Akaoma is a world growth skilled, non-profit coach and public speaker accelerating influence and management in public well being (Illness centered, HSS, Reforms and UHC), humanitarian, training, governance and media sectors with 20 years of managing massive and sophisticated programmes, and consulting alternatives.

Akaoma leads Affinity Consulting because the Principal Advisor offering leading edge consultancy and advisory providers inside growth, humanitarian and administration areas. They ship capability constructing, analysis, high quality assurance, coverage evaluation, documentation, monitoring and analysis, technical help and curriculum growth.

As Principal Advisor at Affinity Consulting, she offers excessive degree and skilled technical assist to various purchasers, together with worldwide growth companies, revenue, non-profit and civil society purchasers and company purchasers by means of offering growth advisory in social and public well being, together with growth of insurance policies, tips and coverage evaluation and implementation.

Moreover, she offers organisational administration and effectiveness advisory, supporting purchasers of their wants associated analysis and analysis, coaching, mentoring and training, speaking analysis outcomes, offering growth programme assist, supporting documentation and offering management for all consulting engagements.

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Onyemelukwe works by means of proper proposals to attach NGOs, INGOs and donors round Africa to funding, strengthen capability to ship progressive outcomes and construct establishments that drive sustainability. She has strengthened over 1000 NGOs and CBOs, skilled over 1500 NGO leaders, raised and managed over $1billion in grants and suggested governments of low and middle-income international locations, personal sector, INGOs and NGOs. She designs, implements and evaluates programmes.

She is the founding father of HEARD Africa, a mind belief, service supply and advocacy NGO on well being, training and agriculture with a deal with girls, women and younger individuals. They do important work on gender, women’ training, MNCH, diet and agriculture.

A chief growth skilled, Onyemelukwe brings appreciable experience in sectoral reforms, strategic programme administration and management, institutional capability strengthening, gender and social inclusion, GBV, monitoring and analysis and analysis (qualitative, consequence, quantitative) coverage evaluation, advocacy, and influencing, strategic planning, facilitation, new enterprise growth (proposals course of), high quality assurance, use of participatory approaches and so forth.

She consults for main organisations together with FHI360, FHII Options, GAVI, NECT, Plan Worldwide, OPM, WHO; PACT West Africa, UNICEF, Save the youngsters Worldwide, IRC, DAI- PERL, TA Join, Tony Elumelu Basis; ActionAid Worldwide Nigeria. In depth expertise with USAID, FCDO, GAC, EU, World fund, ECHO, UN, and BMGF.

She has intensive nationwide expertise, regional expertise supporting African international locations on tasks, constructing capability of well being staff and NGO leaders in Malawi, supporting HIV coverage, capability constructing for regional CSOs in Ethiopia and Uganda.


Akaoma holds Masters’ levels from College of Lagos Nigeria and College of Liverpool. She is an alumnus of Harvard College Faculty of Public Well being Boston and a member of the John Maxwell Management workforce.