Elizabeth J Yegon is the Head of the Gender Unit in the State Department for Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development. She leads gender mainstreaming efforts across policies, programs, and projects, ensuring gender-responsive policy formulation, dissemination, and implementation approaches. She also leads capacity-building interventions for internal and external stakeholders, including county governments, to integrate gender considerations into agricultural programming. In her role as the department’s gender focal person, she manages cross-departmental collaborations through the Technical Linkage Forum. She represents the department in key national forums, including the National Gender Sector Working Group and the Women’s Economic Empowerment Gender Sector Working Group.

Faith Mukutu is the Chief Executive Officer at Zambeef PLC. She is a senior Finance professional with extensive and diversified experience of more than 12 years, a comprehensive educational and training foundation and an exemplary career at leading national and international organizations.

Faith is passionate about winning and making a difference and she thrives in a successful environment contributing to overall management of the business, problem solving, idea generation, and coaching/unleashing true or great potential in others or my team members.

Sandra is an Ugandan farmer, agripreneur, and founder of the SlayFarmer Adventures, an initiative that inspires young people—especially women—to view agriculture as a profitable and modern career. She runs a fresh vegetable supply business, an innovation platform that connects farmers to better markets. Sandra is passionate about farmer exposure, agribusiness training, and empowering youth to build sustainable livelihoods through agriculture.

Through her farm tours and mentorship programs, she has impacted thousands of young farmers across Uganda by promoting practical learning, market access, and the power of storytelling in agriculture.

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Nelsy Affoum is a Research Uptake Analyst in the World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL). She focuses on translating evidence into action in the areas of agriculture and adolescent girls’ and youth employment. Before joining GIL, she worked with the Women, Business and the Law project on the Violence Against Women survey, analyzing legal frameworks related to domestic violence, sexual harassment, and child marriage in developing economies. Nelsy holds a master’s degree in International Economic Policy from The George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Queens University of Charlotte. She is a native French speaker.