Beatrice Nijebariko is a human rights defender with an extensive experience in program management, with a focus on promoting gender transformative and prevention of gender-based violence programming.
With over 15 years, working in gender and GBV programming, testing and implementing different approaches such as, women empowerment, gender mainstreaming,
men as partners through positive masculinity, Beatrice conducted and /or supervised several gender studies including gender analysis, safety/gender audit, gender assessment and gender strategies and led gender programming for both humanitarian, resilience and development program.
She is a trained expert in capacity building for the development sector and has developed training module and awareness raising tools in her expertise areas, targeting different groups including administrative and religious leaders, media, and Burundi’s civil society organizational development.
Equity and Social Justice Statement: Beatrice Nijebariko believes that legal systems that are unable to properly protect the most vulnerable people in communities against traditional norms, patriarchal systems, power imbalance, and exclusive decision-making process that reinforce inequal resource management and thus perpetrate poverty.
Professional Skills: Beatrice has worked in several professional environments with people of multiple cultural values which has contributed to strengthen her competences in accountability, adaptive and flexible leadership. She thus developed practical expertise in the program management both technical and budgetary within under results-based projects.
Proposal Development: Beatrice has practical experience in supporting/coordinating grant application process with projects funded per different donors (USAID, DANIDA, World Bank, UN agencies and international NGO), and has demonstrated compliance with guidelines and procedures. Donors.
Beatrice holds two master’s degrees respectively in gender from the Université Lumière de Bujumbura (Bujumbura Light University) in Burundi, and in child rights from Lund University, Sweden.
2023 - 2024
January 2017