SALISU SALISU
Kano
Summary
ICT4D and digital-safeguarding specialist with 8+ years supporting NGOs, human rights organizations and grassroots networks across Northern Nigeria. Combines hands-on experience deploying and supervising digital case-management systems for GBV and child-protection programming (UNICEF-supported Primero platform) with community-facing digital literacy, field research and stakeholder engagement work. Positioned to lead the content stream of CITAD's Digital Safety Toolkit assignment - translating technology-facilitated GBV (TFGBV) risks into plain-language, trauma-informed guidance for Women Human Rights Defenders, and ensuring that guidance connects coherently into the Reportrix reporting workflow.
Overview
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Certification
2027
2027
years of professional experience
Work History
Founder & Lead Consultant
Sateplus Limited
09.2022 - Current
- Lead ICT consulting and digital-transformation engagements for NGOs, development organisations and businesses across Northern Nigeria.
- Facilitated ICT implementation projects, engaging stakeholders and clients from scoping through delivery to enhance organisational efficiency.
- Developed technical proposals and implementation plans, producing project documentation and supervising ICT deployment teams.
- Delivered digital-literacy and ICT capacity-building programmes for low-connectivity, low-literacy community audiences, fostering skills and knowledge.
Supervisor, UNICEF-Supported Case Management Programme
Mufarka Youth Development Initiative
- Supervised field implementation of UNICEF-supported case-management programme on Primero Case Management Information System, ensuring effective case documentation, referral coordination, and service tracking.
- Supported safeguarding and child-protection interventions; monitored programme quality and compliance and reviewed case documentation and reporting.
- Coordinated community-level implementation and referral pathways among protection, legal, and psychosocial actors, enhancing collaboration and efficiency in service delivery.
Digital Access Project Consultant
Blue Sapphire Hub
Kano
- Delivered technical and programmatic support for digital-inclusion project, facilitating stakeholder consultations, engaging community, promoting technology adoption, and ensuring comprehensive project documentation.
Programme Associate
Startup Kano
- Coordinated implementation of innovation, entrepreneurship and technology ecosystem programmes, enhancing stakeholder engagement through training workshops and strengthening programme monitoring and reporting.
Research Assistant
Bayero University Kano / Human Rights Watch / University of East Anglia
Kano
- Conducted digital data collection, survey administration and field supervision for human-rights and academic research assignments, including community engagement and data-quality assurance across Northern Nigeria.
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
- Tracked indicators, conducted field data collection and progress monitoring, and produced performance and progress reports.
Education
B.Sc. - Computing
Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria08-2026
Diploma - Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW)
Arzet Varsity College
KanoSkills
- Primero case-management platform
- Case referral management
- GBV awareness
- Data protection awareness
- KoboToolbox
- ODK
- GPS data collection
- Technical documentation
- Mobile application development
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
- Canva
- WordPress
Certification
- Google IT Support Professional Certificate
- YALI Regional Leadership Centre West Africa - Entrepreneurship
- USIP - Mediating Violent Conflict
- Google Africa Scholarship - Android Basics
- Data Analysis Training - CITAD
- Professional Certificate, Research Methodology - Maryam Abacha American University, Kano (MAAUN)
- Professional Diploma in Computer Studies
Custom
- Maryam Lawan, Founder, Blue Sapphire Hub, +234 816 516 5754
- Nura Ahmad Muhammad, Esq., Executive Director, Mufarka Youth Development Initiative, +234 803 423 6233
Timeline
Founder & Lead Consultant
Sateplus Limited
09.2022 - Current
Supervisor, UNICEF-Supported Case Management Programme
Mufarka Youth Development Initiative
Digital Access Project Consultant
Blue Sapphire Hub
Programme Associate
Startup Kano
Research Assistant
Bayero University Kano / Human Rights Watch / University of East Anglia
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
B.Sc. - Computing
Ahmadu Bello University
Diploma - Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW)
Arzet Varsity College