
Conakry, Guinea
06.2013 - 12.2020
- Provide technical support and develops social policy activities (policies, legislation formulation with attention to increasing coverage of and impact on children, with special attention to the most marginalized to support this goal in collaboration with partners.
- Coordinate contracts implementation on social policy programs interventions (Poverty, Social Protection, decentralization/local governance, public finances for children's activities) and data collection.
- Support shock-responsive strategy post Ebola and programming to support the Government.
- In 2020, I was in charge to develop proposal and implement in collaboration with WFP, WHO and UNICEF the social protection project (cash transfer) for 1 million dollars.
- I coordinated the UNICEF convergence program approach in Guinea with a strong role to manage, coordinate and build the partnerships with all stakeholders around the program.
Community Programs Manager
Plan International NGO
Guinee Forestiere, Guinea
02.2004 - 07.2009
- Coordinated development programs and projects on the field (municipalities, regions and villages).
- Managed the partnerships with local contracts.
- Monitored the projects and created the evaluation tools for the activities follow-up.
- I was directly in charge of public and communities' relations management and relocation of people.
- Managed partnership and capacity building of the actors (communities, NGO, associations, decentralized services).
Education
Master - Economics & International Management
Lille 1
Universite De Lille 111.2012
M.D. - Development Studies
Universite Catholique De Lyon
Lyon06.2011
Diploma - Social Science
University of Kankan
Kankan06.2002
Diploma - Literature
University of Kankan
Kankan06.2000
Skills
- Strategic program Design
- Program coordination
- Decentralization and Local Governance manager
- Programs clusters manager
Websites
Publications
- Responding to shock and vulnerability
- How to measure resilience index
- Launch resilience program
- Book on stop intergenerational poverty by Education/FNAC
References
- Joaquin Gonzalez-Aleman, Planning, Reporting, Information, Monitoring, UNICEF, Geneva, Switzerland, jgonzalezaleman@unicef.org, +41796524430
- Kobehi Guillaume TOUTOU, Chief Social Policy, UNICEF Guinea, kgtoutou@unicef.org, +224623502423
- Gustave Nebie, Former Regional Social Policy Advisor, UNICEF Dakar, gustave.nebie@gmail.com
Timeline
Social Policy Specialist (Resilience and Social Protection)
UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUNDS (UNICEF)
12.2020 - Current
Social policy specialist (Multiple Partnership Management through Programs implementation)
UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUNDS (UNICEF)
12.2020 - Current
Social Policy Manager
UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUNDS (UNICEF)
02.2018 - 05.2018
Social Policy Specialist
UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUNDS (UNICEF)
06.2013 - 12.2020
Community Programs Manager
Plan International NGO
02.2004 - 07.2009
Master - Economics & International Management
Lille 1
M.D. - Development Studies
Universite Catholique De Lyon
Diploma - Social Science
University of Kankan
Diploma - Literature
University of Kankan
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