Management Team
Andy Eyo
CEO
A graduate of Chemistry from the University of Calabar, Nigeria with a Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental management and in Education from the University of Uyo. He also holds a Master degree in Business Administration (Leadership) from the University of Liverpool; with Certificate in Grant Management from North Pole institute, USA and Lagos Business School. He also boasts of certification from Measure Evaluation/PHRP-OAU Ife as a Monitoring and Evaluation professional. He has several certifications in management of World Bank programs especially in the HAF 1 process including certifications on the Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and Health Planning from John Hopkins University, MD USA.
He was the Principal Investigator and Project Director of a seven year long $5.1 million MACC-4 project; a CDC/PEPFAR project in Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Abia States, the Principal Investigator of a CDC/PEPFAR Comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and Treatment project in Enugu, Imo and Ebonyi States, supervises the UNFPA funded SRH/HIV integration project in Benue, Cross River, Akwa Ibom and Kaduna States. He is a member of the International AIDS Society, Environmental Managers Association of Nigeria, and Counselling Association of Nigeria.
- Email:aeyo@ecews.org
Okezie Onyedinachi
PROJECT DIRECTOR - SPEED PROJECT
A graduate of the University of Nigeria Nsukka as a Medical Doctor. He holds a post graduate diploma in Family medicine from the University Of Pretoria, a Post Graduate Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Health from WITS University and Master of Philosophy Degree in HIV/AIDS Management from Stellenbosch University, Cape Town – South Africa and a certification in interpersonal skill from Lagos Business School. With over two decades in programme management experience in HIV/AIDS/TB/Malaria at National, state, Local Government, health facility and community levels (Lesotho and Nigeria), He functioned as a consultant with ICAP Lesotho in implementation of Public Health programs, was instrumental to the rapid decentralization of HIV services to lower levels of care and in the setting up of the MDR TB centre in Mohale’s Hoek District Hospital, VFLesotho with support from Green Life Pharmacy and University Research Company (URC), contributed to the development of programs to mitigate the impact of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic. He boasts of great accolades as the face of CIHP and award of Excellence from CIHP, 2013 and ECEWS 2015 respectively- two leading implementers of HIV/AIDS program in Nigeria. He is a member of the national task team on HIV/AIDS program and has been involved in development of Global Fund Proposals, policy documents and guidelines in HIV/AIDS program both locally and internationally. He was the Principal Investigator and Project Director of a seven year long $5.1 million MACC-4 project; a CDC/PEPFAR project in Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Abia States, the Principal Investigator of a CDC/PEPFAR Comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and Treatment project in Enugu, Imo and Ebonyi States, supervises the UNFPA funded SRH/HIV integration project in Benue, Cross River, Akwa Ibom and Kaduna States. He is a member of the International AIDS Society, Environmental Managers Association of Nigeria, and Counselling Association of Nigeria.
- Email:Oonyedinachi@ecews.org
Adeoye Adegboye
CHIEF OF PARTY
Adeoye Adegboye is the Chief of Party of Excellence Community Education Welfare Scheme (ECEWS) on the USAID funded Accelerated control of HIV Epidemic (ACE-5) control program in Nigeria with over 180 thousand people currently on treatment. He is responsible for the overall coordination of the program. Prior to joining ECEWS, he was a Sustaining Technical and Analytical Resource Fellow (STAR Fellow)/ Senior Technical Advisor working on the Prevention and Community Program and the Care and Treatment Program team at USAID-Nigeria where he provides quality, technical leadership and support related to the provision of HIV testing services, care, and treatment to PLHIV. He previously worked with the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, as Program Manager/Local Government Saturation Coordinator of the Rivers surge project, Granular/Enhanced site Management (GSM/ESM) coordinator, Priority LGA Coordinator for the epidemic control project. Adeoye had his medical training at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. He holds a Master of Public Health degree and did his residency training in public health. He has over 15 years post qualification experience in public health. He has over 20 Manuscripts published in peer reviewed Journals and has also presented many abstracts at conferences
- Phone:+2348180869701
- Email:aadegboye@ecews.org
Etuk Asukwo Okon
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS
A graduate of the University of Uyo, Uyo majoring in Theatre Arts. Served in the Red Cross in the capacities of the Branch Secretary and Chief Executive Officer for Akwa Ibom State Branch. He has been actively involved in the design and implementation of programmes in Health and Care, Institutional Development, Disaster Preparedness and Response as well as Youth development targeting the most vulnerable populations; led the Red Cross Akwa Ibom State Branch for 7 years to become the Best Red Cross Branch in Nigeria. He boasts of extensive training both in Nigeria and abroad in Youth Work, Globalisation, Disaster Management, HIV/AIDS, First Aid, stakeholders’ engagement, Project Management, Collaboration and Networking. Others are in Community Programming and Reporting. Possesses a knack for proactiveness in projects coordination, CSO coordination, capacity building, communication, community mobilization/ engagement, programmes monitoring and feedback management.
