Emeka Diru

• Utilized knowledge on advocacy, public awareness-raising, and stakeholders management to coach CSO's to increase participation of marginalized groups ( Women, Youth and Persons With Disabilities (PWD's) in political activities and in government.
• Developed workplans, quarterly and annual reports. Monitor program implementation and use tools like Gantt charts, budgets, to support local CSO's in Abuja and in other states.
• To achieve program goals and objectives, participated in granting process and procurement of local CSO's, training, coaching and supporting organizations to achieve program objectives.
• Analyzed program performances using After Action Reviews (AAR) for example,program review meetings and success stories to aid learning and adaptation of the programs.
• Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections to support local CSO's to enhance capacity and guide program implementation.

• Provided BRIDGE training to local government observers and supervisors to be able to deploy parallel voter tabulation (PVT) methodology and send in reports in near real time to the WTV database.
• Support in simulation exercises before elections and provided support in tracking data on electoral process on Election-Day

• Advised its National Chairman on simultaneous technical workstreams, aiding in growth of political parties and adherence to it Code of Conduct of Political Parties.
• Provide technical advice to the Council, develop program thematic areas for political parties including yearly work plans, develop useful tools to strengthen political party participation in Nigeria, propose training workshops, and other capacity-building opportunities.
• Develop speeches and themes for discussion, participate in political meetings and guide discussions.
• Served as primary point of contact for some development organizations for the council.
• Plan and execute and facilitate political conference and meetings

- Created and implemented program frameworks, policy agenda and legal reforms with political parties, elected officials and civil society organizations to strengthening political party participation in Nigeria.

- Designing and implementing project activities that will improve the political participation and capacity of political parties, CSO, and underrepresented groups such as Youth, Women, and Persons with Disability (PWD) in the political and electoral process.

- Take lead in activities aimed at institutional strengthening for political parties, policy development, and public participation in the electoral and political process.

- Supporting activities aimed at a comprehensive and accurate data collection, proper database management, and analysis of results to report on project implementation.

- Facilitate interventions aimed at getting political parties to adhere minimum standards by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) such as guidelines for the conduct of campaigns and party finance, Code of Conduct for Political Parties, Organizing Party Primaries and Deployment of Party Agents during elections.

- Provided technical support to INEC and political parties to mitigate political conflicts, i.e leadership conflict in IPAC, others are providing one-on-one support to political parties to enable them to adhere to internal democratic norms, develop inclusive constitutions for their internal processes and functions.

- Supported International observation mission in 2015 Nigerian elections as well as staggered gubernatorial election in Nigeria. supported IRI's Post-Election and short term International Election Observation Missions. Participated in the planning, implementation, and reporting of over 10 critical pre-election, election, and post-election workshops, training, and dialogues between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), political parties, the media and underrepresented groups like youth, women, and persons with disabilities.

- Designed a political party strengthening concept for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which helped in the development of a PDP 2015 Post Election Review Report; my effort led to the institutional and technical support provided to the PDP Committee to enable them to review the party participation in the 2015 general election and to proffer recommendations that would solve salient issues. This effort later assisted the party to come up with an articulated document known as the PDP Strategy, this on its strength the party capacity ahead of 2019.

- Assisted in holding multi-party stakeholder dialogue on the Anambra governorship election in 2013, the outcome of the dialogue assisted IRI to support political parties on the current engagement for reforms in the Constitution and Electoral Act in 2017.

- In 2014 I supported the process that organized the National Stakeholders Forum on Electoral Reform which facilitates strong stakeholder consensus and commitments on critical actions that need to be taken to strengthen the electoral process, ahead of the 2015 national elections in Nigeria. I contributed to the process to build consensus support for important reform issues by the three arms of government, INEC, and other critical election stakeholders. The outcome of this summit was instrumental is currently been used to drive legal and administrative changes in the Electoral Act 2017.

- Contributed to the development of the Political Party Assessment conducted in May and June 2015 to establish the post-election status of all the registered political parties following the outcome of the 2015 general elections, the assessment provided findings in the following areas; Structural, Organizational and Party Administration, Membership, Internal process and Transparency, Governance Structure and Policy Development, Governance Structure, Communication, Inclusion of Marginalized, Policy and Platform Development and Finally Finance Development.

- Provides technical support to APC to review its constitution and assure inclusive gender-friendly constitution.

- Conducted political party assessment to ascertain the ideological leanings, membership base, structural, administrative, and operational capacity of Nigeria's political parties.

- As an integrator, I understand the process of linking projects to different sectors to achieve an optimal outcome. For example, before the 2015 general election, I worked with private sector groups in Nigeria to develop business agendas that were adopted by political parties during elections and later used as the state government's development blueprint.

* Supported effective program outreach plans by: Assisted in implementing IRI's Youth Election Observation Strategy. Helped to mobilize youth observers, train and deploy observation missions to the gubernatorial elections in Edo, Ondo, and FCT Area Council Elections respectively.- Assisted in training of youth CSO leaders/undergraduates on election observation; trainees were from leading organizations including the National Youth Council of Nigeria, Nigerian Youth Parliament, and tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Youth with disabilities were specially considered and mainstreamed into the observation mission for the July 14, 2012, Edo gubernatorial election.

- Assisted in mobilizing target campaign managers from 21 political parties ahead of Anambra 2013 Governorship election to participate in a Campaign Managers Training on the Political Parties Code of Conduct ahead of November 2013, Anambra state gubernatorial election to help renew political party campaigns commitment to non-violent elections in a campaign that was increasingly becoming violent.

• Gathered information and entered details into computer tracking spreadsheets, documents and databases. Trained over 100 political party poll agents to effectively monitor the staggered gubernatorial elections in Anambra on November 18, 2013, to be precise. These poll agents contributed to IRI’s observation of the elections in view by communicating several Election Day incidences’ to the Institute’s observation mission.
• Maintained budgets and estimates processes to prepare program implementation.
• Assisted with planning and coordinating day-to-day program activities.

Served as in-kind contribution over 2400 (Hours) which spanned for over one year (non-paid)

I assisted the program director to design and implement center’s programs i.e the annual youth academy program that

Helped to design a platform to bring youth and youth-focused organizations into further engagement in governance issues. This took place while working on a NED grant I designed and managed a youth networking platform.

As a personal secretary/protocol officer to Senator Ken Nnamani, GCON (Former President of the Nigerian Senate), I helped to prepare correspondence and plan logistics for his official/personal engagements

Writes media reports and press releases on behalf of his office.

Assisted in the development and implementation of the two batches of youths in the Youth Academy Program of the Institute, this includes scouting for qualified resource persons and participants, developing and arranging training modules, documenting training sessions, and soliciting for funders to continue the planning and organization of the Academy.