KIRENGA Clement Biography

Clement KIRENGA
Capacity building officer
RWAMREC

Clement KIRENGA Joined RWAMREC in October 2011 as Capacity Building Officer

Previously, Clement worked for DFID-UK funded Research Into Use (RIU) since July 2008 until July 2011 as National Monitoring and Learning Coordinator until September 2009 when he was appointed Programme Monitoring and Communications Officer.

Clement worked as Advisor in Leadership and Community Mobilization for the Good Governance, Decentralization and Community Development Project implemented by International Rescue Committee (IRC) and funded by USAID (2000 – 2003); he worked for Rwanda Electoral Commission as Deputy Provincial Coordinator and in charge of Legal affairs in 2003; and he held the position of Director General/Law Journalist at USAID supported Rwanda's first Community Radio IZUBA from 2004 to 2006. He then joined Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning as Sector Monitoring and Evaluation specialist for Water and Sanitation Sector in charge of The Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS) from 2006 to 2008. He worked on various consultancies including Mid Term Review of DFID supported Rwanda government Land Tenure regularization Program (2011); registration of WaterAid in Rwanda (2010) and many more others. He co-founded the Great Lakes Broadcasters' Association (Rwanda, Burundi and DRC) in 2005; Founder of Rwanda Broadcasters Association in 2004; a member of Rwanda Law Society; Founder of Rwanda Network of Planners.

Clement's diverse and rich expertise is Policy/Programme/Project Management; Monitoring and Evaluation and Mass media Communications for Development. He also has a born talent of fine arts (drawings).

Education
Clement holds a Bachelor of Legal Laws from National University of Rwanda (1995-1999) with trainings in Project Management, Integrated Water Resources Management; Decentralization and Community Development.

Contact
• Email kirengaclems@rwamrec.org or kirengaclems@yahoo.com
• Mobile: (250) 788453787

Kwakira kanditatire z’abakorerea bushake mu mwaka wa 2011

Rwanda Men’s Resource Centre (RWAMREC), National Volunteering Program (NVP)

Porogaramu y’ubakorera bushake muri RWAMREC irahamagarira buri wese kuyitabira no kuzuza impapuro zabigenewe guhera tariki ya 1/03/2011 kugeza kuya 31/05/ 2011.


RWAMREC n’umuryango w’abagabo ugamije gushishikariza abagabo gushyigikira ingamba zinyuranye z’abari n’abategarogore zigamije iterambere ryabo, kugira uruhare rugaragara mu guca ihohotera abagabo bakorera abana n’abagore, no guteza imbere myitwarire y’abagabo kugira ngo babe intanga rugero mu guca ihohotera mu miryango nyarwanda.

Porogaramu y’abakorerabushake ya RWAMREC izaba urwego rukwiriye ruzafasha RWAMREC mu gushyira mu bikorwa izi nshingano zavuzwe hejuru, ndetse no kumenyekanisha icyerekezo n’intego rusange za RWAMREC.

Iyi programm izafata abakoreranabushake hagati ya 20 na 50 muri 2011 bazaba bashinzwe imwe cyangwa myinshi mu myanya ikurikira:
- Umufasha mu byubuyobozi
- Abakangurambaga mu by’ubuzima n’uburezi
- Abajyanama mu by’ubuzima n’ihungabana
- Abaditsi n’abanyamabanga
- Abandika no gushyira amakuru kuri urubuga rwa internet ya RWAMREC
- Abategura no gutanga ibiganiro
- Abatanga ibiganiro mbwirwa-ruhame
- Abatanga amahugurwa



Muri rusange, abakorerabushake bazashyirwa mu matsinda ahoraho, hakurikijwe urwego n’ubumenyi bwa buri wese bazajya bahabwa imirimo hakurikijwe ubumenyi bwa buri wese mu guteza imbere uburingamire n’iterambere mu Rwanda.

Kubakorerabushake bazababa bahawe imirimo, RWAMREC izajya intaga agahimbazamusyi, ibikoresho byagenewe umukorerabushake, gufashwa mu bijyanye na “Logistics”, guhabwa ubumenyi mu kwandika imyirondoro, kugirwa inama amahugurwa ku buryo bwo gusaba akazi, gutegura ibiganiro mbwirwa-ruhame, gushimirwa mu ruhame, n’ubundi buryo bunyuranye RWAMREC yakoresha mu kubashimira.

Abakoranabushake bazafatanya na RWAMREC muri gahunda y' ubukangurambaga ku rwego rw' I gihugu hagamijwe guteza imbere ubwuzuzanye hagati y’ibitsina byombi; gukangurira abagabo n’abasore gukumira ihohoterwa rikorerwa abari n’abategarugori no guhindura imyumvire y' abagabo hagamijwe ko baba Abagabo b' inyangamugayo bityo bakubaka umuryango nyarwanda uzira akarengane n’ihohotera. Kanda hano wuzuze usaba kuba umukorerabushake (available as a fillable .pdf form).


