Caroline Njuki
Caroline Njuki is a Kenyan migration-and-displacement policy specialist with more than fifteen years’ experience in the Horn of Africa. She is Chief Technical Advisor for the International Labour Organization in Nairobi, where she heads the PROSPECTS Partnership, designing skills-training, job-placement and enterprise-finance programmes that link refugees and host communities in Kenya’s Garissa, Turkana and Nairobi counties to dignified work. Her team helped craft the 2024 Refugee Labour-Market Access Regulations and has placed 18,000 young people, 46 percent women in wage or self-employment since 2022.
From 2017 to 2021 Njuki led the Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s Regional Secretariat on Forced Displacement and Mixed Migration, coordinating the Kampala Declaration roadmap and mobilising US $500 million in World Bank IDA financing for displacement-affected countries. Earlier she managed community-stabilisation and voluntary-return projects for the International Organization for Migration in Mogadishu, Kismayo and Baidoa, and before that supported African asylum seekers at a Berlin legal-aid centre.
Njuki holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Nairobi and an MA in Development and Emergency Practice from Oxford Brookes University. Widely published; including chapters in Migration and Human Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (2013) and The African Union & Sustainable Development (2012) – she was named a 2023 Global Refugee Forum Gender Champion and mentors early-career humanitarian professionals across East Africa.