Lia Mayka Mumbo

Curious Human | Creative Strategist | Designer of Programs, Learning Processes & Evaluations | Facilitator

Nairobi County, Kenya

About

Creative problem-solver

Experience

  • Food4Education (1 yr 9 mos)
    • Head of Impact
      Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Chief of Staff
      Nov 2024 - Mar 2025 · 5 mos

  • Founder & Principal Consultant at LMM Consulting
    Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

    Offers consulting services in strategic learning, program design, facilitation, qualitative research & evaluation, proposal and report design, and more for multilateral donors, NGOs, IGOs, private foundations, and grassroots organizations.

  • Learning Experience Designer at The Convive Collective
    Jul 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Designed learning experiences tailored to the needs of Convive clients crafting utilization-centred evaluations, research assessments, learning processes and toolkits. Planned and delivers highly visual and participatory sense-making workshops that help teams put learning into immediate action.

  • World Food Programme (2 yrs 10 mos)
    • Learning & Program Design Manager, WFP Innovation Hub for Eastern Africa
      Sep 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

      - Led evidence and learning, program design, proposal development, donor relations & reporting for the hub. - Managed 2 team members and subsequently the entire team for a 6-month period in the absence of the hub's Head - Managed relationships with all implementing partners and donors: USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Milken Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Impact Hub Kigali, Outbox Uganda and UNDP. - Led WFP's first regional innovation workshop employing participatory methods and visual recording to generate shared knowledge on enablers and barriers to innovation across 10 country offices. - Designed the hub's first learning and evidence-generation plan in collaboration with WFP's regional head of evaluation and expert consultants. - Helped launch the first UN Innovation Community of Practice at the UN Africa Headquarters in Nairobi, in collaboration with WFP Kenya and the UN Innovation Network.

    • Innovation Advisor
      Jan 2021 - Sep 2021 · 9 mos

      - Created the hub's first Theory of Change and M&E framework in collaboration with expert consultants - Supported fundraising, program design, and delivery for the newly launched WFP East Africa Innovation Hub. - Successfully won grants for proposed programming, resulting in the implementation of first-of-their-kind programs co-created with local organizations for youth innovators and local food systems business leaders across East & Central Africa

    • Communications/Logistics Innovation Consultant
      Dec 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Building partnerships for and enhancing the visibility of WFP's logistics innovations in East and Central Africa and their role in getting faster, better services to more beneficiaries, reducing food waste, and minimizing WFP's carbon footprint.

  • Due Diligence Consultant at MacArthur Foundation
    Oct 2019 - Nov 2019 · 2 mos

    Offered qualitative due diligence support for the Macarthur Foundation Catalytic Capital Consortium's USD $10M investment in One Acre Fund