Dr.
Njunga Michael MULIKITA
mulikita@cafrad.org
Dr.
Njunga Michael MULIKITA is an African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
Expert in Civil Service Reform, Innovation and Modernization of
Governmental Institutions. He previously served as Senior Governance
Advisor with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Rumbek,
South Sudan
(2005) and as Senior Programme Officer in the UNDP Project to Strengthen
Africa’s Regional Capacities for
Peace
Building
in
Addis Ababa
,
Ethiopia
(2003-2005).
He
also served as a Political Analyst at the Organization of African Unity (OAU),
Addis Ababa
,
Ethiopia
(1999-2001). Dr. Mulikita was a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Evaluation and Local Government Administration in the Department of
Political and Administrative Studies of the
University
of
Zambia
. As an academic, Dr Mulikita won a number of competitive awards/grants,
most notably the United States Department of State National Security
Fellowship at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC),
University of California at San Diego (UCSD), USA in 2007; while in 1999,
he was a Visiting United Nations University (UNU) Scholar, Tokyo, Japan.
Prior to working for the
University
of
Zambia
, Dr. Mulikita was an Executive Officer in the Ministry of
Decentralization.
Dr.
Mulikita has served as a Consultant/Resource Person to USAID, Embassy of
Japan in
Zambia
, UNITAR, UNOPS, Fredriech Ebert Foundation (FES), German Technical
Cooperation (GTZ), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Secretariat, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and
Zambia
’s Public Service Reform Programme (PSRP).
Dr.
Mulikita obtained his BA in Public Administration at the
University
of
Zambia
(1981), MA in Development Studies at the
Institute
of
Social Studies
(1984) in the
Netherlands
, Doctorate in Social Sciences at the
University
of
Konstanz
in
West Germany
(1992). He also holds a UNDP issued Certificate in Project
Formulation, Management and Resource Mobilization (2003). He is fluent in
English, holds an Advanced German Language Proficiency Certificate, has a
working knowledge of French and speaks a number of Zambian languages. Dr.
Mulikita was born in Kalomo,
Southern Zambia
in 1958. He is married to Silase Hailu Abreha, an Ethiopian national.
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