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Chris Juma

Chris is a consultant on water resources development and previously worked as director,
water resources and as acting chief executive officer of the Lake Victoria South Water
Works Development Agency (LVSWWDA). He also represented Kenya as the Technical
Advisory Committee member of the Nile Basin Initiative (2015-2024) and served on the
steering committee of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Hydrological
Cycle Observing System and as a senior official on the Kenya team at the Lake Victoria

Basin Commission.
Chris has worked to empower the female staff at the Water Ministry including by
recruiting a female staff member to be his deputy and colleague at UNESCO and IAEA.
At the Ministry, at LVSWWDA, and when working on rural domestic water supply and
sanitation programs, he advocated for gender balance and inclusion of women in

decision-making positions.

As long as gender equality and inclusion
of women are not given the priority they
deserve, then the realization of the SDGs
and especially those goals touching on
water and the environment will not be
achieved.

Technical Advisory Committee member
Nile Basin Initiative