Africa Regional Funds Coordinator

Tabara Ndiaye has more than 20 years of experience in international philanthropy, supporting rural women and their organizations in French-speaking Africa in the promotion of agroecology and the transition to agroecology. Tabara is active in various platforms at local, sub-regional, and regional levels of the African continent on rural women’s seeds and knowledge, land rights, climate justice, feminist agroecology, and healthy food systems. She has close links with the culture and environment of rural women and understands the challenges they face as well as their prospects for the future. Previously, she worked with the New Field Foundation for ten years, developing its grantmaking program for rural women and their organizations in French-speaking West Africa. Tabara was a Senior Program Officer at the American Jewish World Service (AJWS) responsible for Land, Water & Climate Justice, and Civil and Political Rights Programs in Senegal and DR Congo. She is a board member of the Fund for Global Human Rights and is a Strategic Advisor of the Global Fund for Women and The African Women’s Collaborative for Sustainable Food Systems.