DONNA SILLAN
72 Hazel Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 cell: 415-559-6527 e-mail: kype: donna.sillan1
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Co-Founder of NGO: Common River
Form a non-governmental, non-profit community development organization based on Positive Deviance in Ethiopia
International Public Health Consultant/Planner
Design public health programs in Asia and Africa.
Develop successful proposals for over $14 million of USAID Child Survival grants.
Team led 15 formal health program evaluations.
Facilitate health teams in detailed implementation planning process in 7 countries.
Assess new country program, design program and develop proposal in 5 countries.
Child Survival Manager
Managed an USAID funded urban Child Survival program.
Wrote and published “Child Survival Management Curriculum.”
Monitored, evaluated and reported health program impact to USAID for 5 country programs.
Facilitated a working group to develop an agency-wide Program Management Tool and management system.
Health Information Systems Specialist
Implemented a population-based health information system in urban slum area.
Facilitated 9 health information workshops: Philippines, Nepal, Indonesia, Honduras, India, Mexico, Bolivia, U.S.A., Uganda.
Developed a standardized program impact information system for an agency’s worldwide programs.
Facilitated USAID Child Survival Workshop on Health Information Systems for 10 countries.
Health Trainer and Facilitator
Co-facilitated 2 Asia Regional planning workshops for Save the Children and 2 Nutrition workshops for NGO community.
Designed curriculum and implemented health training for 300 village health workers.
Trained health workers in Positive Deviance nutritional approach in Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Bangladesh, East Timor, Mali, USA
Co-wrote “A Resource Guide for Sustainably Rehabilitating Malnourished Children” published by CORE
Facilitate Asia Regional Training of Trainers in Positive Deviance/Hearth Approach for CORE
MPH, Health Education, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 1984.
BA, International Relations,Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 1980.
Lived in Asia for 11 years. Fluent in Indonesian,working knowledge of Lao and Thai.
Director, Board of Marin Horizon School, and Head of Diversity Committee, Mill Valley, CA
Director, Board of Common River, Mill Valley, CA
______PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE______
Co-Founder of Common River, Mill Valley, CA and Sidama, Ethiopia2007-present
Conducted feasibility study in Ethiopia
Designed integrated grass-roots community development program
Incorporated Non-Governmental Organization
>Implement Education, Health and Livelihood integrated development program
Co-founder of Aleta Wondo Coffee LLC, Mill Valley, CA and Aleta Wondo, Sidama 2008-2011
Assisted coffee growers to participate in Int’l Coffee Tasting Competition
Arranged for export of coffee to Oakland, CA
Strategized the marketing of coffee
Provided fair price to coffee growers in Aleta Wondo
Freelance Public Health Consultant, Jakarta, Indonesia and San Francisco, CA 1993-1996
Team-led needs assessment, health program design and wrote grant proposals. 1996-present
Develop agency-wide program management & health information system to measure program impact, Christian Children’s Fund.
Develop Positive Deviance/Hearth manual and disseminate through Training of Trainer workshops
Team leader for mid-term and final evaluations of Child Survival programs
Asia/Pacific Regional Health Consultant, Save the Children,Jakarta, Indonesia 1990- 1993
Supported health programs in 6 countries (Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines) according to needs in planning, management and information systems, health worker training, program design, and proposal development.
Conducted regional health planning conferences and nutrition workshops & evaluations for NGO’s in Asia.
Child Survival Manager/Trainer,Save the Children,Jakarta , Indonesia 1987-1989
Managed health program in urban slum, supervising a team of 6 indigenous health professionals and 300 health workers.
Primary Health Care Coordinator, Save the Children,Headquarters Health Unit, Westport, CT 1985-1987
Coordinated USAID funded child survival program grants, monitored finance and impact, developed proposals in 4 countries.
Refugee Resettlement Caseworker, International Rescue Committee, San Jose, CA 1980-1,1983-4
Provided arrival orientation, job development, school placement, housing, health care referral and family reunification for refugees from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Rumania, Iran and Cuba.
