Anne Gathumbi

Anne Gathumbi is a feminist human rights lawyer and international development practitioner with over 20 years’ experience as a social justice advocate working in senior leadership and management positions and as a grant maker in philanthropy sector and fund management at country, regional and global levels. She has experience promoting community-led change, challenging inequalities, and advancing the human rights of historically marginalized communities using evidence-based and time-tested model for social change that focuses on movement building, strategic investments (grant making), technical assistance, capacity building, advocacy, research and learning for local partners. She is passionate about facilitating unlikely but effective collaborations between communities, activists, social movements, private sector and government institutions to tackle structural inequality and build momentum for change. She has dedicated her career to defending rights, addressing gender inequality, and amplifying voices of those at various intersections of marginalization, especially women and girls.  She is currently leading a global consortium - What Works to Prevent VAWG Programme, a 7-year UK Foreign Common Development Office -FCDO funded program to identify and scale up evidence of what works to prevent Violence Against Women and Girls in all their diversities – VAWG.