AZANIA MBALI SENGWAYO

The Steering Committee provides oversight, strategic guidance, and leadership. It serves as the main decision-making body for CTA, tasked with:

• Supporting the Secretariat in implementing CTA’s strategy, including work plan development and budget approval.
• Identifying and improving communication strategies to enhance internal and external engagement.
• Ensuring alignment of CTA’s work with its overall mission and values.

The program invests in individuals within Southern Africa who bring new social justice oriented ideas that seek to disrupt inequality.

• Networked and built strong presence with peers to facilitate professional relationships.

• Streamlined information access by organizing and maintaining the board''s digital repository of documents, policies, and reports.
• Facilitated seamless onboarding of new directors through comprehensive orientation programs that included background materials, training sessions, and mentorship opportunities.
• Created and maintenance up-to-date board planning calendar to outline matters on board's agenda.
• Recorded and distributed minutes of meetings to reflect format and level of detail determined.
• Promoted effective communication with shareholders by assisting in the preparation and distribution of annual reports, proxy statements, and other donar materials.
• Assisted in planning annual retreats or offsite events for the Board, improving member engagement through team-building activities and strategic discussions.
• Promoted transparency by accurately recording all board actions in meeting minutes and circulating them to members for review.
• Contributed to a culture of continuous improvement by regularly soliciting feedback from board members and implementing changes based on their input.
• Maintained full contact list of board members, board member appointment dates, term of appointments and board member biographies.
• Maintained accurate records of director attendance at meetings, allowing for better oversight of individual contributions to the organization''s success.
• Managed sensitive correspondence among board members while maintaining strict confidentiality of privileged information.

• Support JASS’ Feminist Movement building processes
• Facilitate inter-circle knowledge exchanges within South Africa
• Document Women Crossing the Line stories
• Maintain and upkeep database of the Gauteng Feminist Circle and South Africa
• Co-facilitate and organize Feminist Popular Education sessions
• Maintained clear communication channels between all parties involved in the event planning process, ensuring timely updates and issue resolution.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth execution of large-scale events, resulting in positive feedback from partners.
• Prepared and presented comprehensive event summaries to stakeholders to provide highlights and developments.
• Adapted swiftly to unforeseen circumstances during events, implementing contingency plans that minimized disruptions to attendees'' experience.
• Monitored event budgets closely, making adjustments as needed to avoid overspending.
• Developed and enforced event timelines, ensuring all milestones were met on schedule.
• Participated in team meetings and staff training sessions.
• Entrusted to handle confidential and sensitive situations in professional matter.

• Revived the organization from dead into a feather award winning youth led organization within 7 months
• Ensured representation of LGBTIAQ+ persons within the Vaal
• Increased visibility and safe spaces of LGBTIAQ+ within the Sedibeng Municipality
• Ensured meaningful stakeholder engagements within the Vaal
• Secured an office space for the grassroot organization
• Developed a feminist and political education capacity program

• Led a team of 5 on promoting the Quadcare brand within the Vaal Region
• Initiated strategic partnership meetings with key business people within the region
• Successfully met the goal 30 patients per day
• Led with initiating first ever newsletter as the first publication of Quadcare

• Fundraised; wrote proposals for a number of projects
• Coordinates logistics for the 2020 Pan Africa ILGA Conference Ghana
• Drafted an operational plan for the conference
• Updated and verifies member information for our membership base
• Shares important information from all over the world to the members
• Shares newsletter
• Contribute towards the content of the newsletter

• Developed a tool for organisational development
• Coordinated and planned social dialogue
• Filled in fact files from hate crime cases reported
• Helped with logistics for Zwakala trainings and workshops

• Communicated effectively with multiple departments to plan workshops, dialogues, awareness campaigns and prides that created visibility of the organisation and exposed us to various other organisations
• Co-developed projects such as the social cohesion for the hate crime legislation and managed to get proposals sent through for its funding
• Developed innovative dialogues for the organisation
• Raised funds and organized Vaal Pride
• Effectively monitored cases of hate crime targeted at black lesbian womyn in the township