Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse (SWAGAA)

Posted by Miles Gibson 
on Oct 22, 2015
 

Special Guest Speaker

 
Cebile Nompumelelo Manzini–Henwood, Executive Director of the Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse (SWAGAA) will be speaking to our club on Tuesday, October 27.  She will be speaking about Crossroads International and and the work  that Crossroads is  doing to support  NGO”s in Africa such as the Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse ( SWAGAA) where she is the Executive Director.  Cebile will also be talking about the girls empowerment programs that she is successfully running enabling young girls to learn about and exercise  their human rights. Crossroads is an international organization that has worked for more than 50 years  to create a more sustainable  and equitable world by engaging and strengthening individuals ,organizations and communities through mutual learning and collective action.
 
 
Cebile Nompumelelo Manzini–Henwood has previously worked with the National Emergency Response Council on HIV / AIDS (NERCHA) where she held the position of National Strategic Planning Co-ordinator. She has also worked for the WK Kellogg Foundation Leadership Regional Network for Southern Africa (LeaRN). Cebile holds an M.A. Policy Studies (2001/2003) from the Southern African Political Economy Series, (SAPES) Trust, Harare, Zimbabwe, and a B.A. in Sociology and Public Administration from the University of Swaziland. She is a WK Kellogg Foundation Grant Fellow and has received numerous awards including a WK Kellogg Foundation Scholarship Award, and the Swaziland Women in Leadership Award. From an international point of view, Cebile has worked as a Technical Team Member of the East Central and Southern African Regional Health Community (ECSA-HC) and She is on the Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) Regional Network. At a national level  She serves as the Chairperson of the Gender Consortium of Non-Governmental Organizations under the Coordinating Assembly of NGO’s; a Member of the Swaziland National Inter Agency Task Force on Human Trafficking (2009 to date); and a Member of the UN Civil Society Advisory Committee.  Cebile also represents civil society organizations on the UN Expanded Theme Group on Gender (2009 to date) and she is a member of the HIV and AIDS Consortium of Non-Governmental Organizations (2009 to date).