The RWI Nairobi Office was established in 2002, although RWI has worked in Kenya and other countries in the region since the early 1990s. The office is currently responsible for the management of the Institute’s bilateral cooperation programmes in Kenya and Ethiopia as well as cooperation regionally in Africa, and is also currently exploring new bilateral as well as regional and sub-regional partnership opportunities.
Staff in Nairobi
Chris Muthuri
Chris Muthuri is Deputy Director of the RWI Regional Africa Programme, Nairobi Office. For the Regional Africa Programme, he is the focal point for: African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR), ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU), and Continuous Monitoring and Evaluation. He has over a decade’s experience working with several international, regional and local organisations across Africa. He has extensive experience in advocacy, programme management and fundraising, having taken up leadership roles on several instances. Chris joined the Institute in October 2017 as part of the Regional Africa Programme from RWI’s Nairobi office.
Marion Cheredi
Marion Cheredi, Senior Programme Associate, has more than 10 years of experience with international organizations, most recently the World Agroforestry Centre. She has a degree in Business Administration and Management & Marketing, secondly is a diploma in Management and Development. Marion will focus particularly on adminstrative support to our bilateral cooperation in Kenya, as well as providing human resources support as the office continues to develop.
Gilford Kimathi
Gilford Kimathi is a Senior Programme Officer at the Nairobi Office supporting the Regional Africa and Ethiopia programmes. He brings a decade of experience in programme management, where he has also contributed to research and human rights capacity development. Before joining RWI, Gilford worked five years with the Network for African National Human Rights Institutions, through which he has gained extensive experience with African human rights mechanisms and frameworks.
Eunice Ogolla
Eunice Ogolla is the Finance and Admin Officer at RWI Nairobi regional office and joined the Institute in February 2021. Prior to joining the institute she worked as an Accountant in the Humanitarian sector and supported Accounting across Africa. She has experience in Financial Reporting, Asset management, Treasury management, budgeting, taxation, Auditing and Internal Controls.
Eunice holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree(Accounting) from Strathmore University and is also an ACCA affiliate.
Mumbi Maina-Murimi
Nicholas Kioko
Nick Kioko is the Senior Finance and Admin Officer at RWI Nairobi regional office and joined the Institute in April 2020. Prior to joining the Institute, he worked as a Finance Manager in the humanitarian sector across the East African region. He has over 9 (nine) years of experience and expertise in top-level grant/donor and financial management, leadership, donor reporting and compliance, computerized financial management information systems, program administration, accounting, budgeting, auditing, internal controls, taxation and financial analysis. Nick holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics, Sociology and Psychology) from Kenyatta University. He is also a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya (CPA- K).
Pasca Chesach
Pasca Chesach joins RWI as the Programme Associate Communications supporting the Regional Office in Nairobi in Programme Communications and Administration. Pasca has over 5 years in strategic communications and supporting programmes for International and local organizations in communications, most recently Christian Aid. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and is currently pursuing her Masters in Development Communication. With a background that spans multiple areas of communication, Pasca brings a wealth of experience in crafting impactful messages and engaging diverse audiences for effective communication.
Tsion Hagos
Daisy Maima
Daisy is a dedicated human rights development professional with over 10 years experience in program design, implementation support, and performance monitoring. Daisy has led capacity building initiatives to enhance the quality of partner interventions and engaged with key donors such as Sida, EU, the Embassy of Sweden, and Danida.
Address
3rd Floor, Lenana Towers
Lenana Road
P.O. Box 1590-00606, Nairobi, Kenya
Phone +254 (0) 796 730 518
Email: nairobi@rwi.lu.se