Layla Liebetrau, founder of The Third Sector.

About

About

I founded this business, because I have something to offer the space that lives between public and personal, alongside government and private sector – the civil society.

The Third Sector is a way to use my skills and experience to address challenges facing humanity and the variety of life on Earth.  

I spent six years working for the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Nairobi, Kenya. During my time there, I established the Route to Food Initiative – a project that adopts a rights-based approach to chronic food and nutrition insecurity.

My role as Lead Programme Coordinator equipped me with skills in developing political campaigns, media presentation, science communications, gender mainstreaming, research and analysis, as well as risk management.

I supported various grassroots organisations implement projects on themes of fiscal policy and trade, agroecology, genetically modified organisms, seed sovereignty, Right to Food legislation, food safety, urban food security, industrial agriculture and pesticides.

Through the Initiative, I worked closely with small-scale producers, the media, policymakers and the wider public to foster a socially inclusive, cross-sectoral discourse on chronic food insecurity and food rights in Kenya.

I have degrees in psychology and political science from the University of Cape Town and prior to living in East Africa, worked in marketing and digital communications.

Layla Liebetrau, founder of The Third Sector.