Meet the Board - Smart and Caring Girls

Getrude Dyabene is an Advocate with experience in public policy, governance, law, litigation, Legal and bill analysis, management, gender, and Health issues. She has experience in trainings, community mobilization and capacity building on issues of Human Rights, women rights, children rights and gender. As the Senior Program Officer for Gender, Women, Children and PWDs Getrude has vast knowledge on issues related to legal analysis, legal practice, Democracy, women representation, violence against women and children, disability rights, . child protection, Women political participation and Leadership, gender and gender mainstreaming, advocacy, and Human Rights in Tanzania. She is a feminist who tirelessly works for the emancipation of women in all dimensions especially women leadership and representation.

Hellen has completed her Postgraduate Diploma in Management of Foreign Relations at the Center for Foreign Relations and B.A in Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Dar es salaam. Further, she completed a Certificate in Asset Based and Citizen Led Development, The Future of Work and Workers as well as the Social Enterprises Certificate all at Coady International Institute St. Francis Xavier University. Hellen has received awards and honors from China-Africa Youth Festival-China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, Data Story Telling, Tanzania Data Lab, dLab & D4D, Uongozi Leadership Program- East Africa Uongozi Institute, Change in Tanzania World Camp-International Youth Fellowship and Kilimanjaro Model of United Nations General Assembly (KI-MUN-GA)-Youth of the United Nation Association.Apart from that, Hellen has attended different pieces of training and workshops in and outside the country, which managed her to acquire high negotiation skills, listening, debating, exchange for learning, lobbying, advocacy, persuasiveness, and confidence to deal with people in person, phone, and the Internet. Hellen has a career as a Researcher, Transcriber and Translator, Project Coordinator & Implementer, Consultant, Election Observer, Report Writer, Advocacy, Lobbying, Presentation, Facilitation, and Event Coordination Skills.

Jackson Massawe holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Morogoro, Tanzania.
with more than four years of experience working with Non-Government Organizations from Tanzania and East- Africa ( HIVOS & PACJA) particularly in research, policy advocacy, campaigns and movement building around gender Equality, Social Inclusion, Climate Change and Energy at both local Government Authorities (LGA’s). He is an experienced analyst with over five years of experience in enumeration, transcribing & translation of audios and texts from Swahili to English and vice versa, data entry, data cleaning interpreting and analyzing a ( quantitative and qualitative) large set of data that communicates the results in an efficient, impressive and valuable way to a different level of consumers.