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Short Bio
Barnabas Mwansa is a Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors of the Reinventing Democracy project.
He is the peer mentor of Ion Muschei from the European Initiative and Gideon Ayodo from the African Initiative.
Barnabas Mwansa is the Founding Director of the Barnabas Research and Training Institute a Global South think tank’ – centre for policy and development practice, a social enterprise, dedicated to improving the quality of life and the wellbeing of individuals and communities throughout the global south. The Institute bridge the gap between theory and practice and transform development thinking for social justice and poverty elimination in the global south’.
Barnabas is a development expert with over 13 year’s International Development experience in Africa. He has worked with International labour Organisation, Catholic Relief Services and consulted widely on development issues in the global south. He has practical experience on rural poverty, agriculture development, child labour, politics and governance, gender and development, education reforms, child health and nutrition, youth employment, children rights and capacity building of NGOs. He has provided technical guidance to Government Ministries/ Departments on policy formulation and implementation including economics and political analysis.
He is a doctoral candidate, Ph.D in Management specializing in Strategy and Innovation; holds a MSc with distinction in Development Practice (MDP) - spanning Health Science, Natural and Engineering Sciences, Social Science and Management Sciences- University Trinity College Dublin & University College Dublin- Ireland--combined with clinical cross-sectoral field training attached to Trocaire Irish NGO - Ireland (ii) Catholic Relief Services -Rwanda (iii) UN Training School- Ireland (iv) International Labour Organization (ILO)-Zambia. He graduated with a BA degree in Development studies (first class honors) with distinction- Kimmage Development Studies Centre- Dublin: Ireland. Besides the BA in Development Studies, Barnabas holds a Diploma in Management, Economics and financial principles (CVDP – London, UK) and certificate in Project Management. His research interest is poverty and development in the Global South.
