Lilian Dodzo is Regional Vice President & Regional Director, World Vision East Africa Region. Lilian has over 20 years’ experience in international development and humanitarian leadership in Africa, having worked as the National Director for World Vision in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Mali and Mauritania, as well as working for the World Vision West Africa Regional Office in Senegal. She also has worked in international relations leadership roles for the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), the United Cities & Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA), the World Bank Institute’s Municipal Development Partnership for Africa (MDP-A), the Africa Capacity Building Foundation
(ACBF) and the United Nations Development Programme’s Regional Service Centre for Africa (UNDP-RSCA). Lilian has lived and worked in various African countries that include Benin, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Zimbabwe. As such, she has a wealth of knowledge and experience in development, programme management, humanitarian operations, resource mobilization, communication and advocacy, strategic and risk management, as well as faith and development across the continent.
Lilian’s personal mission is to foster high-quality, high-impact development and humanitarian programmes that make a significant contribution to poverty alleviation, sustainable transformation and a stronger civil society. She strongly believes in building a culture of risk management in all her work, including championing agility and flexibility in strategic planning that allows for flexibility and adaptive management to respond to any changing landscape or context. This has become a passion for her as she has worked in countries that are prone to fragility, volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, oftentimes resulting in multiple crises that call for agility and responsiveness, while effectively managing risk.