Our People
The Secretariat
The Washington-based ACTION Secretariat is run by six team members. The Secretariat is the hub of the ACTION partnership and provides strategic support in key areas including communication and content expertise and coordination within our three primary issue areas: End the Epidemics, Healthy Start, and Equitable and Sustainable Systems.
ACTION Leadership Group
As a mission-driven partnership, ACTION connects to create strategies and conduct coordinated or joint advocacy because we can have greater impact that way, not because of shared funding. The leadership group is the body responsible for ensuring that the shared vision, mission, values, and strategic aims of the partnership are upheld; providing a venue to coordinate strategically across the partnership on joint advocacy campaigns and activities; overseeing and supporting the work of the secretariat, including financial oversight and fundraising support; ensuring that the partnership remains a "light touch," complementing the global and national level advocacy work of partners; and agreeing on the entry and exit of partners.
New Opportunities
ACTION has several open positions.
A short-term consultancy to develop a communication plan for the ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership
Three full time positions: a Program Assistant, a Senior Associate, COVID and a Senior Associate, ACTION
Our Coalition Engagement
Though ACTION does not play a traditional “coalition-building” role, we work with a diverse group of stakeholders to have greater impact and influence. To that end, ACTION partner staff sit on boards or on strategic working groups, and other bodies, such as:
Ending the Epidemics
Africa free of New HIV infections AfNHi
Joyce Nganga, WACI Health
Secretariat
Rosemary Mburu, WACI Health
Secretariat
Coalition to Accelerate and Support Prevention Research (CASPR)
Joyce Nganga, WACI Health
Member
Rosemary Mburu, WACI Health
Member
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Joanne Carter, RESULTS Educational Fund
Member, Developed Country NGO Delegation; Former Board Member; Former Committee Member for Strategy, Investment, and Impact Committee
Carol Nyirenda Kachenga, CITAMplus
Member, Communities Delegation; Former Board Member
Louis Da Gama, Princess of Africa Foundation
Member, Communities Delegation; Member, Administrative Working Group
Allan Ragi, KANCO
Former Member, Developing Countries NGO Delegation
Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN)
Joanne Carter, RESULTS Educational Fund
Chair, GFAN Steering Committee
Carol Nyirenda Kachenga, CITAMplus
Member, GFAN Steering Committee
Patrick Bertrand, GHA France
Member
Rosemary Mburu, WACI Health
Member
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Carol Nyirenda Kachenga, CITAMplus
Member, Union Communities Advisory Panel; Former Member, Affected Communities
Stop TB Partnership
Joanne Carter, RESULTS Educational Fund
Board, Vice-Chair
Aaron Oxley, RESULTS UK
Board Member, Developed Country Civil Society; Member, Executive Committee
Carol Nyirenda Kachenga, CITAMplus
Member, Communities Delegation; Former Board Member
David Bryden, RESULTS Educational Fund
Member, Developed Country NGO Delegation
Janika Hauser, RESULTS UK
Member, Developed Country NGO Delegation
TB Accountability Platform
Aaron Oxley, RESULTS UK
Co-Chair
TB Europe Coalition
Marine Ejuryan, GHA France
Board Member
Aaron Oxley, RESULTS UK
Member, Oversight Advisory Committee
Patrick Bertrand, GHA France
Member, Oversight Advisory Committee
UN HLM TB Accountability Working Group
Robyn Waite, Results Canada
Member
UNITAID
Bruno Rivalan, GHA France
Former Co-Chair, TB Working Group of the NGO Delegation
Carol Nyirenda Kachenga, CITAMplus
Member, Communities Delegation; Former Member, UNITAD Board
Louis Da Gama, Princess of Africa Foundation
Key Adviser, Communities Delegation
Healthy Start
African Leaders for Nutrition (ALN)
Rahab Mwaniki, KANCO
Member, ALN Working Group
African Union Commission Technical Working Group on RMNCAH
Fitsum Lakew
Gavi Civil Society Steering Committee
Patrick Bertrand, GHA France
Former Chair, Oversight Advocacy Group; Former Member, , GAVI CSO Steering Committee
Jack Ndegwa, KANCO
Former Member, Oversight Advocacy Group; Former Member, GAVI CSO Steering Committee
John Fawcett, RESULTS Educational Fund
Former Member
Global Financing Facility (GFF)
Joanne Carter, RESULTS Educational Fund
