Nicholas Okapu Etyang

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Nicholas Okapu Etyang

Policy Engagement Manager

ABOUT Nicholas Okapu Etyang

Nicholas is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. He has over 12 years of experience in policy engagement in the East African region. He supports the PEC team in managing partnerships under the Challenging the Politics of Social Exclusion (CPSE) project, coordinating policy engagement, communications, and capacity strengthening activities for partners, managing the rapid response service, developing knowledge translation products, and conducting policy analysis relevant to CPSE thematic areas.

He holds a Bachelor of Law degree and a Master’s degree in Project Planning and Management from the University of Nairobi, a postgraduate diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law, and a diploma in Human Resources Management from the Kenya Institute of Management. Nicholas is a Ph.D. candidate in Leadership and Governance at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.

He has worked on human rights advocacy in Kenya and Uganda, focusing on gender rights, SRHR, prisoners’ rights, good governance and democratization and women in leadership, and budget and social accountability. Before joining APHRC, he coordinated policy, governance, advocacy, and parliamentary liaison and engagement programs at CAFOD.

Nicholas is driven by the desire to contribute to a just, equitable, and peaceful world. He believes that all people deserve a basic living standard, basic rights, basic respect.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Short Report
Examination of LGBT people’s lived experiences and public perceptions of sexual and gender minorities in Rwanda

May 13, 2022

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Briefing Papers
Examination of LGBT people’s lived experiences and public perceptions of sexual and gender minorities in Rwanda

May 13, 2022

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Technical Reports
Examination of LGBT people’s lived experiences and public perceptions of sexual and gender minorities in Rwanda

May 13, 2022

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Factsheet
Examination of LGBT people’s lived experiences and public perceptions of sexual and gender minorities in Rwanda

May 13, 2022

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Technical Reports
Increasing Adolescents’ Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Information and Services in Malawi: A problem Driven Political Economy Analysis

June 9, 2023

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Factsheet
Understanding the Experiences of Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents in Blantyre, Southern Malawi

May 13, 2022

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Briefing Papers
Understanding the Experiences of Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents in Blantyre, Southern Malawi

May 13, 2022

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RECENT PROJECTS

ONGOING PROJECT
Action to empower adolescent mothers in Burkina Faso and Malawi to improve their sexual and reproductive health (PROMOTE)
In Burkina Faso and Malawi, as in many countries in…
ONGOING PROJECT
Challenging the politics of social exclusion (CPSE)
Africa’s young people and women continue to bear a huge…