Profil professionnel
Vue d'ensemble
Expérience professionnelle
Formation
Compétences
Personal capacity strenghtening
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Projets réalisés
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Seheno Fanantenana ANDRIANIAINA

Seheno Fanantenana ANDRIANIAINA

Country Manager
Antananarivo

Profil professionnel

Professional with 10 years of experience in Disaster Risk Management including 5 years of Disaster Risk Financing and 4 years of Anticipatory Actions, combined with a solid background in Disaster Risk Management and a strong ability to acquire new knowledge. Able to work both as part of a team and independently, I have strong organizational skills and proven competence in leadership and management. I've also got valued experiences on Anticipatory Actions in the technical and operational sides.

Vue d'ensemble

17
17
years of professional experience

Expérience professionnelle

Country Manager

Start Network
05.2023 - 12.2024

Start Network is made of more than 100 international and national NGOs aiming to innovate the humanitarian system through a rapid, proactive and localised system. This organization is setting up some mechanisms of Disaster Risk Financing system in a couple of countries.

  • Managing the Start Network portfolio in Madagascar
  • Representing Start Network in various platforms, at national and international levels
  • Ensuring strategic coordination, partnership and collaboration regarding Start Network initiatives with the members of the network and the stakeholders in Madagascar
  • Supporting the development processes of the framework of early warning systems and early action platforms
  • Supporting the implementation, development and coordination of the Disaster Risk Financing mechanisms within the members of the Network
  • Facilitating access by member NGOs and local civil society organizations to Start Network's various funding mechanisms
  • Ensuring development and implementation of Start Network mandates as a REPLICA partner of African Risk Capacity within the Government of Madagascar (Assurance mechanism)
  • Supporting the Start Network Regional Advisor in the development of the National Start Network Strategy document
  • Supervising the Start Network team in Madagascar

Forecast-based analysis Warning Response Network (FOREWARN) Coordinator

Start Network
01.2020 - 04.2023
  • Supporting the Start Network members to access information and technical data enabling them to access risk and disaster funding
  • Identifying scientific experts who will provide technical and scientific analyses to support the decision making of NGOs on Disaster Risk Financing.
  • Linking the FOREWARN network in Madagascar with the global network
  • Managing the Start Network portfolio in Madagascar
  • Representing Start Network to stakeholders in the country: governmental and non-governmental partners
  • Managing the budget of the national network
  • Supporting NGOs in setting up a Forecast-Based Financing/ Action system to anticipate drought
  • Exécution rapide et efficace des tâches assignées.

Risk financing Advisor

Start Network
06.2019 - 12.2019
  • Coordinating Start Network's initiatives in Madagascar: the mutual climate risk insurance program process (African Risk Capacity)
  • Representing Start Network in Madagascar
  • Carrying out technical studies around the Early Warning Systems and Early Warning Actions in Madagascar

Resilience Specialist

ADRA Madagascar
12.2014 - 06.2019

Adventist Development and Relief Agency is an international NGO, funded by USAID, implemented a 5 years of Food Security and Development program and led a consortium of 3 NGOs at that time.

  • Planning, coordinating and monitoring activities related to the Food Security Monitoring System/Early Warning System in two regions of intervention (Haute Matsiatra and Amoron'i Mania)
  • Planning, coordinating and monitoring the implementation of Natural Resource Management and Disaster Risk Management activities in the municipalities in which it operates
  • Designing and disseminating operational strategies for activities, including implementation, monitoring and reporting tools
  • Building the capacity of field staffs and managing the team
  • Supervising resilience field officers
  • Managing the 'Resilience' component of the project (budget management, field teams, logistics)

Research and Field Manager

Société HERi Madagascar
01.2014 - 11.2014

HERi Madagascar is a private company working on pre-electrification by setting in place solar kiosks to provide electricity access to communities.

  • Identifying and pre-targeting potential communes for the rural pre-electrification project (targeting, verification, data analysis, selection) for the Analamanga, Vakinankaratra and Itasy regions
  • Recruiting solar kiosk managers
  • Conducting preliminary diagnostic studies for rural pre-electrification projects in south-west Madagascar

Trainee in Risk and Disaster Management

SAF/FJKM Antananarivo
02.2013 - 07.2013

DIPECHO Program, funded by ECHO, implemented by a consortium of NGOs, aimed to build the resilience of local communities against floods and cyclone

  • Drawing up a capacity-building plan for local stakeholders as part of sustainable local governance of risks and disasters
  • Carrying out a study on local governance of risks and disasters in the Atsimo Atsinanana

Head of Income Generating Activities

Sambatra Izay SALama Association
02.2011 - 01.2012

Sambatra Izay SALama is an Association working on taking in charge people living with HIV.

