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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.

Chief executive officer
Lake Victoria South Water
Works Development Agency