Senior Associate Advisor Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) - RWANDA

Are you interested in joining an organisation with a long term commitment to fighting poverty? Would you like to work in a challenging environment and develop an international career focused on demonstrating shared core values that achieve results?

SNV Rwanda is looking for a:

Senior Associate Advisor Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Based in Kigali, Rwanda

(International consultancy contract)

Background

SNV is an international not-for-profit development organisation working in over 30 developing countries for more than 40 years. SNV has been working in Rwanda since 1980 and is active in all of SNV’s three sectors: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Renewable Energy and Agriculture.

The WASH programme in Rwanda contributes to extending access to Water, Sanitation and improving Hygiene in 3 sub programs:

·         Functionality of Rural Water Supply Services

·         Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All in rural areas

·         Water and Sanitation Services in Schools

SNV Rwanda is looking for a suitable candidate for the position of Senior Associate Advisor. The advisor will contribute to the overall quality of program content, business development, resource mobilization and management of programs. He or she will provide capacity development services to government, non-government and private sector clients at local and national level.

Responsibilities

·         In collaboration with the Sector Leader, develop SNV WASH sector by

·         enhancing the quality, visibility, applicability and up-scaling expertise in the country to position SNV Country as a knowledgeable organisation in the sector;

·         Support SNV management in mobilisation of resources for SNV advisory services to clients;

·         Assure quality of WASH advisory services in country by content leadership in the identification, formulation, execution, monitoring and reporting of/on SNV program in the WASH sector;

·         Conduct progress monitoring and assignment reviews with clients, and take an active role in managing for results;

·         Lead the SNV WASH team in development and coordination of strategic partnerships for joint service delivery, knowledge development and resources mobilisation purposes;

·         Maintain up-to-date information on sector developments through an on-going analysis of trends and issues;

·         Ensure good documentation and dissemination of knowledge;

·         Actively participate in external and internal networks that contribute to the WASH programme development.

Candidate Profile

·         Master degree in Sanitation, Rural Water Supply, Water Resource Management or related field;

·         Eight to ten years of experience in sanitation and behaviour change communication

·         Strong experience in institutional development and organisational strengthening

·         Proven experience in business development/resource mobilisation

·         Knowledge of value chain development approaches;

·         Demonstrable high level of competence in training and advisory methods;

·         Strong strategic and analytical skills

·         Advocacy, networking, lobbying and knowledge brokering skills

·         Experience in writing practice-based knowledge documents

·         Willingness to frequently travel inside the country

·         Strong computer skills

·         Proficient in English, and preferably working knowledge of French

Contract Duration: 18 months with possibility of extension

Desired start date: 1st March, 2014

Salary scale: Competitive Consultancy rate package

Please apply by clicking on the http://snv.devhire.devex.com/jobs/328757 and completing your application in our in-house recruitment systembefore 3 February 2014.

http://www.snvworld.org/en/regions/africa/senior-associate-advisor-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-wash-rwanda

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[RwandaLibre] Re: *DHR* Re: [Mbonigaba] The UN formally recognizes the Genocide “against the Tutsi”

 

"I also observed that the UN qualification for the genocide in Rwanda was "genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda". Therefore, it would difficult to confuse the group that was targeted with other Tutsi from neighboring countries", Olivier Nduhungirehe.

Thanks a lot Olivier, for acknowledging that theTutsi who were in neighboring countries ( Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, DRC) during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, who had no relatives living in Rwanda in 1994 and are currently leading Rwanda should not claim to be among the survivors of that genocide because they were not targeted at that time.

On Jan 31, 2014, at 0:59, Olivier Nduhungirehe <oliviernduhungirehe@yahoo.fr> wrote:

 

Ismail Mbonigaba,

 

We have just debated, on Twitter, on the qualification of the genocide in Rwanda. You were arguing that the crime was a "Rwandan genocide", because Burundian and Congolese Tutsi were not targeted! Strange argument! Surprised, I asked you to tell me if we shall now qualify the Shoah as "European genocide" because American jews were not targeted. I also observed that the UN qualification for the genocide in Rwanda was "genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda". Therefore, it would difficult to confuse the group that was targeted with other Tutsi from neighboring countries. No response from your side.

 

Beside this, I asked you a question to which you didn't answer. The Tanzanian Embassy in Kigali released today a statement denying that Faustin Twagiramungu, your boss at RDI Rwanda Nziza, ever entered the Tanzanian border, as their immigration records show. However, last Sunday in Lyon, Twagiramungu claimed that he indeed was in Tanzania but refused to tell more, as the mission was secret.

 

Questions: Who is lying? The Tanzanian Government or Faustin Twagiramungu? Has Twagiramungu claimed a visit that didn't happen, just to impress his colleagues in the opposition or has he unveiled an info that was meant to be secret? Last option, was Faustin Twagiramungu travelling on a fake passport?

