Regis Mtutu, from Zimbabwe, joined Sonke in March 2009 and is the National Programme Manager. 

From 1990-96 Regis worked with rural and informal communities using popular education methodologies as trainer and learning materials developer. After that he was thee Business Management Trainer working with informal housing communities on co-operative and social housing as part of Zimbabwe’s housing delivery policy. Regis co-founded Padare Men’s Forum on Gender, an anti-sexist men’s organisation working with men and boys on patriarchy, masculinity, HIV and AIDS, GBV and what men can do to achieve gender equality, stop violence against women and prevent  the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS. Padare is internationally recognised and is cited by UNAIDS as a best practice. Regis was Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Social Forum and, with other activists in the African Social Forum Council, was instrumental in bringing the first ever World Social Forum to Africa in Kenya in 2007. In 2006 Regis became International Campaigns Coordinator for the Treatment Action Campaign working on treatment access issues, leading to the establishment of the Southern African Treatment Access Movement affiliated to the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition. Regis is past Chairperson for the MS-Zimbabwe-Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, the Danish International Association for International Cooperation and is currently a board member of MS-Tanzania, a Technical Cooperation Development Training Centre (TCDC) based in Arusha Tanzania.