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Joanna Kerr is an advisor and strategist who works with numerous organizations towards advancing women’s rights internationally. She is the former Executive Director of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) from 2000 to the end of 2006. Some of her publications include Financial Sustainability for Women’s Movements Worldwide (AWID forthcoming), The Future of Women’s Rights: Global Visions and Strategies (2004, ZED press) edited with Ellen Sprenger and Alison Symington. |
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Srilatha Batliwala is a Civil Society Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University. Over the past 30 years, she has combined grassroots activism with policy advocacy, research, and teaching. Her experience spans organizing poor women in India to publishing. |
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Aruna Rao (co-founder and Senior Associate) is a gender and institutional change expert with over 25 years' experience of addressing gender issues in a variety of development organizations, primarily in Asia. In addition to serving on the boards of CIVICUS and AWID, she has consulted widely with UN organizations, academic institutions, and development NGOs on gender and development and organizational change issues and written extensively on gender and institutional change. |
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Mr. Ezra Mbogori was the founding director of MWENGO - a capacity building support organization for NGOs in Southern and Eastern Africa, based in Harare, Zimbabwe - and was its Executive Director until mid 2007, when he took up a Mason Fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government; Harvard University. Prior to founding and leading MWENGO, Mr. Mbogori headed the Undugu Society, an urban poverty focused organization in Nairobi, Kenya. He played a role in the creation of the Kenya NGO Council and became the first Chair of this organization (1992-1993). Mr. Mbogori has worked in the civil society sector for over 20 years, and has been Board member of, among others, CIVICUS and the Charities Aid Foundation in South Africa. |
