Yvette Kaboza moved to the field in 2009 after more than a decade of serving the Organisation at the Headquarters in Paris, at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the World Heritage Centre. Prior to her transfer to Gabon, she was coordinating and promoting the World Heritage Centre’s Biodiversity Conservation projects in the DRC within the Special Unit Team. From 2009 to 2014, she was the UNESCO Libreville cluster office’s culture programme specialist in charge of the implementation of the culture programme in Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome e Principe and Gabon. At this position, she actively contributed to the development of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) Regional Strategy for Culture. She also initiated, in 2010, a popular street carnival in Libreville aiming to raise environmental awareness among youth and celebrate the World Environment Day. In 2014, she joined the newly established UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa, still as a culture programme specialist.  Yvette Kaboza did her studies in Paris, at the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne (Paris) where she graduated in Business Law and Taxation and in Environmental Law. She also studied Intellectual Property in the framework of her Bachelor of Arts degree. 

Memory Zulu-Munyaradzi initially joined the UNESCO Harare Office in 2004 for a period of 5 years were she was working on HIV and AIDS related topics. This gave her an opportunity to develop her skills in project planning and management and led her to contribute to the implementation of activities linking HIV and AIDS & Education in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia & Zimbabwe. In 2015, she reintegrated into UNESCO Harare’s newly established Multisectoral Regional Office. While away from UNESCO, Memory Zulu-Munyaradzi was involved in community development work and completing her Master of Arts Degree in Social Behavioral Studies in HIV & AIDS which she obtained from the University of South Africa’s Sociology department. She attained her BSC Honours degree in Rural and Urban Planning in 2002 from the University of Zimbabwe. Within the Culture Unit, Memory Zulu-Munyaradzi is known for her dedication to work as well on stressing on the cultural dimensions of HIV & AIDS through the promotion of culturally appropriate and gender sensitive initiatives.

Anyway Annie Gwete is a student at Great Zimbabwe University doing a Degree in Bachelor of Arts Honours in Development Studies. She is also a holder of National Diploma in Journalism.  She anticipates that her current studies and background will be of great importance in conducting cultural research initiatives as well as gathering cultural data on sustainable development. She recently joined UNESCO Regional Office as a Volunteer within the Culture Unit for a period of 1 year. She hopes that during this period with UNESCO, she will learn more about developing an appropriate culture for development data collection systems on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and sustainable development.

Mr. Ngondo has been working in heritage sector for approximately 8 years. Before joining UNESCO  in 2007, he worked with a number of other institutions, including the National Planning Commission (enumerator); Buy and Sell Magazine (Sales Executive); University of Namibia, Department of Marketing and Communication (Student Assistant and acting Public Relations Officer). Mr. Ngondo first joined UNESCO in early 2007 and worked with the organisation up to the end of 2013. During this fulfilling tour of duty, Mr. Ngondo accumulated vast experience in the identification, promotion, preservation and protection of tangible and intangible heritage resources. Working within a Cluster Office setup, his experience is not limited to Namibia alone, but covered four other Southern African Countries, namely, Angola; Lesotho; South Africa; and Swaziland. Mr. Ngondo was instrumental in the conceptualization, implementation, as well as monitoring and evaluation of Namibia’s first Joint Programme in the Heritage and Tourism sectors. Before re-joining UNESCO in July 2015, Mr. Ngondo worked as Senior Culture Officer for Hardap Region. 

Annakie Muvangua graduated from the Namibia University of Science and Technology in 2008 in the field of Travel and Tourism Management. She worked as Tour Consultant at Springbok Atlas Namibia before joining UNESCO Cluster Office in Windhoek in 2011 as a Programme Assistant for the United Nations Joint Programme for Culture and Development (MDG-F). On completion of the MDG- F project in 2013, she assisted the Science Sector as an assistant to the Programme Specialist for Natural Sciences. From July 2014 to to-date, she works as a Culture Programme Assistant, focusing on the implementation and Monitoring and Evaluation of projects. She provides administrative support to the unit by managing the contracts of implementing partners and following up on deliverables. 

Ofelia da Silva is studying the Doctorate in Projects Management and Leadership at Atlantic International University, USA. In 2009 she completed Master studies in Cultural Management with focus for music management at the Newcastle University, UK. She holds bachelor since 2006, in Socio-cultural Anthropology, by UNISA, SA and achieved, in 2002, the First Degree in Geography by Eduardo Mondlane University, MZ. Professional position: 2009 to day - National Programme Officer for Culture. From 2000-2009 she performed activities as Regional Culture Assistant. Since recruitment, 1995-1999 she acted as Assistant of the Representative and Documentalist. As a National Programme Officer, she manages UNESCO cultural activities in Mozambique. The key aspect of these activities is human and institutional capacity development of culture and tourism sectors with particular emphasis to the World Heritage conservation processes in Mozambique.