A Kenyan judge and a Burundian technocrat are the inaugural winners of the 2022 African Development Bank (ADB) Award.
The African Development Bank’s Independent Recourse Mechanism (IRM) announced the winners, naming Kenyan Professor Nixon Sifuna and Burundi Roads Agency Director Professor Regis Mpawenayo.
Established in 2022, the annual award recognizes individuals and organizations that have made exceptional contributions to accountability during their participation in the IRM complaints handling process.
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Judge Sifuna is an environmental judge in the High Court of Kenya and a grassroots attorney who played a key role in the African Development Bank’s Kapenguria-Makotano Cities sanitation project, representing more than 500 people affected by the project in a complaint filed by IRM through its compliance.
“His involvement and contributions in the complaint-handling process contributed to a successful outcome for the complainants and led to the bank choosing to relocate the project from the proposed Kapenguria site to an alternative site in Makutano,” AfDB said.
“On his part, Prof Mpawenayo played a key role in resolving a complaint related to the AfDB-financed Nyakararo-Mwaro-Gitega Road (RN18) Upgrade and Asphalting Project/Phase II – Kibumbu-Gitega (Mweya) Segment (24 km) road project in Burundi,” the bank said.
