Maureen Malesi

Maureen Maresi is a Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist with extensive experience in gender equality, youth empowerment, social inclusion, child protection, and safeguarding within development programmes. She currently serves as the Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist at the Rural Kenya Financial Inclusion Facility (RK-FINFA), where she provides technical support to mainstream gender, youth and social inclusion across project interventions areas. Her work includes inclusive targeting, gender-responsive programming, social safeguards, beneficiary engagement, gender-transformative approaches, and monitoring the implementation of key social inclusion and safeguards instruments. She is passionate about advancing inclusive development and ensuring that vulnerable and marginalized groups meaningfully participate in and benefit from development programmes.