Françoise Mukuku is a human rights activist and an independent consultant on women and sexual minorities’ issues. She has twenty years of activism.
She is currently the Executive Director of Amazone Consultancy- a gender justice and communications firm based in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC). Francoise works mainly in the Great Lakes Region (Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania) as well as francophone Africa (Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Benin, Togo and Senegal) where she has specialised in research and communications.
In her consultancy work, Françoise has worked with organisations such as Akina Mama wa Africa, APC, UHAI, UNECA and the University of Sussex, UK. Francoise is an engaged activist who founded SJS, a DRCongo-inclusive young feminist group, in 2001. She regularly organises trainings in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Agency, and Voice and is particularly passionate about the intersections between development, human rights and social justice.
Before being an independent consultant, she worked for renowned organisations such as Oxfam GB, MONUC/MONUSCO (UN Peacekeeping Mission in DRCongo) and the International Music Council (IMC). Francoise has good language skills; she speaks Lingala, Kiluba, Kibembe, Kiswahili, French, and English and has a working knowledge of Spanish. She holds a BA in public law from the Université Protestante au Congo (2005) and an MA from Mercure International (2012).
Françoise is a storyteller who enjoys travelling, reading books and the performing arts