in justice delivery as well as general human rights issues. She has also coordinated the
representation and at times participated in representation of human rights defenders at
courts as well as other public interest litigation court cases.
Dr. Rev. Ray G. Motsi - Thematic Area: Memorialisation
Dr. Rev. Motsi is the Executive Director of Grace to Heal, and one of the founders and
current Chairperson of Christian Alliance, Chairperson of Our Neighbours Ministry
(ONM), Member of the trustees for the Bulawayo Project Centre, Chairperson of the
Association of Evangelicals in Africa (AEA) Peace and Justice and Chairperson of
EPART. He obtained his PhD in Conflict Transformation from Pretoria University,
South Africa. He has worked with a number of organisations on peacebuilding and
conflict transformation in Africa including teaching at Mindolo Ecumenical and panAfrican Studies in Kitwe, Zambia, Peacebuilding in South Sudan among tribal groups
and United Nations Summer School in New York. He has assisted organisations
working on trauma healing in Rwanda and Burundi. From 1990 to 2010, he served as
the Senior Pastor at Baptist Church in Bulawayo and from 2009 – 2011 as the President
of the Baptist Union of Zimbabwe.
Memory Kachambwa - Gender
Ms. Memory Kachambwa is a development professional and women’s rights advocate,
with 12 years experience in establishing new initiatives, cross regional leadership,
training and consultancy. She is the current Executive Director of the Women’s Trust.
She is a Gender specialist by training with expertise in the areas of Program and
Administrative Management, Gender Based Violence, Gender Mainstreaming, Gender
Auditing, Gender Assessment, Women’s Economic Empowerment, Governance, Policy
Analysis, Peace, conflict management and transformation, Advocacy, Humanitarian,
Water Resource Management, Monitoring, Evaluation and Results based Management.
She has 8 years work experience in the United Nations System, working for UNFPA,
UNIFEM and UN Women. She co-facilitated the gender and mediation training of
JOMIC leaders of the youth, women and provincial secretaries from the 3 GNU political
parties, Coordinated the project on monitoring the GNU Global Political Peace
Agreement implemented by the Women’s Coalition. She is a trainer and facilitator of
UNSCR 1325 and associate resolutions. She also coordinated the Violence Against
Women pillar under the Gender Support Programme and was instrumental in lobbying
for the Domestic Violence Act as an administrator of the Gender Forum in Zimbabwe.
Memory is a fellow of the Fast Forwarding to the Future East and Southern Africa
Leadership Programme patroned by Graca Marchel. She is also co-founder and
convener of the African Young Women Leadership Caucus which promotes young
women’s participation in the Pan African dialogue and debate. In 2013 she participated
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