Esther Marthaler works as the Partnership & Capacity Development Coordinator at Helvetas and is also the Regional Coordinator for the Helvetas Sri Lanka Program. Previously, she was the Program Advisor to the Helvetas country program and the migration project in Sri Lanka and co-led the Governance and Peace working area of Helvetas. As an anthropologist, she has worked on civil society promotion, peace building, conflict sensitivity, migration, culture and gender in Asia, Africa and Latin America since 1998. Her work experience includes thematic advice, knowledge management, strategy development, and development of tools and trainings. Prior to her engagement with Helvetas, Esther was a Senior Program Officer for KOFF/swisspeace and coordinated the Civil Society and Gender program for the German Cooperation in Vietnam.
Reham Basheer, originally from Yemen, and works as a Program Manager in the programs department for Wilde Ganzen. Reham is currently responsible for PMEL for one of Wilde Ganzens major programs (Giving for change), last year she led the design and implementation of Wilde Ganzen Participatory grant-making approach that was implemented in 4 countries ( Turkey, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Egypt). Previously she was working in Save the children for 7 years mainly in programs management, 2 years with CPS (creative people solutions) as a program quality advisor, 2 years in IRC (international rescue committee) as Grants and Compliance manager.