Mr. Florencio Marerua
Country Director, Mozambique, WaterAid (NGO Major Group)
Mr. Florencio Marerua is currently the Country Director for WaterAid Mozambique. He has worked previously as the Country Director for WWF in Mozambique over a period of five years prior to being appointed to the role of East and Southern Africa Regional Policy and Partnership Advisor for WWF based in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. In his capacity as the Regional Policy and Partnership Advisor, Florencio successfully created strategic partnerships and alliances between WWF Africa and EAC, SADC, NEPAD, COMESA and AU. Florencio also worked as the National Relief Coordinator in Mozambique for World Vision Mozambique before taking up the role of Africa Capacity Building Advisor for World Vision International based in Nairobi, Kenya for a period of eight years. In this capacity, Florencio was responsible for bridging the divide between Relief and Development within World Vision Africa Region by promoting the notion that Disaster Management is Everybody’s Business. He was educated in the United States of America where he graduated with a degree in Business Management.