Name: Abdilah Manafi Lugome

Country: TANZANIA

Name of Organization: Youth Empowerment and Mindset Change Organization (YEMCO)

Role/Position: Program Manager/ Aggt HR

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors in Business Administration

Work Interests:

Human rights, social media, Policy analysis, activism etc.

Section 3: Summary Bio:

Abdilah Manafi Lugome a young Tanzanian youth worker, 28 years of age, communication and youth

development specialist works at Youth Empowerment and Mind Set Change Organization (YEMCO) . I

have attended several trainings on media management and communication skills as well as Project

Planning and Management & Resource Mobilization under Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Organization

Review and Smart Advocacy on SRH under Advance Family Planning, Tax Power Training, Gender and

Governance, Social Accountability at MS TCDC in Arusha under Action Aid Tanzania International

Hobbies:

Travelling, Volleyball, Networking

Ahmed Moh’d Omar, Tanzania

Biography:

Ahmed Moh’d Omar has two months’ experience in the field of networking, programming and

maintenance from august to September at Ministry of infrastructure and communication

Zanzibar. He currently serves as the part-time staff of Zanzbit Company that works with other

company on issues of providing network and maintenances. He also is Chairman of East Africa

youth club at State University of Zanzibar and Coordinator of United Nation Chapter at State

University of Zanzibar.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors in Information Technology Application and Management.

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: The State University

of Zanzibar

Role/Position: Student

Work Interests: Cyber security, information systems, network administrator, database

administrator, computer maintenances and programming

Hobbies: Football, basketball, swimming, reading and watching movies.

Alice S. Thomas, Tanzania

Biography:

Alice S. Thomas is over 3 years experience in field of legal carrier in private and Public

Organizations. Alice S. Thomas is now working as State Attorney in the Office of Attorney

General, which deals with representing and advice the Government in all legal matter in

Tanzania.

Main qualification:

Post graduate diploma in legal practice, Bachelor degree in laws, LL.B

Organization: Attorney General’s Chambers

Position: State Attorney

Working interest: Legal practice and administration

Hobbies: Reading, music, movies and sports.

Anande Andrew Mbise, Tanzania

Biography:

I am a young and eager to learn, been working with developments and

financial partners for a year and half. Currently am working as a

consultant engine is growing very fast in the Business world.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors in Procurement and Supply

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: Business Consultants

Role/Position: Development Personnel

Work Interests: Policy analysis, Developmental write-ups and Activism etc.

Hobbies: Movies, Reading, Travel.

Ayanna Albert, Tanzania

Biography:

Ayanna Albert has one-year experience in leadership working with Institute of accountancy

Student Organisation from November 2016 to early December 2017. I also have two years’

experience doing community work with NGO named ‘Mimi Na Wewe Tuongee’.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors in Economics and Finance, Diploma in Business management, Certificate in Sales

and Marketing management

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: INSTITUTE OF

ACCOUNTACY ARUSHA

Role/Position: MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS FROM THE INSTITUTE OF

ACCOUNTACY STUDENTS ORGANISATION(IAASO)

Work Interests: Leadership, sexual reproductive health, food security

Hobbies: Inspiring, exchanging ideas and having fun with kids, Swimming, engaging in

exposure chats groups, debating with fellow youth and reading.

Catherine Kunambi, Tanzania

Biography:

Catherine Joseph is a social entrepreneur and a student at Institute of accountancy Arusha (IAA

) in the final stages of finalizing her BA Business Management. In the past, she has worked as a

sales officer for Meru Community Bank, MS Training Center for Development Cooperation. In a

ddition, also as a fashion designer and model with various independent companies in Tanzania.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors of Business Management, Diploma Business Administration

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: MS TCDC

Role/Position: Sales Officer

Work Interests: Human rights, social media engagement, Activism, Business and entrepreneur

ship

Hobbies: Modelling, Netball, swimming,

Catherine Nchimbi, Tanzania

Biography:

Catherine has over 3 years of experience working with different people including youth.

Beginning as a volunteer she has worked on youth employability skills, Self-employment,

Women’s rights, youth accountability in local governance and is currently working at

Swisscontact while being self-employed part time. The organization has a number of projects

but she is working on a project entitled Taka ni Mali (waste is wealth).

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors in Health Systems Management

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: Swisscontact

Role/Position: Field Facilitator

Work Interests: Human rights, promoting women equality, promoting youth self employment

Hobbies: Swimming, reading, writing, travelling etc.

Christina Habakuki, Tanzania

Biography:

I am a recent graduate from Mbeya University of science and technology, Tanzania. Where I

took a four year course of Architectural technology as my major. A course which will allow me to

work hand in hand with architects in the future and play a role as one of the leaders in a design

team.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors in Architectural technology.

Role/Position: University Graduate

Work Interests: Architectural technologist, architectural drafting, estate officer.

Hobbies: Poetry, reading, fashion, sketching.

Eliewaha Mdee, Tanzania

Biography:

I have four years’ experience in the field of Teaching Hotel course based on Food Production

and Food & Beverage service and sales. I currently work with YMCA as Hotel school Instructor

and an assistant Youth Coordinator.

Main Qualifications:

Certificate in Teaching

Name of Organization: Tanzania YMCA

Role/Position: Hotel School Instructor.

Work Interests: Teaching and Advising

Hobbies: Football, Volleyball, Listening Music and reading books.

Ephata Nanyaro, Tanzania

Biography:

I am a human rights activist with an experience of over 10 years in the field of child protection in

Tanzania.I serve as lobbist in putting in place policies and laws for protecting children and the

right to land.

Main Qualification:

Bachelor in Tourism Hospitality

Name of Organization: Arusha city Council

Role: Ward Councilor

Work Interests: Human rights activist, Child Protection activist, Social media and land rights

activist

Hobbies: Football, Reading, Swimming, Storytelling, Sharing knowledge.

Felister Naftali Ayo, Tanzania

Biography:

Felister Naftali Ayo holds a diploma in Accountant, and I have 1 year of experience in the field of

accountant work at Leki as a school bursar. Current I take Bachelor of Accountant at Institute of

Accountant Arusha (IAA).

Main Qualifications:

Diploma in Accountant.

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: Institute of

accountancy Arusha (IAA)

Role/Position: Students.

Work Interests: Accountant.

Hobbies: Reading (books, news paper and social networks), music, and watching movies.

Geofrey Julius, Tanzania

Biography:

A Tanzanian young entrepreneur. Geofrey Julius is the president of Africa’s Youth First

Network. He supervises strategy and its implementation.

Geofrey Julius started his first business venture at a young age of 29 years where he started

feeling like he could wish to help youth to transform their own ideas. Since he has attained

different youth platform he gained a lot of experiences on how youth can change their nations.

His understanding of risk drives him to continue advancing in youth innovations, ’One of the

most leading problem to African Youths is unemployment that has been due to the insufficient

skills available for self-employment to youths. An innovative and motivated mind has to be

created to youths so as to make technological advancement’’.

Main Qualifications:

Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: Africa’s Youth First

Network - A.Y.F.N

Role/Position: CEO & Chairperson.

Work Interests: Youth in Innovations, Climate Change and its solutions, Agriculture and food

security, Training, and Youth engagements.

Hobbies: Leading Books, watching news & movies, Football etc.

Geofrey Onesmo Metili, Tanzania

Biography:

Geofrey Onesmo Metili has over 3 years experience in teaching economics in universities in

India and Russia, moved back to Arusha for studies and working part time with the trade policy

center in Africa. He is currently, for the past two year involved in distribution of construction

solutions in Arusha through a company called Nabaki Afrika ltd. He advocated for the “trade not

aid” agenda as a support mechanism to develop LDC’s.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors of Science in Economics - Economic policy and planning, Masters of Science in

International trade policy and trade law.

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: Trade Policy Training

Center in Africa

Role/Position: Student/ Coordinator

Work Interests: Product distribution, trade in services, information systems, Policy analysis.

Hobbies: Swimming, chess, basketball etc.

Godrich Izack, Tanzania

Biography:

Godrich is the motivational speaker, social consultant, trainer and facilitator, experiencing working with the youth from all walks of life as the founder of Freemind and as the project & event manager at Okoa Mtaa based in Arusha. I believe in knowledge sharing, motivation and searching for wisdom as the means of transform individuals living rightness life and helping the society reaching their full potential through right knowledge and purposeful actions. Main Qualifications:

Bachelors of Art in Statistics

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: Freemind Company

Limited

Role/Position: Director

Work Interests: Social consultation, Facilitation, Trainer, Counselling, Mentoring, Motivational

speaker, Activism.

Hobbies: Reading, Events, Public speaking, Workout, Bicycle, Music, movie, Comedy

Goodluck R. Mathew, Tanzania

Biography:

Goodluck R. Mathew hold a bachelor degree in the field of education and I have average of 3

years’ in the field of education specialized in science subjects teaching activities, work with

Faraja-Siha Seminary High School as a volunteering teacher.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors of Education in Science.