Caseworker, Joint Voluntary Agency, State Department, Bangkok, Thailand 1981-1983
Interviewed Vietnamese, Lao and Khmer refugees in camps, collected data, presented dossiers to immigration and appealed cases.
Consultancies
Child Survival Final Evaluation, team leader, CARE, Indonesia, 1991
Needs Assessment-Village Health Proposal Development, Christian Children’s Fund, Somalia, 1993
Indonesian AIDS Foundation, founder with a group of private Indonesians, 1994
Development of agency-wide Impact Evaluation Monitoring System, Christian Children’s Fund, 1994
Indicator Development for African Americans, Christian Children’s Fund, Mississippi, 1997
Indicator Development for Native Americans, Christian Children’s Fund, Montana, 1997
Child Survival Final Evaluation, team leader, World Relief, Bangladesh, 1997
Nutrition, HIS and Home Visiting Systems, World Relief, Mozambique, 1998
Child Survival Final Evaluation, team leader, Save the Children, Nepal, 1999
Primary Health Care Evaluation, sole evaluator, Save the Children, Afghanistan, 1999
Program Assessment & Design & CS Proposal Development, Save the Children, Aceh, Indonesia, 2000
CORE Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group, consultant, MACRO Int’l, 2000
Refugee Primary Health Care Evaluation, evaluator, Save the Children, Pakistan, 2000
Indonesia Nutrition Program Proposal Development, mentor, Mercy Corps, Indonesia, 2000
Hearth Manual Development, informational visit, CORE, Save the Children, Myanmar, 2000
Primary School and Basic Health Unit Project Evaluation, evaluator, UNCDF/ UNDP, Bhutan, 2001
Proposal: Refugee Health and Psycho-Social Development, Save the Children, Indonesia, 2001
Child Survival Final Evaluation, team leader, Africare, Tanzania, 2001
Child Survival Mid-Term Evaluation, team leader, Africare, Malawi, 2002
Child Survival Final Evaluation, team leader, Lutheran World Relief, India, 2002
Child Survival Final Evaluation, team leader, World Relief, Cambodia, 2002
Team-Building and Program Visioning, consultant, Save the Children, Vietnam, 2002
Needs Assessment of the Aceh Health Program, team leader, Save the Children, Indonesia, 2003
Child Survival Mid-Term Evaluation, team leader, Counterpart, Int’l, India, 2003
Child Survival Final Evaluation, team leader, Counterpart, Int’l, India, 2004
Census-Based Impact-Oriented manual research, Curamericas and CORE, Haiti and Bolivia, 2004
Developing an Emergency-Development Nutrition Strategy, Save the Children, Aceh, Indonesia, 2005
Child Survival Mid-term Evaluation, team leader, Int’l Rescue Committee, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2005
Developing a Post-Tsunami Nutrition Strategy, consultant, CARE, Aceh, Indonesia, 2006
Positive Deviance/Hearth Evaluation: evaluator, World Vision Canada, India, 2006
Child Survival Proposal Development, technical reviewer, Counterpart, Int’l, India 2006
Child Survival Proposal Development, technical reviewer, Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, India 2006
Developing the National Health Strategy, consultant, UNICEF, Maldives, 2007
Child Survival Proposal Development, technical reviewer, Counterpart, Int’l, Senegal, 2008
Child Survival Proposal Development, technical reviewer, Mercy Corps, Pakistan, 2008
Child Survival Proposal Development, writer, CARE Int’l, Ethiopia, 2009
Positive Deviance/Hearth Evaluation, team leader, World Vision Canada, India, 2009
Child Survival Proposal Development, writer, Relief Int’l, Sudan, 2010
MCH Midterm Evaluation, team leader, Mercy Corps, Tajikistan, 2011
Hearth Implementation Training Follow-up, Int’l Medical Corps, Ethiopia, 2013
Selected Papers, Documents and Reports:
Detailed Implementation Planning Training Workbook, Save the Children, 1990
