Eleanor Opiyo

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Core Participants
Core Participants
Eleanor Opiyo
Role(s) SDDP AF Core Participant
Co-Lab(s) Nairobi, 9-13 May, 2016
Education Strategic Management at Strathmore University
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Eleanor Opiyo is a core participant of the Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era - African Co-Laboratory.

Her Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors is Joshua Forstenzer.


Eleanor Opiyo is a management consultant, accountant, visionary social entrepreneur and businesswoman. She is a student of Strategic management at Strathmore University with a passion towards strategic entrepreneurship and gender balance. She has been involved in various organizations and ventures working with relief assistance, entrepreneurship, capacity building, business training, education and mentorship particularly among a number of communities with emphasis on Samburu, Turkana and Luo Nyanza community.

Eleanor enjoys analytical thinking and creative problem solving. She envisions a world where there is equality and all rights are respected. She would want to see more young women empowered to know about their rights, exercise freedom of expression and grow into positions of leadership. This is bound to elevate the living standard of their families and communities at large. She is a proponent of social media as an advocacy and lobbying tool for the kind of world we would like to see and the change we hope for.

Eleanor Opiyo
Lack of adequate diverse stakeholder representation in the policy making process
One sided communication between leaders and the people they represent


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  1. Kiarie Kimani
  2. Emily Ongus
  3. Catherine Nyambura
  4. Jerono Odhiambo
  5. Berlyne Ogonji
  6. Percilla Arike
  7. Des Njalale
  8. Caroline Wambua
  9. Jackline Mberia
  10. George Ombeo