Gaurav Aryal

• Led WHO Ghana’s multi-year resource mobilisation and institutional fundraising strategy; raised €15M+ in funding. • Onboarded and oriented 12+ non-state partners including private sector and academia. • Led 40+ donor and partner engagements annually; aligned to strategic partnerships principles. • Produced donor briefs, visibility products, and strategic communications content. • Submitted 100% of donor reports on time meeting the donor and WHO standards

• Secured €30M+ resources for development projects through partnerships and competitive process. • Coordinated cross-departmental proposal development; exceeded €6M annual targets. • Strengthened decision making process, and partner intelligence systems. • Facilitated strategic alignment with global Plan offices and local partners and capacity building of team members. • Quality assurance of reports, communications and marketing products for enhanced visibility and branding.

• Raised €2M+ annually from institutional and private donors. • Expanded relationships and managed partnerships with civil society, NGOs, and international development organizations. • Advanced results-based proposals and knowledge management practices and capacity building of staff. • Developed and submitted over 100 project proposals, concept notes and EOI documents. • Strengthened partner database, strategic intelligence and quality control of knowledge and visibility products.

• Secured 3 new development grants through proposal development and relationships building. • Led 3 action research projects supporting the advocacy initiatives on rights-based approach and community development. • Managed social media and the official webpage of the organization to regularly develop and update contents. • Develop, quality control and published success stories for 10'th anniversary publication, annual reports and quarterly newsletters.

• Lead the newsroom and content planning with editorial, creative teams, and news sources. • Conduct interviews, write and edit news, features, articles, corporate and personality profiles on finance, economic development, business, and corporate issues. • Write, edit, translate, proofread, news, articles, features, interviews and profiles. • Coordinate with editorial, creative, and marketing departments for the timely completion of 26 issues of the magazine.

• Conducted market research on financial service providers on the social protection. • Collected and analyzed qualitative and quantitative data in the field using market research tools such as focused group discussions, key informant interviews, and surveys. • Write, edit and summarize a report costs, savings, and benefits of alternative methods of G2P payments. • Engaged with community, financial service providers and government stakeholders.

• Planned, collected information and developed news, features, articles, interviews, corporate profiles on business, corporate, trade and financial market. • Worked as a journalist for two publications - a monthly magazine and a weekly tabloid. • Coordinated internally with editorial, design, marketing, and circulation teams for timely publication, quality control, and collaboration. • Conducted interviews, wrote, translated, edited, and proofread audience facing content in English.

• Conducted market research on the demand-side needs of financial products and services. • Collected quantitative and qualitative data and information and perform data analysis. • Draft, edit, proofread, summarise research findings, and process report, synthesis report and final report.

• Lead, coordinate, plan, and manage content 9 issues of Food and Wine magazine. • Take interviews, write and edit news stories, features, and articles related to food and beverages, hospitality, travel, tourism, and lifestyle issues. • Content creation, drafting, copy editing, translation, and proofreading content in English. • Coordinated with reporters, photographers, the marketing and administration team.

Specialized in Economics, Project Management, Communications and development theories and practices.