Fredrick Wanzala

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Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, GAIN has offices in countries with high levels of malnutrition: Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. To support work in those countries, we have representative offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Fredrick Wanzala joined GAIN in January 2026 as Manager, Nutrition Financing & Development to manage the IFAD-funded Mainstreaming Nutrition Programme across Bangladesh, Pakistan, Rwanda, and Benin.
Formerly a development finance practitioner with experience spanning banking, refugee enterprise development at Kakuma, and catalytic capital allocation through the EU/SlovakAid AgriFI Kenya Challenge Fund and USAID/TradeMark Africa’s cross-border trade programme for women and youth-led Agri-food SMEs in Kenya, he brings deep expertise in investment structuring, agri-food market systems, and nutrition-sensitive food systems transformation at scale.