2024 Civil Society Nominations

Danielle Andrade

Danielle Andrade-Goffe is a Jamaican Attorney-at-Law and partner in the law firm Goffe Law with extensive experience in environmental law. Her areas of practice include environmental policy, litigation, advocacy, legislative drafting and environmental law education.

From 2015 to 2022, she served as an Elected Representative of the Public for the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters for Latin America and the Caribbean (The Escazú Agreement).

Ms. Andrade-Goffe was previously Legal Director of the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET), a non-profit, environmental, non-governmental organisation, a post she held for nine years and is now a Board Member. During her time as Legal Director, she managed JET’s law and advocacy Programme.

She obtained her Bachelor of Laws from the University of the West Indies and was called to the Bar in Jamaica in 2005. In 2009 she was the recipient of a British Chevening scholarship and completed a master’s degree in environmental law from Queen Mary, University of London in the United Kingdom.

Dahvia Hylton

Dahvia Hylton is an educator and an activist. She currently serves as the co-lead for theResearch, Advocacy and Policy Development Committee within the Jamaica Climate ChangeYouth Council. She has been a staunch advocate for environmental protection and the rightsof women and children for over five years, applying an intersectional approach to theseissues.

Matthew McNaughton

Matthew McNaughton is a digital development practitioner from Kingston, Jamaica. He co-founded the SlashRoots Foundation, a social impact organisation that uses digital practices to improve the design and delivery of public services and development programs in the Caribbean. He is also the Director for Inclusion, Safeguards, and Civil Society Engagement at Co-Develop, a nonprofit fund that supports countries implementing safe and inclusive digital public infrastructure.

Throughout his career, Matthew has led, supported, and scaled multiple international initiatives and national programmes across the Caribbean and Africa. Before Co-Develop, he worked as the Global Technology For Development Specialist at UNICEF. There, oversaw a digital messaging ecosystem that delivered more than 490 million messages annually, connecting children, mothers, and caregivers with life-saving information and public services. He played a leadership role in UNICEF's use of digital platforms during its COVID-19 pandemic response, helping Governments launch more than 50 new message programmes in 6 months. In a previous role at the World Bank, Matthew led multiple open government and citizen feedback programmes in Nigeria. These engagements ranged from the Edo State Open Government Initiative, Africa’s first subnational open government program, to the ICT for Social Accountability programme, a novel approach to incorporating real-time citizen feedback via mobile phones to improve healthcare quality.

In 2024, Matthew was appointed by the UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Technology to a working group for the Universal Safeguards for Digital Public Infrastructure effort. He serves on multiple boards, including Jamaica’s Open Government Partnership Multi-Stakeholder Forum, the Caribbean Open Institute, the Code For All Initiative, and the steering committee of the Civil Society Digital ID Coalition.

Matthew held the Edward S. Mason and Ash Democracy Fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he earned his Master in Public Administration and earned a B.A in Philosophy from the College of Wooster.