Ms. Monica Kapipiriis a facilitator and consultant with over 20 years of experience in training, programme support, gender integration, monitoring, and evaluation.?She has worked with both local and internationalNGOs, research, and government agencies including the EU, FARA, CARE International, RUFORUM, USAID, and the World Bank. Ms. Kapipiri holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Natural Resource Managementfrom Makerere Institute for Environment and Natural Resource Management, and a BSc in Forestry from the Faculty of Forestry, Makerere University. She also holds certificates inleadership and team management; negotiation skills; mainstreaming gender in policy and development programmes formulation. She has published a number of books includingSleeping Giant:Unleashing Africa’s Potentialand Breaking the Shackles of Poverty.She has also written and presented several conference papers for RUFORUM, CGIAR, and FARA.Monica has been part of several AWARD course designs and brings to the A-TEAM several years of experience as an accomplished leadership trainer in management and mainstreaming gender policy, mentoring and coaching, and monitoring and evaluation.