Gender:: Male
Country/Countries I have worked in:: I have worked both in Kenya and Italy
More Details: DR. PETER ONYANGO (PhD)
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERMANENT ADDRESS:
Via Lungomare Rocca Priora, 17 Falconara Marittima, 60015 AN Italy.
Mobile Tel. (00254) 0713219051
Email: peter_onyango@yahoo.com
KENYA ADDRESS
P.O. BOX 2614 – NAIROBI
Website: www.uvipkenya.org
Current Job location: Nairobi- Kenya
Nationality: Kenyan by birth
Profession: International relations: Law, Journalism and Project Management.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
English – Excellent
French – Good
Italian – Excellent
Swahili-Good
German-Fair
TEACHING CAREER
– International studies (international law & relations)
– Development studies – Social studies
EXPERIENCE
2001-2008
• Directing Unyolo Village Project (UVIP) registered in Kenya as a local NGO dealing with early childhood development and community capacity building in Siaya District.
• Developing strategies for micro projects for the community in Kenya involving local participants.
• Monitoring and evaluating Unyolo Village Project improving donor confidence in the project.
• Introducing transparency policies within Unyolo Village Project with approval from the Board of Directors.
• Promoting transparency through corporate governance within the Kolping Organization of Kenya in 2008 coordinating and advising the Executive Board of Directors.
2008
• Partnering with Associazione Comunità Shalom based in Italy involved in peace and evangelization strengthening dialogue.
2003-8
• Working as a permanent employee with a French Multinational Organisation Carrefour based in Italy with successful experience. Formed part of a team of cashiers and marketing management with sound consultancy profile.
2000- 2003
• English Language lecturing with Easy Life Language School of Method in Rome (university level courses). Acquiring training experience with the Pfizer Inc., ENAV (training Air Traffic Controllers in Rome), Ministry of industrial development in EUR – Rome, and the SLE (Scuola Lingue Estere Aeronautica Militare di Ciampino), and Worldcom as professional business English teacher.
1999-2003
• Serving the Istituto italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (Is.IAO) – Italian Institute for Africa and Orient as a technical reinforcement for African issues.
1999 – 2000
• Providing consultancy services to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations in Rome, preparing professional reports on Human Rights to food for the legal department.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
2002
• Participating in the First World Congress for Middle East Studies under the Italian Institute for Africa and Orient guiding Italian and Libyan Professors to the Congress at the University of Mainz, September 8-13, 2002.
• Participating as a logistician in the congress and the team leader for Italians and Libyan professors under the auspices of the Istituto italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente linked to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• Working as a volunteer for Foreign Students’ Association UCSEI an Italian NGO in Rome for 3 years organization conferences.
• A member of the National Civil Society Congress in Kenya
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
1984- Leading students at St. Gabriel Minor Seminary in Kisumu
1988- Liturgical group leader at Consolata Institute of Philosophy in Nairobi
1994- President of students’ Council at the International Institute Giovanni XXIII in Rome.
2001- Founding Unyolo Village Project (UVIP) in Kenya that is now recognised as an NGO.
QUALIFICATION
2000
• Post PhD course in Communication and Management for Cultural policies both in Private and Public Sectors: promoted by the Free University of Maria Assunta – LUMSA in Rome. I did my internship at the Louvain La Neuve University in Brussles at the Social Communication Department. “Natural Resources Management” & Information and Communication Technology”.
1996-1999
• PhD in comparative Civil law at the Lateran University in Rome with a published dissertation paper on the international humanitarian law.
1994-1996
• Diploma in Social Communication at Gregorian University in Rome with a dissertation paper on communication for development.
1990-1994
• Bachelor in Theology at Gregorian University in Rome with approved credits.
1985-1989
• Bachelor cum Diploma in Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology in Consolata Institute for Philosophy in Nairobi – Kenya.
1995-6
• Courses on Development and communication organised by Scuola per la politica Internazionale e comunicazione educativa in Rome (FOCSIV). “Development Studies and international co-operation in development”.
RESEARCH
2001 Publishing a Research work on – African Economic Crisis and the Cultural Gap Created by Globalisation. Under publication by the Upfront publishers.
1993-02 Working as a Development Consultant for the UVIP International. My duty deals with communication for Natural Resources Management. The job and role include: rural development, philanthropy, gender development, and participatory development approach.
1999 Working for the legal department of the FAO within the office of Human Rights to Food and the database programme.
1997 Working for the Wanted in Rome journal as a writer. Most of my articles were published.
1995-6 Working for the Vatican Radio in the English section for Africa. Most of my transmissions were aired through the Vatican Radio.
SKILLS
1) Computer literate. High skills of the information and communication technology.
2) Skills to work with teams in groups and to manage persons.
3) Skills in developing policies and making professional reports.
4) Creative and able to work with people of different cultural background.
5) Quick use of Internet Explorer, Microsoft office Outlook, and electronic multimedia communication.
6) Human Resources development and modern work conditions.
7) Able to work with variety of cultures.
8) Good at team building and role playing.
9) Motivation in promoting Transparency and Democracy in the social development sector.
10) Presentations and conferences
PUBLICATIONS
1. Social Communication: Strategy for Rural Development and Human Promotion in Kenya, unpublished dissertation for Diploma, Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome, 1996.
2. A dissertation for Doctoral Degree entitled, The Question of War in the Sub-Saharan Africa and the International law of War – Published by the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, in 1999.
3. Journalistic Articles published by the Wanted in Rome magazine in Rome: Africans coming to Rome and Africans forming Associations both were published in July 1997.
4. A document for Aggregation of Small Enterprises for Development in Africa. A study organised by CeSPI (an Italian NGO for professional Research). The work was published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Italy. See DIPCO, Bollettino della Cooperazione Italiana. Settimanale Ufficiale della DGCS, Ministero degli Affari Esteri. Anno XVI, n.8, 4 marzo 1999 (pag. 133-154).
5. Tourism of hope published by the Nuova Ecologia “Viaggi di Speranza” presenting development potentialities around lake Victoria in Kenya…September 2007.
6. Several articles published in the official website of the Shalom International Association, www.shalom-i.it in Italian language – most of my articles is on the social development issues of the Catholic Church in Kenya.
7. African Economic Crisis and the Cultural Gap Created by Globalisation, under publication by the Minerva Press, United Kingdom, 2002.
8. ‘Armed Conflicts in the sub-Saharan Africa and the involvement of Libya’, in the African Affairs, under publication in Great Britain, 2002.
9. It is Never Too Late, under publication by the Longhorn Publishers, Nairobi, Kenya, 2002.
10. Right to Food: A paper for FAO legal office in 1999 (Human Rights to food in reference to the Sub-Saharan region).
11. 1995 Publication of Dholuo Grammar Book, Lake Publishers and Enterprises limited in Kenya.
ADVOCACY DUTIES
Teaching and delivering international conferences on issues regarding Human Rights and social development in the Sub-Saharan Africa, cultural development, communication management, natural resources management, policies and international relations. Culture of organisation for development and Project Management at Professional level.
Introducing development studies in social communication – Management policies – International Relations and Project – Work for the developing countries.
Laws of African States: Their origin and their influence on gender development.
The Question of Armed Conflicts in Africa and the International Law of War – International Policies on Peace.
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
• As the Director / CEO of Kenya UVIP Society managed to create reliable links with international donors and project partners in Kenya.
• Pioneering a community based project in Kenya (CBO): Shalom nursery school.
• Providing technical services to develop diplomatic links between the Italian Institute for Africa with Libya – 2002.
• Developed project partnership framework with an Italian fair trade social cooperative Mondo Solidale.
