Maleine Niang

Biography

Maleine Niang is a public policy expert with a broad background in social equity and fiscal governance. He is a passionate advocate of the right to public service and is dedicating his career to shifting power to the underserved: people with disabilities, informal settlement dwellers and marginalized communities in sub-urban and rural areas. Maleine leads International Budget Partnership Senegal’s efforts to budget for the poor and promote safe, sustainable and cost-effective service delivery systems that are adapted to the needs and realities of the underserved. He strives toward ensuring that sanitation and health service delivery systems in Senegal are more inclusive, pro-poor and gender-intentional, leveraging the power of data and technological innovations. Through his work, Maleine invests in the leaders of transformative change: social movements, coalitions of civil society organizations, media and government actors across Sub-Saharan Africa.