Mr. Innocent HITAYEZU is the Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Wihogora Psyschosocial Centre. With 12 years in consultancy work since 2011 in socio-economic sector, he has supported both international and National Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in strategic plan, project evaluation, internal management systems, capacity building, organizational restructuring, proposal writing, market assessment, gender analysis & mainstreaming and Gender Based Violence prevention and responses programming and evlaution etc. These organizations include Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), Action Aid International & Action Aid Rwanda, Expertise France, Women for Women International, Evangelist Enterprise (AEE), Kvinna till Kvinna; Oxfam, Pro-Femmes Twese Hamwe, Rwanda Women’s Network, Girl Effect Rwanda, AKWOS, HAGURUKA, Young Women Christian Association, Benimpuhwe, Transparency International Rwanda and SERUKA; just to mention a few.
Before consultancy work , he worked with renown International NGOs in senior management positions namely with Oxfam South Sudan as Civil Society Strengthening Project Manager (2011-20112); Oxfam Rwanda in quality of Policy Analysis & Advocacy Manager (2008-2011); VSO as National HIV&AIDS Coordinator (2007); Columbia University/Access Project in Rwanda as District Health Adviser (2006-2007); and with Population Services International (PSI) first as HIV&AISS Advocacy Coordinator (2004-2005) and then Youth HIV& AIDS Programs Manager (2005-2006). His work exposure in the Netherlands, USA, Germany, UK, South Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, DRC, Burundi, and Uganda. This has shaped his worldview and acceptance of world’s diversity has shaped his worldview and acceptance of diversity.
Guided by Think, Plan and Act Fast Principle, Mr. Innocent is agile, dynamic, enthusiastic, public motivator and analytical Manager. With a Master’s Degree in Gender and Development Studies, another Master’s degree in NGO Management; bachelor’s degree in sociology; and a diploma in Philosophy and Religious Studies, He is an excellent communicator in English, French and Kinyarwanda (Native language).