Ana Rocha is this podcast’s first guest from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She is the Executive Director for Nipe Fagio (“give me the broom” in Swahili) — a civil society organization founded in 2013 to empower individuals, especially the youth, civil society, the private sector and government to help turn Tanzania into a clean and sustainable country, conscious through education of its role on waste management and reduction of pollution (air, water, soil).

As the pioneering organization in Tanzania working a cross-sector approach to sustainable development in the sector of waste management and pollution education, Nipe Fagio integrates communities, private sector and government by identifying needs and opportunities related to sustainable development – building the capacity of each social sector to add value and engage in a win-win integrated solution. As government partners, private sector contributors and individual citizens educators, Nipe Fagio encourage people to see themselves as the solution to the common waste problem.

She is Brazilian and has a Master’s degree in Business with focus on Business Strategy for Sustainability and Marketing. She is passionate about community development and works to allow people become active agents of change.