Zambian John Nduna to Head ACT International Coordinating Office
Zambian relief and development worker John Nduna, takes up his new appointment as director of the Geneva-based Coordination Office of Action by Churches Together (ACT) International on 1 April 2006.
ACT, the global alliance of churches and related agencies working to save lives and support communities in humanitarian emergencies worldwide, is based with the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and World Council of Churches (WCC).
Nduna, 51, is currently director of the Nairobi, Kenya-based Church Ecumenical Action in Sudan (CEAS). His humanitarian field experience includes service to refugees with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the LWF Department for World Service (DWS) field offices in Africa.
Nduna graduated from the University of Zambia in 1979 with a bachelor's degree majoring in economics, leading to a banking career, 1980-1982. He worked as a training and projects' manager with the Zambia Small Industries Development Organization, 1983-1987. He was program coordinator with the UNHCR/Zambia refugee program, 1987-1989. From 1990 until 1993, he worked as project coordinator responsible for a settlement camp of Mozambican refugees under the LWF/DWS Zambia program, the Zambia Christian Refugee Service. In 1994 he moved to the LWF/DWS program in Mozambique as a repatriation and settlement officer. From 1995 until 1999, Nduna was emergency project coordinator for the Burundi refugee program of the LWF/DWS program in Tanzania, the Tanganyika Christian Refugee Service.
He joined the ACT Geneva staff in 1999, where he was appeals officer for Europe, Central Asia and Africa, until mid-2004. He is the fourth person to lead the organization since it was established in 1995.
Nduna and his wife, Sydia, have three children. (280 words)
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