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Enhancing Capacity and Fostering Connections for Sustainable Development

Our Expertise

Program Management

We enable institutions and communities to implement development and humanitarian projects. We ensure timely delivery, within scope, budget, and quality standards, while fostering learning and growth and achieving maximum impact. We support organizations in all phases of the project life cycle.

Policy Influencing and Advocacy

We work with communities and stakeholders including those affected by certain policy issues to identify and drive effective strategies to get policies enacted or reviewed.

Project Design and Strategy Development

We support donors and development partners with a full suite of services to co-create responsive, locally relevant development projects and programs. We also support strategy development for populations and organizations in the development and humanitarian sector.

Development Of Tools And Manuals

We bring expertise to help organizations and communities develop and adapt tools and resources using participatory methodologies.

Organizational Capacity Development

We facilitate organizations to assess, develop and implement organizational capacity strengthening initiatives, using diverse and multiple approaches.

Health Systems Strengthening

We bring extensive local knowledge of health systems and global best practices to support the development, implementation and evaluation of health systems strengthening interventions across the domains of leadership, management, and governance, service delivery, human resources for health, health financing and health management information and data systems.

Partnership/Grants Management

We connect organizations with likeminded stakeholders and foster synergistic relationships building on our deep global, regional, and national networks and connections and our multi-decade experience in fostering such partnerships and managing grants.

Technical Assistance

We provide targeted, collaborative, flexible, and result driven support to organizations to identify, select and deliver solutions to address a development need or problem. We enable organizations accure specialized services or skills they currently lack but need in order to meet a deliverable, operate more effectively, or strengthen their sustainability. Our support could be in person, remote or hybrid depending on the need of the organization and nature of the assignment.

Values-based Leadership Development

We help organizations and leaders to enhance their capacity to scan and respond to challenges and opportunities. We help them mobilize and align their teams and stakeholders to a shared purpose and to drive lasting, inclusive, values-based change.

About Us

Our Story

We are a group of development leaders privileged to have straddled the local-global development and humanitarian space, having led teams at national and global levels to deliver development interventions for many decades and across many countries around the world. We, along with many practitioners and academics in the field are disillusioned with current models of development and have decided to bring our wealth of experience and insights to complement local ingenuity to try out more locally led, sustainable and equitable development models to respond to our more complex and inequitable world.

What We Do

Capacity Connect Ltd (CCL) is a consultancy service provider that excels in the area of development and humanitarian assistance and non-profit management. We serve development and humanitarian organizations as well as public sector institutions globally to deliver people centered and locally led development solutions. Capacity Connect is not just a consulting company, it is a movement that brings stakeholders together to catalyze and advance a more equitable, and sustainable world.

Our Mission

Our mission is to leverage our expansive local and global expertise to enhance capacity and foster connections for sustainable development.

Our Vision

We envision a world where communities everywhere are enabled to lead and achieve their development aspirations.

Our Story

Our Values

Connection

We connect people and organizations to form synergistic partnerships that delivers lasting change.

Collaboration

We believe in the power of co-creation and collective action.

Dignity

We respect the dignity and humanity of every individual and are committed to fairness, inclusion, and justice in everything we do.

Integrity

We consistently hold ourselves and each other to delivering excellence and ensuring the highest-level of professionalism in everything we do.

Humility

We are transparent about what we know and what we don’t know, and we own up when we make mistakes. We trust the wisdom of the local actors we serve.

Our Team

Amina Bala Zakari

Chair Board of Directors

Amina is a pharmacist and a health and social sector development expert with a wealth of experience in policy/strategic development and program design, management, and evaluation. She is also a seasoned administrator and a subject matter expert in democracy and governance with 10 years of experience at various levels of the Independent National Electoral Commission where she served as national commissioner in charge operations and logistics (2016-2018) and health and welfare (2018-2019. She was the acting Chairperson of the commission from June 2015 and October 2015. Previously, she served as Secretary of Health and Human Services (2004-2006) and Secretary Social Development (2006-2007) in the Federal Capital Territory Administration. She was also Senior Consultant Health at Afri-project Consortium from 1997 to 2001. Hajiya Amina serves on several boards including the Albino Foundation of Nigeria and Reach Care Multi-Services Nigeria Ltd.

Olajumoke Azogu,

Member Board of Directors

Jumoke holds a Ph.D. (Information Science) with about 15 years experience in Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health programs, 9 years of which involve technical and team leadership. Currently the MEL Director with Palladium International for the USAID Integrated Health Program (IHP), a $225M USAID Nigeria-funded Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition, and Malaria (RMNCH+NM) program for Health Systems Strengthening and Health Financing, where she provides strategic guidance and technical leadership, vision and management, capacity strengthening for MEL activities, working with National and State partners.

Amina Ahmad K.U Nagogo

Member Board of Directors

Results-driven social entrepreneur with over 10 years working experience in development and management of digital health initiatives. She is the Founder and CEO of Datharm Nigeria Ltd, a company with a passion for developing tools for data driven decision making in the field of public health and education.

Mohammad Farouk Jega

Member Board of Directors, Senior Program Director

Farouk is an obstetrics and gynecologist and project management expert with over 2 decades of clinical, managerial and leadership roles in the health and development sector. He had served as Country Director of Pathfinder International for Nigeria and Ghana from 2012 to 2020 and Senior Program Director/Regional Director from 2020 to 2022. He holds a medical degree from the University of Jos and a Master of Public Health from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Fatima Jika

Member Board of Directors

Seasoned and accomplished financial professional with a strong background in risk management, regulatory leadership, and strategic planning. Proven track record in implementing diverse projects, ensuring regulatory compliance, and collaborating effectively with international development partners, notably the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI). Backed by an academic foundation in International Relations, with a focus on bringing a holistic perspective to the finance field and applying financial expertise to drive sustainable financial solutions and foster positive change. Fatima holds a Ph.D. in Economics, MA in International Relations, and an MBA, among other qualifications.

Mike Egboh

Member Board of Directors

A notable figure in the development sector in Nigeria and beyond with over 4 decades of leadership roles in the non-profit, global health and development sector. Mike was Country Director for Pathfinder International for close 2 decades. He also successfully led the PATH II project at the Project Director. More recently, he was the Country Director and Chief of Party for the Chemonics led Global Supply Chain project here in Nigeria. Mike currently mentors and coaches’ development leaders and organizations in the sub-region and globally. He holds a Master of Public Health from the Harvard University, School of public health. He is a recipient of various national and global awards including the prestigious alumni award of the Harvard School of Public Health and US president’s Volunteer Service Award.

Mohammad Murtala Mai

CEO/Secretary, Board of Directors

Experienced and strategic, international development leader with almost 3 decades of success in managing complex, expansive, global, health and development initiatives focused on improving health and quality of lives of women, young people, and their communities. Murtala spent 22 years in various leadership roles at Pathfinder International including Country Director Nigeria and Ghana (2008-2012), Senior Technical Director Best Practices (2012-2016), Regional Director (2016-2018), Chief of Country and Program Strategy (2018-2020), Chief of Programs (2020-2022) and Executive Vice President 2022-2023). Previously, he was a Senior Consultant at Afri-project Consortium from 1996 to 2000. He had served as Senior Special Assistant Health to the Governor of Adamawa State (2008-2009), and a member and chair of the technical committee board of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (2008-2012). He holds a medical degree from Ahmadu Bello University and a Master of Public Health (MPH) and Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Maastricht, Netherlands and the Frankfurt School of Business and Finance respectively.

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