An excellent communicator within multicultural and multidisciplinary teams with over 5 years’ experience in remote situations. I am passionate about finding solution-oriented approaches in complex issues of social responsibility, sustainability, and justice through my skills and training in research, planning, coordination and implementation of priority choices. My training in International Development has equipped me with global perspectives on how to lobby parties so as to achieve win-win results.
Nov 2019 - present
Overall responsibilities: Budget Planning and Controlling, Accreditation, Leading a team of 10 employees, Business Plan Development, Financial Forecast, Capacity Building for Small Scale Entrepreneurs
Achievements: Establishment of a Micro-Finance Academy, Opening of two new offices in Uganda, Accreditation of new projects, Roll-out of Trainings for Small Scale Entrepreneurs
Oct 2016 - Nov 2018
Overall responsibilities: Coordination of projects, including project cycle and financial management; Peace building and Civic Education activities during the General Election in 2017; Field work in hotspot areas such as Baringo, Marsabit, Nakuru and Nairobi
Key achievement: Implementation of joint peace meetings, Monitoring and Evaluation System
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Overall responsibility: Implementation of the 24th Session of the Universal Periodic Review and the 31st Human Rights Council in the Political Affairs Section
Key achievements: Negotiations with Member States about the resolutions on minorities, the environment and Mali; and first drafts of the national statements
June - Aug 2014
Overall responsibility: Development of a 3-week Assessment Program targeting sponsored school children from minority groups to access education;
Development of the Evaluation Concept for the Assessment Centre;
Implementation of the Assessment-Centre
Key achievement: Long-term Assessment Program and Criteria implemented every year
June - Aug 2013
Overall responsibility: Development of M&E concepts for the NGO’s projects
Key achievements: Developed and implemented ‘Theatre for Development’ in Rwandese schools from 2014
April 2017 - Nov 2018
Overall responsibility: Nurturing leadership in girls and young women from underprivileged backgrounds
Aug - Oct 2016
Overall responsibility: Organization of the Diaspora Academy Programme ‘Advocacy, Lobby and Peace- building’ Training
Key achievement: Successful conduction of the Diaspora Academy Programme, Empowerment, Networking and Capacity Building among African diaspora living in Europe
Sep 2012 - July 2013
Overall responsibilities: Organizing of weekly program activities such as languages, dance and art classes;
Coordinating with Wageningen University in organizing the ‘One World Week’ event
Key achievement: Development of yearly activity and course program of ISOW; and successfully implementing the first of the ‘One World Week’ which became an annual event
June 2018
Advocacy and Policy Influencing
May 2018
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Developing M&E systems that balance accountability and learning
2014 – 2016
Master of Science in International Development Studies
Department of Public Administration and Policy Group
Specialization: Law
Highlights: Academic Consultancy Training research design about natural resource management of small-scale farmers in Rwanda;
Ethnographic fieldwork in Kibera, Kenya
Thesis title: Access to education in informal settlements and the meaning of human rights in this context
Thesis achievement: Development of guidelines for NGOs and policy makers in order to improve the access to education in slum areas
2011 – 2014
Bachelor of Science in International Development Studies
Department of Environmental Policy
Specialization: Sociology of Development
Highlights: Undergraduate minor program in Rabat: Social Studies of Morocco, The Netherlands Centre of Expertise for Moroccan Studies (NIMAR);
Research on the political engagement of youth in the social transformation of the Moroccan society
Thesis title: Power struggle over land in Cambodia
Thesis achievement: Identification of power relations between actors involved in the industrial sugarcane production in Cambodia
May 2017
Languages