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ngela Kabiru is an independent consultant with 20+ years of local, regional and international experience providing policy advise, formulating and leading teams on programmes on decentralisation and local governance reform, public institutional strengthening and technical capacity development, urban management and development, local economic development, employment creation, skills and enterprise development for inclusive social and economic development and recovery.

She has worked for various local and international organizations like United Nations as Program Manager for UN Joint Program Local Government and Decentralized Service Delivery in Somalia where she provided strategic leadership to a team of international technical experts and national programme staff to implement ILO’s components to build the capacity of nascent local district governments to perform their decentralized functions with focus on core public expenditure management functions of planning, budgeting, budget implementation and service delivery with focus on infrastructure and public works, natural resource management and local economic development functions. 

She holds a Masters of Science from Western University, an MBA from Edinburg Business School – Heriot Watt University and Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from University of Nairobi. Angela is a champion for Local Governance, Decentralisation, Public Sector Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Development, and Decent Work for social change and economic growth.