Management Team

He is the Director General of ECSA-HC since August 2014. Prior to joining ECSA-HC, Prof Dambisya worked for the University of Limpopo in South Africa. As Director General, he is charged with providing overall leadership and guidance to the technical and corporate programmes towards the realization of the ECSA-HC mandate.

Prof Dambisya is a medical graduate with the MBChB degree from Makerere University, Kampala, and a PhD (Pharmacology) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He has undertaken several short-courses in various fields, including leadership and management, monitoring and evaluation, medical education, global health diplomacy, and strategic planning.

He is the Director of Operations and Institutional Development. He is responsible for ensuring that operational systems at ECSA-HC enable departments to function effectively and efficiently in compliance with the tenets of good corporate governance.

He also provides the necessary operational support for the implementation of the annual work plans and strategic plan of the organization towards achieving annual work targets. Mr. Sibandze holds the degrees of Master of Science in Economics and Health Economics from the University of Sheffield, U.K. and Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (majoring in Economics and Statistics) from the University of Eswatini. He has over 15 years experience in Administration, Monitoring and Evaluation, Health Planning, Economics, Research, Health Systems and Services Development and Project Planning and Implementation.

Mr. Sibandze has also undertaken several consultancies with Government, UN Agencies and NGOs in the field of costing, strategic planning, policy analysis, governance and program/project evaluation.

Dr Martin Matu is a Laboratory and a public health professional with wealth of experience in management of health programs, diagnostics strengthening, disease surveillance and outbreaks management, training and capacity building, quality systems and systems strengthening spanning over 20 years.

Dr Matu holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Public Health, Masters in Business Administration (MBA), and Master of Science degree in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology and basic training in Medical Laboratory Sciences. He is currently the Director of Programs and the Project Coordinator of two World Bank funded Projects, the Southern Africa TB and Health Systems Support (SATBHSS) Project and the Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness (SPP) for Eastern and Southern Africa Project based at the East Central & Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC) that serves as the Regional Coordinating Organization (RCO) for the Bank projects.

He previously coordinated a 10-year regional World Bank operation, the East Africa Public Health Laboratory Networking project (EAPHLN) Project that ended in 2020 and a Regional Project for Cancer Registries project for East Africa. In his role, Dr Matu is responsible for providing oversight to the various technical clusters in the organization and coordinating the the regional implementation of the said Bank projects whose focus is to strengthen systems for public health, diagnostic, disease surveillance & outbreak management, training and capacity building, TB, and occupational lung diseases management, and facilitating knowledge exchange among the regional experts involved in the various projects. Dr Matu previously held senior positions at the Amref Health Africa, the University of Nairobi, and the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). He has successfully supervised over 50 MBA students from ESAMI and authored several publications in peer reviewed journals.

She is the Director of Finance overseeing the functioning of the Finance Department at the ECSA-HC. Ms. Njuba is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) UK, and holds a Masters of Business Administration with a Specialty in Strategic Planning from the Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University UK.

Ms. Njuba joined the team at ECSA with a wealth of experience spanning over 20 years in development finance, Public financial management, Auditing, and risk management, working with the World Bank, the European Union and the African Union. She has also worked in various countries such as Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan and Tanzania. She supports the efforts of the organization to mobilize resources and efficient use of these resources. She provides strategic direction and leadership to the finance team and is responsible for the preparation of institutional budgets, execution and reporting.

She ensures that the organization effectively and efficiently utilizes its resources, and at all times maintains a sound financial management system. She provides leadership on the implementation of financial policies and procedures of the organization.