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Is Africa Ready for Transformational Change?

Provisional Notes On the Post-Colony – Lessons from Asia It is commonly stated that in the 1960s, at a point when many African countries were fighting and obtaining their independence, a number of African countries were at the same level of development, if not doing better than some of...

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September 12, 2016Is Africa Ready for Transformational Change?

From the President of the FFLC

Provisional Notes On the Post-Colony – Lessons from Asia It is commonly stated that in the 1960s, at a point when many African countries were fighting and obtaining their independence, a number of African countries were at the same level of development, if not...

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FFLC Nov. 2020 Book Drive

December 5, 2020November 2020 Books Donation to Schools in Lassin, Noni Cameroon

From the President of the FFLC Youth Education

The year 2020 has been a particularly challenging year for the Fisiy Foundation & Leadership center (FFLC) as the political crisis in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon intensified with no end in sight. Since 2016, schools in the two Anglophone regions of Cameroon have...

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Maninder Gill is currently Director, Change Management in the office of the Vice Presidency for Change, Knowledge and Learning. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Gill was Sector Manager in the Sustainable Development Department of the World Bank’s Latin America and Caribbean Region, a position he held from September, 2008 to January, 2013. Before joining the Latin America and Caribbean region, Mr. Gill held the same position in the Europe and Central Asia region of the Bank for about four years. Earlier, he also worked in the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Vice-Presidency for four years as the point-person for the World Bank’s work on issues related to Involuntary Resettlement and Indigenous Peoples.

Prior to joining the Bank in 1993, Mr. Gill worked in the Indian Administrative Service in India, where he held a number of positions including CEO of a medium-sized city, Rural Development Coordinator, and District Administrator. As one of his assignments, he headed the project organization in Maharashtra state for the tri-state Narmada Dam Project in Western India, where, among a host of other responsibilities, he was in-charge of the resettlement of about 25,000 indigenous peoples affected by the construction of the dam.

Jeffrey Thindwa is Manager of the Social Accountability Practice in the World Bank Institute (WBI). He joined the World Bank in 2000 as Senior Social Development Specialist, later becoming Team Leader of the Participation and Civic Engagement Cluster, whose mandate was to support the design and integration of stakeholder participation in Bank financed operations as well as social accountability, towards improved transparency and accountability.

In 2009 he joined the Bank’s South Asia Region Social Development Unit, working with operations teams to integrate social accountability in projects while task managing the ‘Program on Accountability in Nepal’ which supported social accountability by Nepalese CSOs through grants, capacity building, knowledge management and learning. Mr. Thindwa studied in Malawi and the United Kingdom, and began his career as a Legal Aid lawyer in the Malawi Government, subsequently practicing law in the private sector. He has 17 years of broad international experience working in civil society based in Malawi, the United States and the United Kingdom where his last assignment was with World Vision UK as Director of International Programs.

Cyprian Fisiy is the Founder and CEO of the Fisiy Foundation and Leadership Center (FFLC) registered in Washington, DC.

Before his retirement at the World Bank in December 2013, Mr. Fisiy was Director of the Social Development Department, which offers advisory and operational support, research and innovative thinking in diverse areas at policy, programs and project management.

Mr. Fisiy joined the Bank in 1994 as a Social Scientist in the Africa Environment Sustainable Development Department. He held various positions, including that of Lead Social Scientist for the Africa Poverty Reduction and Social Development. He later became the Sector Manager in the East Asia and Pacific Region Sustainable Development Department.

Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Fisiy was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Agrarian Law, University of Wageningen, the Netherlands. He also worked for 10 years as a research fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences, Yaoundé, Cameroon.