  • Providing psycho-social support for project beneficiaries
  • Providing capacity buildings for the bneficiaries of the project (technical and financial support for income-generating activities)
  • Launching and monitoring income-generating projects for project beneficiaries

Head of Social Affairs

Aïna Enfance- Avenir
11.2010 - 01.2011

Aina Enfance-Avenir is an Association working on taking in charge vulnerable families against food insecurity-malnutrition, by offering to family a day nursery where the mothers and their babies can get in-kind and psycho-social supports.

  • Identifying and selecting the beneficiaries of the nursery
  • Providing psycho-social support for beneficiaries (young mothers and their children)

Head of Social Affairs

Akany Soanandrasana, Sœur du Bon Pasteur
01.2008 - 12.2008

Akany Soanandrasana is a social a religious center, managed by the Sisters of Bon Pasteur (Catholic). This center is taking in charge the young girls who have become mothers quickly to support them to face to their new life.

  • Identifying and selecting the Centre's beneficiaries (young mothers and their children)
  • Carry out the social and administrative procedures for admitting beneficiaries
  • Providing psycho-social care for beneficiaries


Formation

First year of doctoral studies - Governance of risks and disasters linked to food insecurity

Ecole Doctorale de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles - Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Agronomiques
Antananarivo
03.2024 -

Master II - Risk and Disaster Management

University of Antananarivo
Antananarivo
10.2011 - 10.2013

Masters - Social Work

Institut Supérieur de Travail Social
Antananarivo
10.2003 - 11.2007

Baccalauréat - Series D (scientific)

Ambatolampy
09.1999 - 08.2002

Compétences

  • Establishment and operation of risk and disaster financing mechanisms
  • Anticipatory actions
  • Risk and disaster management
  • Project management
  • Strategic coordination of humanitarian networks
  • Strengthening partnerships with government bodies

Personal capacity strenghtening

  • 11/01/23, Art Oratoire: Public speaking
  • 01/01/22, Project Management Professional
  • 08/01/19, Stay safe, International Federation of Red Cross, online training
  • 09/01/19, Protection of life, Online training
  • 07/01/19, Working remotely, Online training
  • 09/01/19, Protection of vulnerable children and adults, Online training
  • 09/01/19, Protecting data outside, Online training
  • 06/01/19, Harassment at work, Online training
  • 03/01/11, Microfinance for the Poverty Alleviation, National Institute of Rural Development in Hyderabad, India
  • 02/01/11, Development project set-up and management, Conseil de Recherche- Action et de DEveloppement Communautaire (CRADEC), Antananarivo
  • 10/01/10, Conversational English and Business English, Institut Médical de Madagascar in Anosy and the Business Language Training Center Antanimora
  • 11/01/08, Office automation courses, Ambodifilao Technical and Industrial Vocational Training Centre

Informations complémentaires

  • Musique
  • Reading
  • Travelling

Languages

Anglais
Bilingue
Français
Bilingue

Projets réalisés

· Mapping of existing early warning systems used in Madagascar

· Review of risk models used in Madagascar with a view to improving the risk models already used by Start Network.

· Early Action Protocol'' developed as part of the planning and implementation of drought anticipation actions, as part of the Forecast-Based Financing mechanism, at Start Network level in Madagascar.

· Standard Operating Procedures established for the coordination of the implementation of drought and cyclone risk anticipation programmes at national level in Madagascar.

· Contingency plans developed as part of a risk and funding pooling mechanism for cyclones and drought with Start Network in Madagascar.

· ''Tools for analysing vulnerability to cyclones and flooding in the 17 vulnerable regions (out of a total of 23) in Madagascar

· Blog on the review of the disaster risk financing mechanism for Early Warning and Early Action on the cyclone in Madagascar.

Frise chronologique

First year of doctoral studies - Governance of risks and disasters linked to food insecurity

Ecole Doctorale de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles - Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Agronomiques
03.2024 -

Country Manager

Start Network
05.2023 - 12.2024

Forecast-based analysis Warning Response Network (FOREWARN) Coordinator

Start Network
01.2020 - 04.2023

Risk financing Advisor

Start Network
06.2019 - 12.2019

Resilience Specialist

ADRA Madagascar
12.2014 - 06.2019

Research and Field Manager

Société HERi Madagascar
01.2014 - 11.2014

Trainee in Risk and Disaster Management

SAF/FJKM Antananarivo
02.2013 - 07.2013

Master II - Risk and Disaster Management

University of Antananarivo
10.2011 - 10.2013

Head of Income Generating Activities

Sambatra Izay SALama Association
02.2011 - 01.2012

Head of Social Affairs

Aïna Enfance- Avenir
11.2010 - 01.2011

Head of Social Affairs

Akany Soanandrasana, Sœur du Bon Pasteur
01.2008 - 12.2008

Masters - Social Work

Institut Supérieur de Travail Social
10.2003 - 11.2007

Baccalauréat - Series D (scientific)

09.1999 - 08.2002
Seheno Fanantenana ANDRIANIAINACountry Manager