About

I have four years of experience in data collection and three years in supporting vulnerable communities towards financial inclusion using the Development of Market Systems (DMS) approach through Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs). I also have significant experience in collecting complaints and managing groups of marginalized people and people with disabilities, particularly in community recovery contexts. I have strong expertise in facilitating training, workshops, and seminars, and in designing tools for managing credit groups within Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) and microcredit programs, including: - Facilitating women's groups and connecting them with appropriate incubators (DMS). - Providing technical support and guidance in training VSLAs, VSLAs, rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), and community remittances within vulnerable communities. Indeed; we have developed a particular sense of organization, strong moral character, a capacity for in-depth analysis, firmness and consistency in our work, good time management and work organization, honesty, responsibility, and a strong sense of respect for instructions and various procedures. - Ability to encourage people to organize themselves into women's Village Savings and Loan Associations (SILCs) to create a network that will be connected to a microfinance institution; We have the ability to work under pressure. - Expertise in gender issues and the protection of vulnerable groups; - Proficiency in riding a motorcycle. Computer skills: Microsoft Office Word, Kobo, SPSS, and Internet. Languages ​​spoken: French, English, Lingala, and Swahili.

Skills

  • French
    5
  • English
    5
  • Swahili
    5

Experience

Grevice kasakirwa

Work experience
  • Officer in charge of partnerships and inclusive development within the parents' cluster of the Sainte Jeanne de la Noue school group (pilot school in Kiziba). On behalf of the project: Restoring Hope and Dignity to Children from Low-Income Families. at   sainte jeanne de la noue/ NGO
  • Tasks performed:
  •  Recruitment of volunteer field agents for awareness-raising
  •  Raising awareness among the Kinyambuzi community (in the Muja group) about the ANGE-ROSE PROGRAM within schools
  •  Targeting children from low-income families using the KOBOCollect tool.
  •  Gathering 500 parents of schoolchildren from various low-income families.
  •  Creating a cluster committee of low-income parents and grouping the parents into 20 SILC groups of 25 members each, based on the cluster's ROI.
  • Facilitate the training of the cluster committee and the four volunteer field agents for monitoring these groups.
  • Process the transfer of funds (interest) to be transferred to the school for the school allowance of the parents of 20 Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) at the end of the cycle.
  • Introduce women to a pilot project raising turkeys and chickens to facilitate their children's school allowance; explore even selling gravel to drivers.
  • Create product exchange workshops for the chicken and turkey farmers.
  • Connect the beneficiaries with each other, as well as with local restaurants, to facilitate the exchange of their products so that everyone can save within the VSLA.
  • Report on the cycle and collect success stories.

Grevice kasakirwa

Work experience
  • Data base officer: With CADEGO (Caritas Développement Goma) on behalf of the Restoring Hope and dignity Project. at   CARITAS/GOMA
  • Tasks performed:
  •  Collecting reimbursements from beneficiaries and depositing them into their accounts at the Tugenge MFI
  •  Collecting success stories from beneficiaries who are members of solidarity groups and SILCs
  •  Using data management tools for the Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) project
  •  Producing numerical data for all VSLAs supported by the project
  •  Producing a quarterly report as requested by the donor, CAFOD (number of shares, shares purchased; savings; solidarity; current balance, cumulative balance; etc.)
  •  Checking the quality of the various data submitted by the Village Savings and Loan Officers during data entry into the donor's database, CAFOD
  •  Creating data collection forms using the Kobo Collect tool
  •  Managing the collection and recording of data from VSLA groups (SILCs) in the database CAFOD (a database containing all the Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) supported by CAFOD projects in South and North Kivu)
  •  Ensures that the data in the database is up-to-date and regularly synchronized;
  •  Proposes measures to improve data quality;
  •  Manages the cluster of women supported by the project to ensure the sustainability of the microcredit and VSLA project's achievements (Mugunga and Carmel clusters).

Grevice kasakirwa

Work experience
  • osition: Community Health Promoter: With CADEGO (Caritas Développement Goma) on behalf of the "Black Soldier Fly (Climate-Smart Agriculture for Improved Incomes and Sustainable Livelihoods) DRC 739 (IFP)" project, an insect farming project to feed animals at   CARITAS/GOMA
  • February, 2023 - February, 2024
  • Fulltime
  • Tasks performed:
  • Created an interconnected network among women members of the cluster to facilitate the exchange of goods and services at a lower cost.
  • Collect complaints from the beneficiary community during project activities (group this), including seed distribution (BSF, SAMIA, and legumes, etc.).
  • Facilitate training for cluster members and produce an activity report.
  • Ensure follow-up on feedback via the cluster (switching between leaders of the IFP project beneficiaries).
  • Remind beneficiaries of monthly meetings and help them achieve a significant level of project ownership.
  • Share techniques to motivate beneficiaries to take ownership of the BSF project.
  • Support the PSEEAF project by collecting and encoding data from the SILC group.
  • ADVANCED TRAINING INTERNSHIP: At CADEGO (Caritas Development Goma) for the "Support for Entrepreneurship and Women's Empowerment in the City of Goma (PSEEAF)" project, funded by CAFOD (Caritas). (from England)
  • Task:
  •  Raise community awareness about the SILC/VECI (Veterans, Individuals, and Communities) approach.
  •  Raise awareness among people in small markets in the city of Goma about the CARITAS Goma PSEEAF project;
  •  Participate in the training of solidarity groups;
  •  Analyze microcredit project beneficiary requests and determine the loan amount to be granted;
  •  Identify beneficiary members before disbursing solidarity microloans;
  •  Monitor repayments and ensure that all beneficiaries repay the loans received correctly;
  •  Process loan repayments and ensure that all beneficiaries repay the loans received correctly;
  •  Propose solutions to problems encountered within the solidarity groups and, if necessary, report to management;
  •  Ensure the security of funds collected in the field and deposit them into the beneficiaries' solidarity group accounts at the microfinance institution. TujengePamoja;
  •  Update the information in the database for proper backup;
  •  Evaluate the loan cycle with the beneficiary members and decide on the amount to grant each member in the next cycle;
  •  Maintain and accurately complete the data collection tools (repayment slips, member logs, receipt books, etc.)

Grevice kasakirwa

Education
  • September, 2015 - August, 2020
  • Fulltime
  • ECONOMY AND FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

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