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: Faraja-Siha Seminary

High School

Role/Position: Teacher.

Work Interests: Teaching activities and Human rights.

Hobbies: Football, riding bicycle and reading from different sources of information.

Humphrey Nganyanyuka, Tanzania

Biography:

Humphrey Nganyanyuka has over 3 years’ experience in the field of education, leadership,

youths and vulnerable children. He currently serves as the National peer educator of Restless

development Tanzania an NGO; a youthful, dynamic and innovative national agency which

carries the banner for youth led development in Tanzania and globally, placing young people at

the forefront of change, empowering them to take leadership roles addressing the most urgent

issues facing their communities.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelor of Arts with Education

Name of Organization; Non-Government Organisation / Restless Development Tanzania

Role/Position: National peer educator

Work Interests: Teaching and learning, facilitations, field works and community outreach,

events planning, farming & fishing etc.

Hobbies: Networking, volleyball, playing piano and guitar, gospel music etc.

Innocent Willie Mrema, Tanzania

Biography:

Innocent Willie Mrema, the winner of the LabCitoyen 2017 competition, is a Swahili, English and

French speaking lawyer and champion of human rights. Apart from being a freelance translator,

he is a legal officer volunteer at the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) – Arusha Legal Aid

Clinic, the Clinic that offers legal aid to the indigenous population, that being in addition to legal

education offered to the community in a number of ways such as through the Centre’s written

publications on legal education.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelor in Laws, 2016, Translation Theory and Practice, 2016, Certificate of Participation:

Human Rights in Urban Areas, 2017 – The Seminar was held in Paris, France.

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: Legal and Human

Rights Centre

Role/Position: Legal Officer Volunteer

Work Interests: Advocacy, cultural integration, diplomacy, journalism, social work, translation

and interpretation

Hobbies: Reading, swimming, tennis, running and physical exercises

Japheth Majula Kurwa, Tanzania

Biography:

I have five years working with youth, in Leadership, governance and community development

activities. Currently I am working with Arusha Regional Commissioners office as Youth

Development Officer. I am coordinating youth activities towards development, networking

various stakeholders especially youth development stakeholders to save youth and initiate

programs, events, and projects that address the youth challenges.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree in Community Development

Name of Organization or Department: Arusha Regional Commissioners Office

Role/Position: Youth Development Officer

Work Interests: Leadership, governance and community development activities

Hobbies: Physical Exercises, football, Music, entrepreneurship, Reading, community works,

Partnership and Networking

Johansein L. Rutaihwa, Tanzania

Biography:

Johansein Rutaihwa has more than 10 years’ experience in the fields of policy formulation,

design and implementation as well as research works. Johansein is currently working as

Regional Project Coordinator for EAC-UNIDO Industrial Policy Capacity Building Programme.

He has extensive knowledge of industrial policy and trade development in Tanzania and EAC

regional as well as SADC with experience in policy formulation and analysis. He is particularly

familiar with the national and regional business and investment environment and has

extensively published research in these fields. In fact, he has conducted various manufacturing,

trade consultancies and research encompassing national strategy plans, market analysis and

policy development covering Tanzania’s private sector and industrialisation, FDI flows,

competitiveness and productivity in various sectors.

Main Qualifications:

MSc. International Trade

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: EAC Secretariat

Role/Position: REAC-UNIDO Regional Project Coordinator

Work Interests: research, policy analysis, management and trainings

Hobbies: Music, playing football and travel

John Eddy, Tanzania

Biography:

John Eddy is a Child, Youth and development activist, mobilizer, facilitator and media

campaigner on children and youth development affairs, human rights and social justice. He

participated on various forums prepared by national and international platforms on youth

development, human rights, child’s development and youth and civic participation. Currently, he

is volunteering with Young Women’s Christian Association of Tanzania as a Project Officer.

