Evens LODIMUS

As a Demand Flow Specialist, I play a critical role in supply chain management, ensuring the seamless movement of products and materials from warehouses through the supply chain to meet customer demand efficiently, and cost-effectively. By leveraging data-driven forecasting, demand planning, and inventory optimization, I enhance operational efficiency, minimize waste, and align supply chain processes with business objectives.

My expertise in demand forecasting enables me to anticipate market trends and fluctuations, ensuring that supply levels are accurately aligned with customer needs. I work closely with cross-functional teams, including procurement, logistics, and sales, to synchronize supply chain activities, and optimize resource utilization. By implementing real-time monitoring systems and predictive analytics, I proactively identify potential disruptions, mitigate risks, and ensure business continuity.

In addition to operational oversight, I focus on cost reduction and process improvement, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency across the supply chain. Through strategic planning, supplier collaboration, and logistics optimization, I help streamline processes, reduce lead times, and improve service levels. My ability to analyze supply chain performance metrics allows me to make data-driven decisions that enhance overall productivity and profitability.

Furthermore, I play a key role in stakeholder communication and coordination, ensuring that suppliers, warehouse teams, and distribution networks operate in harmony. By fostering strong relationships with suppliers and logistics partners, I help create a resilient and agile supply chain, capable of adapting to market changes and unforeseen challenges.

My role demands a strategic mindset, problem-solving abilities, and leadership skills to drive continuous improvement, and operational excellence. Through my commitment to efficiency, accuracy, and proactive decision-making, I contribute to a high-performing supply chain that enhances customer satisfaction, reduces costs, and supports long-term business success.

As a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Consultant, I bring a rigorous analytical approach, a strategic mindset, and a commitment to evidence-based decision-making in public health and development programs. My expertise lies in designing and implementing comprehensive MEAL frameworks that ensure program accountability, effectiveness, and continuous learning. With a strong foundation in data collection, analysis, and visualization, I enable stakeholders to make informed, strategic decisions that enhance program impact.

I excel in performance monitoring, impact evaluation, and data-driven adaptation, ensuring that project activities align with organizational objectives and donor expectations. My ability to develop and implement robust monitoring systems, such as baseline assessments, data quality audits, and real-time tracking dashboards, ensures that project performance is measured, analyzed, and optimized. By leveraging innovative digital solutions and platforms like DHIS2, I enhance data integration and usability, enabling timely and responsive program adjustments.

Beyond technical expertise, I am a collaborative leader with a track record of strengthening capacity among government institutions, NGOs, and community-based organizations. I have successfully mentored field teams, trained health workers, and built strong partnerships with key stakeholders, including ministries of health, international donors (USAID, CDC, UNICEF), and implementing agencies. My ability to translate complex data into actionable insights ensures that learning is institutionalized and applied to improve program design, policy formulation, and resource allocation.

As a highly adaptable professional, I thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments, effectively balancing multiple priorities, while maintaining a high level of precision and attention to detail. I am an excellent communicator and facilitator, skilled at synthesizing complex information into clear, concise, and impactful reports for diverse audiences. My experience in accountability mechanisms, stakeholder coordination, and knowledge translation ensures that program learnings are effectively disseminated and used to drive sustainable, data-driven improvements.

Above all, I am committed to transparency, accountability, and continuous learning, ensuring that MEAL strategies contribute to meaningful, measurable, and lasting impact. With a proactive and results-driven mindset, I am ready to support organizations in enhancing their monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness in program implementation.

As a Program Associate at UNFPA, I played a pivotal role in the design, planning, management, and implementation of program actions, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, and donor expectations. Leveraging a results-based approach, I effectively translated strategic goals into actionable initiatives by providing robust data management, logistical coordination, and project oversight.

I successfully managed an annual budget exceeding $12 million, ensuring transparent and efficient fund allocation across multiple ministries and NGOs for the implementation of projects in public health, population dynamics, gender equality, and family planning. This required rigorous financial oversight, risk assessment, and compliance monitoring, ensuring that funds were optimally utilized to achieve measurable outcomes.

In addition to financial management, I actively monitored partner needs, anticipating challenges, and providing strategic solutions for procurement and service acquisitions. My role demanded exceptional supplier relationship management, particularly in handling international procurements, which required meticulous attention to compliance, logistics, and regulatory frameworks. I ensured the timely and accurate delivery of essential goods and services, preventing operational delays, and optimizing resource distribution across diverse projects.

