A regional gender specialist with over 10 years’ experience in gender and development in the horn of Africa with in-depth knowledge and substantive experience in policy formulation for sustainable community development and livelihood security, especially in conceptualizing, developing, testing and promoting appropriate support systems, strategies and models for advocacy and capacity building at all levels of institutions and communities, based on their own initiatives.

An intervention designer, who initiated and advanced workable approaches in gender assessments, Gender Audits, Gender mainstreaming, gender equality and self-assessments, SGBV, Gender responsive planning and budgeting, and Gender response in various fields of health, education, economic empowerment, food security and livelihoods.