Judy 7amanyi is a social development, governance and gender equality specialist and is a women and child rights advocate with over four decades of work experience in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. She is a Fulbright Fellow and an alumna of Makerere University Uganda; the London School of Economics and Political Science, in the United 7ingdom, and the Joan B. 7roc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego, USA with a Master’s degree in Peace and Justice Studies.

She engaged with and supported the work of UN Women, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations International Children’s Fund and United Nations Population Fund on gender equality programming. She was instrumental in coordinating a multi-stakeholder joint programme on gender equality that included several UN agencies, government ministries and civil society organisations in Uganda.

Between 2006 and 2008 Judy contributed to the inclusion of traditional justice mechanisms for restorative justice in judicial discourse in Uganda. She contributed to the preliminary conceptualization and proposal for the establishment of a “Hybrid Justice System” with Special Courts, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Traditional Justice Systems to secure transitional justice. She has contributed to several publications on women leadership in conflict transformation, and women’s participation in elective politics.

She has served on the governance boards of Action Aid Uganda, Action Aid Malawi, Uganda Child Rights NGO Network, Nnabagereka Development Foundation and African Centre for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, and TPO Uganda. Currently serving on the Board of AfriChild, chairing the Promoters Council of TPO Uganda and serving as a Trustee to the Nnabagereka Development Foundation.