Team

Nicolas holds a master’s degree in International Security and Defense from the University of Grenoble. After that, he acquired over ten years of experience in the humanitarian and development sector.

Nicolas entered the humanitarian and development sector first at the French Red Cross and then at Médecins du Monde as an intern on the theme of security. He moved to Kalemie in the DRC as a logistician for Médecins du Monde France and for Solidarités Internationale as a base manager in Bentiu, South Sudan.

He started working for ACTED in 2010 as Logistics Manager in DRC. He became Deputy Country Director, then Country Director in CAR, Mali and Niger.

In 2015, he joined ACTED's headquarters and became Director of Security & Safety where he supervised 35 to 40 countries on security and humanitarian access issues. He has traveled to many countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa and has participated in numerous humanitarian responses in CAR, DRC, South Sudan, Sahel, Yemen, Syria and Iraq, the Philippines and Nigeria.

Nicolas moved to Quebec with his family during the summer of 2018.

With an MBA in Business Management and a Bachelor's degree in International Studies specialising in project management, Emmanuelle Parent has many strings to her bow. She has several years of experience in international cooperation in project management, organisational development and monitoring and evaluation roles in Cameroon and Burkina Faso as well as strong experience in entrepreneurship and business development in the private sector. Moreover, in 2018 she co-founded a mineral analysis, environmental and quality control laboratory headquartered in Montreal and operating a first subsidiary in Burkina Faso.

Through her professional experience, Emmanuelle has developed an expertise in strategic planning, business development and results-based management.

After a few years in the private sector, Emmanuelle returned to international development in 2020, the sector where she feels her skills have the most impact.

Graduate in Applied Political Science with a specialization in International Relations and a Master’s degree in Project Management in International Development and Humanitarian Action. Marc-André has several years of project management experience in Canada and internationally.

Over the past two years, he has worked in cooperation in Latin America to strengthen a cooperative of women farmers in Nicaragua and has worked with young people with disabilities in Honduras in micro-entrepreneurship, but he also worked on organizational development and project management.

Passionate and humanist, Marc-André has a strong interest in the rights of children and women, as well as the economic development of marginalized populations. He is also fluent in French, English and Spanish.

With a degree in Law, a certificate in Project Management and PMP® certification, Cindy has over five years of experience in managing projects and programmes for victims of gender-based violence, migrants, women's organisations and LGBTI organisations. 

Her professional and personal background is rooted in gender equality, diversity and inclusion, as well as access to justice for people in vulnerable situations. 

The commitment to the respect, defence and promotion of human rights is particularly close to her heart as it echoes her beliefs. 

Cindy believes that the work of international organisations, such as the IBCR, provides invaluable assistance in strengthening judicial, educational, social and economic systems in developing countries, which is why she has decided to put her knowledge and skills to good use in international cooperation. 

Cindy joins the Bureau team in May 2022.

Biography to come.

I have a degree in logistics and transport from IUG in Bamako.

I started my professional career with NGOs such as :

• The NGO CARE International in Mali as ADMIN SUPPORT OFFICER for 4 years in Bandiagara
• The NGO Cooperazione internazionale in Mali as Base Logistician in Ségou for 2 years
• The Malian Red Cross as National Logistician on the DG ECHO PPP project in Bamako for 1 year.

I have 7 years of experience in humanitarian logistics management.

I have held the position of Logistics Admin Manager since September 2023 with IBCR Mali.

Aboubacar HAROUNA 30 years old, Master 2 in Audit and Management Control, 7 years of experience in Finance-Accounting-Auditing for national and international organizations and accounting and financial audit firms. Previously in charge of Finance at OXFAM international in Mali/Financial Administrator of the DGD22-26 Program, I have held the position of Financial Manager of the Mali IBCR project office since September 25, 2023.

Assitan holds a master's degree in project/programme management and has more than eight years' experience with NGOs, including five and a half years in management in various fields, including gender-related social and behavioural change, community development, partnership development, capacity-building for community players, project management, coaching, women's empowerment, women's leadership development, economic integration and youth development. She also has excellent communication and organisational skills. Dynamic, flexible and open-minded.

He holds a 5-year degree in economics and management.  He has 11 years' professional experience in logistics management, mainly in the humanitarian sector. He has worked with several international organizations on emergency projects in the DRC.

Holder of a Master's degree in Law obtained in 2017 from the University of Private Law in Bamako, Mali. He is currently pursuing a Master 2 in International Relations and Diplomacy.