Umuntu wese ufite imyaka cyangwa urengeje imyaka 21 wifuza kuaba umukorera bushake agomba kuzuza foromileri yabigenewe. Abazaba batoranijwe bazakora ibizamini by’ijonjora ku nshuro ya mbere nyuma bakazakora ikizamini cya kabiri, Abatsinze kabakazahamagarwa mu mahugurwa, yo gutoranyamo abazahabwa imirimo y’ubukorerabushake.

Nyuma y’amahugurwa n’isesengura ku bushobozi bwa buri wese, nibwo hazashyirwa kumugaragaro abakoranabushake biyi gahunda izamara umwaka umwe. Mu gihe cyiri jonjora, ntabazemererwa guhindura imyirondoro baba baratanze basaba kuba abakorerabushake.


Gahunda y’abakoranabushake igomba gutangira muri Werurwe 2011 aribwo amabwiriza yose azaba aboneka kurubuga rwa Internet ya RWAMREC www.rwamrec.org ku cyicaro gikuru cya RWAMREC Avenue de la Justice Nyamirambo- Etage ya bere munzu ya Profemme.

Mukeneye ibindi bisobanuro mwahamagara kuri 0255116121 na 0255116024 cyangwa
mukatwandikira kuri email comenetia@rwamrec.org

The 2011 Call for Applications Cycle 1 RWAMREC National Volunteering Program (NVP)

RWAMREC NVP is requesting national volunteer applications in 2011, the inaugural invitation cycle. The window for receiving applications is from March 1, 2011 to July 31, 2011. For more details, click here.

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25 November, Lusaka – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) staff joined colleagues from the Gender in Development Division (GIDD) to march down the streets of Lusaka to kick off the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence in Zambia on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The UNDP Country Director Ms Viola Morgan joined the Minister of Gender and Women’s Development Hon. Sarah Sayifwanda, MP, at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre to raise awareness about the physical, sexual, economic, psychological and social-cultural forms of gender based violence that many women are still subjected to in Zambiambia. More



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RWAMREC during the 16 days of activism

From 25 November to 10 December 2010, RWAMREC participated in the 16 Days activities organized by the Rwanda Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion and the National Women’s Council. The following activities were carried out:
1. Public events: The national commemoration took place in Mukamira, Nyabihu District in the Western province on 25 November 2010. It started with public talks, discussions, followed by an official launch by the Minister of Gender and Family Promotion Dr Jeanne Mujawamariya. A large number of Gender stakeholders attended the official launching and this provided an opportunity to raise awareness on the benefits of non-violence.

2. Community dialogue: During the 16 days of activism, RWAMREC organized community dialogues on healthy families in Gakenke district where 200 women and men in coffee cooperatives were reached. In 2 coffee cooperatives, couples that were violence free were identified as role models and they were used to support other families experiencing violence in coffee cooperatives.

3. Training workshops: From 25 to 10 December 2010, RWAMREC organized capacity training workshops for Gender Clubs from Higher Learning institutions including, KIST, KHI, UNATEK, AUCEA. These training focused on promoting positive masculinity in schools.

4. Youth mobilization: During the 16 days of activism, RWAMREC mobilized 200 young adolescents from Nyamata District in Musenyi Sector. Youth from HIV clubs, Gender clubs, Karate clubs were trained, mobilized on non violence and how to prevent violence against women and children in their communities.


5. Closing ceremony: on 10 December, RWAMREC joined the Ministry of Gender and other stakeholders in the closing ceremony of the 16 days of activism which took place in Gakenke District where Gender stakeholders planted trees in Gakenke district

RWAMREC staff

Uwera Alice: Accountant


Samvura Oswald:Projects Coordinator



Ruzibiza Yvette:Capacity Building Officer

Niyibizi Dominique:Field Officer, Edouard Munyamaliza:Ex.Sec, Karyango Habib:DAF,
Comenetia Portia Allen:institutional Development Adviser












Butera Jean Claude:Administrative A

Fidel`s biography

Fidèle Rutayisire is the Chairperson of the Rwanda Men’s Resource Centre. A lawyer by education, Fidèle is a passionate and articulate human rights activist in Rwanda. From 2000 he served as the Program officer of a Human Right organization in Rwanda (Association Rwandaise pour la defense des Droits de l`Homme, ARDHO). From 2002, he worked with the Ministry of Health as a senior legal adviser. In 2004 he joined Kigali Health Institute where he served as the senior adviser to the Vice chancellor. Late 2006, he founded the Rwanda Men’s Resource Centre (RWAMREC) to mobilize Rwandan men to support women’s leadership, to address issues of negative masculinity, gender inequality, promotion of healthy families, women’s rights and prevention of gender-based violence, thus addressing all other related consequences including HIV/ AIDS and other health issues.

He is a gender sensitive man involved in many women’s organizations in Rwanda. He is a board member of PROFEMME TWESE HAMWE an umbrella of 56 Women’s organizations in Rwanda as well as a board member of ARDHO a Rwandan Human Rights Association as well as a member of the Governing council of the East African civil society organization forum (EACSOF) as well as a member of the Africa MenEngage Network steering committee.

Fidèle Rutayisire is a Rwandan who initiated and rallied the world to sign the petition against Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Kenya during the post-election violence held in early 2008. Fidèle lectures, leads workshops and trainings and provides consultations for organizations throughout Rwanda and many other countries in Africa.