George Sanga possesses 16 years of experience and expertise in water and climate programs and projects development and management. His key areas are resource mobilization and fund-raising, strategic planning and management for organizations and programs, environmental policy advocacy, networking and governance, private sector and stakeholder engagement methodologies, and community capacity building training (organizational governance and management) among other areas.
As the Regional Coordinator of the Global Water Partnership Eastern Africa, his duties involve overseeing GWP’s work in 10 countries across the greater Eastern Africa and Nile Basin Region with more than 350 partners comprising government, private sector, civil society and academic institutions. He has previously managed various projects and multistakeholder forums and led multi-disciplinary teams while working in diverse organizations and networks at global, regional and country level.
George is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the EUropean Water-smart initiative for fostering International Sustainable Development (euWater4i-SD) whose objective is to set a European Strategic Cluster Partnership–Going International (ESCP-4i) to enable Water-Smart solutions entering the Sustainable Territorial Development market in emerging countries.
He is also the Coordinator of the Global Water Partnership Task Team on sustainability of regional water partnerships, which is one of three GWP task teams formed to support implementation of the global GWP 2020-2025 Strategy.
He holds a master’s degree in Environmental Planning & Management, and double bachelors in Sociology and ICT respectively.