Lifetime Awards Committee
About the committee
The African Philanthropy Lifetime Achievement Award committee is comprised of a diverse group of practitioners and academics who have a rich context of the philanthropy and social investment sector on the continent.
Selection criteria
In preparation for the annual conference, committee members convene to reflect and deliberate on the award and determine how to assess each received nomination against the following criteria
- Longevity in engaging with the philanthropy field
- Spread and scope of engagement include influence beyond one’s country, region, and beyond.
- Leadership in the field includes catalytic roles and mentoring others, among other leadership functions.
- Putting Africa First (aka pan-Africanist)
- Reputation
- Global influence and engagement with global philanthropies
- Thought leadership and knowledge building.
- Impact
- Contribution to the growth of the philanthropy infrastructure
- Engagement with the private sector and policy communities
- Advancing transformative philanthropy
Mamadou Biteye
Mamadou Biteye has over 30 years of experience in capacity building across Africa and beyond. His career has covered private and public sectors, with experience leading international development agencies. He has extensive expertise in Africa's development sector. This includes strategic leadership, program development and implementation, public policy analysis, advocacy and campaigning, and community participatory development. Biteye's commitment to social development is evident in his work...
Marwa El Daly
Marwa El Daly is the Founder and Chairperson of Waqfeyat Misr Foundation, Egypt’s leading Waqf Foundation. She is also founder and chairperson of Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation (WMCF), which is the first Community Foundation in Egypt and a pioneer initiative for reviving and modernizing the Waqf / traditional endowment-model that used to be the backbone of civil society in Egypt and the Middle East for centuries. She is the first recipient of the Rockefeller and ISTR’s...
Emmanuel Kumi
Emmanuel is a researcher and development practitioner with over 10 years working experience in the field of civil society financing and resource mobilisation. He has multidisciplinary research and policy interests in NGO management and sustainability, civic activism, lobby and advocacy, development cooperation, aid architecture and policies, philanthropy, civil society capacity building. As Researcher and an Independent Consultant, he has undertaken research and consultancy services in...
Nicolette Naylor
Nicolette Naylor is a Pan African feminist lawyer and senior philanthropic executive who works at the intersection of justice, feminism and philanthropy. Her work has focused on increasing resources and financial support for civil society in the global South and a commitment to strengthening the feminist funding ecosystem for Black and Indigenous feminist movements as well as LGBTIQ+ and gender expansive movements. She is provides consultant support to philanthropic organizations, feminist...
Akwasi Aidoo
Akwasi Aidoo is a philanthropy professional and also engages in creative writing in his spare time. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Humanity United, and was the founding Executive Director of TrustAfrica. His other previous positions include head of the health sciences program of the International Development Research Center (IDRC) in West and Central Africa, Director of the Ford Foundation’s offices in Senegal and Nigeria, Director of the Ford Foundation’s Special Initiative for...
Sarah Mukasa
Sarah Mukasa is a pan Africanist feminist with over 20 years’ experience in leadership and management at senior levels in the not for profit sector in Africa and Europe. Until January 2024 she was the Division Director for Women’s Rights at Open Society-Africa where she led in the development of programs that address gender justice at the intersections of race, ethnicity, age, class, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity. Sarah also served as the Deputy Director at the Open...
