Nancy Balfour
Founding Trustee at Centre for Humanitarian Change
Kenya
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About
Nancy has complemented her degree in civil engineering with 26 years of professional work in the technical, organisational and management aspects of community water development, relief and recovery projects throughout East Africa and particularly Kenya, Tanzania, South Sudan and Somalia. She has worked on global and regional policy advisory work with the EC, Red Cross movement and UN working on humanitarian good practice and inter-agency coordination. She is a specialist in strategy development for wide range of sectors, including water, community resilience and nutrition sensitive water, sanitation and hygiene. She has specific skills in capacity building and advocacy for resilience, natural resource management, and disaster risk reduction as well as good team building and leadership skills. She has strong experience in pastoralist water development, drought risk management and resource based conflict as well as all aspects of relief in both conflict and natural disaster situations. Nancy’s recently completed position as the Chief WASH Coordinator for Unicef-Somalia involved program design and implementation for relief and development work, including structuring of PPP frameworks for rural and urban water supplies.
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Please hold... your call is important to us... And while you wait, here's an excellent analysis of why reactive #feedback mechanisms in the…
Please hold... your call is important to us... And while you wait, here's an excellent analysis of why reactive #feedback mechanisms in the…
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Yesterday I had the privilege to speak with Eastern Africa region civil society actors on the interesting but neglected topic of climate change and…
Yesterday I had the privilege to speak with Eastern Africa region civil society actors on the interesting but neglected topic of climate change and…
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🇺🇬 I recently completed three weeks of fieldwork in Kampala, Uganda as part of my MSc dissertation at the University of Leeds. Our goal is to…
🇺🇬 I recently completed three weeks of fieldwork in Kampala, Uganda as part of my MSc dissertation at the University of Leeds. Our goal is to…
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Experience
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Founding Trustee
Centre for Humanitarian Change
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Director/Senior Consultant (Community Water Management, Sanitation & Hygiene)
Rural Focus Ltd
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Regional Disaster Manager
International Federation of Red Cross/Red Crescent
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Senior Policy Advisor, Water, Sanitation & Disaster Risk Reduction, Sector Support Team
European Commission - ECHO
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Chief of WASH
UNICEF South Sudan
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How can we design funding models which are flexible and appropriate for science to deliver and sustain development impacts? >>>A new paper in…
How can we design funding models which are flexible and appropriate for science to deliver and sustain development impacts? >>>A new paper in…
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Small is not beautiful. We have been looking at a range of production systems to increase inclusion, sustainability, biodiversity, and nutrient…
Small is not beautiful. We have been looking at a range of production systems to increase inclusion, sustainability, biodiversity, and nutrient…
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