Charity Namara

Technical Advisor, Capacity Strengthening

Charity manages WomenStrong International’s Learning Lab and support activities that promote community-building, peer learning, and capacity-strengthening among Learning Lab partners.

Charity Namara is the Technical Advisor, Capacity-Strengthening, at WomenStrong International.  She manages WomenStrong International’s Learning Lab and support activities that promote community-building, peer learning, and capacity-strengthening among Learning Lab partners. Charity leads all learning activities and processes, serves as the primary point of contact for all partner needs and requests, provides technical support, and finds opportunities to increase Lab visibility.

Her areas of expertise includes working with women’s rights organizations; partnership- and relationship-building with women’s rights organizations; pressing the government and private sector to address women’s rights issues; and gender equity programming in the areas of gender-based violence, sexual reproductive health, women’s leadership, women’s economic empowerment, and youth empowerment.

Prior to joining WomenStrong International, Charity worked with Oxfam, as the Country Women’s Rights Advisor for Uganda; Plan International, as the Gender Policy and Advocacy lead on sexual reproductive health rights and gender-based violence; and World Vision Uganda, as the National Gender and Development Advocacy Officer. In all these roles, Charity led each organization’s strategic direction on shaping gender strategy, intervention, and mainstreaming quality programming on women’s rights. She has led efforts on partnership management including mobilizing, nurturing, and working with women’s rights organizations. She also participated in advocacy efforts to advance women’s rights and gender equality in Uganda, specifically on girls’ education and gender-sensitive legislation that protects the rights of girls and women and addresses unpaid care and domestic work.

Charity has a Master of Arts in Gender Studies from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. She is also an alumna of Makerere University in Uganda, where she graduated with an Honors Degree in Social Work and Social Administration. Charity is a recipient of the Obama Fellowship for Young African Leaders (2015) and the Chevening Scholarship (2020/21). The fellowship and scholarship offer unique opportunities for future leaders, influencers, and decision-makers all over the world to develop professionally and academically, network extensively, and to experience the USA and UK culture.