Africa AHEAD Founders
Founder and Director of Advocacy & Dissemination
Anthony Waterkeyn first trained in Building Management and has a M.Eng Tropical Public Health Engineering from Leeds. In 1985 he worked WaterAid in Kenya and Zimbabwe for 11 years. He has done evaluations of WASH programmes for DFID, CARE, and DANIDA, World Bank, African Development Bank and CoWater amongst others for the past 25 years. He Co-Founded three NGOs: Mvuramanzi Trust in Zimbabwe in 1993, Zimbabwe AHEAD Trust in 2002 and Africa AHEAD in 2005. As WSP-World Bank Specialist Advisor between 2003 -2011, he was behind the national WASH policy in Rwanda which resulted in the Community Based Environmental Health Promotion Programme.
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Founder and Director of Research & Training
Dr. Juliet Waterkeyn first developed the CHC concept in 1993 in Zimbabwe. In the past 20 years, she has been responsible for introducing this model into many countries, particularly in Africa. She was the first founding Director of Zimbabwe AHEAD (1999 -2013), a local NGO established to pilot the CHC approach and has worked as a consultant with many agencies and NGOs developing national CHC training manuals and visual aids for Zimbabwe, South Africa, Rwanda and Vietnam. She was awarded a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (2004) and an AMCOW Award as ‘distinguished woman leader in sanitation’ in 2010.
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