Biography: Boniface

My name is Lwanda Keya Boniface. I am a 30 year old Kenyan based young development professional consultant who is presently engaged in a human rights advocacy programme geared towards promoting social justice by linking environmental rights to social change. Besides, I am a freelance artist with vast experience in participatory educational theatre, choreography and film production.

I have a deeper understanding of participatory development processes and at least ten years practical experience in initiating, designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating community development approaches with grassroots organizations.

All these approaches have been community driven and have subsequently made sustainable use of available resources as well as Indigenous Technical Knowledge (ITK).Through such programs I have gained a lot of insight and experience in working with communities from diverse socio-cultural backgrounds, managing project reviews, studies and consultancies relevant for project development, development of proposals, operational budgets, detailed implementation work plans which have been used as implementation and evaluation guidelines.

Years of injustice, has denied local communities rights and freedoms and only a new development paradigm that places more emphasis on rights rather than poverty can correct this so that the government (other institutions) can stop regarding national parks, reserves, wetlands and un-alienated rangeland as their exclusive property that they can dispose of without regard to the public interest and rights of long established users and occupiers. I am a strong believer, in the school of thought that advances the rights-based approach to social change.

In effect, all development efforts must genuinely seek to create deeper awareness on the fundamental human rights and how the realization and denial of access to these interact to maintain the state of apathy and helplessness among our communities.

I have faith that through this blog I will be able to contribute my collective and individual thoughts and opinions on several global issues affecting our day to day lives especially in our third world countries.

My Contacts are:
Lwanda Keya Boniface
P.O. Box 517 – GPO 80100
Mombasa – Kenya
Tel. +254 722 407 543 /723 200 080
Email: jeybi2001@yahoo.com / lwandakeya@gmail.com