Yvette Kathurima

Manager, Equity, Gender & Youth Field Building Lead

Children’s Investment Fund Foundation

Yvette Kathurima is an African feminist and advocate for social justice with experience in gender programming, network coordination, resource mobilisation and grant management. Yvette leads CIFF’s funder and field engagement approach for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and leads CIFF’s Anti-racism and DEI Working Group. Yvette sits on the Kenyan Board of the Creative Action Institute and is an Advisor at Eyala. Previously, she worked at Hopewell Fund, Girls Not Brides, FEMNET and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Africa Region. She firmly believes in facilitating resources so that they go where they are most needed –often to historically excluded groups.

Event Schedule

DAY 1

18 July 2023

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
06:30 pm EEST	08:00 pm EEST	Walking the Talk: Equitable partnerships for movement-building in Africa Side Event M-Hotel - Ball Room	In this learning event, funders and African feminist organizations will meet in a conversation on funding practices, successes and challenges to achieve gender equality Read More In this learning event, funders and African feminist organizations will meet in a conversation on funding practices, successes and challenges to achieve gender equality and SRHR in Africa. Participants will gain insight into feminist approaches to fundraising and grant-making. Donors will have an informed understanding on how to move towards more equitable and collaborative partnerships with grassroots movements. The ambition is that this conversation will result in an Op-ed article that raises the questions and solutions that emerged from the side event. Organizer: SIDA Read Less Speakers Tsitsi Midzi Head of Partnerships and Development Urgent Action Fund – Africa Torbjörn Pettersson Assistant Director General and Head of Department at Sida Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) Yvette Kathurima Manager, Equity, Gender & Youth Field Building Lead Children’s Investment Fund Foundation Lisa Mossberg Coordinator for Sweden's Global Strategy for Gender Equality Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) Rouzeh Eghtessadi Executive Director SAfAIDS Regional