Eucharia Nkengafack

Eucharia Nkengafack works as a communications professional and gender equality activist. Eucharia believes that women and girls can overcome systemic barriers and stereotypes, gain access to their rights, and attain their full potential. She envisions using her communication and advocacy skills to showcase and promote a world in which people in all their diversity live dignified lives. 

Background:
Eucharia Nkengafack Actively works as a communications professional and gender equality activist. With six  years of experience as a communications professional within the non-profit sector, she has led several social media campaigns, community outreach and sensitization using community media ,establishing media partnerships, content creation, stakeholder communication and strategic information to promote positive change.  She envisions using her communications skills to showcase and promote a world in which people in all their diversity live dignified lives. 

As a firm believer in the rights of women, Eucharia in her previous role served as country coordinator of MenEngage Cameroon, a network of over 25 member organizations that work to engage men and boys for gender equality. During her time  of coordinating this network, she managed the SIDA Subgrant on attaining the SDGs from a human rights and gender justice approach in the Littoral, West and  conflict-affected Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon, reaching over 2000 persons in communities. She was liaison between the network and secretariat, organised and facilitated capacity building sessions. She also represented the network at local and international levels.  

While serving as communications officer for Reach Out N.G.O from 2019 to September 2023, Eucharia was responsible for the up-to-date  visibility of the organisation, external communications. She also managed the national communication campaign for the fight against hate speech and  xenophobia  in Cameroon in the Southwest Region in 2022.  In 2014, Eucharia was Junior parliamentarian and tabled a request to the parliament  for an increase in vocational training and employment opportunities for  young  Cameroonians. Her advocacy journey started in 2019 when she joined Reach Out N.G.O and worked with Esther Omam, a Global Pluralism Award Winner in advocating for an end to the Anglophone crisis. In 2020 she was among the thousands of women who engaged in peaceful match against the massacre of school children in Kumba, she join her voice that thousand of women’s voices during the First Ever National Women’s Convention for Peace in Cameroon, to advocate for sustainable solutions to peace in the restive regions.  

Before joining the civil society sector, Eucharia volunteer a reporter for The Post Newspaper and freelanced  for online media outlets.  Currently serving as regional communications and social media coordinator at Sonke Gender Justice headquartered in South Africa, her work experience spans from Cameroon, to other African countries with focus on Malawi and Uganda where she coordinates communications officers in documenting best practices, promoting visibility and works with the Power To Youth team in using intersectional approaches like Gender Transformative Approach -GTA, Meaningful and Inclusive youth Participation (MIYP) , in helping youths access their rights and become change agents in communities.  

Eucharia is open to learning, linking and exchange of ideas for impact.  Eucharia Nkengafack hold a double major B.Sc. degree in Women’s Studies with Journalism and Mass Communications and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Buea, Cameroon.  

Areas of expertise:
Communication, gender equality and feminism , youth leadership  

Current Projects:
The Power to Youth Program ​(PtY)​ started in 2021 and focuses on contributing to more adolescent girls and young women from underserved communities meaningfully included in all decision-making regarding harmful practices, Sexual and Gender Based Violence and unintended pregnancies. This program is implemented in seven countries of Malawi, Indonesia, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Senegal. The program aims at improving policy environment for young people, strengthening civil society organizations to amplify young people’s voice to claim, protect, and expand civic space. The program has done these through the different approaches like gender transformative approaches​(GTA)​, meaningful​ and inclusive​ youth participation​ (MIYP)​, scaling,​ and ​research among others. P​tY​ uses intersectional approach in a unique way through the active involvement of all the stakeholders in society that affect the life of adolescent girls and young women like media, societal actors, state actors/policy makers, civil society organizations, and young people themselves. Through the social ecological model, P​tY​ program niche is to ensure that interventions are implemented at all levels of the model (Individual, Interpersonal, Organizational, Community, and public policy levels)​.​

Affiliations:
Sonke Gender Justice https://genderjustice.org.za/ 
MenEngage Africa
Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists
University of Buea