Board Members

	Srilatha Batliwala is Scholar Associate with AWID, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, working in AWID’s Building Feminist Movements and Organizations Initiative. Over the past 30 years, she has combined grassroots activism with policy advocacy, research and teaching. Her experience spans organizing poor women in India to extensive work on transnational civil society, democratizing governance, and global grassroots movements. Her current work is focused on engendering organizations, and feminist movement building processes.
	Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, from Zimbabwe, joined the World YWCA in 2007. She has over 10 years of experience with the United Nations, where she served as Regional Director for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in Eastern and Horn Africa covering 13 countries. She had previously worked as a human rights officer with UNICEF in Liberia and Zimbabwe. Nyaradzayi is widely published and enjoys writing poetry.
	Mr. Ezra Mbogori was the founding director of MWENGO - a capacity building support organization for NGOs in Southern and Eastern Africa, based in Harare, Zimbabwe - and was its Executive Director until mid 2007, when he took up a Mason Fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government; Harvard University. Prior to founding and leading MWENGO, Mr. Mbogori headed the Undugu Society, an urban poverty focused organization in Nairobi, Kenya. He played a role in the creation of the Kenya NGO Council and became the first Chair of this organization (1992-1993). Mr. Mbogori has worked in the civil society sector for over 20 years, and has been Board member of, among others, CIVICUS and the Charities Aid Foundation in South Africa
	Aruna Rao (co-founder and Senior Associate) is a gender and institutional change expert with over 25 years' experience of addressing gender issues in a variety of development organizations, primarily in Asia. In addition to serving on the boards of CIVICUS and AWID, she has consulted widely with UN organizations, academic institutions, and development NGOs on gender and development and organizational change issues and written extensively on gender and institutional change.
	Gagan Sethi is a Development educator, practicing Organizational Development expert, and a Gender trainer. As founder of Janvikas, he has helped set up several strategic organizations in the country, for example Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan, Sahjeevan, Drishti, Centre for Social justice, HID forum to name a few. He was appointed as member of monitoring group by NHRC to monitor human right violations.