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Executive Director
Justice Rutenge
Justice Rutenge is the Executive Director at Foundation for Civil Society (FCS), based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He has over 14 years of experience in development, with expertise in results measurement, program and strategy design, strategic communication, and resource mobilization. Before joining FCS, he founded and served as the Managing Consultant at iDevTanzania Limited and iDev Consulting, where he provided advisory services to national NGOs, donor agencies, multilateral organizations, global philanthropies, and corporates.
Justice holds a BA in Integrated Community Development from Daystar University, an MSc in Media, Communication, and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is currently pursuing a PhD in Business and Management at Strathmore University Business School. He is an alumnus of the Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF) and the Program for African Leadership (PfAL) at the LSE. Justice is an avid writer, with over 50 published op-eds covering various national, regional, and global issues.
About
Foundation For Civil Society
Foundation for Civil Society (fCS) is a people-centered institution that facilitates, capacitates, and accelerates citizens’ engagement in the development process by delivering resources, capacity-building services, co-created innovations, and tailored development solutions to local community groups and grassroots civil society organizations across mainland Tanzania, and in Zanzibar.
Foundation for Civil Society (fCS) exists and thrives at the nexus between the people and other development players. To give the people a voice through representation, FCS enables citizens to become a strong driving force for change in improving the democratic governance of Tanzania, fighting poverty, and achieving a better quality of life for all.