Maryam Ibrahim
Programme Officer (Kebbi)
Maryam is the Programme Officer of Lafiya Nigeria and a graduate of Civil Engineering with 8 years of developmental working experience. She was the gender focal person for NANA Girls and Women Empowerment Initiative and has extensive experience in coordinating community-based organisations to promote interventions protecting women and girls from gender-based violence and hence promoting male inclusiveness to strike balance in all gender protection, norms, and roles.
She trained 47 volunteers to promote community based distribution (CDB) of family planning commodities using the social marketing approach during her time at the Expanded Social Marketing Project in Nigeria (ESMPIN) implementation across Zamfara and Kebbi state in 2011-2015.
She provides technical support to the Lafiya Care programme with a special focus on programme management and supports the coordination and execution of advocacy meetings within Kebbi and Sokoto States and ensuring timely and accurate data reporting of impact for key donors and stakeholders.