Human Resources & Capacity Building
npyt staffing levels are as follows:
Kitale Office:| Director/Fund Raising Officer | 1 |
| Deputy Director | 1 |
| Accountant/Project Officer | 1 |
| Office Assistant/Project Officer | 1 |
At the projects:
| Project Manager | 2 | day |
| Project Social Worker | 4 | day/night |
| Cooks | 6 | day |
| Child Care | 15 | day/night |
| Nursery Teacher | 1 | day |
| Guards | 4 | night |
| General Duties/Stores | 2 | day |
| Vocational Instructors/Maintenance | 2 | day |
| Garden/Agriculture | 2 | day |
| Nurses | 2 | day |
| Total | 40 | |
| Female | 19 | |
| Male | 21 | N.B. All night guards are male |
All project staff are Kenyan. npyt has a policy of employing as many members of the local community as possible in its projects, so while individuals benefit directly, whole communities benefit indirectly.
Hands on training is complimented with formal training of some kind; staff have taken courses in such valuable skills as:
- Nursery Education;
- Strategic Planning;
- Project Management;
- Monitoring and Evaluation;
- Participatory Action Research;
- Logical Framework Methodology;
- Computer packages;
- Counseling;
- Community Health;
- Food Preparation and Presentation;
- Advanced Trainers Training.
Planned future capacity building includes; basic accounting, fund raising, data collection & analysis, information management, reporting, child protection and child participation. All of these will help further enhance professionalism and tune the activities already undertaken.
NB: 1 European, Oliver Lynton, is posted in Kitale to assist with monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and capacity building of npyt and the projects.
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