EAHS NAIROBI 2025 SPEAKERS AND GUESTS
UN Zone, Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya
02-03 October 2025
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OFFICIAL PARTNER
“It is a profound honour for me to address this distinguished gathering at the opening of the East African Humanitarian Summit 2025.
On behalf of the government and the people of the Republic of South Sudan, I extend warm greetings to the organisers, partners and participants who continue to make this Summit one of Africa’s most important platforms for humanitarian dialogue, innovation, and partnership.
Allow me to begin by recalling the 2024 EAHS Summit… which left an unbelievable mark on South Sudan’s humanitarian landscape. Last year’s discussion on innovative disaster management, last-mile delivery, and technology-enabled humanitarian action provided practical lessons that we took home. Inspired by those exchanges, South Sudan strengthened engagement with the private sector, particularly in logistics and emergency communication, ensuring a faster and more dignified assistance to displaced populations.
These outcomes are living proof that what we discuss here is not theoretical; it has a tangible life-saving impact on the ground.”
Hon. Minister Albino Akol Atak, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs & Disaster Management, Republic of South Sudan
“The EAHS Nairobi 2025 Summit offered an excellent platform for constructive dialogue between humanitarian actors, policy makers and private sector partners. The conversations around procurement in fragile and conflict-affected contexts were timely and deeply relevant to operational realities in the field. The quality of vendor engagement and the questions raised reflected a strong appetite for genuine partnership, compliance, and impact-driven delivery. I greatly valued the meaningful exchanges, which reinforced the importance of transparency, preparedness, and context-sensitive supply chain strategies in high-risk environments. I thoroughly enjoyed the two days of participation and commend EAHS for fostering a collaborative space that translates challenges into solutions.”
Mr. Ram Trivedi, Chief of Procurement – UN MINUSCA
“One approach to resilience building is ensuring that [the] local community has the capacity, local businesses have the capacity… This is where we talk about HDP, Humanitarian Development and Peace Nexus… by investing in the systems that will make local businesses and suppliers resilient.”
Mr. Ronald Jackson – Head, Disaster Risk Reduction, Recovery for Building Resilience, UNDP
“Last mile is often the most difficult but the most decisive stage of humanitarian response. That is truly where our work is measured, that is truly where lives are saved and every system we build is tested at the last mile, and no actor can do this alone.”
Dr. Deepmala Mahla, Global Humanitarian Director – CARE
“A world of humanitarian crises is not a world where businesses can thrive. OCHA coordinates humanitarian response worldwide, but we cannot do it alone. That is why we are pushing for a humanitarian reset, working with new partners… and building resilience with the private sector at the table.
We work with a system of clusters that delivers services across a number of sectors, many of which the private sectors here today are involved with.
The UN can be a challenging system to navigate from the outside. My key message today is that you do not have to do so alone. My hope is that the leaders in this room will see my organisation, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, as a form of sherpa; to guide, signpost and direct you to the relevant opportunities for private sector collaboration that exist across the UN system in Eastern Africa and beyond.
By leveraging Public-Private Collaboration, we can all work to make humanitarian response more robust, efficient, and cost-effective.”
Ms. Andrea Noyes, Regional Head, Eastern and Southern Africa – UNOCHA
I want to thank the EAHS team for this very nice opportunity, a very good platform where we were impressed by the quality of people that we have me today and the engagement of everyone. It is a fantastic platform.
MR. NABIL BEN SOUSSIA
GROUP CCO, PRESIDENT ASIA & MIDDLE EAST, IEC TELECOM GROUP
EAHS NAIROBI 2024
It has been a privilege to attend this important East African Humanitarian Summit. This humanitarian summit is very informative, with the panels which are very high in terms of knowledge and in terms of participants. A good opportunity …to interact with those private and public and even organizations…I want to thank the organizers. The summit was very successful. I would hope as South Sudan government to participate in this kind of summit in the long run.
HON. MINISTER ALBINO AKOL ATAK
NATIONAL MINISTER OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN
EAHS NAIROBI 2024
This is my first time at EAHS and I have to tell everybody, it was brilliant. For those of you who haven’t attended before, I highly recommend it. The conference is fantastic, from the setup to the ability to have one-on-one (meetings) with the various humanitarian agencies, fantastic. It is truly one of the best conferences I’ve attended in the 30 years that I’ve been here in Africa.
MR. GUY RICHARDS
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
EAHS NAIROBI 2023
This is my third time attending this East Africa Humanitarian Summit event. It’s very, very well coordinated and put out and the amount of connections that you get from here is incredible…It’s a really good event and I’m looking forward to next year.
MS. LIANNE DU TOITE
AID AND RELIEF MANAGER, AFRICA GLOBAL LOGISTICS (AGL KENYA)
EAHS NAIROBI 2024
…This conference has made good strides in closing that gap and improving the collaboration between the private and public sector. There’s very senior and important decision makers in varying organizations and I think it’s been great. There’s been so much dedicated to general networking…having these conversations in a more casual setting is so key, so I think that’s been a great aspect of the conference.
MR. TOM BASSETT
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, MOVE ONE
EAHS NAIROBI 2024
I’d like to thank EAHS for an exceptionally well-run conference. extremely beneficial reconnecting distribution partners, reconnecting with NGO partners, meeting new partnerships and forming strategic partnerships going into the future. I’d like to thank also the EAHS team for organizing such wonderful roundtable and conference speakers. Myself, as a primary supplier of product into the NGO and private public partnership space, we found it extremely beneficial connecting with all relevant stakeholders to this wonderful conference.
MR. ROBERT COOPER
COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR, KERSIA GROUP
EAHS NAIROBI 2024
I’ve been here for the past two days. Both days have been engaging and exciting. Many partners are here to showcase their products.
We’ve had very engaging panel discussions on communications, on partnership, on humanitarian response. This is a forum that I would want to or my organization would want to continue to engage with. I think kudos to the organizers and those that participated.
MS. FATIMA MOHAMMED-COLE
DEPUTY REGIONAL DIRECTOR, UNHCR EHAGL BUREAU
EAHS NAIROBI 2024
Attending the summit and engaging with the diverse group of participants was truly a wonderful experience. It was impressive to see the large number of companies and vendors present – many expressed strong interests in collaborating with the United Nations system. This platform provided a valuable opportunity to build new partnerships, contributing to a win-win scenario by enhancing the effectiveness and outreach of procurement efforts.
The panellists were particularly well-chosen; their knowledge, experience, and active engagement offered meaningful insights and added great depth to the discussions. The sheer scale of participation and the energy throughout the event clearly reflected the success of the summit.
I extend my sincere thanks to the organizers for their outstanding efforts – especially to Mr. Cameron, whose leadership and coordination were instrumental in bringing together such a wide array of participants from around the world.
MR. RAM TRIVEDI
CHIEF OF PROCUREMENT, UN MINUSCA
EAHS NAIROBI 2024
It is a great pleasure and honor to be part of this EAHS Summit. It’s a great initiative and great platform…I have (had) a very positive outcome. Lots of new contacts and lots of new opportunities. It’s not only humanitarian sector but it’s also… suppliers who assist (us) for swift and fast delivery to procure items at better than market price. I would encourage every organization to be part of the conference in the coming years. Thank you very much and I appreciate the organizers and all the participants. I haven’t heard such conferences in Africa where such vast numbers of UN different family bodies are present under one roof and are speaking basically. So, it’s a great opportunity. Thank you very much.
IMAM QASIM RASHID AHMAD
FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN, AL-KHAIR FOUNDATION
EAHS NAIROBI 2024
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