Bringing Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Solutions Closer to People

Carol Ndosi (MA Global Development and Africa) is the Executive Director at The Launchpad Tanzania, an NGO she co-founded in 2017 that works at the intersection of gender, education, decent work and economic growth, reduced inequalities, innovation & digitalisation and sustainable development.

Some of her achievements, to name but a few, include; Young African Leaders Initiative - Mandela Washington Fellowship 2016 at University of Texas, 2018 Chevening Alumni, Co-Founder of a digital solution for farmers (KilimoUza), Global Goals Champion with the UN Tanzania. She has also served as Board Director for Kilimanjaro Project (environment preservation), Board Director for Her Initiative Organization and Board Member of Africa No Filter Advisory Board.

As an Enthusiast and Champion for Gender and Youth Inclusion in Social, Economic and Digital Development for Africa, the most notable achievement for Carol is heading The Launchpad Tanzania’s arm on digitalization and digital inclusion for women and youth known as LP Digital. LP Digital runs several programs to support Digital Inclusion for Youth and Women in Tanzania including Digital Tanzania, SheTech Incubator and Accelerator Program, Sauti Zao on Digital Democracy and the most recently launched Tanzania Women and Technology Association.

She has actively contributed to policy dialogues, strategies and interventions for women’s digital inclusion and the digital economy in Tanzania and holds influence as an ecosystem builder working around Gender Equality, Youth Development and Digital Transformation Interventions.

Mr. Belete is an Ethiopian national and a development professional with over 25 years of work experience across Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. He was previously the World Bank’s Country Director for Cabo Verde, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Senegal, based in Dakar. Before joining the World Bank in 2000, he held various positions in Washington and throughout Africa with World Vision and UNICEF.

Prior to Mr. Belete’s country director assignments, he managed the World Bank’s Food and Agriculture Global Practice in the East Asia and Pacific Region, based in Vietnam, from 2014 to 2019. Prior to that, he was the Sector Manager for the World Bank's Sustainable Development Department in Indonesia. His career at the World Bank has included assignments in the World Bank’s country offices in Nairobi, New Delhi, and Beijing with responsibilities for investments and technical assistance activities in agriculture and rural development, among others.

Eng. Mwajuma Waziri is the Permanent Secretary of the Tanzania’s Ministry of Water with the top role of overseeing functions of the Ministry at policy and strategic level.  Prior to the current post, she served as the Deputy Permanent Secretary in 2023 and Assistant Director for Water Supply and Sanitation from 2020 to 2023 where she managed multi-million dollars mega water supply projects across the country.  She holds master’s degree in water resources engineering from University of Dar es Salaam, and is a registered Professional Engineer. He carries a noble and life-giving task of getting water to the Tanzanian population.

At a technical level, Eng. Mwajuma Waziri is a seasoned Tanzanian Water Resources Civil Engineer with wealth of experience spanning over a decade. Specializing in water engineering, she commands comprehensive set of skills that include detailed engineering design, technical specifications, construction works, tendering as well as evaluation aligning seamlessly with both international and local standards. Being a team work inspirational and strategist leader, Eng. Mwajuma Waziri has undertaken multiple leadership roles in multistakeholder-complex projects as well as high-level tasks that successfully came to accomplishments

Elias Chimulambe is Water and Sanitation and development expert. He is an Environmental Health Engineering Graduate with postgraduate in Water Resources Management and Engineering with more than 20 years of working experience on water supply, sanitation projects in Southern and West Africa, Asia including working with multi-lateral donors, non-governmental organisations, government and private sector. He managed and coordinated Water Supply for Urban and Peri Urban Projects for poor population of Malawi, Mozambique, Liberia and Lesotho. In this respect, monitored and evaluated, designed and supervised water and sanitation-based projects at national, district and community level.

Silli Mbewe, a Chief Executive Officer of Lilongwe Waterboard is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and is a registered Certified Public Accountant with the Malawi Accountants Board (MAB) and sits on the Public Sector Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Malawi (ICAM). He has practical working knowledge of the water sector and water utility management in Malawi having joined Lilongwe Water Board (LWB) in 2013 as Director of Finance, where his immediate task was to turn LWB into a profit-making Parastatal, a task he successfully executed.

Eneida Fernandes has more than 20 years of experience in international development, of which the last 11 years have been with the World Bank Group. She has since held several positions in Africa and Latin America, including Senior Private Sector Specialist in the Africa Region in the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice. Her recent expertise includes the implementation of integrated, Jobs and Economic development operations and advisory solutions for client countries in Latin America and Africa focusing on private sector-led and value chain development (tourism and agribusiness), Entrepreneurship and SME development, Enabling Policy and Regulatory Environment for Business and Investments.

Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Eneida occupied various technical and managerial positions in hospitality and tourism development in the US and Brazil.

Achim Fock, a German national, is the Country Manager for Zambia. He oversees analytical and advisory work as well as loans, grants and trust funds in the country. Prior to this assignment, Achim was Operations Manager for Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand and prior to that, for Vietnam.

He has more than 20 years of professional experience, most of which with the World Bank. Before his assignment in Vietnam, he was previously the Manager of Development Effectiveness Unit for South Asia. Previously, he was Senior Economist for several countries in Africa, East Asia and Eastern Europe.

Born in Germany, Achim Fock received Masters degrees in agricultural science and in agricultural economics from University of Reading and Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, post-graduate diploma in European integration and international economics from Universitaet Hamburg, and a PhD in agricultural economics from Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg. Achim speaks English and German