Africa

Full list of African collaborators: Our current network includes collaborators in 10 countries, with expertise spanning across almost the entire African continent (Horn, Great Lakes, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan, and more). Below a snapshot of our collaborators.

Uganda based and sub-Saharan expert. Uganda national that has developed his entire professional career in the field of ICTs and human rights conducting, monitoring and evaluating ICT capacity building for activists and grass root organizations.

Further, he also has first-hand working experience from 2012 as a small farmer with 1.5 acres of onions and an average production of 50 tonnes per acre in the outskirts of Kampala and rearing pig with average 60 pigs per site and 9 breeding sows.

Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa expert. Kenyan national and Harvard Law School juris doctor that has developed her professional career in the development cooperation and human rights world with thorough experience on M&E as a project manager and experience in intergovernmental organizations as a project assistant for the UNDP and the International Court of Justice.

Further, she has been involved in several ICT training related projects addressed to activists (using video for social change for Witness Nairobi, carrying out a research during election times for Human Rights Watch) and she is as well a columnist for several international media (Al Jazeera English, New African Magazine, etc.)

Ethiopia, agriculture expert consultant. Ethiopian with a mix of coordination and field work expertise he has developed through his academic life (he is Bacheloir in Sustainable Development) and professional life (managing and implementing development projects for the Diocesis of Adigrat and also other international NGOS)

for various integrated rural development programs including cooperatives set up and management, agricultural schemes, cattle management, etc.

Media and global freedom of expression expert. Broad macro knowledge on development cooperation projects focused on media strengthening with over 20 years’ experience in the sector. She began her career as a radio, television and online journalist, mainly for the BBC. She has more than 20 years’ experience managing media projects in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, promoting democracy and human rights and has worked with a wide range of international organisations, including Internews (as project director for the last 5 years), Article 19 (senior director of program design, Learning and Support), the Panos Institute, Amnesty International, the Media Institute and Oxfam.

Gender and media expert. Macro knowledge on gender based development cooperation projects focused on women in the media. She acts as the executive director of International Women’s Media Foundation where she leads the organization in the pursuit of the mission to empower women journalists with the training, opportunities, and support to become leaders in the news industry. Recently, with the support of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Lees Muñoz launched a $5 million reporting and security training initiative for women journalists in the Great Lakes region of Africa as well as the establishment of the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award and IWMF’s Emergency Fund for Women Journalists.

Media & field coordination expert. First hand field work knowledge and experience on media capacity building acquired during his last 10 year professional experience acquired both as a journalist and a media strategy consultant. He is M.A in Media & Communication that began his career as a journalist, columnist and interviewer that has been working since 2010 as a media consultant for the African Union, Albany associates and Internews all around Africa and the Middle East.

Agricultural-coffee sector expert. Macro knowledge on the supply chain of the coffee sector in East Africa and his deep insight of the small producers of the Great Lakes region. He has been working for more than 14 years in the corporate sector with the last 10 years focused in the coffee sector as a regional manager for EAST Africa for Falcon coffees limited as well as a founder of Wesrtrock East Africa both ventures with small coffee farmers of the Great Lakes region and the Horn of Africa incorporating a strong social approach. Matt will enrich our methodology and findings with his insight of the supply chains and supplier relationships in the East Africa market.