His professional career began as an associate in law firms, before becoming a legal and judicial assistant with the JUPREC project in Mali, funded by Global Affairs Canada and implemented by Avocats Sans Frontières Canada. It was here that he began to forge his path towards humanitarian assistance, with a particular passion for the protection of human rights, focusing on the most vulnerable communities, especially women and children.

This passion eventually led him to redirect his career towards humanitarian work as a safety and security manager, where he is convinced he can make a significant contribution to the relief of populations in need. His humanitarian experience began in the national office of World Vision Mali, an organisation known for its commitment to the well-being of children and vulnerable communities.

He then broadened his experience by working with renowned organisations including UNESCO, ACTED France in Mali and WeWorld GVC Italy in Mali, holding key positions in security and safety.

In October 2023, Ousmane SANKARE joined the IBCR team as Head of Security for the Mali country office. This new step in his career underlines his ongoing commitment to the protection of human rights, particularly those of women and children, in a context where security is crucial.

Holder of a Master's degree in Law from the University of Legal and Political Sciences in Bamako, I have over 8 years' experience in the field of human rights and local authority governance. Previously, I held the position of Regional Representative of the National Human Rights Commission of Mali in Gao, then Community Facilitator for the Institute for Popular Education, as part of the USAID/MALI-SIRA project, and then Assistant in the Planning and Governance Support Department of the Koulikoro Regional Development Agency.

In addition to my expertise in children's rights, community mobilisation and adult education, I am doubly certified as a trainer in gender in humanitarian action and in gender, peace and security.

Biography to come.

After obtaining a Diploma in Community Social Work in 2004 in Senegal, Ndeye Astou FALL began her professional activities by conducting field surveys and carrying out consultancy contracts. These experiences led her to work in 12 regions of Senegal.

Ndeye Astou joined the world of non-governmental organisations in 2007, initially in the nutrition sector. She then continued her career by entering the field of child protection in 2013. She has worked with the NGOs Child Fund, Secours Islamique France, SOS Villages d'Enfants Sénégal and Plan International Sénégal. She later became involved with the Danish Refugee Council, an experience that strengthened her capacity for community-based work, particularly regarding interventions in emergency areas. This work led her to work in the field of child protection in emergencies, gender-based violence case management and community protection.  

In the course of her professional activities, she has worked in many countries in West Africa (Mali, Senegal, Niger, Guinea Conakry and Benin) and in Central Africa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Since May 2021, Ndeye Astou FALL has been project manager in Burkina Faso for the IBCR.

Ousmane Sawadogo holds a master's degree in macroeconomics and development management from the University of Ouagadougou. He began his professional career as a teacher in secondary schools. It was during this teaching period that his passion for the promotion and protection of children was born.   In 2013, he was admitted to the gender adviser competition. At the end of a two-year training course, he obtained a diploma in gender promotion and joined the Ministry of Women, National Solidarity, Family and Humanitarian Action in 2015. Ousmane  also holds a master's degree in Gender, Population and Development from the Pan African Institute for Development/West Africa and the Sahel. 

 Since 2016, he has been working in a Directorate General in charge of studies and policy formulation for gender and child promotion.  He collaborates with IBCR in the framework of the implementation of the project "Strengthening the capacities of security forces, magistrates and social workers in child protection 2015-2020 in Burkina Faso". 

It is in this logical continuation that he decides to join the IBCR team in Burkina Faso as a Child Protection Expert - Gender and Child Participation Focal Point on 23 June 2021. 

Valentin Ouedraogo holds a Bachelor's degree in Project Management from the International Management Institute of Burkina Faso and has been a social worker and child protection specialist since 2007. He is also a Specialised Education Inspector from the National Institute of Training in Social Work (INFTS).

He has been a humanitarian actor since 2019, which has allowed him to acquire a wealth of experience in accompaniment and community development.

Valentin joins the IBCR team in 2022.

A lawyer by training, Harouna Savadogo obtained his Master's degree in Judicial Law in 2008 at the University of Ouaga II, now Thomas SANKARA University, in Burkina Faso. He continued his studies during his professional career and obtained several diplomas, including a Master 2 in International and European Fundamental Rights Law at the University of Nantes, a Master 2 in Training and Employment Systems Engineering at the University of Toulouse and a Master 2 in Human Resources Management at the International Management Institute of Ouagadougou.

Before starting a professional career in the Burkinabe public administration, Harouna was a volunteer for the Burkinabe Red Cross and an intern in a law firm in 2009. In 2012, he joined the Penitentiary Administration, after two (2) years of training at the National Police School where he obtained the diploma of Penitentiary Security Inspector.

