Our delivery approach
We incorporate partnerships for our programmes and influencing work, working with Civil Societies, Community Based Organisations and Government Agencies.
The Regional Hub Leadership Team
Meet the Regional Hub Leadership Team dedicated to ensuring we create a world where we are all equal.
Roger Yates, Regional Director
Roger Yates has been leading the Regional Hub in the Middle East, Eastern and Southern Africa Region since 2018.
Roger joined Plan International over 10 years ago, back in 2009, as Director for Disaster Risk Management.
Prior to Plan International, he worked for local and international NGOs, the UN and governments of developed and developing countries mostly across East and Southern Africa.
Roger is a qualified engineer and started his career as a volunteer with a local NGO in Botswana in the 1980s working on a project providing solar desalinisation of water for remote communities in the Kalahari. He was also a member of the UN Humanitarian Coordinators Pool and of the UN Inter-agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction.
Email: roger.yates@plan-international.org
Angela Muriithi – Sub-regional Director, East and Southern Africa
Angela W. Githitho Muriithi leads the East and Southern Africa sub-region and is accountable for the coherent and consistent implementation of Plan International’s purpose and ambition of advancing children’s rights and gender equality across East and Southern Africa, in line with Plan’s values-based leadership and underpinned by feminist principles.
She ensures that quality, aligned strategies are developed and resourced for all countries in the region and programmes delivered with the expected impact.
Passionate about social justice, inclusive development, and tackling the challenges faced by girls and women, Angela has over 15 years of experience in the development and humanitarian sector.
She holds a PhD in Sociology of Education from the University of Cambridge, a Master of Philosophy in Politics, Democracy and Education from the same university, a Post Graduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management from University of Nairobi and a Bachelor of Education degree from Kenyatta University, in Kenya.
Email: angela.muriithi@plan-international.org
Charles Businge – Sub-regional Director, Middle East, North and Horn of Africa
Charles Mbeeta Businge leads the Middle East, North and Horn of Africa sub-region and also supports countries to ensure their strategies are developed, resourced and delivered with expected reach and impact.
Before joining Plan International, Charles served in various leadership capacities with Action Aid International (Uganda) including Regional Director, Head of Country Coordination (East and Southern Africa), Country Director and Head of education policy. He also worked as the Civil Society Advisor with The Department for International Development (DFID) now The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and with Government in the ministries of Trade and Industry and Justice and Constitutional affairs in Uganda.
He has over 30 years’ experience working in both international development and humanitarian contexts to address social justice issues.
Charles is a certified workplace mediator with achievements in managing and leading organisational change processes having led restructures, mergers, membership transitions, leadership transitions, development of new country strategies, programme reviews, policy analyses, advocacy and establishment of civil society support programmes.
He holds a masters degree in development studies and currently serves on several governance boards that include Raising voices (Uganda) focusing on children and women’s rights and Twaweza East Africa. He has also served on other boards including Action Aid International (Bangladesh) Fair Green and Global Alliance (Netherlands)
Email: charles.businge@plan-international.org
Samuel Musyoki, Regional Programme and Influencing Director
As the Regional Programme and Influencing Director, Samuel Musembi Musyoki oversees the quality of our work.
He is dedicated to harnessing best practices across the region with a primary focus on driving excellence, identifying and driving selected regional programme and influencing priorities. He also ensures the smooth running of programmatic communities of practice for enhanced sharing and learning and scaling up of best practices to ensure technical excellence region.
Samuel Joined Plan International in 2007 and has held different roles, including Strategic Director of Programmes as well as Interim Country Director for both Kenya and Zambia.
Sammy is an accomplished, self-driven international development practitioner and a visionary leader. He has over 30 years of experience in international development, organisational and change management and resource mobilisation. He has worked with a wide range of institutions including bilateral aid agencies, international and national NGOs and grassroots-based organisations in Africa, Asia, Middle East and Europe.
Samuel holds a masters degree in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies (IISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of Nairobi, Kenya.
He loves gardening and farming!
Email: samuel.musyoki@plan-international.org
Gilbert Kibet , Regional Finance Director
As the Regional Finance Director, Gilbert’s priority is to drive operational excellence in our finance function and ensure we maximise impact for the children we serve through protecting and leveraging the region’s financial resources.
Gilbert is responsible for enhancing our regional capability and capacity in financial planning and analysis, project, grants and sponsorship finance and financial business partnering.
As a Certified Professional Accountant, Gilbert brings over 18 years’ experience working in the NGO sector across East, Central, Southern, and Horn of Africa.
Prior to Plan International, Gilbert worked for Care International as the Regional Finance Director for the East and Central Africa Region where he was responsible for a multi-million operational and reporting portfolio within a complex, globally confederated entity comprising 21 member organisations and oversight of 15 country operations.
Gilbert started his NGO career at World Vision Kenya and later spent 3 years as Country Finance Manager for the Food for the Hungry in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Gilbert is very passionate about advocating for positive change and equality.
On a personal level, he is a soccer fan and derives immense satisfaction from connecting with nature.
Email: gilbert.kibet@plan-international.org
Duncan Eric, Regional Operations and IT Director
As the Regional Operation and IT Director, Duncan Eric’s priority is to maintain and improve organisational effectiveness and digital security in the region.
Duncan brings strategic support and thought leadership to shared services in the region including the human resource, IT, finance, procurement, logistics and administration shared services centres.
He also provides oversight and coordination of the regional work to strengthen business processes, adopt the new systems to take them online, improve digital security and online functional capability as well as oversee the regional supply chain function to support countries to adopt and adhere to the supply chain manual.
Duncan is an accomplished business-focused and result-oriented technology leader with over 16 years’ hands-on experience in leading and delivering IT strategies, business strategy alignment and digital transformation. He is skilled in the design and implementation of IT services, project management, Cyber security and vendor management aligned with the business operating model to achieve business outcomes and build technical capability.
Prior to Plan, Duncan was the Head of Cloud Technology Adoption, Africa at Oracle. He also worked at NCBA bank as the Head of enterprise systems where he oversaw the implementation of new ERP and enterprise data warehouse systems improving workflow and business efficiency and later successfully implemented a cloud-first strategy, reducing infrastructure costs by over 18%.
During his illustrious career, he has held various technical and senior management roles including Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Kenya Vision 2023 where he was instrumental in the transformation of the organisation’s ICT and business environment to better engage with the Government and other stakeholders as well as the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) as Senior Manager Enterprise Systems where he was part of the Project team that successfully digitised the process and transformed the port operations through the effective application of technology which led to transparency in business operations resulting in increased turn-around-time in goods clearance.
Email: duncan.eric@plan-international.org
Patricia Kashangaki , Regional People and Culture Director
As the Regional People and Culture Director, Patricia Kashangaki is dedicated to championing our values driven culture, bringing it to life through dedicated values-driven leadership as we build capable, motivated and engaged teams to deliver our purpose.
She works towards enhancing a high-performing, values-driven, and inclusive organisation in which employees enjoy a fulfilling career, one in which they know that they are contributing to advancing children’s rights and equality for girls in the region.
Patricia, who has served in her role for the past 9 years, supports MEESA leaders in shaping and nurturing strong teams, managing people related risks and building a capable People and Culture team in our countries in the region.
As a woman in leadership at Plan International, she finds daily motivation in our purpose to empower girls and women to have a voice and advocate for a world that eradicates gender-based violence.
Patricia has served in similar roles with other like-minded organisations including in VSO and AMREF previously for over 15 years.
Email: patricia.kashangaki@plan-international.org
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