Management Guide for Child Survival Managers, Save the Children, 1990
Lesson Learned in Practical Nutrition: Approaches in Bangladesh, Consortium of NGO’s, 1990
Community Mobilization to Prevent Dengue Fever, APHA, Save the Children, Indonesia, 1990
Guide to Developing a Detailed Implementation Plan, Save the Children, 1991
Reaching the Unreached:A Training Manual for Developing a Health Information System, Save the Children, 1991
Health Information Systems as a Vehicle for Health Education, IUHE: Helsinki Conference, SC, 1991
Kader Training Manual, Save the Children, Indonesia, 1992
Developing A Monitoring System to Assure Quality Programs, Christian Children’s Fund, 1994
Annual Impact Monitoring and Evaluation System:The AIMES User’s Manual, Christian Children’s Fund, 1995
A Training Manual for AIMES: Annual Impact Monitoring and Evaluation System, Christian Children’s Fund, 1995
A Facilitator’s Guide for Project Management Tool, Christian Children’s Fund, 1996
State of CCF’s Children, Christian Children’s Fund, annual agency-wide data report, 1995, 1996, 1997
DIP Guidelines 2000, USAID, reviewer/reviser, 2000
Child Survival Cambodia Proposal Revision, Pearl S. Buck International, reviewer, 2000
Child Survival Azerbaijan Proposal Revision, Mercy Corps International, reviewer, 2000
Capacity-Building for Community Agents Module Development, consultant, BASICS, Care/India, 2002
The Field Handbook for the Hearth Nutritional Model Using the Positive Deviance Approach, CORE, main author, 2002
PVO Child Survival Proposal Reviewer, CSTS, Macro Int’l, 2002
Training Report: The South Asia PD/Hearth Workshop Report: Dec. 2003, Paper from five-day workshop, sponsored by CORE, held in Ahmedabad, India, 2003
PD/Hearth Consultant's Guide,The Child Survival Collaborations and Resource Group, Nutrition Working Group, 2003
Child Survival Proposal Editor, Counterpart, Int’l, 2003
Child Survival Proposal Writer, Curamericas, 2003
The Use of Care Groups in Community Monitoring and Health Information Systems,
Child Survival Connections, a joint publication of CSTS+ and the CORE Group, 2004
The Census-based Impact-Oriented Methodology: A Resource Guide for Equitable and Effective Primary Health Care, CORE and Curamericas, 2005
Technical Interventions of Child Survival, Presenter, School of Nursing, Univ. of San Francisco, 2005
Maternal and Child Health Care, Presenter, Outdoor Art Club, Mill Valley, CA, 2006
Where There is No Doctor, Editor, Hesperian Foundation, Berkeley, CA 2009
Sidama Sustenance, Foodways of the Sidama Tribe, Blurb, San Francisco, CA 2012
Workshops/Trainings
Bangladesh Nutrition Workshop, NGOs in Bangladesh, facilitator, 1990 & 1991
Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop, Save the Children, co-facilitator, Nepal, 1991
Training in Health Information Systems, Save the Children, facilitator, Nepal, 1991
Training in Health Information Systems, Save the Children, facilitator, Philippines, 1991
Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop, Save the Children, co-facilitator, Thailand, 1992
Detailed Implementation Planning Workshop, Save the Children, facilitator, Nepal, 1993
Training in Developing a Health Information System, 5 countries represented from 3 regions, Christian Children’s Fund, facilitator, Honduras, 1994
Working Group for Measuring Program Impact, 5 countries represented from 3 regions, Christian Children’s Fund, facilitator, India, 1995
Training “Impact Monitoring & Evaluation System,” CCF, facilitator, Brazil, 1995
Training “Impact Monitoring and Evaluation System,” East Africa Region (5 countries), Christian Children’s Fund, facilitator, Uganda, 1995
Training “Project Management Tool Development,” International Office, Christian Children’s Fund, facilitator, Richmond, Virginia, 1996
