Introducing Washington Matika, the New CS Pact Lead

[Daniel Molokele]

Dear Colleagues

 

I am so happy to confirm the appointment of Mr. Washington Tasangana Matika as the new Civil Society Pact Lead as from 1st June

 

He will be the assuming this role till the formal end of SARPAM in December 2014

 

I have more than enough faith in him as my successor since he has been working closely with me from the time I joined SARPAM in May 2011

 

Further, he has been working more closely with me this year since he assumed the role of the regional CAF Co-ordinator in December 2013

 

May I wish Mr. Matika all the best of success during his tenure

 

His contact email address is as follows: washi...@sarpam.net

 

Please also find below a brief profile of Mr. Matika for your own information

 

Washington is qualified social scientist specialising in advanced social justice and policy analysis.

He was part (Chairperson) of the group that created and developed the Tendai project, a civil society initiative to gather information/evidence on access/availability of medicines and health delivery services in SADC countries with a view to use that data to influence policy changes to improve health delivery services within the region.

He is the Coordinator of the Regional Consumer Action Forum. One of the key objectives of the Regional CAF is to develop a resource mobilisation strategy to fund efforts of the CS to scale up consumer action on improving access to medicines considering all available options in the SADC region

In the past 5 years he has participated in building a broader network of community-level civil society organisations participating in advocacy, awareness, information-gathering and conversations about access to medicines and health delivery services in Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, and connect this to networks across Southern Africa (Zambia, South Africa, Lesotho and Mozambique).

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Mr. Daniel Molokele

Civil Society Partnerships Co-ordinator

SARPAM

Southern Africa Regional Programme on Access to Medicines and Diagnostics 

 

phone: +27 11 880 6993

fax: +27 11 880 6980

mobile: +27 (0) 72 947 4815

skype: daniel.molokele1

www.sarpam.net 

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