Africa Regional Manager and Learning Lead

Olive Kabatwairwe is the Africa Regional Manager and Learning Lead for CoST International. She has over a decade of experience in gender, development and governance work across various disciplines majorly, infrastructure governance, public policy and social accountability.

She leads the growth and implementation of CoST – the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative in Africa. She leads the learning process for CoST members at a global level, enabling them to learn from different experiences. She supports members in Africa with implementation, advocacy for policy reform, monitoring and evaluation. This includes building local capacity, providing bespoke training, advice and technical support to national managers, donors, government, industry and civil society. She also leads the growth engaging and support new members, and the development and implementation of multi-country programmes and projects and supports fundraising in the region.

She brings to the CoST family experience from working across the region on policy advocacy and transformative learning approaches to development. She has previously served as a CoST Manager in Uganda for a period of 6 years. And has worked in over 70 local governments in Uganda interfacing with communities including vulnerable persons such as people with disabilities, women, youth, and children (Early Child Education research) in cross cultural – contexts and conflict affected communities in Uganda. Olive is also great writer, storyteller and an entrepreneur undertaking various farming ventures in Uganda.