BWALYA ELISABETH

Experienced professional in urban planning and project management. Adept at collaboration, budget management, and resource allocation. Demonstrated success as a versatile project coordinator, effectively executing diverse project tasks to meet deadlines. Exceptional communication skills enable seamless interaction with colleagues, while diligent monitoring ensures timely achievement of key milestones. Enthusiastic problem solver and talented team player, known for superior planning and decision-making abilities.

• Developed the first Local Area Plans that served as a baseline for the integrated development plan
• Drafted and developed the Lusaka City Council Strategic Plan 2020-2025
• Participated in the development of the first water and sanitation profile for Lusaka
• Participated in the establishment of the first youth Council and the development of their terms of reference. Youths voices have been added to planning and decision-making for the City
• Participated in the formulation and development of the first Gender and social inclusion workplace policy for Lusaka City Council and ensured that it was in line with the SADC Protocol on Gender
• Development of the Lusaka District Profile
• Developed proposals and was awarded funding with different partners, e.g. ICELI, NGO – WASH Forum, GIZ, UNDP and Slum-dwellers international
• Developed the first Training Modules for Local Area Planning using a Human rights-based approach
• Developed a first training manual for training and development, project planning and management
• Provided Technical advice, Supervision and coordination of the local area plans in line with the Urban and Regional Planning Act and the decentralization policy
• Co-authored the policy briefs on the preparation of increased flooding with FRACTAL
• Co-authored the abstract titled 'Does Participatory slum upgrading work? A pilot of local area planning in Lusaka with Dr. Wilma Nchito

VOLUNTEER WORK

• Managing food value chains for improved urban vulnerable populations
• Contributing to the development of strategies used to address high food losses
• Participated in focus group discussions and field visits with the key stakeholders in the food chain
• Facilitated the afri-cities workshop
• Participated in the food preservation and processing focus group discussion and report drafting

• · Contributed to the proposal writing and was among the 50 top cities in the world
• · Participated in the survey and testing of the prototype of turning liquid fertilizer into organic waste for urban gardening and improving nutrition
• · Organized the co-creation workshop for the communities making sure all logistics such as venue, stationary, preparation of presentations and training materials and workshop package were in place
• · Writing of workshop report

• Promoting public shifts to sustainable healthy diets;
• Transforming urban food environments through real-world socio-technical experiments;
• Promoting inclusive multi-actor governance to empower public officials, established and informal small businesses, communities, youth and women with ownership and agency to shape their food systems; and
• Accelerating innovative, women- and youth-led agri-food businesses to support local value addition and inclusive economic participation.

DATA LEAD – BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES AND VITAL STRATEGIES POLICY ACCELERATOR FORMULATION OF CYCLING AND PEDESTRIAN POLICY FOR LUSAKA TO FIGHT NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND CLIMATE CHANGE 2023 till date

Responsible for

• Drafting of the concept note for funding
• Contributing to the development of strategies used to address high non-communicable disease
• Conducted a comparative study for what other countries had done
• Drafting of the cyclist and pedestrian policy for Lusaka
• Stakeholder mapping and engagement to vet the policy and collection of data for planning and decision- making

• Contributed to the proposal writing and was among the 50 top cities in the world
• Coordination among the different participating departments
• Report writing

• Resource mobilization
• Coordination of different organizations’
• Funding proposal development
• Development of membership packages

THRIVING  EARTH EXXHANGE PROJECT MANAGER FOR  A COMMUNITY IN FULTON, AR, USA 2023-Till date 

Responsible for

• project manager and coach and resource throughout your engagement with Thriving Earth Exchange.
• Supervising a community in Fulton, United states on project coordination and resource mobilization
• Supervision on the development of the resource mobilization strategies
• Linking the Fulton community project to a researcher

Lusaka water security initiative has over 29 partners from government, private academia and civil society organization, responsible for

• · Representing Lusaka city council in the planning and decision-making of LuWSI
• · Ensure integrated planning and good governance in protecting groundwater sources
• · Reduce water-related disease burden for the city especially those living in informal settlements.
• · Negotiations with different stakeholders to provide both human and financial resources to support the initiative

· Stakeholder engagement for resource mobilization for the national planning conference

· Research on behalf of the institute to improve service delivery among planners

· Represent the instituted on different flora's with issues to do with slum upgrading , policy analysis and urban planning

· Advice the parliamentary decentralization committee on fiscal decentralization and its impact on the economy in Zambia

The Project aims at supporting African cities to move towards outcomes of improved safety and resilience to climate-induced disasters, especially for women through evidence-based urban resilience planning and increased multi-level governance collaboration. Responsible for

• Stakeholder mapping and engagement
• Organize the inception meeting and workshop for the different stakeholders
• Raise disaster risk awareness by creating social media content
• Training and capacity building
• Documentation of the processes

• Prof: Anne.Scheffer- leader Program Officer, anne.scheffer-leander@iclde.se, +4670191401
• Mr Danny Chibinda, dannychbinda@gmail.com, +26097904679
• Dr Wilma Nchito, wsnchito@yahoo.com, +260976014191

https://www.fractal.or g.za/wp- content/uploads/2019/01/Po licy-Brief- Lusaka- Flooding.pdf

https://www.fractal.or g.za/wp- content/uploads/2019/01/Po licy-Brief- Lusaka-Flooding.pdf

https://www.readkong.com/page/climate- resilient-urban-sanitation-accelerating- the- 6315293

https://doha2021.dryfta.co m/paper- platform/abstract/public/44 8/does- participatory-slum- upgrading-really- work- piloting-local-area-planning-in- Lusaka-Zambia

AWARDS

Gender links- Theme sex and reproductive health. HIV/ADIS institution:

Local government 2015 Centre of Excellence award Hard-working and innovative AYIN local innovators program-Food Security

Local government Association women in Local Government excellence Awards 1st prize 2024

· Development of local area plans in Harry Mwanga Nkumbula, Mwembeshi,Chawama and Kanyama wards with GIZ and GFA reflecting WASHE=K949,500.00

· The first Stockatake4climate emergency ICELI = euro=1858.98

· Youth climate fund with Bloomberg philanthropy =$= 150,000.00

· Early childhood development project to be implemented in Lusaka and Chongwe =10 million Dollars

· Afrifoodlinks projects EURO = 60,000.00 https://web.facebook.com/share/p/kd11JQEZq9JD7iGj/

· City GAP Fund with European Investment banal and GIZ – the flood risks management project =$ 100,000.00

· Bloomberg Mayors Challenge - waste to energy project Lusaka was among the first

· 50 cities=$50,000. To test the project

· START community partnership project = $8,000.00

· DRR4 Africa project = $ 2.4 million dollars

· Development of the garden local area plan with PPHZ = K300,000.00

· Lusaka cycling and pedestrian strategy policy with vital strategies = $ 80,000.00