Biography
Benjamin Mekinde Tonga is from Cameroon and a holder of a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and a Master of Laws (LL.M) in International Law from the University of Buea. He equally holds a professional Master of Laws (LL.M) in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa, from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and is currently expecting his doctorate degree PhD in Law 2022, from the University of Buea.
Tonga has expertise in human rights investigation, documentation and reporting techniques. Protection monitoring, design and development. He has experience in project conception, design and implementation. He has gained experience working in the Non-profit organization and management section. He has held the position Protection and rule of law officer with the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA) a leading human rights NGO, where his task was to provide strategic direction and vision to CHRDA’s protection programming, and program quality during a period of expansion, ensuring compliance with CHRDA’s mainstreaming framework, international law and protection standards and national policies, overseeing the project implementation and budgeting of protection, monitoring and information dissemination, identifying opportunities, designing and developing concept notes and proposals for other protection programming as requested, providing input on proposals from other sectors to ensure that protection is mainstreamed across CHRDA’s programming and analyzing and understanding conflict dynamics and providing advice on protection issues.
Tonga has expertise in human rights investigation, documentation and reporting techniques. Protection monitoring, design and development. He has experience in project conception, design and implementation. He has gained experience working in the Non-profit organization and management section. He has held the position Protection and rule of law officer with the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA) a leading human rights NGO, where his task was to provide strategic direction and vision to CHRDA’s protection programming, and program quality during a period of expansion, ensuring compliance with CHRDA’s mainstreaming framework, international law and protection standards and national policies, overseeing the project implementation and budgeting of protection, monitoring and information dissemination, identifying opportunities, designing and developing concept notes and proposals for other protection programming as requested, providing input on proposals from other sectors to ensure that protection is mainstreamed across CHRDA’s programming and analyzing and understanding conflict dynamics and providing advice on protection issues.
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- 1/18/2021
