Regional Director

Hala Al-Karib

Hala Al karib was born and raised in Sudan and later lived in Canada. She currently lives and works in Uganda. She has lived and worked in South Sudan, Kenya and Egypt as well the Eastern and Horn of Africa for over 20 years. Hala’s work specifically focuses on women and girls rights activism and social movement as well as refugees and displaced persons and minority community’s challenges. She has wide and comprehensive expertise on the Horn and Eastern Africa regions, as a civil society worker/activist, and social and gender research practitioner. Her educational background is on Human rights, women studies and Psychology. In addition to her work as the Regional Director of SIHA Network, she worked for various international and regional organizations/institutions among them; The College of Social & Economic Studies, Juba University in South Sudan where she worked as a Research Assistant; The sociology department at the American University in Cairo as an Assistant Researcher; Immigrant Women of Saskatchewan Inc. in Canada as the Program Director; Trocaire, an Irish Organization as Grant Officer based in Sudan. She has also worked as a consultant with various international and UN Humanitarian organizations, including; Goal Ireland, World University Services, Accord International and Concern International.

She is a regular contributor to many online and print media outlets. Her writing is focused on activism, women’s rights and social justice. Some of her recent articles are published in: Aljazeera, Open Democracy, Sudan Tribune The Pambazuka, the New Humanitarian and the East African Newspaper. She is the Editorial head of SIHA Journal – Women in Islam in the Horn of Africa (Arabic & English).

Twitter: @Halayalkarib

Regional Programme Manager

Kimberley Armstrong

Kimberley Armstrong holds a PhD in Anthropology from McGill University in Canada.  Her research has focused on transitional justice, conflict and displacement in Northern Uganda with previous studies focused on rural to urban migration of women in Senegal. Professionally, Kimberley has worked as a Regional Gender Advisor for a Canadian INGO, covering Nepal, Vietnam and India. More recently she has worked as a Social Development consultant, focusing on baseline assessments and project evaluations, mostly on community-led development programs in Somalia. Currently, Kimberley is the Regional Program Coordinator overseeing SIHA programming for the region.

Twitter: @KimArmstrongUg

Regional Human Resource and Administration Manager

Jemimah Kaheru

Jemimah Naburri-Kaheru joined SIHA in March 2012. Jemimah holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Development Studies from Makerere University, currently working on her M.A on Human Resource. She has previously worked with the Association for the Advancement of Higher Education and Development (AHEAD) as an Administrator, with the Parliament of Uganda and with the National Association for Women Organizations in Uganda (NAWOU).

Regional Advocacy and Communications Officer

Martha Tukahirwa

Martha Tukahirwa is a feminist campaigner and communication and advocacy specialist who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta – a space where she nurtured and honed her passion for women and girls’ rights, especially on the African continent. Throughout her seven-year career, she has made it her mission to build, strengthen and fire up young women’s collective power – particularly amplifying the visibility, appeal and reach of the women’s rights agenda through campaigning and alliance-building. Her experience in strategic communications and advocacy particularly in the new media space has and continues to be an asset to SIHA’s work in a very volatile context. Martha has actively engaged in the production of knowledge through research, documentation, production of documentaries films and political analysis.