Ms Gertrude, Angote is the Project Coordinator, ILO-All Hands in Kenya Project; responsible for improving compliance with International Labour Standards and Acceptable Conditions of Work vide overall project planning, implementation and delivery of all planned outputs. The project is funded by the United States Department of Labor (USDOL); Office of Trade and Labor Affairs (OTLA) and runs from December 2020 to December, 2024.

Angote has over 13 years of national and international experience in capacity development, law and policy for human development as Senior-Level Legal Advisor, Legislative Drafter and Programmes Manager through the ILO, UNDP, CSO and government development approaches. In addition to Master’s Degree in Law, Governance and Democracy from the University of Nairobi and Post Graduate Diplomas from the Kenya School of Law and University of Washington; she maintains a track record of success in project cycle management of donor supported programs with success in planning and complying with grant objectives for: UNHCR, USAID, EU, UNDP, MISEREOR, AJWS, Embassies-Dutch, French, Swiss and Danish as well as Foundations: Ford, OSIEA, Mott, Mc Arthur.

Her most recent assignment was: Project specialist (Civil Society Democratic Governance, Human Rights and Justice) UNDP-Kenya, where she was Technical lead for UNDP’s EU-Programme for Legal Empowerment and Aid Delivery of USD12 Million; achieving exceeded expectations score in all key result areas in the 2020 performance evaluation.

Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of Kituo cha Sheria (Legal Advice Center) and part-time Lecturer at the Kenya School of Law where her students’ pass rate for trial advocacy course scored highest in the whole school for five years. She served as Chair, coordinating the public interest, human rights and legal aid committee of the Law Society of Kenya (4-years) and until 2017, as governance council for Council of Legal Education. Earlier in her career, Angote was a litigating counsel at Mutuli & Apopo and later at Kasamani & Co Advocates.

She later worked with Human Rights Network-Uganda as Human Rights Officer, overseeing monitoring and evaluation of girl child abuse and training on UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Entebbe. As Advocate of the High Court of Kenya of 14 years, she has secured social and economic rights judgments including: winning J Mwongeli V S Ltd, employment discrimination on the basis of visual disability in which the ELR Court awarded Kes. 1.5 million Compensation for Constitutional violations, 2019; the first ever refugee case for 26 asylum seeking Somali mothers and children detained by Kenya, Uganda airports and; the land mark decision giving prisoners the right to vote in Kenya.