- Email:aetuk@ecews.org
Otoyo Toyo
Deputy Chief of Party
Otoyo Toyo comes with over 15 years experience in community outreach activities, with 10 years’ in the design and implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public health interventions in Nigeria. He has led the implementation of numerous public health initiatives and supported projects in different states in Nigeria
He had his medical training at the University of Port Harcourt, a fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the Royal Society of Public Health and the American Public Health Association. He is a member of the International AIDS Society and has authored and co-authored several scientific manuscripts, abstracts, monographs, technical briefs and reports, and made numerous presentations on local and international fora on various areas of HIV program implementation.
Abutu Inedu
Deputy Project Director/Technical Director
Dr Abutu Inedu is the Deputy Project Director/Technical Director on the Excellence Community Education Welfare Scheme (ECEWS) CDC funded Sustainable Programs for HIV Epidemic Control and Equitable Service Delivery (SPEED) Project.Project, with over 100,000 PLHIV currently on treatment across the three project states (Delta, Ekiti and Osun). He is responsible for providing the overall technical leadership for the project and support the Project Director in program management. Prior to joining ECEWS, he was the Deputy Chief of Party on the USAID funded Accelerating control of HIV Epidemic control (ACE-4) project in Nigeria, implemented by the Center for Clinical Care and Clinical Research, Nigeria (CCCRN), where he provided overall technical leadership. He previously held various technical leadership positions at other PEPFAR (CDC, USAID) and Global Fund funded comprehensive HIV Prevention, Care and treatment programs with significant results
They include Caritas, Nigeria; Family Health International (FHI360) as Principal Recipient for the Global Fund comprehensive HIV service grant; Centers for Integrated Health Program (CIHP) and Management Sciences for Health. With over 15 years’ experience in implementing public health programs in Nigeria, he has about 15 publications and abstracts to his credit. He had his MBBS degree from the University of Jos, Nigeria and a Master of Public Health degree from Walden University, USA. He has other trainings and certifications in program management, leadership, human resources for health etc.
- Phone:+2348174210220
- Email:ainedu@ecews.org
Onyekachukwu Osabiku
Deputy Project Director Global Fund/NAHI Grant
Onyekachukwu Osabiku M.B.B.S, MPH Epi is an experienced public health physician, with over 8 years’ experience in the public health space. He is currently the program and technical lead for ECEWS Global Fund National Alignment of HIV/AIDS Initiative. He has led the GF Optimizing HIV Investment for Impact project in Edo that saw the management of over 20,000 PLHIV. He also saw the development of the PMTCT program for Ebonyi state, thereby working with the State AIDS/STI Control Program in developing a scale – up plan for PMTCT to all supported facilities in Ebonyi state. He has experience working in public health consulting, health systems strengthening, and capacity building of health workers on both General and Key population HIV programming.
Prior to joining ECEWS, he worked as an analyst, clinical associate, and state team lead between 2016 and 2018 for both Benue and Nasarawa states on the CDC/PEPFAR ACHIEVE and ACTION Plus Up project. He also supported a CBO in implementing the CARITAS KPIF project in Delta state, where he set up the OSS in Udu, Delta state.
Nsikak – Abasi Okon
Project Coordinator MCGL project
Nsikak-Abasi Effiong Okon is a Public health professional, An Adolescent and young Women advocate, a Gender based violence activist and a peace advocate whose passion is towards promoting goal 3,5, 16 and 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals.
She has over 6 years cognant experience in community development work. She has lead and coordinated different programs implementation, research, supervision, monitoring, evaluation and learning of public health interventions in Nigeria.