Dr Peter Moore is an international development consultant with experience that includes 25 years in BP and 5 years on the UK Board of ActionAid. His background includes scientific research, business development in Japan and a range of pressure group and charity activities focused on poverty. His 12 years in BP’s Group human resources team included research on HR strategy, developing BP’s approach to diversity, leading recruitment for the company, managing a global staff survey and internal consulting on staffing strategy up to Board level.

Peter left BP in 2003 and is working as a consultant on people and organizational issues, HR policy and governance in the context of global poverty. Consultancy assignments have included leading a global survey of Southern Sudanese professionals, advising on training and consultancy programmes to support the civil service of the Government of Southern Sudan, reviewing the staffing of Windle Trust Kenya, advising on the governance of Skills for Southern Sudan, work for part of DFID on its relations with civil society, advice on the staffing strategies of UNICEF and UNRWA and facilitation of reviews and team building events. He is the Vice Chair of the UK Board of ActionAid and a member of the Board of ActionAid International Kenya. He also contributes to ActionAid International’s governance development, country strategies and international HR strategy. He is the Chair of Brent Fairtrade Network. He lives in London with his wife and two children and travels frequently to East Africa.

Noroarisoa is the regional programme officer of UN/ISDR secretariat Africa Unit based in Nairobi. She is in charge of establishing and strenghtening national platforms in Africa, advocacy and publications of UN/ISDR Africa. She has a master in social work and before she joined UN/ISDR Africa in 2002, she had worked extensively with NGOs dealing with drought mitigation, emergency and relief.

Jacqueline previously served as Deputy Executive Director, Federation of Kenya Employers and Head of Human Resources and Administration, National Aids Control Council. Between 2002 and 2004, she served as Head of Human Resources, Kenya Airways Limited and Regional Human Resources Operations Manager, Unilever Kenya Limited between 1996 and 2001.

She is currently a Board member of The Electricity Regulatory Board; Higher Education Loans Board; Labour Advisory Board; National Industrial Training Council and Productivity Centre of Kenya.

She has given key presentations in high level conferences such as the ILO International Labour Conference – Leader of Employers’ Delegation; UN High Level Meeting on Labour Migration – Key Discussant; Leadership for the Customer, General Electric, New York; Accelerated Organisational Change, GECAS UK ; Peak Performance Training; Unilever Regional Managing Resources Courses, Durban, South Africa; International Management Seminar, Unilever PLC, London; An international forum on Equality for Women in the World of Work; Challenges for the future, organised by the International Institute for Labour Studies in Geneva, Switzerland; Labour’s Role in improving productivity organised by the Agency for International Development, Office of International Training – Washington, DC

She is married with 3 children.

James du Plooy has been with Capital Outsourcing Group for the last 5 years; developing and managing staffing solutions, for the Humanitarian sector. He has been involved in the Southern Africa Food Security response, assisting NGO’s in fleet staffing support in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Lesotho. Currently he is involved in the Sudan Humanitarian response; by supporting various NGO’s with solutions to sourcing and managing local and foreign staff working within Darfur and Southern Sudan.

He has gained essential experience in the numerous challenges faced when recruiting local staff, finding the right skill and sourcing from the local labour market. Although each country poses unique challenges, most share common solutions. The greatest successes have been with working together with the local and regional labour offices and having their support in assessment and recruitment of the local resources.

Through the continued efforts in developing practical solutions for the Humanitarian Sector, Capital has become a credible and viable solution to staffing in Africa

Born in Kakamega Town in Western Kenya in 1961 Lawrence joined East Africa Industries Limited as a Management Trainee in Commercial Department in 1988. After periods in commercial function in several departments, He was appointed Stock Controller in charge of national distribution of Company products (both Local and Exports) and was promoted in the job three times as a result of very good performance in the attainment of stock availability targets while achieving economies of scale and reducing the distribution cost per ton of product. His role later changed to Trade Service Centre Operations Manager.

In June 1992, Lawrence was again was promoted to the position of Personnel Administration Manager in the Human Resources Function. In May 1993, He was seconded to London for a six months project on Remuneration & HR Information systems for Africa Business Group. This was implemented in Unilever Ghana on a pilot basis and later rolled out to the rest of Unilever companies in Africa.

In October 1993, there was a major company-wide re-organization at management level. And Lawrence’s responsibilities changed and was promoted to the position of Employee Relations Manager for both East Africa Industries and Elida Ponds (K) Limited. In June 1996 He was promoted to the position of Human Resource Development & Training Manager and later joined the Board in the position of Human Resource Director for Unilever East Africa in April 2000. In 2004, the scope of his responsibilities broadened to include all Unilever businesses in East Africa, adding in Unilever Tea East Africa. Following further reorganization of the business in 2006, Unilever reviewed its operating boundaries to larger clusters.

