Ms. Bassasso Ali Tiloh

Programme Officer, Counter Trafficking and Child Protection, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

H.E. Mr. Tsegaye Asmamaw

Vice President, Federal Supreme Court, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Dr. Assefa Bequele

Executive Director, ACPF

H.E. Honorable William Byaruhanga

Attorney General, Republic of Uganda

Maître Malick Coulibaly

President of the National Commission on Human Rights, former Minister of Justice, Republic of Mali

Professor Jaap Doek

Professor of Law, Vrije University, Amsterdam

Ms. Rumbidzai Dube

Senior Programme Officer, Children and Law Programme, ACPF

Mr. Edmund Foley

Head of Department for Public Law, Ghana Institute of Public Management

Ms. Beatrice Gacengo

Programme Specialist, Online Child Sexual Exploitation, ECPAT International

Mr. Ayalew Getachew Assefa

Senior Legal Researcher, ACERWC Secretariat

Dr. Michael Gibbons

Programme Director, Children’s Rights/Education, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

Ms Zita Hansungule

Senior Project Coordinator, Center for Child Law (CCL), University of Pretoria

Ms. Kristen Hope-Burchill

Justice Advisor, Terre Des Hommes

Mr. Alex Kamarotos

Executive Director, Defence for Children International

Mr. Abdul Manaff Kemokai

Executive Director, DCI Sierra Leone

Mr. Henry Kabwe

Executive Director, Media Network on Child Rights and Development (MNCRD), Zambia

Ms. Lynn Kay

Country Director, Retrak

Mr. Benoit Van Keirsbilck

Director, DCI-Belgium

Ms. Tina Lorizzo, Researcher

Dullah Omar Institute/Article 5 Initiative (DOI/CSPRI)

Honourable Justice Teresia Matheka

Judiciary, Kenya

Dr. Shimelis Tsegaye

Head, Child Development and Protection Programme, ACPF

Dr. Shimelis Tsegaye is the Head of the Child Protection and Development Programme at the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), responsible for programmes related to violence against children, child protection systems, family empowerment, child-headed households, and disability. Dr. Shimelis has coordinated the first two editions of the African Report on Child Wellbeing and contributed chapters to all existing editions of the Report as well as co-authoring and co-ordinating the preparation of the African Report on Violence against Children and the African Report on Children with Disabilities.  

Dr. Shimelis has contributed to African and global agenda-setting processes as a member of global and African child protection working groups. He has led the conceptualization and recent establishment of the African Partnership to End Violence against children, an African platform for collective action on ending violence against children.  

He is also the author of a number of research reports on various issues, including on disability, child protection, child poverty and child wellbeing. Dr. Shimelis holds a degree of Doctor of Education from the University of South Africa (UNISA).

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