During his career, he has held several positions of responsibility in the administration, namely: head of the instruction (training) department at the penitentiary administration's personnel directorate; deputy director of the high-security prison; director of human resources at the national school of the penitentiary security guard; study officer at the directorate of institutional development and innovation of the Ministry of Justice; study officer at the general directorate of the penitentiary administration; and director of the Ziniaré remand prison.

It is in this last position that his commitment to the protection of children's rights was consolidated with the daily management of children in conflict with the law. He is also passionate about coaching and personal development.

He joined IBCR Burkina Faso team in June 2022 as a Child Protection Expert in charge of the justice and defence and security forces sectors.

Biography to come.

Laurence holds a Master's degree in Management and Business Administration from the Free University of Burkina Faso, a Bachelor's degree in Project Management and a University Diploma in Technology, option Executive Secretary. She then acquired about ten years of professional experience in the humanitarian and development sector.

Laurence entered the humanitarian and development sector first with International Development Enterprises (iDE) and then with UNDP through the ITC project as a consultant. She then worked for a microfinance organisation, Union Régionale des Coopératives d'épargne et de crédit du Nazinon, and as a Human Resources Assistant for Chemonics International, working for the Burkina Faso Regional Program resilience project.

Laurence joined the IBCR team on 09 May 2022.

Biography to come.

After a long experience in the driving field at SATGURU TRAVEL in Burkina Faso, Daniel joins the team as a Driver-Courier in order to contribute to the IBCR's mission.

Highly motivated by any humanitarian approach, the choice to apply specifically within the NGO IBCR is a real conviction.

Felipe holds a master's degree in international development cooperation from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). He began his career in the humanitarian and development world in 2006 as an intern with Medicus Mundi in Burkina Faso. The following year, he became General Coordinator of the organisation and remained in Burkina until 2009. He returned to Spain to work as Regional Delegate for Action Against Hunger between 2010 and 2012. He returned to Burkina Faso in 2012-2013. He then joined the Spanish Red Cross as Delegate in Guinea-Bissau (2014-2015), then as Head of Delegation in Niger (2016-2019). After a break, he will work for Médecins du Monde in Spain from 2021 to 2022.

A lover of Africa, Felipe has extensive experience in managing development and humanitarian action projects, working in a variety of intervention sectors (food security, malnutrition, water and sanitation, community development, protection, refugee populations, etc.).

Felipe will join the IBCR team in December 2022 as Head of Office in Senegal.

Bigué holds a bachelor's degree and a master's certificate in sociology of the family, women, children and the African environment, from the Université Gaston Berger in Saint Louis, Senegal, and a master's degree in human rights, humanitarian action, mining and energy from the Institut des Droits de l'Homme et de la Paix at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar.

A career secondary school teacher, Bigué is a specialist in education, having been a certified teacher for over 12 years.

A specialist in child protection and rights, as well as gender and development, she has conducted personal field research in these areas in collaboration with the University of Geneva.

Bigué is an active member of the Organisation Nation des Droits de l'Homme, Senegal's leading human rights organisation, where she is Secretary General responsible for women, children and people living with disabilities.

An activist and defender of women's and children's rights, she has attended a number of training courses on issues relating to gender equality, notably with the Organisation International de la Francophonie and Senghor University in Morocco.

With the Senegalese prison administration, she has helped children deprived of their liberty to realise their right to education and to prepare for their social reintegration as head of education at a juvenile training centre.

Seynabou Seck holds a Master's degree in Business Administration as well as a Master's degree in Project Management. She has also obtained a diploma in social work and has already worked with national and international organisations in Senegal.

With more than 17 years of experience in her field, she has dedicated her career to working on gender equality and the promotion of human rights. In the course of her career, she has carried out support and coordination missions for the promotion of gender equality with several international organisations. She has also conducted about ten studies on gender analysis and facilitated about thirty training workshops on gender equality. Her experience includes monitoring, support and evaluation in the development sector.

Seynabou Seck speaks French, English, Wolof and Bambara.

Moussa DIAGNE is an urban development engineer specialising in children and young people. He studied at the Ecole Nationale d'Economie Appliquée (ENEA), specialising in communication techniques at the Institut Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication (ISSIC).

He was a research assistant at the Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Transformation Economiques et Sociales (LARTES) at the Institut Fondamentale d'Afrique Noire (IFAN), where he took part in several ethnographic and anthropological studies before working with other firms, university laboratories and local and international NGOs on research and action research. For nearly 20 years he has been interested in the development of vulnerable groups, and in particular youth movements, through the construction of discourse and their contribution to civic life.

