Our Team
The Team behind Nexacare’s work.
Nexacare brings together organisational leadership, programme management, community engagement, monitoring, evaluation and learning, geospatial analysis, data engineering and digital systems expertise to deliver responsive, evidence-informed programmes.
Organisational Leadership & Implementation Expertise
Leadership, Technical & Programme Team
Core Leadership
Managing Partner / CEO
Dr. Mannir Ahmad
Provides strategic leadership, organisational direction and oversight of Nexacare’s governance, partnerships and public health programmes.
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Dr. Mannir Ahmad provides strategic leadership and overall direction for Nexacare Centre for Digital Health and Community Wellbeing. He oversees organisational governance, programme development, partnerships and the delivery of public health and community-focused interventions.
He guides the organisation’s engagement with government institutions, development partners, implementing organisations and communities, ensuring that programmes are aligned with health-sector priorities and responsive to local needs.
His leadership supports institutional accountability, programme quality and the development of practical solutions that strengthen primary healthcare, community wellbeing and health-system performance.
Core Leadership
Director, MEAL & Data Systems
Auwal Muhammad Sunusi
Leads Nexacare’s monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, analytics and data-systems portfolio.
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Auwal leads Nexacare’s monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning and data-systems portfolio. He supports the design of results frameworks, indicators, digital data-collection tools, monitoring systems, dashboards and analytical reports for public health and community programmes.
His work focuses on improving data quality, strengthening programme accountability and translating routine and project data into evidence for decision-making.
He also supports learning, performance reviews, supportive supervision and the development of reporting systems that enable programme teams and partners to track progress, identify implementation gaps and adapt interventions based on credible evidence.
Technical Team
ICT Lead & Systems Architect
Umar Sunusi Maitalata
Leads the design, development and maintenance of Nexacare’s digital platforms and technology-enabled solutions.
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Umar leads the design, development, deployment and maintenance of Nexacare’s digital platforms and technology-enabled solutions.
His work covers software development, system administration, databases, web applications, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, networking and technical support.
He contributes to the development of reliable digital systems for training, programme management, data collection and public health service delivery. Umar also supports system integration, user access, troubleshooting and the protection of digital assets.
Technical Team
GIS Specialist & Data Engineer
Bashir Abubakar Abdullahi
Supports geospatial analysis, location intelligence, data engineering and programme information systems.
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Bashir supports Nexacare’s geospatial analysis, data engineering and programme information-management functions.
He contributes to digital mapping, location intelligence, spatial data processing and the development of geospatial products that support programme planning, service-delivery analysis and field implementation.
He also supports the development and management of data pipelines, databases and reporting systems using routine health, programme, survey and administrative datasets. His work includes data integration, validation, transformation, analysis and visualisation.
Program Manager & Community Engagement Specialist
Usman Lawan Muhammad
Coordinates programme delivery and strengthens community participation, stakeholder engagement and local ownership.
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Usman supports the planning, coordination and delivery of Nexacare’s public health and community-based programmes.
He contributes to activity planning, implementation tracking, field coordination, stakeholder engagement and the documentation of programme progress and results.
As Community Engagement Specialist, he supports the design and delivery of approaches that strengthen community participation, caregiver engagement, local ownership and feedback between programmes and the populations they serve.
He works with community leaders, service providers, programme teams and other stakeholders to ensure that interventions are culturally appropriate, inclusive and responsive to community priorities. His role connects programme management with practical community engagement to improve implementation quality, participation and sustainability.
Assignment-Based Support
Technical Associate & Volunteer Contributor
Volunteer Consultant, Data Analytics
Saudat Danhassan
Provides voluntary, assignment-based support for programme data cleaning, analysis, visualisation and interpretation.
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Saudat provides voluntary and assignment-based support to Nexacare’s data-analytics activities. She contributes to data cleaning, validation, analysis, visualisation and the interpretation of programme results.
Her support may also include the preparation of summary tables, charts and analytical insights for programme monitoring and reporting, including sex-disaggregated analysis where relevant.
She participates as a non-staff technical contributor and may be engaged for specific assignments depending on programme requirements and availability.
Her contribution strengthens the organisation’s analytical capacity while supporting meaningful female participation in Nexacare’s technical work.
Non-staff, assignment-based technical contributor, engaged according to programme needs and availability.
Technical associates and volunteer contributors support specific assignments and are presented separately from Nexacare’s organisational leadership, technical and programme implementation team.