Speak Up Africa, Senegal Steering Committee representative: Fara Ndiaye, Deputy Executive DirectorFara Ndiaye has been an integral member of the
Speak Up Africa team since its founding in 2011. There she has been able to
pursue her passion for public health and sustainable development advocacy,
social and behavioral change communication, community outreach, and partnership
building and engagement. Beginning as the director of programs, Fara
focused on external relations and coordinating partner activities. She then
moved to the position of strategy and development director, in which she
managed initiatives to advance the organization’s advocacy, programmatic and
partnership goals; developed strategies to engage the private sector; and
created advocacy and communications tools. Currently, as deputy executive
director, Fara has taken on the oversight of all program activities, ensuring
proper planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; appropriate liaison
and negotiation with government partners; and the meeting of national and
international standards and practices. Before joining Speak Up Africa, Fara spearheaded
the communications, partnership and advocacy initiatives in Senegal for Malaria
No More. Prior to that, she worked on the research of migration issues for a
variety of small non-governmental and major global organizations in Geneva,
Switzerland, including the International Organization for Migration, Programme
for the Study of Global Migration and the United Nations Development Programme. Fara earned her bachelor’s degree in political science and international development at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and her master’s degree in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
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