Main Qualifications:

BA in Political Science and a Language majoring in International Relations

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: Young Women’s

Christian Association (YWCA-Tanzania)

Role/Position: Project Officer

Work Interests: Child and Youth Protection, Youth and civic participation and livelihood, human

rights and addressing Gender Based Violence (GBV)

Hobbies: Composing short plays and educational films, acting, reading novels, philosophical

and academic books, participating on political and social forums, playing football and listening to

music

Kamala Dickson, Tanzania

Biography:

Kamala is a coordinator at East African Community Youth Ambassador’s Platform (EAC-YAP)

Tanzania Chapter, Kamala is a social activist on Tax Justice and Climate justice, He is global

goals champion in advocating Sustainable Development Goals, Kamala has served in different

youth organization and initiatives in Africa Europe and Asia, He believes in investing in youth as

a solution to challenges facing our community to day.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors in Politics and Management of Social Development, Masters, Advanced Diploma in

Economic Diplomacy

Name of Organization: East Africa Community Youth Ambassador’s Platform (EACYAP)

Role/Position: Coordinator

Work Interests: Climate & Tax Justice Activist, Human rights, social media, Policy analysis,

Social activism

Hobbies: Reading Novel, Football, Travelling and basketball

Lovililo Caroline, Tanzania

Biography:

Currently working as a Training recruitment manager/Trainer at Rigor international. I am deeply

passionate about capacity building and skill development, a cause I have devoted most of the

four years of my professional life towards. Before starting Rigor international, I worked for The

School of St Jude’s as a Communications Manager for a year where my job entailed

correspondence with VIP donors.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelor degree in Human Resource Management

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: Rigor International

Role/Position: Training and recruitment manager /Trainer

Work Interests:Training, facilitation and capacity building

Hobbies: Reading books, writing articles, telling people about Jesus, working out.

Neema Mduma, Tanzania

Biography:

Neema Mduma is a Tanzanian academic and computer engineering professional, she is

currently a PhD candidate in the school of Computational and Communication Science and

Engineering at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology. Her focus is

on supporting education and presently she is conducting a study on developing a data-driven

approach for predicting student dropout in secondary schools.

Main Qualifications:

PhD in Information and Communication Science and Engineering

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: The Nelson Mandela

African Institution of Science and Technology

Role/Position: PhD candidate

Work Interests: Machine learning and Artificial intelligence

Hobbies: Reading and travelling the world.

Noris Justine, Tanzania

Biography:

I have three-year experience in working with geographical information system(GIS). I have

worked as a support analyst and currently as a solution engineer. In my work I serve different

organisations in helping them make use GIS technology in their day to day activities. This

includes using GPS, mapping software, remote sensing and satellite imagery.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors in GeoInformatics

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: Esri Eastern Africa

Role/Position: Solution Engineer

Work Interests: Geographical information systems, land surveying

Hobbies: Reading, hiking, travelling

Pamela Silas Kipande, Tanzania

Biography:

Pamela Silas has been a Youth of United Nation Association for10 years with a leadership

experience of 2 years as United Nations Chapters Treasurer. Has an experience in organizing

international conference events such as The International Model United Nations Conference

(TIMUN). Pamela has also experience in in Environmental health related issues such as in

epidemic outbreak prevention and control, environmental sanitation and hygiene and health

education provision. Pamela is currently taking Bachelor of Science in Food Science and

Technology at Sokoine University of Agriculture.

Main qualification:

Diploma in Environmental Health Sciences, Bsc. of Food Science and Technology (currently)

Name of organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: Youth of United

Nations Association (YUNA)

Role/ Position: Former UNC Treasurer & SDGs Champion

Work interests: Public health (disease prevention and control), Health education, Food safety

and quality control, Food quality insurance, standard control & maintenance)

Hobbies: Networking, travelling and site seeing, Fashion and eating

Pateli Ngereza, Tanzania

Biography:

Pateli Ngereza is over 9 years’ of experience in administration, logistics, Transport Planning,

Development & Management and ICT in multi-disciplinary institutions ranging from Local &

International, Private and Public Organizations. Pateli currently serves as SUMATRA Iringa

Regional Officer In-Charge. A government agency responsible for Surface and Marine

Transport regulation in the United Republic of Tanzania-Mainland

Main Qualifications:

Master of Science in Procurement and Supply Chain Management, Bachelor’s degree in

Logistics and Transport Management, Diploma in Transport Planning, Development and

Management, and Diploma in General Management Skills, certificate in Rural Travel and

Transport Planning and Management etc.

