Job Search Client Services Practice Areas About Us Content Centre Case Studies ADVANCING DIVERSITY IN LEADERSHIP Africa Based in Nairobi and London, our Africa team is dedicated to helping organisations find qualified, top-performing executives for Africa-based roles. We work across the continent with social change organisations, multilateral and intergovernmental organisations, NGOs and foundations in a wide range of sectors and disciplines, from organisations supporting post-conflict recovery and reconstruction in fragile states, to those promoting responsible trade, and improved agribusiness practices and incomes for small farmers. We specialise in sourcing candidates with a private sector ethos, who are motivated to work in the increasingly complex international development arena. We are known as the ‘go to’ agency for hard to fill roles and we are proud of our success in placing African candidates in 90% of the roles we have filled in the last two years. We are heavily invested in continuing to build our already extensive network across the continent and forming critical partnerships with multilateral funding institutions and government institutions to further economic development in the region. Our team is drawn from experts who have all worked and lived in Africa, understand the market for talent in Africa and have the crucial knowledge and networks needed to find the leaders who will address Africa’s unique challenges. of placed candidates in the last two years were African nationals With our diverse, international staff complement, and over 140 years’ collective experience of working in Africa, we are well placed to understand the major social and economic development issues facing the continent and to provide a high calibre service in support of HR and more specific leadership issues. We understand both the opportunities and obstacles to achieving the SDGs in Africa including issues related to improving livelihoods and the business environment, regional integration, the role of transformational technology, state governance, climate change, health and education. Our team strives continuously to further its understanding of the issues and is dedicated to working together with you in the search for a better world. A selection of our experience in Africa + − Leaflet | © OpenStreetMap contributors Judith Sequeira Regional HR Manager Gatsby Africa Gatsby Africa aims to accelerate inclusive and resilient economic growth in East Africa by demonstrating how key sectors can be… READ MORE VIEW ALL CASE STUDIES Our Africa Team Our Latest Africa Posts Latest news from Africa Mauritius insists Covid is under control. Hospitals tell a different story by Ariel Saramandi on 30 November 2021 at 1:03 pm Is the government hugely undercounting and understating its Covid surge? Officially, Mauritius has recorded 21,325 positive cases and 457 deaths from Covid-19, as of 28 November. Both these numbers are relatively low and manageable. Unofficially, the island’s healthcare system is completely overwhelmed. According to a deluge of stories – many given anonymously – on radio stations and in the press, people are being turned away from hospitals. Private clinics have opened their wards but are running out of beds. Patients aren’t being changed or bathed, and hospital staff aren’t giving families accurate accounts of their conditions. Nurses are suffering from The post Mauritius insists Covid is under control. Hospitals tell a different story first appeared on African Arguments. The cynical realpolitik of the War on Terror: Uganda 2021 edition by Kristof Titeca &#38; Eric Mwine-Mugaju on 29 November 2021 at 2:22 pm The Kampala bombings will likely mean more counter-terrorism ops, more human rights abuses, and more donor support for the Museveni regime. In the last few weeks, Uganda’s capital Kampala has been shocked by several bomb attacks. The most recent came on 16 November, when a trio of suicide bombers – one outside police headquarters, two near parliament – killed four people and wounded dozens more. The Ugandan government has blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which the US recently designated a terrorist organisation, for the bombings. So-called Islamic State, which considers the ADF an affiliate, has claimed responsibility for some The post The cynical realpolitik of the War on Terror: Uganda 2021 edition first appeared on African Arguments. Rich countries can’t feign shock if the next variant goes undetected by Jess Auerbach on 29 November 2021 at 12:18 pm South Africa’s openness helps the world’s pandemic response. The Global North’s rejection of WHO advice in imposing travel bans endangers it. As southern African countries reel from the impact of recent travel bans, it is hard not to feel a familiar rage rise up. South Africa’s excellent science, effective vaccination roll-out, careful policy and public health interventions are yet again being met with global prejudice. Racism is a very blunt tool. Across the region now, a cascade of human and economic consequences is unfolding. These will mean less food and more poverty, fewer children with new school uniforms and more The post Rich countries can't feign shock if the next variant goes undetected first appeared on African Arguments. The Ethiopian War and Academic Freedom by Debate Ideas on 29 November 2021 at 11:40 am Petition against censoring academic voices debating the war in Tigray The post The Ethiopian War and Academic Freedom first appeared on African Arguments. Social Unrest and Vaccine Hubris in Europe: What Should Africa Conclude? by Paul Richards on 26 November 2021 at 11:26 am The anti-vax global campaign, lessons for the world. 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