Eileen Bogweh Nchanji is a gender specialist in the African Regional Office at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the Pan-African Bean Alliance, and is passionate about achieving gender equality and inclusive growth for all. Her mantra is ‘lifting women out of poverty by providing them with opportunities to jointly build their homes and the nation with their partners.’ She provides technical backstopping to ongoing gender-related activities on breeding, ICM, nutrition, markets, seeds and Knowledge management in 30 countries across Africa. She has an MA in Anthropology of Development from the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon, and a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany.
