Kondwani Mtalimanja, IT Manager at Save the Children spoke at the CIO Africa Event 2013

1. Kondwani Mtalimanja
“CONNECTING AFRICA IN A 21ST
CENTURY INTERNATIONAL NGO”

2. Agenda
Introduction to the Save the Children International
• Vision
• Mission
• Theory of Change
IT Support Model
IT Strategy and 2012 Deliverables
Challenges
Q&A

3. Save the Children International
• WE ARE the world’s leading independent organisation for children.
• OUR VISION is a world in which every child attains the right to survival,
protection, development and participation.
• OUR MISSION is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children,
and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

4. Our Theory of
Change is…

5. Agenda
Introduction to the Save the Children International
• Vision
• Mission
• Theory of Change
Global IT Support Model
IT Strategy and 2012 Deliverables
Challenges
Q&A

6. Total number of IT staff Region 3 MEE
142
Region 1 S&C Asia
Iraq 1
Armenia o/s Nepal/Bhutan 3
In Countries / Regions 127 Georgia 1 Afghanistan 7
In Global roles 15 Jordan1 2 Central Asia2 5
Albania o/s
Region 5 Kosovo o/s
Pakistan 19
Most of our staff W&C Africa NW Balkans o/s
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
12
2
Yemen 2
are based in Senegal 2
oPt 1 Total staff : 48
Sierra Leone 1
countries… Burkina Faso 1 Lebanon
Egypt 1
o/s
DRC 3 Region 6 Region 2
Nigeria 3 East Africa
Liberia 1 Total staff : 9 SE&E Asia
Ethiopia 7
Cote d’Ivoire 1 Rwanda 1 DPRK -
Niger 1 Laos 1
Region 4 LAC Mali 1
Uganda 2
Cambodia 2
Somalia 3
Nicaragua 2 Guinea 1 Region 7 Kenya 2 Philippines 3
Colombia 1 Total staff : 15 Vietnam 1
Peru 1 Southern Africa Tanzania 1
Myanmar 3
South Sudan 2
Ecuador o/s Indonesia 3
Mozambique 2 Sudan 3
El Salvador 1 China 1
Malawi 1
Haiti 4 Singapore 2
Zambia 1 Total staff : 21
Bolivia 3 Total staff : 16
Zimbabwe 1
Total staff : 13
Total staff : 5

7. – Network Team (2)
Country, Regional and Global IT Teams all work – FMS Team (4)
together to support… – AMS Team (1)
– Intranet (1)
StC – Servers / storage ( 2)
Level 3 Global – Help desk (1)
(UK & US)
Regional IT (6)
Level 2 SCI SCI SCI SCI
Asia (2) MEE (1) Africa (2) LAC (1)
Country 1 Country 3 Country 5 Country 7
Level 1
1 – IT Manager Country IT
2 – IT Assistant (121)
Country 2 Country 4 Country 6 Country 8
3 – IT Techs Sub offices

8. Agenda
Introduction to the Save the Children International
• Vision
• Mission
• Theory of Change
Global IT Support Model
IT Strategy and 2012 Deliverables
Challenges
Q&A

9. Our IT Strategy
is looking at all
IT capabilities,
from
foundational to
strategically
differentiating

10. In 2012 we Delivered…
Transitioned Developed a set of
Delivered Phase 1 of
11,000+ standard global
Agresso system to over
email accounts to IT Procedures
50 countries globally,
including O365 ( being updated)
9 in ESA
Built a new global
Delivered
IT Team
Awards Mgmt
System 1.0
Delivered SCM Project
Built a new template for
Launched intranet To 6 Ethiopia
Country web sites
sites

11. Agenda
Introduction to the Save the Children International
• Vision
• Mission
• Theory of Change
Global IT Support Model
IT Strategy and 2012 Deliverables
Challenges
Q&A

12. However there are Challenges that we face…
• Network Capacity e.g. VSAT and Government restrictions
• IT Skills Capacity e.g. Asia vs. Africa
• Getting IT to be seriously taken by Country Office Directors

13. Thank You Very Much
Q&A