Regional Manager for Africa

Olive Kabatwairwe is the Africa Regional Manager 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 provides technical support, capacity building and supports the growth of CoST in the Africa region. She also provides support to members in monitoring, evaluation, adaptation and learning to CoST programmes.

Olive is also Programme Coordinator for CoST Uganda, a role in which she plans, implements and reports on the national programme and co-ordinates the CoST Uganda Multi-Stakeholder Group. Both she and the Senior Regional Manager are based at the Africa Freedom of Information Centre. For several years she also served as Uganda CoST Manager.

She brings to the CoST family experience from working across the region on policy advocacy and transformative learning approaches to development. She has previously worked in over 70 local governments in Uganda interfacing with communities including vulnerable persons such as people with disabilities, women, youth, and children in cross cultural – contexts and conflict affected communities in Uganda. Olive is also a business woman and a small-scale farmer undertaking crop and animal farming in Uganda.