Mado-Esther Mutombo is experienced in managing community support programs in recovery and emergency situations. These programs help people overcome their vulnerability by building alternative livelihoods in the transition phase and moving on to development.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Community Development, with a major in Project Management and Administration at the Institut Supérieur d’Etudes Sociales (ISES) in Lubumbashi, DRC.
She developed her experience working from 2011 to 2018, a total of 8 years
in the United Nations system, notably with the World Food Programme (WFP)/regional office for Katanga and Tanganyika, first as a field monitor and responsible for the school feeding programme, providing hot meals to children attending school in normal situations and in areas affected by armed conflict, to increase access, attendance, retention and improve the quality of education through hot meals provided to children every day at school increasing their learning capacity. This multi-year program was implemented in collaboration with UNICEF, the Education Cluster, in support of the Congolese government’s efforts to improve school indicators and attract school indicators, as well as attract thousands of children outside the school circuit and keep them there.

She has also worked extensively in monitoring and evaluating assistance programs for vulnerable people, participating in food and nutritional security assessment surveys to determine the Food Consumption Score (FCS) and the Index of Survival Strategies developed to help vulnerable people access food.

At the end of 2018, she left the WFP to embark on another professional adventure for the implementation of free primary education in the DRC, a pilot project with funding from a project funded by DFID and USAID, first as a consultant for Cambridge Education, then as an employee of Mott MacDonald, working concretely with the Ministry of EPST and its management offices to put into practice the free primary education which had long been provided for in the DRC’s constitution, and which had been struggling to be implemented.
In July 2023, she joined FCA in order to contribute to the success of the community projects, including the Child Labor Prevention and Remediation (CLR) program, as well as the economic diversification program, by working with local mining communities determined to change their economic and realize their dreams of a better world.

“We can all reinvent ourselves. If we realise we are unhappy, we can give ourselves a second chance.” Luciano De Crescenzo