Our Team
Our team combines senior leadership, technical depth, and communications expertise across assignments that demand credibility, clarity, and disciplined delivery.
Leadership
Strategic direction, partnership stewardship, and executive oversight for high-trust assignments.
Executive Director
Dr Daniel Oloo leads CIDE Group's strategy, partnerships, and programme delivery across Africa. His work spans research, policy engagement, strategic communications, digital media, and AI in governance.
Focus: Strategy, Partnerships, Programme Delivery, and Policy Engagement.
Technical Advisory
Senior specialists leading thematic work across climate, education, safeguarding, inclusion, resilience, and programme design.
Lead, Environmental Sustainability & Climate Change
Lavender Ondere leads CIDE Group's environment and climate work, supporting integrated solutions across resilience, sustainability, and environmental systems change.
Focus: Environmental Sustainability, Climate Change, Resilience, and Systems Change.
Senior Consultant, Gender Equity, Diversity and Social Inclusion (GEDSI)
George Owuor is a senior GEDSI specialist supporting inclusive development, policy engagement, and rights-based programming across Africa.
Focus: GEDSI, Inclusive Development, Policy Engagement, and Social Inclusion.
Lead Consultant, Education & Lifelong Learning
Salome Wenyaa is a seasoned education specialist with over 30 years of experience across Kenya and the wider East African region. At CIDE Group, she advises on curriculum reform, education policy, and systems strengthening, with recognized expertise in CBC/CBA and ECDE.
Focus: Curriculum Reform, Education Policy, Education Systems Strengthening, and CBC/CBA and ECDE.
Communications and Knowledge
Advisors who turn strategy, evidence, and delivery insight into strong narratives, knowledge products, and visibility.
Communications Consultant (Communications for Development)
Sharon Kiboi supports communications for development work that strengthens public engagement, visibility, and programme communications.
Focus: Communications for Development, Public Engagement, Content Development, and Visibility.
Senior Communications Consultant (Writer/Reporter)
Mercy Kahenda is a senior communications consultant, writer, and reporter supporting clear, evidence-based storytelling and knowledge products.
Focus: Writing, Reporting, Knowledge Products, and Strategic Communications.
Associate Network
Beyond the core team, CIDE works with a wider network of associates and collaborators across Africa. That gives each mandate the right combination of local context, specialist expertise, and delivery capacity without forcing a generic structure onto the work.