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Produced for LMC-TVbyFran Snedeker |
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Produced for LMC-TVbyFran Snedeker |
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As EngenderHealth’s Program Manager in Guinea, Mr. Moustapha Diallo provides leadership, management, and technical support to EngenderHealth’s reproductive health initiatives in the country. He and his medical colleagues at EngenderHealth/Guinea work closely with local agencies in the public and private sectors to strengthen access to and the quality of a wide range of essential health services. They accomplish this through working with colleagues to identify and resolve problems and develop solutions, and through technical support and training, medical monitoring, and project evaluation.
Mr. Diallo has worked with the public and private sectors in Guinea and is now able to bring both perspectives and partnerships to EngenderHealth’s work in the country. His extensive experience in providing technical support to the private sector helped strengthen technical and managerial capacity of private sector employees working in industry; build the institutional capacity of local organizations; establish training programs; increase business management and fundraising skills for Guinean private agencies; and establish linkages with other national and international partners. He has earned widespread recognition for the development and implementation of innovative work with private industries to provide family planning and reproductive health services to employees.
Since 2001, he has forged a partnership between EngenderHealth/Guinea, the Bauxite Company of Guinea (CBG - Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée), and the Alcoa Foundation to increase the availability and improve the quality of health services, including prevention and treatment of malaria, provided to the communities surrounding the mine and the industrial complex of Sangaredi and Kamsar. In this capacity, he represents EngenderHealth on a six person Project Monitoring Committee, which includes representatives from CBG and local Ministry of Health officials. Mr. Diallo proposed and implemented this kind of committee; it was a novel approach in which all stakeholders participated. It represented a true and equal partnership in which all key stakeholders could provide input and discuss issues of concern. As a result of this successful partnership, malaria control and prevention activities have been added to the services offered, and project activities have expanded to four additional sites in the Boké region. This collaboration also led to additional initiatives with CBG, the Alcoa Foundation, and Alcoa World Alumina, the international corporation.
He has developed and maintained excellent relationships with the USAID, the Government of Guinea, other international technical assistance organizations, Guinean professional organizations, and NGOs working in public health. Since his tenure at EngenderHealth beginning in 1998, he has been able to secure funds from a variety of sources, including several of those agencies mentioned above as well as other European and United Nations agencies. He is known for being an entrepreneur, a team player, a strategic and broad thinker, and a very capable manager.
Moustapha earned a B.S. in Physics in 1963 at the Université de Kankan, Guinea, and his M.B.A. from University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1986. He is fluent in French, English and Fulani.