He also hold the following positions: -

• Council Member, Institute of Personnel Management (K)
• Board member, Plaza Trust Ltd.
• Trustee, Union East Africa Trust Ltd.
• Council Member, AMREF

Lawrence is married to a a beautiful and inspiring wife, Jemimah, who has a PHD in Physiology & is a Senior lecturer at Kenyatta University. They have three beautiful daughters (Indira-16 years, Linda-14 years & Lenah-5 years. They enjoy travelling, leisure reading & farming as a hobby. Lawrence also has a passion for HIV/AIDS issues and was a founder member and Programme Director of the HIV/AIDS Private Sector Business Council – Kenya Chapter. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in Business Administration at Henley College, Brunel University on part-time basis.

Nilufa is currently work as a lecturer at the Advanced Nursing Studies Programme where she teaches the Leadership and Management module. She has been involved in the planning and development of the revised curriculum for the Specialist Diploma in Accident/Emergency and Disaster Management Programme. Currently, a member of the committee developing the curriculum of the MScN programme in specialist areas namely critical care nursing and Accident/Emergency and Disaster management she is also the programme leader for the Diploma in Accident/Emergency and Disaster Management and mentors and coaches students.

Victor Ako Mengot is the Regional Programmes Manager of Transaid and is responsible for the development and management of overseas programmes; production and dissemination of educational and training materials; and the promotion of transportation and logistics best practice to improve access to basic services and economic opportunities for poor people in developing countries. Completed Projects include Working in partnership with Save the Children (Southern Africa) to manage a research project and develop a regional strategy for emergency planning; Working in partnership with the Transport Research Laboratory to research and develop a strategy for improving urban transport systems in Uganda. The project was funded by DFID under the Knowledge and Research Programme; Working in partnership with the PATH Children's Vaccine Programme (CVP) to conduct a situational analysis and develop a strategy for improving access to primary health care and vaccine distribution in the Northern Region of Senegal. The Gates Foundation (GAVI) funded the project that also included local community empowerment programmes for improving access to basic health services; Provision of advice and support to the Uganda Ministry of Works, Housing and Communications on options for reviewing government legislation and the improvement of professional standards for Driver Trainers. MAN ERF UK funded the project as part of an employee fundraising initiative amongst others.

He is a member of CMILT (Chartered Member of the Institute of Logistics &Transport) and MCIM (Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and his articles and technical Publications include:

• Air Transport in Africa: Economic reality or political expediency – The Princewalean Journal Issue 2 1994 ISSN 1351 1882
• Transport and development: Financing Africa’s road infrastructure – The Princewalean Journal Issue 3 1995 ISSN 1361 1882
• Role of Transport in Africa’s Development – Issue 28 Mano Vision Magazine
• The Role of the European Transport and Logistics Industry in improving urban transport safety and regulation in sub Saharan Africa – A case study of Uganda – Conference Paper CODATU XI Bucharest April 22 – 24 2004
• Integrating Transport Management into Service Delivery – Asia Pacific Development Review Issue 1.4 2005

East Africa Region, World Vision Of Zimbabwean nationality, and a Political Science and Public Administration graduate minoring in Personnel Administration, Jacqueline joined World Vision in 2002 as HR Manager for the Zimbabwe Emergency Relief and Food Aid Program. Prior to current role in East Africa Jacqueline worked for WVI in Nyala, Darfur as HR Officer, Sri Lanka Tsunami Response Team as HR Manager and WV Southern Africa Region as HR Coordinator. She has a passion for relief HR and a member of the WV Africa Region Rapid Response Team.

In support of East Africa her current role provides effective, transparent and legally compliant international staffing services to a designated group of hiring managers in East Africa focused on delivering quality ministry to the communities and children we seek to serve. This is accomplished through the forecasting, sourcing, screening, assessment and placement of executive, professional and technical personnel in a timely and cost effective manner focusing on strong customer service orientation. The aim is to positively impact program delivery through working with the Hiring Manager and National Office HR to get the right candidate on board efficiently and effectively and reduce time to fill.

Prior to joining WVI she spent 6 years working with UNHCR & UNDP in the area of HR, Administration and Finance and provided occasionally support to offices in the region such as Malawi, Botswana and Zambia.

She is mother to an 8-year-old daughter named Mariama.

Jan Herremo was born 1966, employed by Ericsson since 1987. He has worked as a volunteer for Ericsson Response since the start 1999 and one-year full time with the Core team. He has been on missions in Algeria, Guinea, Liberia, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Sudan working together with organizations like WFP, OCHA, SRSA, IFRC and UNHCR. Jan is also active within the local Red Cross organization in Sweden.