Joseph Kipkoech Langat

Joseph Kipkoech Langat is a Kenya national working for SNV Netherlands Development Organization as a senior Education advisor, in Kenya. He holds a masters degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. He has worked in the ministries of agriculture and livestock as an extension officer and head of livestock department respectively. He also worked in the Dutch Embassy project in Kenya, Arid and Semi Arid (ASAL) program as an assistant program advisor. As a governance sector specialist in Semi arid development Program (SARDEP), he was responsible for community participation and empowerment, primary education and special needs of disabled children. He joined SNV in July 2002 and has facilitated processes that have led to the formation of innovative governance institutions; the Inter-Council Forum, Members of Parliament forum and the North rift Towns forum. He represented SNV in Sudan to establish a link between SNV, and the SLPM/SPLA (South Sudan Liberation Movement) as part of a process of opening up South Sudan office before the peace agreement between the South and the Northern government was signed. In 2008, he was instrumental in consolidating SNV’s intervention on IDP (internally displaced Persons) after the post election violence in Kenya by bringing together all the NGOS, private schools associations and the government officials on round table discussions pertaining to the education of displaced children.

Mr Langat also presented a paper in an SNV panel during the HDCA (Human development and capability Association) conference in 2006, in the Netherlands, titled sharing the sand depicting how conflicts over sand ended up in a an agreement of many local authorities to work together.  He, together Mathew Kituu, co- presented a paper during the eLearning conference in Senegal, 2007 on the multi stakeholder approach to eLearning.

Joseph Langat has been spearheading the eLearning initiatives in the North rift province of Kenya for the last 2 years in collaboration with ORACLE  int. Computer Aid UK, Learnthings and others. The process started when SNV, mobilized heads and directors of 15 schools to attend the first eLearning Africa conference in Nairobi,2007 through the invitation of OARCLE int. The conference ignited enthusiasm among the educationists who then formed the eLearning consortium. Using the SNV’S multi-stakeholder approaches of linking people capacities, Langat has been able to pull many organizations to support the eLearning initiative. To date he is representing SNV to support the Kenya government to roll out the electronic version of EMIS (education, management information system).