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The Team
The Team
Three experienced teams from Survivor Corps and The Advocacy Project are working on this program in Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. They are backed up from the Survivor Corps office in South Africa, and by the two home offices in Washington, DC.
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| Director, Africa Project |
Mendi Njonjo is the Director of the Africa Programs for the Advocacy Project, based in Kampala. Before joining AP Mendi was a founder of FAWERS – a network of African Women who work for post-conflict reconstruction and end to the use of gender-based violence as a tactic of war. Prior to that, she worked for the International Federation of the Red Cross in Nairobi, Kenya and The Center for the Prevention of Genocide in Arlington, Virginia. Mendi is fluent in English, Swahili and Kikuyu. She has a Master’s degree in conflict resolution from the University of Massachusetts in Boston and has written on the impact of humanitarian aid on conflict resolution; the influence of women’s rights in post-conflict resolution in Africa.
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| Africa Program Associate |
Robert Mugisha comes to Suvivor Corps with extensive experience with human rights and democracy in Africa. He has an LLB from NUR Rwanda, a post-grad diploma in humanitarian law (UL, Sweden), an LLM in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa (UP, South Africa), and a Master of Professional Studies in Legislative Affairs from George Washington University. Since 2004, Robert has been working as a Country Specialist at Amnesty International USA focusing on the Great Lakes Region of Africa. He has also served as an Associate Legal Officer with the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, a Coordinator of the Center for Human Rights and Democratization in East Africa, and the head of the Human Rights Division in Rwanda's ministry of justice.
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| Country Program Coordinator – Uganda |
John Francis Onyango is the Country Program Coordinator for Uganda. He is an advocate of the high court and all subordinate courts in Uganda. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Makerere University and a postgraduate diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Center-Kampala. Before joining Survivor Corps, Mr. Onyango worked with Human Rights Network-Uganda as Acting Coordinator for the Uganda Coalition on the International Criminal Court. He is interested in Human Rights Law and Advocacy as well as International Criminal law and how these can be used to improve the quality of life for survivors of conflict.
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Pierre Claver recently joined Survivor Corps as the Burundi Country Coordinator for the Africa program, after working in conflict mitigation and reconstruction for ten years in Burundi. Previously, Pierre worked with CARE International, where he was responsible for developing a 12-member alliance of civil society organizations. By targeting very small, grassroots organizations, the alliance was able to scale up the programs, and many are now partnering with international NGOs. Pierre is also an expert on land issues, which are becoming a major concern for IDPs in Central Africa.
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Albert Nzamukwereka recently joined Survivor Corps as the Country Program Coordinator for Rwanda. He holds a BA in political history from the National University of Rwanda and a post graduate certificate from The University of Peace in Costa Rica in media and genocide. Albert founded Never Again Rwanda whose mission is to work on genocide prevention by engaging youth in critical thinking and generate new ideas for the future. He has also served as Deputy Country Director for La Benevolencia, a Dutch media company that runs broadcast campaigns in Rwanda and Burundi in support of reconciliation and justice.
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| AP Peace Fellow |
Annelieke van de Wiel volunteered as an AP Peace Fellow, supporting the Africa program from Gulu in northern Uganda, where she worked with IDP populations. Annelieke studies public international law at the University of Amsterdam, focusing on human rights and national and international refugee law. She has also volunteered at the asylum application centre at Amsterdam Airport, helping asylum seekers and refugees who have just arrived in The Netherlands, and interned at the UNHCR national office in The Hague. Prior to Amsterdam, Annelieke studied modern history, religion studies, anthropology and human rights at the University of Utrecht.
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| Survivor Corps Africa Team |
(Photo left to right) John Francis Onyango (Uganda Program Coordinator), Saira Khan (Africa Regional Coordinator), Pierre-Claver Nsengiyumva (Burundi Program Coordinator) and Albert Nzamukwereka (Rwanda Program Coordinator).
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