Job Position: Program Management

Mamadou Diaw

Mamadou is a Senegalese citizen currently serving as the APCD/Health for PC/Senegal. Mamadou has been with PC for 23 years, firstly as APCD/NRM and EE; and starting in 2008, as APCD/Health. Before joining PC, Mamadou worked for 10 years in the field of NRM for USAID and FAO projects. His work included community forestry, agroforestry, community based natural resource management, cartography, land use planning, ecology and land tenure. Mamadou was also an agroforestry trainer for the Senegalese Forest Service.

Mamadou earned a Master’s degree in Forestry Sciences from the University of Florence, Italy, followed by a post university degree in cartography and NRM. Mamadou was also trained in land and tree tenure at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Following his reassignment as APCD/Health, Mamadou undertook short courses in Senegal, France and Israel in nutrition, reproductive health, community health, maternal and child health, and water and health. In 2014, Mamadou earned a Master’s degree in environmental health from the University of Versailles, Paris. Mamadou is currently a PhD candidate from Paris Saclay Human and Social Sciences Doctoral School and has been carrying out a multi-disciplinary research on the factors influencing collective actions in community health.

Gbawu Woiwor

I am a Liberian with community development interest having previously trained as accountant. The issue of diseases continue to wreak havoc on mostly impoverished populations across the world. My development work requires that I put more efforts in networking with groups with expertise in these subject areas, hence my need for joining this network.