Capita Chief Strategy Officer interviews Play Africa's Managing Director Rongedzayi Fambasayi about the role of cities in protecting child rights, creativity in tackling the climate crisis, governance for child-centered climate action across Africa, and more.
Capita Chief Strategy Officer interviews Play Africa's Managing Director Rongedzayi Fambasayi about the role of cities in protecting child rights, creativity in tackling the climate crisis, governance for child-centered climate action across Africa, and more.
Caroline Cassidy
Caroline directs overall strategy for Capita, which includes public engagement, communications, and organizational development.
For two decades, Caroline has been a leader in the think tank, global development and not-for-profit sectors where she has orchestrated initiatives aimed at shaping a more just and humane world. She is a strong advocate for embedding a deeper approach to communications throughout an organization or project- from language, relationships, and framing to deep listening, behaviour change, and values.
Caroline previously set up and led the strategic communications team for the UK-based think tank ODI, with a focus on policy engagement. As a consultant, she has provided strategic council to a diverse range of clients including the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, the OECD Early Childhood Education & Care team, Oxford Policy Management, Rodeemos el Diálogo, the World Health Organization, On Think Tanks and Open Society Foundations. She has also created and implemented a major and individual donor strategy for the media organization tve and worked in TV production at the BBC.
Rongedzayi Fambasayi
Rongedzayi is a child's rights scholar and former managing director of Play Africa.