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Efiscens, Together with:

Irène Sesmaisons

Irène Sesmaisons founded Efiscens in 2016 (NINEA 006015607). She is founding partner, senior expert, and trainer (ICPF certification pending). She delivered 3,500 hours of training (95% satisfaction rate). Through Efiscens, she has worked on the capacity building of more than 50 organizations. She has led Fondation Ensemble, French Embassy in USA' civil society department, ENDA Maghreb, and Tostan' grants department. She has published five books, member of 2 boards, and 3 selection committees

Khadidiatou Toure

Khadi Touré is associate partner since May 2026. She has over 15 years of experience in strategic development, resource mobilization, and partnership building, working with private organizations and social impact entities. She has worked at companies and organizations such as Africamobile, Nest for All, SFR, and NRJ Mobile Group, and has also held leadership position in the non for profit sector.

Taka 360

Efiscens has been working with the experts at Taka360 since 2025, in particular Gérès Ahognon, as part of their “Organizational Transformation” division. We help organizations transform themselves by aligning their strategies and operations to sustainably improve their performance.

Altai Consulting

Efiscens collaborates with Alice Leroy, Environment and climate expert, project director at Altai Consulting. Since 2024, we are involved in an evaluation/capitalization with PPI/IUCN and 11 CSOs in West Africa.

valery yankep photo

Valery Yankep crossed paths with Irène Sesmaisons at Bioforce in 2019. Mr Yankep is an expert, and member of Efiscens' network of experts. He is a Wash specialist with over 10 years' experience in Niger, Burundi, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mali and elsewhere.

photo atta doumbia

Atta Doumbia met Irène Sesmaisons during a “partnerships” training session in 2024. Ms. Doumbia is an expert and member of Efiscens' network of experts in Mali, specializing in support, consulting, and capacity building in financial management and accountability for CSOs. She has worked with ACF, among others.

Mays Dakhlil

Mays Dakhil works for HI in Tchad. She created the donor mapping tool developed for Social Change Factory in 2025.

experts francophones

Irène Sesmaisons is a member of Expertes Francophones. Efiscens calls on this network to mobilize expertise from time to time.

stephanie del gaudio

Stéphanie del Gaudio is a member of the Efiscens network of experts. We were trainers together at Bioforce for 6 years. Stéphanie supports Efiscens on HR issues (training, HR administration, reorganization, organization chart, HR procedures manual, etc.).

pauline coquelin

Pauline Coquelin is Efiscens' graphic designer. She contributed to the book “Resource Mobilization by National NGOs,” our training catalog, our brochure, the website...

Hedwige Serot Almeras

Hedwige Serot Almeras is a strategy and sustainable development expert and a member of the Efiscens network of experts. She worked alongside Irène Sesmaisons on the JED/Strategy project in 2019. She helped create and subsequently oversee the “participatory organizational assessment” tool.

AFECTI

Irène Sesmaisons is member of Afecti since 2020 and member of the Board since 2022. Afecti brings together experts from Europe and Africa. Efiscens calls on this network to mobilize expertise from time to time.

Mostafa Ouki

Mostefa Ouki is a senior expert member of Afecti. In 2022, we collaborated on an assessment of the changes brought about within Caritas by the implementation of the APPROCHE

Emma Sanchis Peris Photo identité

Emma Sanchis Peris collaborated on the use of statistics in the Efiscens surveys (2024 and 2025).

Nautenle Batista

Nautenle Batista completed a 6-month internship in 2024.

Aïda Gueye

Aïda Gueye completed a 6-month internship between October 2023 and March 2024.

INTRAC

Irène Sesmaisons has been a member of Intrac since 2025. This network for the exchange of best practices brings together international experts. Efiscens uses this network to find validated experts on an occasional need basis.

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