Olive Nazziwa is the Program Associate for Women First. She works closely with our East Africa and South Asia portfolio of partners. She leads in identifying potential candidates, conducting due diligence, reviewing grant proposals and reports, and carries out both onsite and virtual check-ins.

Prior to her work with Women First, Olive worked with a regional feminist organization operating in eight countries in the Greater Horn of Africa. She has worked with several grassroots organizations and informal groups of young girls and women including; teenage mothers, market vendors, tea sellers, domestic workers among others. Having been supported by a mother who was able to fend for the family through market vending, she understands and relates with the urgent need to holistically better the lives of women in the informal sector.

Olive holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Communication majoring in Communication from Makerere University and is currently pursuing a Post Graduate in Project Planning and Management at Uganda Management Institute (UMI).

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