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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