Melvis Lu-uh KIMBI

Melvis Lu-uh KIMBI First joined To fill Title Member Affiliation To fill Notable works To fill Interest in SIGs solving social problems, complex systems, structured dialogue and action research. democracy, youth issues, women/gender, forced displacement and the environment Covid 19 Degree(s) BA in Journalism Master’s Degree in Communication and Future Marketing Field(s) of study new technologies / social media University(ies) Advanced School of Mass Communication Specialization(s) audiovisual, Print and Digital Media ORCID To Fill Notable Awards or Achievements editorials on socio-political trends affecting her life and work Links To fill

Melvis Lu-uh KIMBI is a Cameroonian-born journalist, now Strategic Communication Officer with the United Nations.

Academia and Career

Melvis Kimbi works as a journalist, counting about 12 years of experience in the fields of Corporate (Internal and External) Communication, broadcast and Digital Media, Research and External/Public Relations. She studied at the Advanced School of Mass Communication (formerly known as l'École Supérieure Internationale de Journalisme de Yaoundé-ESIJY), in Cameroon where she graduated with a BA in Journalism (audiovisual, Print and Digital Media), and she also holds a Master’s Degree in Communication and Future Marketing from the GBSB Global Business School in Barcelona, Spain. As a journalist, she worked as an Anchor / Reporter for the Cameroon Radio Television, and later as Service Head for New Media at the same National Media in Cameroon, CRTV, where she had earlier volunteered as a young Journalist. She has also collaborated with the BBC Monitoring - Africa Service, covering socio-political news. In 2015, she worked briefly as English Journalist for Radio Environnement, a project under the International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN, for West and Central Africa. When it comes to her experience within the United Nations, Melvis is currently Strategic Communication Officer for the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, in Madagascar, also covering Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros. Before this, she was Communication Officer with the World Health Organization in Madagascar, playing a central role in contextualising and implementing the communication strategy for COVID-19 and subsequently the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine. Melvis also worked as Communication Associate at the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR in Cameroon (also covering Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe) and as Communication Assistant at the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, in Cameroon, back in 2015. At the level of the private sector, she was Communication agent with the ‘Agence des Prestations Maritimes,’ APM, a shipping company handling freight in and across the central African sub region. She is also a public speaker, interested in solving social problems, complex systems, structured dialogue and action research. She is a committed advocate for democracy, youth issues, women/gender, forced displacement and the environment, and she remains committed to many youth empowerment initiatives. She also belongs to many networks, including and not limited to Journalists’ networks across Africa and beyond. She speaks English and French fluently and is very conversant with use of new technologies / social media. She has authored many human-interest stories within the context of work in the development/humanitarian domain, with the UN and published editorials on socio-political trends affecting her life and work, such as the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon.

Special Interests

She is a contributing Author in the following Research work : see links below

Links to relevant pages

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358041358_Chapter_TWO_Rendering_Africa_more_resilient_sustainable_and_better_prepared_for_COVID-analogous_pandemics_Proposals_from_across_seven_African_countries

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358041442_Chapter_SIX_The_role_of_people_as_individual_and_collective_agents_in_making_a_difference_to_societal_outcomes_also_in_the_COVID-19_era_African_insights

https://www.africa-positive.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Publication-Summary-final-AIMMAD-online.pdf Quantitative Research in Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal (Language: English, French and German)