It gives us great pleasure to announce the appointment of the first ANSA-Africa Technical Advisory Group following a nomination process over the past few months.
The Technical Advisory Group which will serve for 3 years from 1 April 2007 will be made up as follows:
| Name |
Gender |
Country |
Expertise |
| Sylvain Boko (Born in Benin) |
Male |
USA |
Fiscal decentralisation, local community finance, capacity building and training, planning, budgeting and management, participatory budgeting, health, education, poverty reduction, local governance |
| Paramasiva (Dana) Chengan |
Male |
Mauritius |
Training, Communication, Policy, Advocacy and good governance |
| Srgio Dista |
Male |
Mozambique |
International and development economics, environmental issues, financial flows in the heath sector, poverty alanysis. |
| Flolics Kasumbalesa |
Male |
Zambia |
Poverty alleviation, advocacy in policy change, government tracking, ICT. |
| George W Matovu |
Male |
Uganda |
Promoting participatory budgeting, participatory monitoring |
| Marguerite Monnet |
Female |
Senegal |
Accountability and service delivery, local development, decentralization and community driven development, gender approach, score card for accountability. |
| Moses Waithanji Ngware |
Male |
Kenya |
Social budgeting and participatory approaches, decentralisation of social funds, tracking social funds, governance and service delivery, mainstreaming social indicators, financing education, baseline surveys, evaluation and impact studies |
| Zerubabel Ogom Ojoo |
Male |
Uganda |
Public expenditure tracking, budget analysis and review, consultative report cards, health, education, water, sanitation |
| Claire Regina Quenum |
Female |
Togo |
NGO management, gender issues, rural community organisation, networking, advocacy, civil society accountability issues |
| Ahmed Ragaa Abdel-Hamid Ragab |
Male |
Egypt |
Medical doctor with a PhD in Social Science. Qualitative research methodology, applied and policy centred research, provider-client relationship, quality of care, community mobilisation, reproductive health, partnership for satiability |
| Ozias Tungwarara |
Male |
Zimbabwe |
Democratic building initiatives, democracy assessment, monitoring and advocacy at national, sub regional, regional and global levels, extensive knowledge of governance and democracy, human rights issues on African continent. Has solid networks. |
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