Working Group Meeting in “Project Management Tool,” Agency-wide representatives, Christian Children’s Fund, facilitator, Mexico, 1996
Training in “Project Management Tool,” US Region, Christian Children’s Fund, facilitator, Texas, ‘96
2nd Project Management Tool Meeting, Christian Children’s Fund, facilitator, Bolivia, 1996
USAID Child Survival Workshop on Health Information System, 10 countries represented, CARE Int’l, facilitator, Atlanta, USA, 1997
Training of Trainers, Great Plains Region, Christian Children’s Fund, facilitator, Oklahoma, 1997
Project REACH OUT Retreat, Sonoma County Dept. of Public Health, facilitator, Sonoma, 1998
International National Directors Conference, Christian Children’s Fund, facilitator, Headquarters, ‘98
“Positive Deviance” Approach to Nutrition, World Relief, trainer, Mozambique, 1998
Health Planning and Budgeting 1998 Workshop, RACHA, facilitator, Cambodia, 1998
“Positive Deviance” Approach to Nutrition, Christian Children’s Fund, trainer, Sri Lanka, 1998
CORE Child Survival Headquarters Workshop presenter, Arizona, 1999
“Positive Deviance” Approach to Nutrition, Christian Children’s Fund, trainer, Ethiopia, 1999
Detailed Implementation Planning Workshop, Macro Int’l for Pearl S. Buck Int’l, facilitator, Philippines, 1999
Detailed Implementation Planning Workshop, Social Impact for RACHA, facilitator, Cambodia, 1999
Strategic Planning Workshop, Save the Children, facilitator, Afghanistan Program, Pakistan, 2000
Introduction to the Hearth/Positive Deviance Approach to Nutrition, NGO and CA forum, facilitator, USAID, Washington, D.C., 2000
Presentation of the Positive Deviance/Hearth Handbook,CORE Annual Meeting of NGOs and CAs, presenter, CORE, Millwood, Virginia, 2001.
Presentation of the Positive Deviance/Hearth, Food Aid Management and CORE “Nutrition Works” Workshop, Millwood, Virginia, 2001.
Strategic Planning and Health Information Systems Workshop, trainer, Save the Children, Indonesia, 2002
Training of Trainers in Positive Deviance/Hearth, facilitator/trainer, Counterpart Int’l, India, 2002
Urban Hearth Methodology Consultancy, Mercy Corps Int’l, Indonesia, 2003
Positive Deviance/Hearth PVO Workshop, co-facilitator, CORE, Davis, California, 2003
Asia Regional Positive Deviance/Hearth PVO Workshop, Lead facilitator, CORE, India, 2003
TOT Positive Deviance/Hearth Workshop, Facilitator, Concern, Bangladesh, 2004
TOT Positive Deviance/Hearth Workshop, Facilitator, Oxfam, East Timor, 2004
TOT Positive Deviance/Hearth Workshop, Facilitator, Plan, Int’l, Kenya, 2006
TOT Positive Deviance/Hearth Workshop, Facilitator, World Vision/Canada, Mali, 2006
TOT Positive Deviance/Hearth Workshop, Facilitator, World Vision/Canada, Cambodia, 2006
TOT Positive Deviance/Hearth Workshop, Facilitator, UNICEF, Maldives, 2007
TOT Positive Deviance/Hearth Workshop, Facilitator, Salvation Army, Zambia, 2007
TOT Positive Deviance/Hearth Workshop, Facilitator, World Vision/Canada, Niger, 2007
TOT Positive Deviance/Hearth Workshop, Facilitator, World Vision/Canada, Rwanda, 2008
TOT Positive Deviance/Hearth Workshop, Facilitator, World Vision/Canada, Ghana, 2008
TOT Positive Deviance/Hearth Workshop, Facilitator, World Vision/Canada, Zimbabwe, 2009
TOT Positive Deviance/Hearth Workshop, Facilitator, International Medical Corps, Ethiopia2013
TOT Positive Deviance/Hearth Workshop, Facilitator, World Vision/Canada, Ethiopia, 2013
Michael Wolk Conference on Medical Education, Panelist, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 2014
Positive Deviance/Hearth Presentation, Guest Lecturer, University of Texas School of Medicine, San Antonio, Texas 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015