Country Team Members


	Floice Sarah Adoyo works on the East Africa team at Gender at work. She also works with the consultancy firm, ETC-East Africa as a gender consultant for Rural Development programs. For the last 15 years, Floice has done gender work (training, project formulations, evaluations, etc.) in Eastern Africa in particular, as well as other countries in Africa, such as Somalia, Sudan, Nigeria and South Africa. Floice lives in Nairobi where the ETC-EA offices are located but her rural home is in the Western part of Kenya where she was born and brought up. At 500 kms from Nairobi, combined with terrible roads, the journey takes a whole day.
	Nina Benjamin is a South Africa Gender at Work team member and the Gender Programme coordinator for a labour support organization called the Labour Research Service (LRS) based in Cape Town.
	Fazila Gany works on the South Africa Team at Gender at Work and has worked for ten years at a local NGO in PMB where she was a project coordinator and was a part of the first round of the Gender at Work process as a participant. Her background includes working with gender issues and gender violence. She is also a trained mediator and facilitator for alternate-to-violence programs. Fazila holds a certificate in participatory development, and a BCOM Honours in conflict resolution and peace studies. She is currently completing her Master’s in (Adult) Education.
	Malini Ghose is one of the founder-members of Nirantar, a resource centre for gender and education in New Delhi, India. She has worked in the fields of gender, education and institutional development for nearly 20 years in various capacities – as a grassroots practitioner, trainer, material and curriculum developer, researcher and activist. She has provided technical assistance to government and NGO interventions, been involved with policy development, written, presented and advocated on issues related to gender and other economic, social and cultural rights in both national and international forums. She has worked on institutional development issues with different civil society organizations. Malini has an M.A. in Political Science from the New School for Social Research, New York. She has a B.A in Economics from Presidency College, Calcutta University, India.
	Ray Gordezky works on the East Africa Team at Gender at Work, and has spent twenty-five years designing and facilitating change processes that have helped diverse groups and organizations collaborate on complex challenges and open up new futures. Working in a number of countries with business, government and community-based organizations, he has helped numerous NGOs, for-profit and government organizations turn the potentials they dreamed of into the realities they live in. Ray specializes in development of organization capacity and leadership for large-scale change. He is a faculty member of the Canadian Organization Development Institute and the Canada School of Public Service. Recent publications include chapters in The Change Handbook, 2nd Edition, and The Handbook on Large Group Methods, both published in 2007.
	Gertrude Kopiypo works on the East Africa Team at Gender at Work and has been involved in gender work since 1995, tracing input and the accruing benefits, cutting across policy and community levels, especially in operational research and capacity building, using participatory approaches. This work includes sector development and considering gender dynamics and trends sensitive to community priorities in line with cultural practices and gender relations. Important areas of consideration have included, among others, HIV and AIDS, agriculture with an emphasis on food and nutrition security, community health, water and sanitation, and civic rights. Gertrude has paid special attention to women and girl-child rights and some special attention to orphans and vulnerable children. Although she has worked in most areas of Kenya, she has concentrated more in the Lake Victoria Basin area, applying different methodologies. “I love people especially at community level because they are so free of hang-ups. I feel that God has privileged me to be alive today when so many exciting things are happening globally. Some of the most interesting discussions are around gender relations.”
	Thomas Pallithanam is an India Team Member at Gender @ Work. A Catholic Priest belonging to the Don Bosco Salesian Society, a Human Right activist and a lawyer. For the past 22 years Thomas has been the Director of People’s Action For Rural Awakening, a rights based organization working mainly with Dalits, women and children in Andhra Pradesh.
	Gagan Sethi is a Development educator, practicing Organizational Development expert, and a Gender trainer. As founder of Janvikas, he has helped set up several strategic organizations in the country, for example Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan, Sahjeevan, Drishti, Centre for Social justice, HID forum to name a few. He was appointed as member of monitoring group by NHRC to monitor human right violations. His professional expertise lies in Human and institutional development training and designing. Organizational Development interventions: He has helped many feminist organizations with their internal change processes. He now focuses on governance and accountabilty of non profit. He also continues his association as mentor to Centre for Social Justice and as a promoter and resource person for Centre for Governance Studies. He is in the Board of many other organizations in India, like YUVA, NIRANTAR. Drishti, ECONET, WASSAN, Navsarjan et al.