Dr Mbaziira has two decades of experience; 15 years of which have been in providing policy development leadership in the water and sanitation sector in Africa. His expertise includes formulation and operationalisation of strategic continental initiatives to implement the Sharm-el-Sheikh Declaration on accelerating the achievement of water and sanitation goals in Africa. He has technical knowledge and practical disposition to addressing challenges related to water management, sanitation and hygiene services provision making him a highly sought-after-professional. His robust track record of coordinating multi-stakeholder interventions to strengthen Africa’s water management function at both regional and sub-regional levels reflects his acumen. A key highlight is the formulation of the African Water Resources Management Priority Action Programme 2016 – 2025 that informs the AMCOW Strategy 2018 -2030. He has provided technical facilitation to prepare the AMCOW Governance Framework and Management Strategy. 

Genevieve worked with Staunton & Lycett Ltd as its Head of Applications unit where she managed the IT unit and led the development of various enterprise applications. She also worked at Emerging Platforms, a technology innovations company, as a Software Engineer. She begin her career in software engineering at Interra Networks where she worked as a Software developer during the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and post NYSC.

Comfort is a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Advocate with over seven years of experience accrued from government and non-governmental organisations, and the private sector. She works under the Sanitation Department of the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) as the focal point for the Africa Sanitation Policy Guidelines (ASPG) project. She supports the planning, coordination, and managing stakeholders globally during the ASPG development process.

Before joining AMCOW, Comfort worked for several organisations, including WaterAid Nigeria, where she contributed to the organisations effectiveness by supporting timely delivery of the organisations strategic objectives. She has been involved in several community services to raise awareness for increased investment in WASH through the sensitisation of government schools to raise awareness on the importance of handwashing at critical times paying particular attention to the poor and vulnerable groups.

Emmanuel has over 6 years of experience in monitoring and reporting to inform high-level decision making for the prioritization of water and sanitation sector development in Africa. Emmanuel utilizes these country data collected from all 55 African Union (AU) Member States to spotlight and recommend sustainable solutions towards addressing key sector issues, with the support of development partners, civil society groups, youth networks, local NGOs, academia as well as relevant sector stakeholders. 

Some of his core competencies include, data analytics and visualization, youth coordination and empowerment, high-level advocacy, strategic partnerships and social inclusion in addition to project formulation and implementation skills, with a result based management focus for maximum impact.

He has over 15 years of experience in financial audit in public, private and Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) including management consultancy for billing system for Borno and Yobe States Water Boards. Edward also worked with UHYMaaji & Co. Chartered Accountants as a senior auditor and carried out several audit works from 1999 to 2014. 

He started as a Management Accountant at AMCOW and is currently the Finance Officer-Reporting. He likes listening to music and watching football.