Nicola Okero

Policy Officer
Food for Education

Nicola is the Policy Officer at Food4Education where she leads partnership engagement with stakeholders towards increasing nutrition and education outcomes through a multi-sectoral solution of school feeding. Equipped with a legal background, she is passionate about policy, advocacy and creating impact, and has taken her passion to India where she co-led a project from strategy development and partnership mapping to project completion and, more recently, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), where she engaged with 20+ stakeholders from the public, private and development space. In her free time, Nicola is either trying a new recipe or a new activity.

Event Schedule

DAY 1
19 July 2023
Start Time End Time Session Description Action
06:30 pm EEST 08:00 pm EEST Breaking the Silos: Partnerships for Integrated Programming for Underserved Adolescent Girls
Side Event
Kigali Convention Center - Room AD 10-1

This session brings together a group of diverse stakeholders together at a side event to deliberate on the what, why now, and how to integrate approaches across SRHR, Read More

Speakers
Nicola Okero

Policy Officer

Food for Education

Clive Mutunga

Director, BUILD Project

African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP)

Alice Gathii

Assistant Director

Ministry of Education, Kenya

Caroline Sakwa

Gender &Inclusion HOD

SHOFCO

Beria Wawira

Program Officer

Zizi Afrique Foundation

Julius Lukwago

Director, SRHR Girl Capital Africa

The Children's Investment Fund Foundation

Stella Kanyerere

Deputy Country Director/Director Program Delivery

Living Goods

Nicole Ippoliti

Technical Director

YLabs

Speakers

Magdalene Dorto

Not applicable Not applicable

Deborah Nyirenda

Not applicable Not applicable

Yashmin Fernandes

Director Women's Digital Financial Inclusion Hub, Women's World Banking

Stella Anyangwe

End Polo Now Coordinator Rotary International

Blandine Umuziranenge

Founder and CEO Kosmotivr

Taryn Russell

Deputy Executive Director Results Canada

Djeinaba Kane

Advocacy & Partnership Lead AfricaNenda

Rafiat Akinokun

Youth Advorate and cub's health nurse

Melania Chiponda

Gender and Climate Advisor The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)

Aries Setiadi

Managing Director Fintech Association Indonesia

Claude Mambo Muvunyi

Director General Rwanda Biomedical Center

Hanna Lemma

Co-founder & Contributor Addis Powerhouse

Kathryn Toure

Regional Director, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office IDRC

Dr. Lisa Avery

Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba; Director Africa Initiatives

Carmen Correa

CEO Pro Mujer

Tawakkol Karman

Nobel Peace Price Laureate Tawakkol Karman Foundation

Anis Farid

Research Project Manager Women's Aid Organisation

Patricia Elias

Every Woman International Lawyer; Chief, Global Diplomatic Campaign

Lipi Rahman

Executive Director, Badabon Sangho Every Woman Indrani Fellow

Kigali Convention Center - KG 2 Roundabout, Kigali, Rwanda