Dr. Darius Mans, President, Africare
“NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: The Africare Experience”
Thursday, September 9, 2010
2.40 pm – 4.00 pm
Bell Hall, Belfer – 5th Floor
Harvard Kennedy School
Note: A student discussion with Darius Mans will be held at 10 am on September 9 (in Belfer L1). Sign up with sherine_jayawickrama@harvard.edu.
Dr. Mans will talk about how NGOs work alongside poor communities and developing country governments to advance the MDGs, how they leverage resources from the private sector and philanthropists, and how project level work can be scaled up for broader impact. He will focus particularly on MDG 7 which touches on access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The particular effort Dr. Mans will discuss in Ghana is partly funded by President Obama’s Nobel Prize money.
Dr. Mans became President of Africare in January 2010. He has over 30 years of experience in international development and came to Africare after having served as Vice President of Implementation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and as Acting CEO of the MCC prior. Prior to that, Dr. Mans held various positions at the World Bank (including as Director of the World Bank Institute), in the U.S. Federal Reserve System and at KPMG. Darius Mans has a PhD in Economics from MIT and was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Maryland at the beginning of his career.
Founded in 1970, Africare is the oldest and largest African-American led NGO working in Africa. Africare works in some 25 countries throughout Africa in four principal areas: agriculture and food security; health and HIV/AIDS; water, sanitation and hygiene; and emergency humanitarian assistance.
