Léonard NKESHIMANA

• Analyze and approve partners project proposals and funding request files
• Manage and monitor funding agreements between the government and partners in the region
• Prepare decision and information notes to submit to the deputy minister
• Support and supervise the Ministry's service providers; awareness/information, promotional material
• Support Quebec businesses' companies that have needs or questions relating to immigrant labor
• Develop partnerships with the business community to support the implementation of talent attraction and retention strategies
• Play an advisory role with local and regional stakeholders in order to ensure the full participation of people from immigrant backgrounds in the territories under my responsibility
• Assume the role of representative of the Ministry and maintain strong leadership in matters of immigration and to unsure that the ministry's mission is achieved locally and regionally, ..

• Examine, verify and accept or reject passport applications, verifying the accuracy of the information provided by the applicant by consulting the sponsor, the references provided as well as the ministries concerned
• Make decisions regarding the admissibility of passport applications based on established policies and procedures
• Provide passport services to Canadians: Inform applicants of the requirements related to passport services and the status of their application, determine the nature of the services to be provided, etc
• Analyze legal documents and validate documents analyzed by colleagues
• Identify complex security cases and take appropriate action
• Provide support to clients regarding refused passport applications, form requirements and security concerns
• Refer to other services related to passport services
• Immigration: Refugees and Citizenship Canada, information on travel to Canada or abroad, Director of Civil Status, Courthouse, etc

• Assist the main manager of the francophone Africa program and the Education specialist by providing them a full managment support
• Support in the compilation and analysis of collective action information at the regional level and drafting reports,
• Monitoring and evaluation of the project of "prevention against torture in Africa" and project of "Promotion of the rights of girls and women in Senegal as well as their empowerment"
• Developed reports summarizing program outcomes for stakeholders and funders.
• Transcribe the interview information during dialogue with partners and support the preparation of international workshops on strategic partnership, etc

• Plan and manage the project in all its aspects and at all levels;
• Developed and implemented advocacy strategies to engage stakeholders in policy change initiatives,
• Coordinated meetings with elected officials at all levels of government in order to discuss proposed legislation or other advocacy initiatives.
• Analyze national and global public policies to combat AIDS and to protect human rights of vulnerable groups
• Ensure media monitoring on human rights thematic and prepare information sessions to equip them
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• Drafted position papers, letters of support or opposition, testimony for hearings, reports and other documents related to advocacy efforts.
• Analyze and technically manage advocacy files, prepare letters and advocacy tools intended for the targets group and political authorities;
• Prepare and lead education/awareness sessions on human rights with different stakeholders (Media, Judges, Police, Doctors, Lawyers, CSOs and politicians, etc.)
• Dialogue with decision-makers and participate in international conferences on the protection of human rights and the fight against AIDS: formal and informal discussion with decision-makers, journalists, partners
• Strengthen the capacities of partner associations in seeking funding, liaising them with global networks and partners, support them drafting projects proposal

throughout the"Medical Aid, Psychosocial Support and Socio-economic Reintegration of women victims of sexual and gender-based violence project" in the Walungu territories, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo:

• Strengthen the capacities of psychosocial assistants and AFPDE staff on the holistic care of women victims of rape and SGBV as well as on their empowerment;
• Designed and developed training materials for psychosocial assistant staff of the organization.Write training modules and provide coaching to put the acquired knowledge into practice

• Facilitate mediation processes on various conflicts: land conflict, family conflict between residents and returnees;
• Citizens and the administration, conflicts between returnees and returnees, etc
• Conduct training for grassroots leaders and administrators on conflict management;
• Developed and implemented training programs to increase participant knowledge and understanding of relevant topics.
• Coaching of beneficiaries of training in mediation techniques in their communities;
• Listen, record, council and offer legal assistance to beneficiaries;

• Mobilize Burundian communities on the process of peace building, healing of memories, social cohesion and reconciliation and transitional justice;
• Promote local initiatives for community reintegration of returnees and peaceful resolution of the land issue between residents and returnees
• Organizing workshop session on peacefull coexistence and social cohesion

• Contribute to the implementation of the "Conflict Transformation and Management of the Past project" through inclusive dialogue by organizing and leading discussion groups
• Contribute to open guaranteed spaces for dialogue and allow the balkanized population to get closer and to verbalize the past and the plural history of the country to initiate the reconciliation process;
• Collect opinions and proposals from the authorities and the population on the origins of the conflict, the establishment of conflict transformation and transitional justice mechanisms
• Collect the participants' private speeches, interpret them psychologically and provide psychosocial assistance to participant whom the theater causes emotional and behavioral disturbances;
• Lead expression groups after a theatrical performance and write reports
• Participation in the compilation of reports in a general book entitled "Speeches of Burundians on post-war justice"

Project title: "Protection and research for sustainable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Burundi", Ngozi-Burundi

• Ensure the daily coordination of the branch and the project in all its aspects;
• Coordinate and direct staff assigned to the office and manage all logistics
• Contributed innovative ideas and solutions to enhance team performance and outcomes.
• Prioritized and organized tasks to efficiently accomplish service goals.
• Participate in the drafting of project proposals and submit them to donors
• Represent the organization before partners and public authorities in the region
• Organize and coordinate awareness-raising missions to IDP sites, ensure that the potential for voluntary return is realized and guide partners and staff on the procedures
• Ensure monitoring and evaluation of the progress of the project in relation to the objectives to be achieved and propose mitigation strategies;
• Supervise rights protection activities during the process of assessing return intentions and ensure that special assistance to IDPs with specific needs (children, pregnant women, elderly people, people living with disabilities, etc.) is provided..