Carole AVANDE HOUNDJO is a linguist of African languages and an advocate and activist for the right to education for youth and adults. She has coordinated the literacy and translation programme of the NGO Wycliffe in Benin for more than ten years. Since 2014, Carole has been the coordinator of the Pamoja West Africa Network. The Pamoja West Africa Network has members from 15 countries in Africa that promote the Reflect approach. Pamoja works to strengthen the capacities of civil society organisations to improve the quality of education in Africa. In addition to this, Pamoja promotes and advocates for the right to education of youth and adults in Africa.

Donia Benmiloud is the Regional Director of DVV International, North Africa. She has 20 years of experience in managing international cooperation projects across Asia, Africa and Europe -- focusing on economic and social inclusion; entrepreneurship; employment; training and education. She is a lifelong learner with a keen Interest in strategic thinking, gender issues, working with people at grassroot level ,as well as research planning, design and implementation.

David Harrington has worked in the field of education and adult education for the past 30 years, most recently as Regional Director for DVV International in Southern Africa. He also manages the team that established and is running the MOJA Adult Education Africa Platform. He has worked extensively with stakeholders in helping to establish an enabling environment for adult education, especially in Southern Africa, including the development of policies, strategies and curricula. However, his interests also include promoting and working with community-responsive education that recognises the value and contribution of non-formal education to community development.

Ivor Baatjes is Director of the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training (CIPSET), Nelson Mandela University and a member of the National Research Foundation’s SarChi Chair: Community, Adult and Worker Education (CAWE) awarded to the University of Johannesburg and co-hosted by Mandela University. His research interests include adult and community education; higher education; workers education; and learning in social movements.

Frauke Heinze is an international public health and adult education expert with more than 25 years’ experience in the international cooperation across Africa and Asia. Currently she is working as the Regional Director DVV International East/ Horn of Africa and has been involved in the design and establishment of Moja platform. She is passionate about enhancing national systems for quality health and non-formal Youth and Adult Education service delivery, and designing respective policies, implementation frameworks and curricula. She also has a keen interest in research and developing community-needs oriented education, skills development and behavior change interventions and trainings.

Prof Rebecca Nthogo Lekoko has been educated in Botswana, Canada and USA, first as a teacher trainer then adult educator. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a Doctor of Education in Adult Education, specialising in community development/empowerment and lifelong learning. She is the current Chief Editor of Ba Isago Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and has reviewed articles for a number of local and international journals such as Mosenodi, Adult Education Quarterly, Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, International Journal of Adult and Lifelong Learning and Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science. In her position as a Professor of Adult Education, her practices weave together diverse and pertinent issues pertaining to adult education such as education for empowerment, social mobilisation strategies and participatory approaches. She is also prominent in addressing issues of minority languages, education for marginalised ethnic groups, inclusive policies, especially for people with disabilities and older adults. She has published extensively locally and internationally and has attended many conferences serving as a presenter, a keynote speaker, chair of sessions and a discussant to the keynote speaker.

Chiraz Kilani - HDR Lecturer in Didactics of Sciences, teacher-researcher at the Higher Institute of Education and Continuing Education of Tunis. Authorized to direct research in Didactics of Sciences and Sciences of Education. Doctor from Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University. Director of the Supramolecular Chemistry and Science Didactics research unit. National coordinator and trainer with the team of the international foundation “Main à la Pâte” (teaching science at school with the Investigative Approach). Specialist and expert in the analysis of teaching practices. She is the author of several articles on the analysis of teaching activity. Auditor 21001; she also specializes (certified, ISO 29990) in the field of training in University and Didactic Pedagogy and she is an Expert in the training of adult trainers and lifelong learning.

Twine Hannington Bananuka is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Adult and Community Education, School of Distance and Lifelong Learning at Makerere University, Uganda. I hold a Master’s Degree and PhD in Adult and Community Education from Florida A&M University and University of KwaZulu – Natal respectively. My teaching and research interests are in areas of adult education and socioeconomic transformation, community development, Citizenship education, post-qualitative research methodologies, and innovative teaching and learning methods.

Houssem Bel Hadj is a Regional Expert of DVV International North Africa. He has an experience of 14 years in the fields of adult education, labour market, entrepreneurship and local development, working with several technical and financial partners. He is the Assistant Editor (French) of the MOJA Journal of Adult Education.