The Regional Project team

KHEA TEAM

Ms. Dorith von Behaim

Project Manager, KCOA Division Rural Development and Agriculture, GIZ, Germany

Mr. Florian Peloschek

KHEA Hub GIZ Coordinator, Digital Knowledge Platform and Market Development Advisor - KCOA from GIZ, Germany

Dr David Amudavi

Executive Director Biovision Africa Trust & KHEA Project Coordinator

Dr David Amudavi

Executive Director Biovision Africa Trust & KHEA Project Coordinator

Key Roles

Provides strategic and technical support to the whole project.

Links the Hub to other related initiatives in Africa for synergies.

Represents the Hub in regional and continental steering committees, donor co‐ordination, and other strategic meetings.

Supports resource mobilization for sustaining KHEA operations.

Josephine Akia Luyimbazi

Country Coordinator PELUM Uganda & KHEA Project Co-Host Coordinator

Josephine Akia Luyimbazi

Country Coordinator PELUM Uganda & KHEA Project Co-Host Coordinator

Key Roles

Provides technical and administrative support in hosting the Knowledge Hub.

Links the Knowledge Hub to other related initiatives to ensure synergies are built.

Provides technical and administrative support to the Project Manager and the Communications Officer.

Supports the implementation of the Knowledge Hub activities.

Venacia Wambua

Head of Programmes ( EOA-I and KCOA Programmes)

Venacia Wambua

Head of Programmes ( EOA-I and KCOA Programmes)

Key Roles

Overseeing the Ecological Organic Agriculture Initiative (EOA-I) and the Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Africa (KCOA-KHEA) Programmes.

Provides strategic leadership, ensuring the effective implementation of agroecology and organic agriculture initiatives across Eastern Africa, fostering knowledge-sharing, capacity building, and policy advocacy for sustainable food systems.

Francis Nsanga

KHEA Project Manager, PELUM Uganda & Biovision Africa Trust

Francis Nsanga

KHEA Project Manager, PELUM Uganda & Biovision Africa Trust

Key Roles

Prepares guidelines for preparing work plans and budgets by partners.

Facilitates regular communications and meetings with partners in order to review progress and appraise on activities planned for approval and implementation.

Ensures partners report periodically, and on schedule, on the Knowledge Hub project activities.

Supports partners to collaborate with active like-minded organisations to improve and upscale dissemination of knowledge on organic agriculture among farmers.

Dinah Amwayi

KHEA Finance Manager, Biovision Africa Trust

Dinah Amwayi

KHEA Finance Manager, Biovision Africa Trust

Key Roles

Ensure financial project reports are prepared in accordance with contractual agreements.

Liaise with auditor and prepare audit schedules during project and institution audits.

Oversee asset management and finally depreciate assets at the end of the year.

Project fund management (Receive and disburse funds).

Respond to donor queries relating to programmes/ projects.

Ephraim Indeche

KHEA Project Accountant, Biovision Africa Trust

Ephraim Indeche

KHEA Project Accountant, Biovision Africa Trust

Key Roles

Process financial project reports are prepared in accordance with contractual agreements.
Liaises with auditors and prepares audit schedules during project and institution Audits.
Oversees asset management and finally depreciates assets at the end of the year.
Works with the Finance Manager to respond to donor queries relating to programmes/ projects.

Hudson W. Shiraku

KHEA Regional Knowledge Manager, Biovision Africa Trust

Hudson W. Shiraku

KHEA Regional Knowledge Manager, Biovision Africa Trust

Key Roles

The RKM is the overall coordinator of Knowledge Management activities at the regional level and provides guidance to the CIPs.

Oversee and guide the constitution of the Country Validation Committees and the Regional Validation Committee.

Operationalize the KM function at the Country and Regional levels.

Oversees the process of assembling, validating, organizing, and sharing organic agriculture knowledge among key target audiences and partners of the Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture in Eastern Africa.

Participates in identifying, quantifying, and providing solutions to knowledge gaps and needs and developing actions to resolve the knowledge gaps and needs.

Actively participates in the continental working group on the development of the digital knowledge platform.

Lennox Ouma

KHEA M&E Officer Biovision Africa Trust

Lennox Ouma

KHEA M&E Officer Biovision Africa Trust

Key Roles

Monitors programme and project activities, outputs and progress towards the anticipated results and report on the findings.
Develops data collection tools and ensure their effective use by programme managers and co-implementing partners.
Participates in the development and use of results matrix by co-implementing partners to capture all the relevant aspects of programs and projects.
Provides technical support to organization and co-implementing partners in the development and use of realistic workplans and work schedules.
Provides technical support to co-implementing partners to ensure effective and efficient project implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Ensures that the M&E databases are optimally used to store, analyze and present relevant information to the organization, donors and other key stakeholders.
Undertakes Data Quality Audits (DQA) for quality and reliable information and decision making

Email:loumao@biovisionafrica.org

Pamella Magino

KHEA Communications Officer , PELUM Uganda & Biovision Africa Trust

Pamella Magino

KHEA Communications Officer , PELUM Uganda & Biovision Africa Trust

Key Roles

Oversees all the communications requirements for the KHEA Project.

Effectively represents KHEA Hub on the communication subcommittee with GIZ and other communication representatives from other Regional Hubs.

Ensures communication materials in the region are aligned with KHEA/KCOA project requirements.

Works with Regional Knowledge Manager to ensure all knowledge product formats are designed and produced as per the communications guidelines of the KHEA/KCOA project.

KHEA TEAM

Ms. Dorith von Behaim

Mr. Florian Peloschek

Dr David Amudavi

Josephine Akia Luyimbazi

Venacia Wambua

Francis Nsanga

Dinah Amwayi

Ephraim Indeche

Hudson W. Shiraku

Lennox Ouma

Pamella Magino

Related Links

Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT)

Lead Coordinating Agency

PELUM Uganda

Co-Hosting Agency