Gloria Drateru

Responsible for the developing projects, planning, coordination, implementation and reporting of all field activities of the project. The Position holder also represents the NGS in various fora of stakeholders, especially Local Governments and Civil Society engagements
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Gloria is an Environmentalist with over 17 years of experience in environment, energy and livelihoods programming across refugee, internal displacement and development contexts. Until January 2024, coordinated the implementation of the Northern Uganda Resilience Initiative (NURI) – a multi-year agricultural development programme in the North West Nile sub-region (Covering districts of Adjumani, Moyo, Obongi and Koboko). She spearheaded the establishment and operationalization of 02 Resilience Agricultural Units with workspace, tools, and over 80 personnel coupled with the fast-paced inception of the NURI programme in Koboko district. Before this, She worked with the Danish Refugee Council in West Nile for over 6 years coordinating multiple livelihood projects and emergency response to several incidents of refugee influx.
Gloria also worked with NRC for four years leading the implementation of Income Security and Market Livelihoods in the IDPs post-LRA insurgence in Acholi sub-region. Gloria has hands-on skills in project and strategy development, grants management, monitoring and reporting, cash assistance programming, coordination of emergency response, and resilience design approaches. She possesses vast experience in coordinating agricultural extension and environmental greening interventions. In 2023, she led the development and implementation of household-level tree-growing pilot project across 12 districts in Northern Uganda. Gloria has attended numerous trainings including; organizational change management, resilience design in dryland ecosystems, cash assistance programming, refugee protection, and gender mainstreaming.