Practitioner Profiles
Mwambi Mwasaru, Kenya
HRBD Consultant
Mwambi has 25 years experience in the formal and non-formal education sector. Particularly interested in the nexus between rights and development, he strives to understand social change through inter-disciplinary study including philosophy, theology, sociology, law, human rights, organisational development and adult education in the tradition of Paulo Freire. Mwambi has worked for the Development Education of Leadership Teams in Action (DELTA), the Legal Advice/Kituo Cha Sheria, the Coast Rural Support Program, and the Rights and Participation Project of the Institute for Development Studies (IDS). He was formerly a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program of the Harvard Law School and Acting Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission. He currently lectures on community development and advocacy at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. Read Mwambi's full profile here.
Jumanah Zabaneh, Lebanon
Child Rights Specialist
Jumanah is the Regional Program Manager for Education and emergencies within Save the Children Sweden Regional office for the Middle East and North Africa. Part of her duties include working with refugee children across the region, and includes providing refugee children from Somalia, Palestine and Iraq with access to quality education and protection from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. In addition Jumanah is an International Advisor with the Child-to-Child Trust involved and in a global project that aims to increase child readiness for school. The project is in partnership with UNICEF-NY and relies on children as active contributors to the Education for All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Read Jumanah's Full Profile.
