CDSJ brings together African leaders, practitioners and specialists who combine strategic stewardship, constitutional accountability and hands-on delivery in service of people-centred development.
CDSJ’s current structure distinguishes long-term strategic stewardship from constitutional governance and operational delivery. Each layer has a different mandate, but all three work together to protect the mission, strengthen performance and remain accountable to communities and partners.
Provides high-level direction, external perspective and strategic support for CDSJ’s long-term development and positioning.
Exercises the organisation’s formal governance and fiduciary oversight in line with its Constitution and the laws of Lesotho.
Translates strategy and policy into programmes, partnerships, research, operations and measurable public value.
The Board strengthens long-term direction and external stewardship; the Executive Council protects constitutional, fiduciary and institutional accountability; and Senior Management and Staff deliver the work and report on performance. This separation clarifies responsibility while keeping strategy, governance and implementation connected.
This structure reflects CDSJ’s current leadership and accountability arrangements and will remain aligned with institutional practice as the organisation develops.
Explore each leadership group below. Individual profiles provide fuller professional backgrounds while this page remains a clear overview of how people contribute to CDSJ.
Senior leaders supporting CDSJ’s long-term direction, partnership development, resource mobilisation, institutional growth and continental positioning.
Over 24 years in international development, public health, child protection and GBV programming, including Chief of Party experience with major USAID-funded portfolios.
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DrPH candidate with more than 25 years in global health, safeguarding, GBV prevention and child protection across multilateral and development institutions.
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Human-rights and public-health specialist with more than 20 years across Southern and East Africa in research, monitoring, learning and organisational development.
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Public-health, HIV, SRHR and gender-equality leader with more than 24 years of experience across the United Nations system and the African region.
View full profile →Council members responsible for formal institutional oversight, policy, compliance, stewardship, organisational accountability and safeguarding CDSJ’s mandate.
Lawyer and human-rights practitioner with experience in gender justice, public-interest legal programming and institutional leadership.
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Constitutional-law specialist and PhD candidate with more than 15 years in legal practice, labour rights, gender justice and governance.
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Finance and banking professional bringing experience in accounting, transactional banking, financial stewardship and civil-society governance.
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Senior development leader with more than 25 years in public health, youth development, social and behaviour change, management and institutional coordination.
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Public-administration and programme leader with extensive experience directing complex, large-scale development portfolios and institutional systems.
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Human-rights lawyer and sustainable-development practitioner with leadership experience in gender equality, governance, justice and systems reform.
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Public-health and strategic-information leader with two decades of experience in monitoring, evaluation, infectious-disease programming and executive management.
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Journalism, communications and public-engagement specialist with newsroom management, copyright-sector and higher-education experience.
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Programme coordination and RMEL practitioner with more than 10 years across gender justice, public health, HIV, TB and child-protection initiatives.
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Community-engagement and field-programming practitioner supporting MenEngage dialogues, positive masculinity, training, data collection and violence prevention.
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