Beyond logistical and financial responsibilities, I was deeply engaged in capacity-building initiatives, conducting training sessions for project managers to enhance their proficiency in data-driven decision-making, financial reporting, and program implementation. I conducted partner supervisions and field evaluations, ensuring that projects adhered to planned objectives, budgets, and timelines. By implementing spot-check mechanisms, I strengthened accountability and improved program efficiency.

Furthermore, I played a critical role in stakeholder engagement, acting as a liaison between UNFPA headquarters, donors, governmental bodies, and implementing partners. I authored comprehensive financial and activity reports that provided key insights to senior leadership and funding agencies, ensuring transparency and informed decision-making at all levels.

My ability to synthesize complex data, navigate multifaceted partnerships, manage large-scale funding, and optimize logistical processes allowed me to drive successful program execution. Through strategic planning, proactive problem-solving, and a strong commitment to results, I consistently contributed to the effective implementation and sustainability of UNFPA’s mission-driven programs.

As a Technical Advisor, I played a pivotal role in epidemiological surveillance and public health response, ensuring the effective implementation and capitalization of the WASH program in collaboration with DINEPA, the Department of Health, and UNICEF. I oversaw disease monitoring, data collection, and outbreak response strategies, ensuring that cholera intervention efforts were evidence-based and contextually adapted.

A critical aspect of my work involved supervising multidisciplinary teams, including community health managers, data analysts, chemists, and WASH technicians, to strengthen disease surveillance systems, and improve public health outcomes. I designed and developed epidemiological tools and databases in collaboration with UNICEF and the Ministry of Health, ensuring that data was efficiently collected, processed, and analyzed to track disease patterns, assess risk factors, and guide decision-making.

In my role, I spearheaded the cartographic mapping of disease hotspots, allowing for the geospatial analysis of cholera outbreaks. This helped optimize intervention strategies, resource allocation, and risk communication efforts by identifying vulnerable communities, and tailoring responses accordingly.

I was specifically tasked with developing field strategies to combat cholera outbreaks, employing in-depth epidemiological investigations to determine the sources of infections and the most effective intervention methods. This included monitoring sanitation infrastructure, hygiene practices, and access to safe drinking water, all of which are critical determinants of disease transmission. By applying epidemiological principles to outbreak response, I ensured that interventions were both scientifically sound and operationally effective.

Furthermore, I provided technical guidance and policy recommendations to the Ministry of Public Health, the Water Department, and various local and international partners engaged in the fight against cholera. By integrating data-driven decision-making with culturally and geographically adapted public health strategies, we achieved a historic reduction in cholera incidence. What was initially projected to take a decade to accomplish was successfully achieved in just five years, demonstrating the effectiveness of a methodologically sound, and strategically implemented epidemiological approach.

My ability to analyze disease trends, develop targeted intervention strategies, optimize surveillance systems, and foster multi-sectoral collaboration underscores my expertise as an epidemiologist committed to public health impact and disease control.

As a Departmental Statistician, I played a critical role in medical data management, epidemiological analysis, and strategic health planning within the Medical Information Department. My expertise in biostatistics and quantitative research enabled the collection, processing, and interpretation of health data, which directly informed policy decisions, healthcare interventions, and resource allocation.

Through rigorous quantitative analysis, statistical modeling, and survey methodologies, I transformed raw data into actionable insights that supported strategic decision-making, activity monitoring, and prospective healthcare planning. My work was essential in defining key performance indicators, setting health objectives, and tracking progress, ensuring that healthcare services met the evolving needs of the population.

To enhance data accuracy and accessibility, I designed and implemented digital databases and dashboards, optimizing the collection, organization, and visualization of epidemiological data. I led the supervision of statistical data collection and processing across various health institutions, focusing on HIV, TB, Malaria, Cholera, and other public health concerns in the South-East department.

Beyond data management, my work had a direct impact on public health infrastructure, and policy decisions. By identifying and quantifying healthcare needs, I ensured that the department's requests for resources were effectively communicated to the central level, leading to an equitable distribution of medical supplies, personnel, and funding.

My contributions extended to scientific research, where I utilized biostatistical methods to analyze disease trends, evaluate healthcare programs, and identify gaps in service delivery. The findings from my analyses attracted the attention of national and international organizations, prompting targeted interventions that transformed the healthcare landscape. Notably, my research and synthesized reports led to the construction of several maternity wards and support structures for women in need, significantly improving maternal and child health services in the region.

Through my ability to analyze complex health data, develop predictive models, and provide statistical evidence for public health decision-making, I demonstrated the core competencies of a biostatistician dedicated to advancing healthcare through data-driven solutions. My work not only enhanced disease surveillance and health program evaluation, but also contributed to policy reforms and sustainable improvements in healthcare delivery.