Name of Organization: Surface and Marine Transport Regulatory Authority (SUMATRA)

Role/Position: Regional Officer In-charge

Work Interests: Administration, Logistics, Transport Planning, Development & Management,

Hobbies: Reading, Travelling, Football, music, etc

Section 1:

Section 2: Personal details

Name: Patrick Tilito

Country: Tanzania

Name of Organization: DSW and EACS

Role/Position: Peer Educator in DSW and intern in EACS

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors in International Relations

Diploma in Community Development

Work Interests:

Youth development, information systems, Human rights, social media,

Section 3: Summary Bio:

Patrick has over 2 years in voluntary as peer educator in DSW Arusha during weekends and event. And 1

year internship in EACS and EACJ Headquarter in Arusha DSW has promoting availability of Youth

Friendly Services (YFS) since it was established in Tanzania. Through capacity building for services

providers, mentoring and availing health centers with youth corner DSW has contributed to increase

access and utilization of Family Planning (FP) Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services, and

entrepreneurship information and education among youth in the targeted districts

Hobbies: chess , basketball

Reginald Saria, Tanzania

Biography:

Reginald Saria has sevral years’ experience in the field of regional intagration, good

governance, policy analysis, human rights, Enviromental protection, youth philanthropist and

other issues such as peace and security. He is currently serves as Youth Ambassodor of Pan

African movement and EAC YAP are platforms that; works with young leaders around East

African Community and engaging youths on issues of regional intagration, good governance,

peace and security, policy analysis, human rights, activism and youth involvement in

development young entrepreneurship

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors in Procurment and Logistics Management

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department:( EAC - YAP) East

African Community Youth Ambassadors Platform

Role/Position: Youth Ambassodor

Work Interests: Youth Activist, Human rights and Womens rights defender, Enviroment

Activist, social media expert, Policy analysis, activism, African youth philantropist, Pan African

Movement Ambassador and procurment and Logistics Management.

Hobbies: Music, Movie , basketball , cycling and Marathon

Upendo John Nanyaro, Tanzania

Biography

Upendo Nanyaro has over 3 years’ experience in the fields of training, management,

accounting, human resources and concept development. Upendo Nanyaro is currently working

as one of the youngest Department Managers in Mobisol, a leading provider of decentralized

solar electrification that offers a clean and affordable alternative to fossil fuels for lower income

households and small businesses in rural Sub-Saharan Africa.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors in Business Management

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: Mobisol UK ltd

Role/Position: Department Manger Tanzania

Work Interests: Training, Human Resources, Accounting, Digital Learning, Management.

Hobbies: Music, Fashion, Reading, Networking and Innovation.

Wilson J Shang’a, Tanzania

Biography:

Wilson J. Shang’ a has over 4 years’ experience in the field of organization development

training and community practitioner, he currently served as a Project facilitator and organization

development trainer at Neumann Foundation that work with small holder coffee farmers and

community leaders to improve their livelihood by ensuring they access of better price, good

governance, Youth and women engage on coffee business, and food security.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelor of Arts in Community and Economic Development

Name of Organization: NEUMANN FOUNDATION

Role/Position: Project Facilitator

Work interest: Community practitioner, organization development training, change agent, training farmers and Project monitoring & evaluation

Hobbies: Reading motivational books, swimming, watching Film, Adventures and music

Yoeza Mbonea Mnzava, Tanzania

Biography:

Yoeza, Mbonea Mnzava has over 3 years experiences in the field of Activism, policy analysis

and Lobbing & Advocacy. He currently serves as the Education Programs coordinator an NGO

that; works with leaders and citizens on issues of Health, Education and Development. Currently

He is an activist on Ant Teenage Pregnancy Campaign in SAME DISTRICT. Succeeded to bring

back 12 married girls to their respectively schools.

Main Qualification:

BAEd (Bachelor of Arts with Education), MA. Community Economic Development-The Open

University of Tanzania (Current).

NAME OF THE ORGANIZATION: Empower Tanzania Incorporated. (ETI)

ROLE/POSITION: Education Programs Coordinator.

WORK INTERESTS: Lobbing and Advocacy, Policy analysis, activism.

HOBBIES: Travelling, Music and politics!

Yonas Masay Laiser, Tanzania

Biography:

Yonas Masay Laiser has more than four years working on areas of human rights and advocacy

before indulging into national politics by exercising constitutional rights. He is now working with

PALU and and as ward representative at Monduli district Council where he perform a number of

duties including discussing and passing budgets and ensuring development plans. With PALU,

he work in the Human Rights Litigation department where he litigate human rights cases at

EACJ and African Court of Human and People’s Rights.

Main Qualifications:

Bachelors of Laws

Name of Organization/Business/Government Agency or Department: PAN AFRICAN

LAWYERS UNION (PALU), MONDULI DISTRICT COUNCIL.

Role/Position: Litigation Department, Counselor- Monduli

Work Interests: Human rights, Advocacy, Management, Civic education and Politics.

Hobbies: Reading, Networking and Safari.