Taona Ernest Mwanyisa

I am an elections, democracy and governance practitioner specializing in research, policy analysis, program design, implementation and evaluation. I possess a total of seventeen years’ (17) experience working with national, regional and international organizations in elections, democracy and governance including in the area of human rights promotion and protection. Over the years I have developed expertise in managing institutions, projects, coordinating research and training programs as well as, designing and evaluating election, governance and democracy programs. Overall, I have enhanced experience in working at senior management level with a focus on people management, fiduciary responsibility; donor relations thus have developed an ingrained understanding of key strategies around partnerships, intervention and effective programme delivery. I have designed, implemented and evaluated elections, democracy and governance programs in all the southern Africa countries and well as some east, west Africa countries and the middle East.