He has built up extensive experience in project evaluation across sub-Saharan Africa, notably in Senegal, Benin, Cameroon, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali and Togo, on issues relating to child protection such as FGM, HIV and mother and child health, youth movements and organisations in their interactions with CSOs, resilience processes involving vulnerable groups such as children/young people and women, and so on.

Lawyer with a Master 2 (DEA) in Health and Environmental Law and a certificate in project management and creation. These degrees have enabled her to work with several non-governmental organizations. She began her career at Family Health International, FHI 360 Senegal as a project assistant. Mané then held the same position at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights/Regional Office for West Africa (OHCHR/WARO). An active member of the Association des Juristes Sénégalaises (AJS) since 2013, working for the promotion and protection of human rights, particularly those of women and children, Mané has performed various tasks within the association, from legal advisor in one of its reception and listening centers, to managing three major projects within the organization in the areas of advocacy, lobbying, and the reduction of gender-based violence involving adolescents and youth, especially girls.

For two years, she also chaired a platform called Right Here Right Now (RHRN) Senegal, an advocacy and capacity building program for the respect and guarantee of the sexual and reproductive rights of adolescents and young people that brought together ten (10) Senegalese civil society organizations.

Cheikh Oumar BA has a degree in legal and political sciences from the University Cheikh Anta DIOP in Dakar and the National School for Specialised Social Workers (ENTSS) in Senegal. Cheikh Oumar BA works as a social worker in the field of the protection of children's rights.

Throughout his professional career, he has been heavily involved in the Employment and Disability Project of the NGO Handicap International. Through personalised social support, he has been heavily involved in the socio-professional inclusion of people with disabilities. Cheikh Oumar BA worked as a child protection officer at SOS Children's Villages Senegal through the Programme d'Accompagnement des Communautés pour la Protection de l'Enfant in the region of Kolda, an area facing multiple security problems. He has had the opportunity to accompany families in their training process on parenting education. It has also provided support to community child protection structures (children's clubs, neighbourhood child protection committees), the development of advocacy, the mobilisation of resources, and the implementation of awareness-raising activities related to child protection.

Antoine Gomis holds a certificate in social emergency in Paris (2005), a D.I.U. "Street children and young people" from the universities of Paris 6 and Paris 12 (2008) as well as a certificate on the care of child victims of trafficking. He also has a training as a trainer (2012) that he carried out with Humani Centre, before joining the Bioforce Afrique centre as a project coordinator in the field of international solidarity (2018-2019). During his career, he has set up several capacity building trainings on issues related to the care of children and young people at risk in the street and/or in conflict with the law.

Antoine worked for Samu social Sénégal as a social worker specialised in intervention with street youth from 2004 to 2007, and then as social coordinator of an emergency shelter providing nursing and psychological care to youth from 2007 to 2022. He therefore has extensive experience in dealing with street children and young people.

As a family mediation specialist with Samu Social International, Antoine has worked with the Forces Démocratiques du Sénégal (FDS) in the field of family re-bonding and family reintegration of trafficked street children.

Since March 2022, Antoine Gomis is Police Expert for Senegal at the International Bureau for Children's Rights.

Yayra Dabla holds a Master's degree in Accounting and Financial Management from CESAG (Centre d'Etudes Supérieures en Gestion). She started her professional career at Habitat for Humanity International and then at Ecobank Senegal. But her passion for working in development organisations caught up with her and she joined a British international non-governmental organisation, Oneworld UK in 2012. Her responsibilities quickly evolved from administrative and financial manager to programme officer.  Through her involvement in the use of ICTs for development, she has been involved in raising awareness of sexual and reproductive health in Senegal and governance through election monitoring in several African countries.

She speaks French and is fluent in English.

After completing her university studies in management and telecommunications in South Africa and Benin, Carmen Lokossa pursued her career working in administration, maintenance and logistics in South Africa, Togo and Benin.

She then worked for GSM companies where she was in charge of technical, administration and procurement.

Carmen joined IBCR's Senegal office in November 2022 to bring her experience in logistics and administration to the service of child protection.

Biography to come.

After obtaining a master's degree in biological sciences with a major in biology and plant physiology in 2004, Mahamadi OUBDA joined the National Police School to obtain a diploma as a prison security inspector after two years of study.

