Aline Mugisho

Aline Mugisho is the Executive Manager for the Innovative Youth in Agriculture Project (I-Youth). Before joining IITA, she worked as a Senior Project Manager for the European Youth Education Centre (EJBW) in Germany where she is also completing her Doctoral studies at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt.

She previously worked as a Senior Consultant on various programs funded by the USAID integrating gender and youth in agriculture such as Food Security Programme (FSP) and Food Security (FS). She has seasoned experience in youth empowerment and development, migration studies, gender and conflict resolution, diaspora dynamics, transitional justice, and participatory research.

She collaborated on various research projects at the University of Witwatersrand (African Centre for Migration and Society) such as Migrating for Work Research Consortium (MiWORC) and Regional Perspectives on Local Governance of Migration, Migrant’s Needs and Vulnerability and Migrant Integration and Social Cohesion Research Project.Ms Mugisho holds a master’s degree in Forced Migration Studies from Wits University and a bachelor’s in Journalism and Communication.

She has additional experience in project management, education, monitoring and evaluation, humanitarian assistance, conflict mediation and reconciliation, community development and capacity building. She is also a recipient of many awards Her region of expertise is sub-Saharan and the Great-Lakes Regions of Africa where she has worked in the past as a journalist, researcher, and activist.