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Amy Elizabeth Cunningham is a Community Advisor at Equip. Amy was previously the Country Director at Project Concern International from March 2017 to December 2017.

During their time at Project Concern International, Amy revamped the program to shift from a school feeding donation to a sustainable school feeding program, gaining national level attention for a national school feeding strategy. Amy also restructured the program for improved efficiencies and increase results and innovations, shifted staff gender balance by 38% in new hires, and restructured the education portfolio to use data for increasing primary school literacy and utilize local organizations (private not for profit and public parastatals) as key implementers for a functioning system. Additionally, they increased the annual portfolio to over USD$8M and brought on three new awards including a two year, $2M local commodity procurement program designed to increase regional agricultural output and embed primary school feeding in the regional system; and two new research grants of $3M+ from private foundations addressing early infant feeding and early childhood development with Harvard, Purdue and Africa Academy for Public Health.

Amy Elizabeth Cunningham has a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Maternal and Child Health/International Health, an MBA from the University of Maryland Global Campus in International Business, and a Certificate in Broadcast, Print, Shipboard, and Electronic Journalism from the Defense Information School. Amy also has a MPH from the University of Northern Colorado in Music Performance and a Bachelor of Arts - BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Political Science and Government. Finally, they have a PG Diploma from King's College London in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health.