Kamissa Camara

Kamissa Camara is the Senior Program Officer for West & Central Africa at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) where she oversees a multi-million grant portfolio to civil society organizations in the West and Central Africa sub-regions, designs country strategies and identifies policy gaps in transitional justice, human rights, peacebuilding, democracy promotion, corruption and civil-military relations that can potentially be addressed by local partners through NED funding. She is the founder and co-chair of the Sahel Strategy Forum, an integrated policy forum which provides a platform to donors, program implementers, academics, civil society, and the private sector to promote democratic values, stronger accountability mechanisms, peace, security and development throughout the Sahel. Prior to her employment with NED, she worked for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) where she managed electoral assistance programs in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. She am an Expert BRIDGE facilitator. BRIDGE stands for "Building Democracy, Governance and Elections". It is a comprehensive capacity building curriculum in political governance and electoral administration. She have trained over 300 electoral management officials in Senegal, Niger, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, the US, Mali, Burundi, Nigeria, Gabon, France and Uganda on electoral operations and electoral management using the BRIDGE methodology.