Direct Support Capacity Building
Resume:
I. Personal
identification
Surname: BIGIRIMANA
First Name: Lydie
Date of Birth: 04/04/1983
Marital Status: Married
Sex: Female
Country of Citizenship Kigali, Rwanda
Country of Residence 3 Saint Jean Baptist Lewiston/ Maine Education
● Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, National University of Rwanda,
(2006-2010)
● Masters in Community Development in Yonsei University (South Korea) August 2019-December 2020).
TRAINING ATTENDED:
● January 2024, trained on Direct Support professional.
● February 2024, trained on CRMA
● February 2024, Safety care traning
● March 2020, Trained the community and local leaders on sexual abuse and gender-based violence issues;
● November 2020, trained on “2020 Capacity Building Workshop on Climate Change Adaptation.
● June 2020; Attendance on workshop od Seoul Medical Tourism International Forum.
● August 2020, Trained on 17th Capacity Building Summit on Social Health Insurance.
● May 2013, trained on the Deinstitutionalization process and reintegration of children in alternative care, Child Rights and Protection, Principles of Best interest of the child, a training provided by TULANE University, USA from 1st of June to 30th August, 2015.
● July, 2011, Trained on the epileptic disease and assistance to epileptic persons.
● May 2015, Trained on sector costing and program design, gender mainstreaming concepts, tools and processes;
● August 2015, participate in coaching and mentoring sessions for supporting children who have experienced hard backgrounds EMPLOYMENT RECORD:
Period Employing
Organisation,
Country Summary of Activities Performed
2
Title/Position &
References
From
January
2024
Direct Support
Professional
USA
From May
2019-Augu
st 2020
Environment and
Safeguarding
officer
Rwanda Transport
Development
Agency (RTDA)
Reference:
Celestin
NDAJIMBERE
Head of
Department
Rwanda The following are my key responsibilities:
● Working with local government authorities
(Districts) on mechanisms for street child
prevention, protection at community level
and child institutionalization;
● Coordination of technical support to the
Social workforce team, community-based,
family protection volunteers to monitor
social work and psychosocial, other types of
support related to child welfare protection at
the community level;
● maintaining of a strong collaboration with
UNICEF Child protection Unit, Districts
Children’s homes managers and other
relevant programme stakeholders to
establish and maintain sound internal
controls supportive of programming
endeavours and supply management
requirements and accountability.
● Following up the provision of alternative
care for children without parental care:
Analyzing application documents for
children adoption (domestic and intercountry
adoption);
● Follow up on child protection concerns: teen
mothers and street connected children.
From May
2013 to
December
2018
Professional
Psychologist
National
Commission for
Children (NCC)/
Tubarere Mu
Muryango
Program.
Reference: James
Nduwayo
Contact:
Dr. Claudine
Uwera
Kanyamanza
Contacts:
Email:
uwerakanyamanz
*@*****.***
Rwanda ● The following were my key responsibilities:
● Assist in the reintegration of children living
in orphanages into families;
● Provide trainings to children, Young
adolescents and Parents.
● Provide support in learning skills to different
partners in reintegration.
● Provide assistance in administering and
training to different partners in District during
and after reintegration.
● Ensure child protection protocol is well
developed in District.
● Track the learning and development budget,
payment verification from District level.
● Provide psychosocial care services to
vulnerable children living in orphanages;
● Prepare psychologically the families
receiving children being reintegrated;
● Follow up the living conditions of children
reintegrated in families and provide report;
3
● Provide counselling services to the children
screened having effects of institutional care
and hard childhood and their families.
From
September
2011 to
May 2013
Professional
Psychologist for
AVSI International
Reference:
BIRARA Lorette
Contacts:
Rwanda ● The key responsibilities:
● Provide the psychosocial care services to
Congolese refugees in 3 the camps;
(Nyabiheke, Gihembe and)
● Provide the counselling therapy to children
victims of sexual abuse and gender-based
violence;
● Train the refugee families on children
protection, child and women rights, trauma
and rehabilitation process and Positive
parenting skills.
● Advocacy toward different organization
worked in the camps for child protection
issues.
● Provide trainings and coaching in
psychosocial area for the organization.
● Sensibilization /mobilization/ campaign
against violence done for the children living
in Refugee Camps.
● Providing different reports to the UNHCR
and UNICEF the status of child abused and
the support given.
● Creating groups sessions of families for
supporting the hearing between them
December
2010 to
August
2011
Position:
Conseilleure
Psychosocial
HANDICAP
International/
Anti-epileptic
project
Reference:
Rwanda Key responsibilities:
● Provide counselling services to the
epileptic persons as well as their
families;
● Provide training on epilepsy and how
to support persons suffering from
epilepsy and its treatment;
● Conduct community sensitization on
epilepsy disease and prevent
stigmatization and discrimination of
people suffering epilepsy.
● Creating and conduct groups
sessions of families with people
who have epilepsy for group
therapy.
● Conduct community monitoring
visits to families and document
most significant changes in
adopting preventive behaviour,
recognition of epilepsy as a
treatable disease, adoptive healthy
behaviours.
February
2010-July
2010
Team leader for
Research Triangle
Rwanda Worked as IRS Team Leader which consisted
at organizing and supervising the Indoor
4
Institute-
RTI/International
Reference
Residual Spraying teams in Bugesera and
Nyanza Districts.
Key responsibilities are:
● Organize and deploy staff in different
sectors that will be part of Indoor
Spraying;
● Arrange all IRS related logistics (pumps,
residual insecticides, energetic food for
staff, etc)
● Conduct performance evaluation of IRS
teams in both Districts.
● Mobilizing the target population on the
benefits of IRS;
● Monitoring and reporting the side effects
of IRS occurring in the target population;
● Liaising with Local Authorities and Health
centres for follow up.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND PUBLICATION Rwanda Association of Clinical Psychologist
Academic essay at the completion of Masters of Community Development: “Female Adolescent relationship with Parents and peers as predictors of risky sexual behaviour”.
Academic essay at the completion of Masters of Clinical Psychology: “Parentified children”
Language Skills:
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Kinyarwanda Native Speaker Native Native
English Excellent Excellent Very good
French Excellent Excellent Excellent
ADEQUACY FOR THE ASSIGNMENT:
Please describe shortly your current key responsibilities or job features I have ten years of experience in the field of Psychology and I am Master holder in Community Development
● With accumulated tangible experience & skills over time from my educational training as well as my professional career. A diverse working experience from working for different international organizations as well as the Government institutions in different psychosocial fields in general but mostly in psychosocial treatment for children not living in families have been a rewarding experience
● Supporting families in need in order to improve their quality of life.
● Working with National and International Organizations and NGOs dealing with social welfare.
● Experience in Coordination of technical support to the different workforce teams, community- based, family protection volunteers to monitor psychosocial, other types of support related especially to child welfare protection. 5
From the above job experience and education training I possess, I feel confident that I can effectively fulfill required responsibilities.
Contact information: (+225)786-***-****- E-mail: *********@*****.*** Certification:
I, the undersigned, certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, this CV correctly describes myself, my qualifications, and my experience. I understand that any misstatement or misrepresentation described herein may lead to my disqualification or dismissal by the Employer.
BIGIRIMANA Lydie 12/06/2021
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