Leon Nsiku

• Overseeing DRG projects including planning, designing, organizing, monitoring implementation, coordinating, and monitoring for results.
• Conducting extensive local consultations and triangulating data to inform programming.
• Leading the preparation of required design documents, directives, memoranda, statements, and proposals.
• Introducing new initiatives and recommending effective operations consistent with the USAID’s policies/ DRG strategies and incorporating human rights and governance principles and practices across USAID’s development portfolio.
• Working closely with host-government ministry officials, institutions, and international and NGOs to coordinate DRG efforts, raise awareness among DRC citizenry and civil society organizations on DRG issues, and provide technical assistance.
• Serving as an advisor on DRG matters to other USAID technical offices to integrate participation, inclusion, transparency, accountability, and country ownership throughout USAID’s portfolio, including in education, health, economic growth, environment, peace and security, for more responsive governance, local capacity building, and sustainable development.
• Providing analysis on the political economy within DRC to inform activity design and implementation.
• Performing regular site visits and meeting with representatives of each organization and the beneficiaries to review progress.

• Leading the Mission's localization working group
• Preparing submissions to the Annual Program Reviews, providing support to Implementing partners and the host government in technical and programmatic areas of work.
  • Participating with IPs in the development of work plans for implementation of activities, activity monitoring, learning, and evaluation plan, branding strategy and marking plans, and work planning sessions.
  • Providing oversight and monitoring of the program activities including reviewing IPs narrative and financial reports, monitoring use of funds for adherence to proposed activities, preparing quarterly pipeline reviews/budget status reports, following up on irregular findings, providing advice for realignments of budgets, and preparing quarterly accruals.
• Co-leading technical consortiums in the areas of Media for Peace, Human Rights and Civil Society.

• Monitoring and analyzing legal and political development ,human rights and the rule of law , and security and safety situation of human rights defenders in African Countries , with particular focus on justice systems and program priorities.
• Carrying out risk management tasks for human rights defenders and organizations including site security assessment , security incidents reporting, pre-travel risk assessment, context analysis for relocated human rights defenders and security tips during the post/pre-incident field assessment.
• Developing security plans with components of risk mapping, standard operating procedures and contingency plans as part of preventive or reactive protection for human rights defenders.
• Plan , implement and evaluate trainings in physical security and digital safety for human rights defenders.
• Providing support in the implementation of DefendDefenders' Wellbeing and Resourcing resilience programme.
• Co-managing DefendDefenders' emergency line for human rights defenders at risk to provide contextualized security tips in emergency.
• Leading the exiled human rights defenders' protection programme.
• Discharging the protection duties mainly with regard to the establishment of an effective eligibility criteria for human rights defenders in the East and Horn of Africa, in Central Africa and in Sahel.

• Developing safety and security plans for IHD operations and field team.
• Mapping out power dynamics in geographic areas of intervention and developing access strategies, associated risks and mitigation measures.
• In-house training in crisis communication, disaster preparedness and response and first- aid interventions for staff.
• Leading internal project monitoring, evaluation and learning activities.
• Conducting humanitarian needs assessment, defining the intervention logic and assessment tools, and leading on consultant outsourcing in safety, security and humanitarian access technical area of work.

• Building capacities of FDAPID local partners in human rights mechanisms; monitoring, documentation and reporting of human rights violations and human rights advocacy.
• ·Taking lead on universal periodic review and related activities within technical working groups.
• Intervening with authorities whenever target groups were arrested, detained, assaulted and/or inhumanly treated.
• Initiating and coordinating projects in human rights, rule of law and governance.
• ·Taking lead on research and advocacy initiatives at the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights.