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Hycinth Banseka

Hycinth is a Cameroonian who has worked for more than 20 years in mechanical
and agricultural engineering, water resources engineering and management as well
as climate change in Africa. He has worked on topics ranging from the
environment; water resources strategic planning; transboundary water resources
management; and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). He has also been a
lecturer at two universities in Cameroon, a field supervisor, and executive secretary
of Global Water Partnership Central Africa (GWPCA). He has been the technical
director of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) since 2021.

Hycinth integrates gender and social inclusion considerations into his work,
including by taking steps to recruit women in the workplace. During his work with
GWPCA, he and his team conceived and implemented a project on gender-
differentiated impacts of dental fluorosis and prepared gender-sensitive messages
and material about the condition. He and his team also mobilized resources to train
women in fluorosis-affected communities on climate information use and
adaptation to climate change.

Investing in gender-disaggregated data
generation is critical for tracking progress
on gender in the water sector. Moreover,
deliberately educating girls is a MUST if we
are to make progress on water sector
indicators in Africa.

Technical Director
Lake Chad Basin Commission