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Flora Ufitinema is an accomplished development practitioner and gender expert with more than ten years of experience advancing gender equality, policy advocacy, and evidence-based community development initiatives. She brings to Grown To Help a strong record of leadership in project strategy, monitoring and evaluation, and multi-stakeholder coordination, with a deep commitment to empowering women, girls, and families across Rwanda.
Flora’s current professional work focuses on policy change, capacity building, stakeholder engagement, and strengthening learning processes within gender and masculinities initiatives. She has also coordinated major national programs such as Generation Gender Rwanda, where she guided strategic planning, research, M&E systems design, and collaboration across a wide network of partner organizations.
Her earlier career includes impactful work at Sustainable Health Enterprise (SHE), where she contributed to project impact assessment, data systems digitalization, and reporting frameworks to improve program efficiency and accountability.
She holds a Master’s degree in Gender and Development (University of Rwanda) and a Bachelor’s degree in Agri-Economics and Business. She is fluent in English and French, with Kinyarwanda as her mother tongue.
As Board Member for Gender & Policy Affairs at Grown To Help, Flora provides strategic leadership on gender mainstreaming, policy analysis, safeguarding, and the integration of gender-responsive approaches across the organization’s programs. Her passion for transformative change, combined with her technical expertise, strengthens GTH’s mission to promote equitable, inclusive, and sustainable development for communities in Rwanda and beyond.