Holder of the diploma of Inspectors and integrated into the civil service, he occupied for about ten years within the penitentiary administration several positions of responsibility; director of penitentiary establishment, director of detention and security, director of personnel, secretary general of the training school, administrator within the board of directors of the penitentiary training school and member of the scientific council of the center of re-education and social reintegration of minors in conflict with the law of Koumi. During this professional experience, he conducted interventions with children in conflict with the law as well as with other children at risk including children living with their incarcerated mothers.

In 2015-2016, he began studying child rights protection at Thomas Sankara University, from which he obtained a Master's degree in child rights protection in 2016. He took part in the two editions of the scientific days on childhood in Burkina Faso organized by the Higher Institute of Population Sciences (ISSP) of the University Joseph KI-Zerbo, an article of which was published in a collective work at Harmattan Burkina Faso.

In October 2018, he joined IBCR in the implementation of the project to build the capacity of police officers, gendarmes, magistrates and social workers in child law in Burkina Faso. At the end of the project, he joined WAO-Afrique Togo as a volunteer. And since September 2021, he has been participating in the implementation of the project: "Preventing and protecting sexual and gender-based violence against children in Burkina Faso."

Born in South Kivu, Charles Mushagaluza graduated as a sociologist from the Faculty of Social, Political and Administrative Sciences at the Official University of Bukavu. He is an expert in project management and experienced in advocacy and in rights-based, gender and development approaches.

Charles started his humanitarian career as a Protection Coordinator of the Educating Children Together 3 (ECT3) a project implemented in North Kivu, South Kivu, and Ituria, based in Bukavu, DR Congo from 2012 to 2014, for the International Governance Institute.

From 2014 to 2016 and based in Kinshasa, Charles served as a Project Manager of the Educational Centres for Children Associated with Armed Forces and Groups (EAFGA) project implemented in the provinces of North and South Kivu, Ituri, Maniema, Tanganyika (Kalemie), in what is now Haut-Katanga, in the DRC for the INGO Family Heath International. He then assumed the responsibilities of coordinator of the "Food For Education" project in Eastern DRC, for the FAO DIMITRA programme, from 2016 to 2017.

Before joining IBCR in 2022, he was safeguarding coordinator for the Girls' Education Challenge program (GEC-T) for 5 years from 2017 with World Vision RD Congo, a program implemented by World Vision and Save the Children in the Greater Kasai and Greater Katanga regions of DRC.

With a wealth of experience in different international organisations, he has also followed numerous certified training courses and acquired many skills in management, monitoring and evaluation of child protection projects, enabling him to design tools for this purpose.

Fabrice Kazadi has a degree in sociology (Bac+5) from the University of Lubumbashi. After his university studies, he worked as a secondary school teacher for over 10 years.

It was in 2002 that he embraced social work. From 2002 to 2017, he worked successively as Center Supervisor and then as Project Director at the Centre professionnel d'encadrement des jeunes, an NGO specialized in the socio-professional reintegration of children with broken families and children released from armed forces and groups.

In parallel to his work, Fabrice held the position of supervisor of REEJER (Réseau des éducateurs des jeunes et enfants de la rue), a platform of child protection NGOs. He was also in charge of the institutional diagnosis of REEJER's member NGOs and of those who were applying for REEJER membership. This institutional diagnosis aimed to identify the weaknesses of the member NGOs in order to strengthen their capacities.

In 2017, Fabrice joined IBCR as a Social Work Expert in charge of child protection for a period of two years. After IBCR in 2019, Fabrice works for UNICEF as a consultant from November 2019 to January 2020, supporting the provincial divisions of social affairs in Kinshasa and Central Congo.

Before returning to IBCR as a Technical Specialist in Child Participation and Community Mobilization in August 2022, it was with the Office's volunteer cooperation project, PRIDE, that Fabrice worked as a Volunteer Cooperant with the Center for Education and Social Reintegration of Minors in Conflict with the Law (CERMICOL) in Bobo-Dioulasso/Burkina Faso from January 2021 to the end of March 2022.

With a Bachelor's degree (BAC+5) in psychology, Romeo Baluge has focused his career in the field of child protection and gender with responsibilities for coordination and technical support to projects and programs. As a member of the national organization Coopération Locale pour le Développement Régional, he was in charge of the project All Children for a Green World from 2006 to 2008.

Passionate about working with children and other protection actors, Romeo has worked with several children's rights organizations: American Bar Association, War Child Uk, International Rescue Committee where he held managerial and humanitarian coordination positions in emergency and development contexts from 2009 to 2020. He also spent two years in a community resilience project in Central Africa with the NGO Invisible Children.

He joined the IBCR DRC Office at the end of November 2022 to help strengthen the child protection system.

Biography to come.

Biography to come.