Hendrina Doroba

Biography

Hendrina is the Division Manager Education Human Capital and Employment at the African Development Bank, an educationalist, mathematician, gender expert, development practitioner, and policy advocate. She has an excellent understanding of gender and education issues, and the challenges that exists particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. She has ably presented papers on gender and education in Africa at regional and international conference/meetings. Her international exposure has given Hendrina an opportunity to deepen her understanding of the political, economic social and cultural environment in which the social sector reform process operates at various levels globally.

Prior to joining the Bank, Hendrina was the Executive Director for the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), a pan-African non-governmental organisation.  In previous positions, Hendrina worked with the Irish Embassy in Zambia (Education Manager) and Oxfam (National Coordinator of Commonwealth Education).  She has worked closely with decentralization, institutional strengthening, and strengthening coalitions with CSOs and NGOs within the education sector.  In addition to working closely with multiple ministries of education and training, Hendrina has developed and nurtured partnerships from the grassroots level of organizations to bi-lateral and multi-lateral strategic and funding partnerships internationally.

Hendrina has expertise in networking, partnership management, policy analysis, advocacy, gender analysis, programme design, coordination and management, resource mobilisation, and mentorship.  Her passion remains towards improving educational equity and equality as well as building human capacity through skills development.

Hendrina holds a Master’s Degree in Education from the National University of Ireland, Dublin. She is an alumni from university of Melbourne Australia, and graduate and member of the Global Women Leadership Network (GWLN) and Synergos Senior Fellow.