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Malawi Fact-Finding Mission Delegates

Biographical Data

Mike Anane, Journalist
African Network of Environmental Journalists, Ghana

Mike Anane is an independent Ghanaian Environmental Journalist, president of the league of Environmental Journalist in Ghana and Vice president of the African Network of Environmental Journalists which has its secretariat in Nairobi, Kenya. Mike is the coordinator of FIAN-GHANA, he is also a Laureate of the United Nations Environment Progamme's Global 500 Roll of Honour for outstanding practical achievements in the protection and improvement of the environment.

Dr. Stanley Kaila
Agricultural Policy Research Unit , Malawi

Dr. Stanley Kaila holds years of experience in research, feasibility studies, project planning, monitoring and evaluation work for government, donors and NGOs. He has served as Executive Director for the government-owned Natural Resources College, Director of the Centre for Social Research at Chancellor College and lecturer at the Bunda College of Agriculture. Dr Kaila has also served on a number of national policy-making committees and is currently Chairman of the Special Law Commission for the Review of Land Related Laws in Malawi. His extensive consultancy work includes conducting impact assessments of the Special Programme for Food Security for the FAO and of the Pilot Operation of the World Bank sponsored Village Level Participatory Approach in the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation.

Betty Kaari Murungi, Fellow
Harvard Law School , Kenya

Betty Kaari Murungi is a visiting fellow in the Human Rights Program, HLS. She has served as Director of Urgent Action Fund-Africa since its formation in 2001. Since 1998, she has also served as legal advisor to the Women's Human Rights Program at Rights and Democracy, Montreal, Canada. She serves on the board of the Kenya Human Rights Commission, the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court (Den Haag) and is a past board member of The Federation of Women Lawyers-Kenya. Betty is a lawyer by profession and has extensive experience in the human rights of women, gender and governance.

Carole Samdup
Programme Officer, Globalisation Programme
Rights & Democracy, Canada

Carole Samdup is a Program Officer at Rights & Democracy, where she has worked since 1994 on issues related to "Globalisation and Human Rights". In that capacity, her areas of focus have been regional integration in Asia ; human rights in China, agriculture and the human right to food; and economic, social and cultural rights in multilateral processes. Before coming to Rights & Democracy, Carole worked in the private sector. Previously she spent ten years in northern India working with Tibetan refugees.  

Kevin Wilmut, Canada

Mr. Wilmut lived and worked in Africa from February 1998 through to August 2004, including four years in Malawi. As the Canada Fund – Malawi Coordinator, Mr. Wilmut worked under the direction of the Canadian High Commissioner. His responsibilities included providing small-grant assistance to community organizations and conducting project assessments, monitoring and evaluations. Mr Wilmut also supported community based organizations in the development of project implementation plans. In meeting these responsibilities, Mr. Wilmut worked with grass-roots organizations throughout Malawi.

Kofi Yakpo, Africa Desk Coordinator
FIAN International, Germany

Kofi Yakpo is the coordinator of the Africa Desk in the international secretariat of FIAN International in Heidelberg, Germany. In this function, he has been in charge of research, documentation, advocacy and intervention in cases of right to food violations in various African countries. Kofi also works on language and minority rights and has been involved in linguistic research on African languages.