FLORENCE MPAAYEI (Kenya – Gender and Inclusion) has, while on the Standby Team, provided advice on gender and inclusion in Kenya, Sudan and Zambia and shared insights elsewhere on women, youth and civil society engagement in peace processes. In South Sudan, she has supported UNMISS in engaging with and strengthening the mediation capacity of religious leaders. Florence has twenty-five years of experience in peacebuilding, dialogue facilitation, and capacity-building. She has designed programmes to support women’s participation in high-level mediation efforts (including in the Great Lakes, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan) under the auspices of, inter alia, the AU, IGAD, and UN Women. She has also helped enhance the capacity of young women mediators and women peacebuilders at middle and grassroots levels. She has been a member of FEMWISE-Africa. Prior to joining the Standby Team, she was a Senior Advisor on Peace Practice and a Guest/Visiting Lecturer at the Hekima University College/Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations. She speaks English.