Technical Head|Community Wellness and Development

Dumisani  joined OLIVE LEAF Foundation in May 2009 as Technical Head for the Community Wellness and Development (CWD) programme; this programme comprises of six sub-programmes: viz., Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT), Parents Enhancement Programme (PEP), Community Capacity Enhancement Programme (CCEP), Abalingani Gender Programme (AGP) and the Most at Risk Populations (MARP). 

Before joining OLIVE LEAF Foundation, Dumisani worked for EngenderHealth SA as their Advocacy Technical Advisor; in this position that he held for five years he oversaw the organisations’ external relations activities including the design and facilitation of the communications and gender programmes. Dumisani was appointed Regional Co-ordinator for the MenEngage networks for East and Southern Africa, a position he held for two years. Dumisani has delivered presentations and conducted many skills-building workshops at various international conferences including the Barcelona World AIDS Conference in 2002; the ICASA conference in Nairobi, Senegal in 2003 (2008); the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2004 and PEPFAR’ s implementers  conference in Rwanda 2008. In April this year, Dumisani presented at the very first International conference on Boys and Men against gender based violence in Rio, Brazil.  As a gender activist, Dumisani helped EngenderHealth fundraise over $1m collectively for both the New York City and the South Africa offices.

He graduated from Damelin College with a diploma in Human Resources Management and went on to study community development with the University of South Africa (UNISA). Dumisani is currently enrolling for a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree with the University of Liverpool. He has three children, Ginny, Kulani, Sasekani and a grandson also called Dumisani.