Clarisa Regede, Zimbabwe / United Kingdom.
Clarisa Regede is a public engagement and participation specialist with a decade of experience working on diverse humanitarian and healthcare issues in multicultural contexts. She is talented in solving community problems through efficient grant processes, prudent evidence building, deliberate stakeholder engagement and innovation.
She is a Global Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation Fellow with Accountability Lab Zimbabwe, scaling good governance and accountability mechanisms in Africa. A dynamic leader, she also coordinates healthcare delivery in Dorset in the United Kingdom, with a focus on community healthcare management and support. She is an active member of Torchlight Collective, working on HIV and SRHR evaluations, strategy and programmes. She is a qualitative researcher and enjoys using participatory approaches to research.
She has a passion for reproductive justice and is a board member of the Abortion Support Network, serving the United Kingdom and Europe. She is also a trustee of ROOTS Africa (Zimbabwe), ensuring women’s reproductive health rights are protected and respected. She has served as an adviser on meaningful youth engagement initiatives for young people globally, working with philanthropies and donors that include the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Clarisa’s most recent academic qualification is a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from SOAS University of London. In 2021, she was a fellow of the prestigious Mandela Washington Fellowship, representing Zimbabwe in the Civic Leadership track at Kansas State University.