Board Advisor

Monim Eljak

Monim has served as Programme Manager and Coordinator for various international organizations. Monim is the Co-Founder of Sudan Democracy First Group (SDFG). He also previously worked with SIHA as Regional Coordinator from 2006 – 2007. He holds both a Bachelors of Arts and Masters of Arts in Anthropology. Monim currently serves on the Advisory to the Board.

Board Advisor

Peace Twine Kyamureku

Peace Twine Kyamureku is the Executive Director of the Ruth Fund Uganda. She is a secondary school teacher by profession, holding a Master of Arts Degree from Makerere University and has trained in Gender, Human Rights and Civil Society Studies .

Between 1982-1994, she worked with Uganda National Examinations Board( UNEB), in the Research department. In October 1994 she joined  National Association of Women Organisations in Uganda (NAWOU)as Deputy Secretary General.  In April 2005 she was promoted to head the umbrella women’s organization. In the 17 years she acquired knowledge, skills and more confidence working civil society for women empowerment and building a strong women’s movement.  She contributed to increased membership and relevance of NAWOU.

 In June 2012, she took early retirement to supervise administrative changes at Excel Millennium High School.  She also took time to write. She wrote  two essays-(He Will Kill Me and Wife of the enemy) published in Crossroads: Women coming of Age in Today’s Uganda, edited by Christopher Conte, 2015. She also published Contradictions in Human Rights and Social Attitudes :Case Studies of Abortion in Uganda, Ipas Initiatives Publication, University of North Carolina, 2000; Development in Practice Journal, (2014)Christie, Maria Elisa, Peace T.Kyamureku, A.N.Kaaya and A.Devenport-Farmers, Peanuts, and Aflatoxins in Uganda: A Gender Approach.

From October 2013- December 2014, VSO Jitolle recruited Peace Kyamureku as a Volunteer. Her placement at UN Women Tanzania as a Technical Advisor for Women Fund Tanzania (WFT) rekindled her passion for working with grass root communities . It was out of this experience that she, with other activists that in 2014, formed  Rural Women and Youth Fund Uganda,( Ruth Fund) a human/ women  rights national, Not-for Profit  organization. Peace is the current Executive Director of Ruth Fund Uganda

 She is a Director of Excel Millennium High School ,a Mixed, Day and Boarding Secondary school and  sits on the  Boards of national and regional organizations ( Ntulume Village Women Organisation (Nviwoda), Female Women Writers ( FEMRITE), Strategic Initiative for Women in the  Horn of Africa (SIHA). A team player, committed worker, grandmother and a patriotic Ugandan.

She currently serves on the Advisory to the SIHA Board.

Program Advisor

Katherine Donahue

Katie Donahue is a Social Worker focused on ending violence against women and advancing women’s human rights. She has significant experience with program development, technical support, supervision, and training. She holds a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University and NYS License. She serves on the SIHA Program Advisory.

Program Advisor

Rose Baryamutuma

Rose is a programme monitoring and evaluation expert with over 15 years of experience providing specialized services for program design, organization capacity assessments, facilitating training and M&E. She has worked with both government and non-government institutions to develop program documents, key frameworks (log frames, logic models and theories of change), monitoring/evaluation plans including development of indicators, capacity assessment tools, and training modules. She has also provided technical support to institutions to develop and cost strategic plans. Rose has broad research experience/evaluation in the areas of HIV and AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health. As GBV Focal Person she provides technical support to the GBV National TWG on general program and M&E specifically. Some of the institutions worked for include the Uganda Ministry of Health, The Uganda Blood Transfusion Services, John Snow International on behalf of the Ministry of Health for Sierra Leone, Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA and the Institute for Social Transformation (IST) among others.

Program Advisor

Catherine Nyambura

Catherine is a Pan African feminist and international development expert. Her expertise is on women’s rights, youth development, policy advocacy, communications, political analysis, SDGs and global health. Catherine has an academic background in public health and biomedical research.
She has worked on sexual and reproductive health and rights, women’s rights, girls’ power building, adolescent health, HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and research for the past 10 years. Her work, borne out of student activism transitioned into community organizing and involves working across the intricate linkages between grassroots organizing, national, regional and global advocacy and programming.
Catherine has designed and led the implementation of dynamic multi-country projects, programs and campaigns across Sub Saharan Africa. She has led several grassroots organizing initiatives such as the I Choose, My Life program at Dandelion Kenya where she was the Deputy Director

Catherine is an independent consultant who has worked with the Global Partnership for Education, ICRW, Ipas, IPPF, Accountability International, INROADS, Youth RISE among others. Catherine is a Mandela Fellow and Women Deliver Young Leader and has been published in the Agenda Feminist Journal (2018 Edition) and the Gender and Development Journal (2018 edition). Catherine is a member of the East Africa Girls Brain Trust and has served on various board and decision-making bodies.