Staff

Olive is a Public Policy Analyst, holding a Master in Management Studies, Post Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Governance, and an Honours degree in Community Based Development. She also holds an e-learning certificate in Equity Focused and Gender Responsive Evaluations, an international certificate in claiming spaces - tactical tools for human rights defenders and a certificate in Gender mainstreaming, transformative and leadership learning. She is a paralegal by training and a gender justice activist. She also holds various certificates in guidance and counseling, political development, human rights and intelligent common sense on self-management. She brings to CoST and AFIC advocacy and engagement skills across various stakeholders, an experience she has acquired while working on multi-country projects across Uganda, South Africa, the Netherlands and Brazil, Malawi, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana and Mozambique. Olive has 10 years’ experience in governance and community work across Uganda and beyond. With five years’ experience in advocacy for an improved social sector, and five years in Infrastructure Transparency work and most especially on CoST, working closely with the Public sector, citizens, civil society and Private sectors in Uganda and across Africa. In CoST, Olive leads the development and expansion of programmes in Africa directly managing the Uganda programme, and providing technical support and advice to the regions country managers and Multi-Stakeholder groups. She also supports members and affiliates with implementation, reporting, monitoring and evaluation, advocacy and learning. Olive has experience and training on the CoST Assurance process and has implemented four successful assurance processes in Uganda, trained Assurance professionals, journalists and citizens, documentation of results and engaged on assurance findings and recommendations across Africa. She has expertise in disclosure, citizen engagement, advocacy and her skills in policy analysis are a blend into our infrastructure transparency work. Managing the Multi-Stakeholder groups, she oversees the daily engagements and linkages between the three sectors with the major aim of building trust and promoting dialogue amongst each other. Olive also oversees our strategic engagements with key stakeholders and acts as our linkage with duty bearers on infrastructure transparency. She leads the talk and assists CoST countries in Africa in strategic planning and implementation. Her unique determination and passion for a better infrastructure contributes to our work.