Robert Britton
Fort Pierce, FL 34951
Phone: 786-***-****
Cell: 786-***-****
Work History
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Accomplishments
Director or similar responsibilities 2004 to May 2011: ADRA DRCongo WCUM Kinshasa, DRC Country Director Organize from scratch the ADRA office in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo into what it is today, an NGO, very well recognized by donors and with many project opportunities.
Create an ADRA board, by-laws, strategic plan and ADCOM.
Maintain and provide training for the Financial and Human Resources department of ADRA DRCongo.
Overcome church and cultural issues.Introduce ADRA to donors and government institutions including the following: USAID, ECHO, France Embassy, Belgium Embassy, Korean Embassy, Japan Embassy, US Embassy, POOLED FUND, Minist??re des Affaires Sociales, Minist??re de la Justice, Minist??re de la Sant??, Minist??re de D??veloppement Rural, World Bank (BCECO), UNDP, WFP, UNCHR, OCHA, UNICEF, Medicines san Frontiers, CTB (cooperation Technique Belgian), UN-POOLED FUND and others.
Approval of an HIV/AIDS project for $1,100,000 with UNDP Renew Tax exempt license for ADRA in Congo (Ministere de les Affairs Sociales), we changed the name from the former Zaire to DRC.
Emergency Management Evacuation Plan and strategies for ADRA and for local government including training civilian/ military involvement in responding to flood and war zone conflict Make ADRA registration in the country (the other two offices of ADRA in Congo had used the church as registration documentation).
Participate in an Accord de Siege between the Exterior Ministry of DRC and ADRA International Negotiate and register an Accord Cadre and Arrete Interministeriale (which allow ADRA to be 100% tax exempt) between The DRC government and ADRA DRCongo Create an agency of ADRA to deal with HIV-AIDS called CAAS in cooperation with the local church Acquire for ADRA several pieces of land totaling more than 500 acres used for undergoing projects and to be use as mission for the Church Projects: REBUILD A MATERNITY CLINIC and repair erosion and draining facilities in local churches and school in Kinshasa Import medicine and clothing from ADRA International to be use all over WCUM but concentrating effort in the Congo River area and helping the local associations of WCUM Train 200 adults and 500 children from Kinshasa in how-to ???let???s talk about HIV-AIDS prevention in the community??.
Construction of a 7-room school financed by ADRA Canada.
This early project was wisely approved by our board and allowed us to make a pilot project that eventually became a part of the two middle size projects we did with World Bank and the Congolese government.
ADRA Village Model Training Center: the funds from ADRA Canada were used to train the local community of BOJIA in basic rural construction activities.
During the process, it became an exclusive method of construction for ADRA Congo ending in projects with CONADER and WFP SCHOOLS Construction for WCUM: the funding from ADRA International PIN Project allow us to build from WCUM our local union) five schools and one Maternity center.
CONADER project that help the reintegration of 2,500 ex combatants in ARU, BUNIA and MBANDAKA WFP Food distribution: we work very closely with WFP in BOJIA with a FFW (food for work program) with 500 people from the community, we also benefit from a school feeding at BMANDAKA, and a food distribution also a FFW) in ARU Water and Irrigation Project using solar energy at TSHIKAPA using funds from the UN and the Gift Catalog Medicine in the Congo River: this project used a local doctor and a manmade boat with a sophisticated Mobil Lab that allow ADRA to get into remote areas to help people with medicines and basic medical needs, Medicines for Work: (financed by our own funding): done in 2007, this pilot project allowed ADRA to provide in some chosen villages on the Congo River, free medicine and primary medical service to those vulnerable families who decided to participate in the ???Medicines for Work project??.
in each selected town, we increased the heath primary service by providing a free medical access (each family member buy the Medical Card with Brick, Tiles or Wood); the project stop for lack of funding but was greatly appreciated by the beneficiaries CONADER: a DDR project, we finished two projects that benefit 2,500 ex-combatant; that project called ???ADRA Village Model Training Center??.
provided training in the agriculture and rural construction including how to make bricks and roof Tiles including helping the beneficiaries to build houses using 90% of local material Professional school in ARU and a community center, after we finished our CONADER project in ARU (January 2007) the metal structures build by ADRA to train the ex-combatants and the community; is been use by local SDA church for community programs BCECO: after two years of long and exhausted process the World Bank approved the construction of 3 maternity Centers and one elementary schools as well as water project including 5 completed aqueduct in the Equateur province using a complete solar pump system.
Additional Information
Professional CV PERSONAL INFORMATION NAME: Robert Luis Britton Perdomo PLACE OF BIRTH: Sahagun, Cordoba (Colombia) CITIZENSHIP: USA and Colombia DATE OF BIRTH: November 20, 1956