At 10 —Africa Development Promise Marks a Significant Milestone

Africa Agen­da

Exec­u­tive direc­tor of Africa Devel­op­ment Promise, Mon­i­ca LaBiche Brown, deliv­ers remarks from the podi­um dur­ing the orga­ni­za­tion’s 10th anniver­sary lun­cheon. Thurs­day, August 15th, 2024

Africa Agen­da sends hearty con­grat­u­la­tions to Africa Devel­op­ment Promise (ADP), which recent­ly cel­e­brat­ed 10 years of impact­ful work in Col­orado, Ugan­da, and Rwanda.

At a 10th anniver­sary lun­cheon on August 15th in Den­ver, Mon­i­ca Labiche Brown, ADP’s founder and exec­u­tive direc­tor, said the orga­ni­za­tion’s pro­grams sup­port 12 agri­cul­tur­al coop­er­a­tives in Ugan­da and Rwan­da. In 2021, the orga­ni­za­tion expand­ed its work beyond agri­cul­ture to include voca­tion­al train­ing, com­put­er lit­er­a­cy, and micro-busi­ness devel­op­ment. This work, she said, has direct­ly impact­ed an esti­mat­ed 1,200 peo­ple and indi­rect­ly impact­ed about 5,000 others. 

From Vision to a Thriving Reality

“I think the thing that we have wit­nessed that has been real­ly sig­nif­i­cant is mind­set change.” 

While she still leads as the cur­rent exec­u­tive direc­tor, the orga­ni­za­tion announced plans for Nazraw­it Med­hanie to become the next exec­u­tive direc­tor after LaBiche Brown retires some­time in 2025. 

“For me per­son­al­ly, the time has come to hand over the reins. As the founder of this orga­ni­za­tion, I under­stand that true lead­er­ship includes know­ing when to step back and allow a fresh per­spec­tive to guide the orga­ni­za­tion forward.”