 

I think many netters need clarification on this.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Rwemalika Théoneste   

Le Jeudi 30 janvier 2014 22h42, Ismaïl Mbonigaba <ismail.mbonigaba@yahoo.fr> a écrit :

Dear Olivier, I think the UN language is constantly and rapidly changing. Fisrt, Rwandan Genocide (1994), then Genocide against Tutsi (2014), and next Genocide against Hutu (Awaiting a ruling by a tribunal according to the Mapping Repport on DRC 2010). Don't you think your 2002 email could be a strong evidence? I support the language of "Rwandan Genocide". Have a nice evening!

Ismaïl

 

 

Le Jeudi 30 janvier 2014 21h47, Olivier Nduhungirehe <oliviernduhungirehe@yahoo.fr> a écrit :

 

Dear netters,

 

Sixteen years after the ICTR Akayesu case, which has established that a genocide against the Tutsi, "as a group", was committed in Rwanda in 1994, the UN Security Council has today, in its resolution 2136 on DRC sanctions, also recognized that the genocide that happened in Rwanda in 1994 was a "genocide against the Tutsi". This is a major shift for the usual "Rwandan genocide" language.

 

The Security Council further noted that Hutu and others who opposed the genocide against the Tutsi were also killed. This language was included in a paragraph condemning the collaboration between the FARDC and the FDLR, and recalling the genocidaire nature of the FDLR.

 

Here is the full paragraph:

 

"Noting with deep concern reports indicating FARDC collaboration with the FDLR at a local level, recalling that the FDLR is a group under United Nations sanctions whose leaders and members include perpetrators of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, during which Hutu and others who opposed the genocide were also killed, and have continued to promote and commit ethnically based and other killings in Rwanda and in the DRC, and stressing the importance of permanently addressing this threat",

 

The consequence of this shift, initiated by Rwanda, is that the language "1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda" has now become an "agreed language", in the UN jargon, which will be used in future resolutions of both the General Assembly and the Security Council, as well as in other official documents of the United Nations.

 

Best regards,

 

Rwemalika Théoneste

 

 

 

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[RwandaLibre] UN sanctions sparks row between DRC and Rwanda | eNCA

 

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UN sanctions sparks row between DRC and Rwanda

Africa

30 January 2014

Kigali's UN ambassador Eugene-Richard Gasana. The UN Security Council on Thursday renewed a sanctions regime against Democratic Republic of Congo in a vote that sparked a furious row between Congo and Rwanda. Picture: AFP

UNITED NATIONS, United States - The UN Security Council on Thursday renewed a sanctions regime against Democratic Republic of Congo in a vote that sparked a furious row between Congo and Rwanda.

The council backed a sanctions committee report which says the M23 rebel group is recruiting in Rwanda despite its military defeat and that its leaders are moving freely in Uganda.

Rwanda, as a temporary member of the 15-nation Security Council, voted for resolution 2136 but then lashed out at the sanctions report and DR Congo.

Kigali's UN ambassador Eugene-Richard Gasana called the sanctions committee report "baseless" and said his DR Congo counterpart was a "cry baby" always complaining to the council about Rwanda.

DR Congo's ambassador Ignace Gata Mativa said the sanctions experts had clearly shown "grave violations" by Rwanda and Uganda by aiding "destabilization" in eastern DR Congo.

"Such an attitude constitutes an act of aggression that the Security Council must record and condemn," Gata added.

"Dear friend, it is time to stop acting like a cry baby each time, each time to come here and hit out at Rwanda," Gasana responded.

M23 launched an uprising against the DR Congo government in 2012 and briefly occupied the key city of Goma before it was defeated by government forces late last year. It is one of a host of groups that have brought strife to eastern DR Congo over the past two decades.

UN experts have repeatedly said Rwanda and Uganda support the rebels. The two countries deny any role in the uprising.

Gasana repeated accusations that the experts are "unprofessional" and that their work threatens peace efforts.

The council resolution renewed the mandate of the experts and expressed "full support" for their work, however.

The council expressed "strong condemnation" of "internal or external support to armed groups active in the region, including through financial, logistical and military support." But it did not mention Rwanda or any alleged backing for M23.

The resolution did highlight "deep concern" over accusations in the sanctions report that DR Congo forces had been in "collaboration" with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, which includes some fighters who took part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.

The Security Council ordered that individuals and entities arming DR Congo groups "through illicit trade of natural resources, including gold or wildlife as well as wildlife products" should be included on the sanctions list.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said in a statement that the move was a "critical step" in the battle against elephant poaching and illicit ivory trading.

A resolution passed Tuesday starting a sanctions regime in neighbouring Central African Republic also said poachers linked to armed groups should be targeted.

WWF said that more than 20,000 elephants are killed each year for their tusks, many of them in Central Africa conflict zones.

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