Inka Mackenbrock

Place of Birth: Born in Münster, Germany
Phone: (+256) 0702821283
Email: Inka.mackenbrock@gmail.com
Website: www.inkamackenbrock.com
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