Anaiah Bewa: OSISA's new Country Director for the DRC

12 October 2009

Anaiah Bewa is the newly appointed OSISA Country Director for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Prior to joining OSISA, as the Executive Director of COR, Consulting and Communication (a national consulting firm and a think-tank), Anaiah has been instrumental in engaging and promoting parliamentary, media and civil society participation in the decision-making processes governing institutional reforms. She has extensive insight and experience in working with regional, governmental, non-governmental and donor stakeholders involved in the policy dialogue, governance, conflict resolution, security sector reform and aid effectiveness arena, with a particular focus on ensuring that civil society needs and views are effectively represented in the policy debate.

As a capable driver of change, she has been particularly involved in working to facilitate multi-stakeholders' dialogue, and to build cooperation as well as collaboration with individuals and organisations that may initially be resistant to changes.

In her earlier experience, Anaiah was the Programme Management Specialist in the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), responsible for developing programmes' strategy and management tools, monitoring the political environment and ensuring effective coordination between USAID/OTI, government, and other programme partners. She has managed the first integrated Gender Task Force within the USAID/DR Congo. With OSISA, her mission is to provide quality leadership and oversee the effective development and the successful implementation of the OSISA DRC strategy in order to render it a leading governance advocacy organisation in the country. A Congolese national, Anaiah is fluent in French and English and is the author of numerous articles and research papers, including Sexual Terrorism: Rape as Weapon of War in the Eastern DR of Congo, USAID, 2004.

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