Civil Society Representative Member, Originating Investors Group; Member, Global Civil Society Coordinating Group; Former Member, Global Civil Society Steering Committee
Rosemary Mburu, WACI Health
Member, Global Civil Society Coordinating Group
Lightness Charles, HDT
Member, GFF Civil Society Coordinating Group Tanzania; Member, Global Civil Society Coordinating Group
Joyce Nganga, WACI Health
Member, Global Civil Society Coordinating Group; Member, GFF Civil Society Coordinating Group Kenya
Xochitl Sanchez, ACTION Secretariat
Member, GFF Global Steering Committee; Member, Global CS Coordinating Group; Chair, Global GFF CS Accountability Working Group
International Coalition for Advocacy on Nutrition (ICAN)
Various market leads, including participants from GHA France, RESULTS Canada, RESULTS Educational Fund, RESULTS UK, and the ACTION Secretariat
Xochitl Sanchez, ACTION Secretariat
Lead, Multilateral Financing Working Group
Micronutrient Initiative
Joanne Carter, RESULTS Educational Fund
Chair, Business Development Committee
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (PMNCH)
Chris Dendys, Results Canada
Board Member, NGO Delegation
Polio Advocacy and Communications Team (PACT)
Bruce Reilly, RESULTS UK
Member, UK Market Group
Mark Rice, RESULTS International Australia
Member, Australia Market Group
Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement
Sabina Rogers, ACTION Secretariat
Member, SUN Civil Society Network Steering Group
Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit 2020
Elise Rodriguez, GHA France
Member, N4G Advisory Group; Co-Chair, Accountability Working Group
Equitable and Sustainable Systems
5% Initiative
(soon to be 7% Initiative)
Patrick Bertrand, GHA France
Member, Selecting Committee
Africa Leaders Meeting (ALM) Working Group
Fitsum Lakew
G7 Structures
Margot Jaymond, GHA France
Former Lead, Health Working Group of the G7 Global Taskforce
G20 Structures
Rachael Hore, RESULTS UK
International Lead, C20 Health Working Group
Robyn Waite, Results Canada
Member, G20 Coordination Group
IHP+/UHC 4030
Peter Bujari, HDT
Member, WHO/UHC2030 Technical Network on UHC on Social Participation
Multilateral Financing Institution (MFI) Working Group
John Fawcett, RESULTS Educational Fund
Xochitl Sanchez, ACTION Secretariat
Pacific Friends for Global Health
(replaces the Pacific Friends of the Global Fund and now includes the Global Fund, Gavi, and UNITAID)
Amelia Christie, RESULTS International Australia
Advisory Board Member
Primary Health Care Strategy Group
Joyce Ng’ang’a, WACI Health
Member
WHO Advisory Committee on SDG3 Accelerator on R&D, Innovation and Access
Rosemary Mburu, WACI Health
National-level Structures
National Parliamentary Groups
Shiva Shrestha, RESULTS International Australia
Secretariat, Australian TB Caucus
Janika Hauser, RESULTS UK
Policy Advisor, UK All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on TB
Tom Guha, RESULTS UK
Policy Advisor, UK APPG on Nutrition for Growth
Harry Rogers, RESULTS UK
Policy Advisor, UK APPG on Vaccinations for All
Isaac Phiri, CITAMplus
Focal Point Person, Zambia Parliamentary Caucus on TB
Oscar B Mwaibabile, HDT
Focal Point Person, Tanzania Parliamentary Caucus on TB
Taryn Russell, Results Canada
Secretariat, All-Party Global Health Caucus
African Health and Wellbeing Initiative
Noriko Shirasu, RESULTS Japan
Coordinator
Canadian Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (CanWaCH)
Chris Dendys, Results Canada
Board Member
Taryn Russell, Results Canada
Co-Lead, CanWaCH Stakeholder Engagement Working Group
CONCORD
(EU umbrella organization for EU member states CSO development coalitions)
Bruno Rivalan, GHA France
Board Member
ICAN Canada
Kenneth Boddy, Results Canada
Co-Lead
MNCH Roundtable Steering Committee
Crickett Nicovich, RESULTS Educational Fund
Member
Polio Canada Group
Kenneth Boddy, Results Canada
Member
STOP TB Canada
Robyn Waite, Results Canada
Coordinator
Stop TB Partnership in Japan
Noriko Shirasu, RESULTS Japan
Co-chair
Stop TB USA Board of Directors
David Bryden, RESULTS Educational Fund
Member
SUN Movement Country Civil Society Alliances
Carol Nyirenda Kachenga, CITAMplus
Board Member, CSO SUN Zambia
Esther Kagure, KANCO
Member, Advocacy, Communication, Policy and Governance Subcommittee, SUN CSA Kenya
Tanzania Coalition for Demographic Awareness and Action (TCDAA)
Oscar B Mwaibabile, HDT
Member
Dr. Peter Bujari, HDT
Member
TB Roundtable
David Bryden, RESULTS Educational Fund
Co-chair
Thrive Coalition Executive Committee
Crickett Nicovich, RESULTS Educational Fund
Member