Clarisa Regede is a human rights policy specialist with 9 years experience of working on diverse humanitarian issues in multi-cultural contexts. She is currently a policy consultant working with grassroots organisations in Southern Africa, building their capacity to solve SRHR community problems through efficient grant processes, prudent evidence-building, deliberate stakeholder engagement, and innovation. She is an expert in global policy analysis work, innovative finance, non-profit management, philanthropy, agile leadership, agile fundraising, and strategy development. She has previously worked in sectors that include disaster preparedness and response, education in emergencies, refugee response, health, WASH, nutrition, protection, food security, and livelihoods programming. She has comprehensive experience with regards to working on the World Bank, UN, USAID, CDC, FORD, Global Fund, DFID, SIDA funded projects. Clarisa is skilled in engaging governments, policymakers, marginalised groups, and traditional and religious leaders as stakeholders in policy and law processes. She has served as an adviser on meaningful youth engagement initiatives for young people globally working with philanthropies and donors, that include the Children Investment Fund Foundation and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Clarisa's most recent academic qualification is a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from SOAS University of London and she is a fellow of the prestigious Mandela Washington Fellowship for 2021 representing Zimbabwe in the Civic Leadership track at Kansas State University.