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PHILIPPE HABINSHUTI

Kigali,Rwanda

Summary

Habinshuti has over fourteen years of experience in leading public policy development and in coordinating risk management and humanitarian interventions in the East African Region. He has led numerous projects funded by the World Bank, African Development Bank and various donors such as the EU, UNHCR, UNDP, UNDRR, WFP and GIZ. Habinshuti has led innovative programs related to refugee protection and assistance, integration, self-reliance, and the nexus between humanitarian and development. He has led the development of various policies, strategies and plans in the area of Disaster Risk Reduction and Management and Refugee protection and assistance. His expertise spans programming, leading project and program implementation, monitoring and learning, resources mobilization, partners engagement, coordination, relationship management, and facilitating partnerships with stakeholders to deliver on innovative humanitarian solutions to vulnerable and affected families.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Lead Consultant on Development Economics, Public Policy and climate resilience

Eco Consult Ltd
Kigali, Rwanda
07.2025 - 08.2025
  • Facilitated training programmes, improving staff competency levels.
  • Facilitated client relations for improved customer satisfaction.
  • Streamlined processes to improve workflow efficiency.
  • Conducted studies focused on analysing current strategies and evaluating feasibility and potential results of proposals.

Permanent Secretary – Ministry in charge of Emergency Management

Government of Rwanda
Kigali, Rwanda
01.2022 - 07.2025
  • Coordinate all administrative and technical activities of all Ministry’s Units
  • Supervise proper administration and management of the Ministry;
  • Ensure the preparation, monitoring and evaluation of the Ministry’s strategies and action plans;
  • Supervise the development and execution of all government policies, strategies and programs relating to the Ministry’s mandate;
  • Ensure the coherency and cohesion in leadership of the Ministry;
  • Supervise all proposal from Ministry to be submitted to the cabinet;
  • Ensure effective collaboration with Ministry partners and stakeholders;
  • Coordinate refugee assistance and protection;
  • A new Disaster Management Policy was reviewed and adopted in May 2023.
  • Sector and Hazard based contingency plans developed and validated to guide response interventions.
  • The National refugee graduation Strategy was developed and validated to guide graduation from humanitarian dependency.
  • The Ministry scored 84%, 86% and 89% in 2022-2023, 2023-2024 and 2023-2025 respectively on annual action plan performance due to effective leadership on staff, resources and partnerships.
  • Prepared and negotiated refugee integration into national systems. Those include education, health, social protection, legal documentation, employment and entrepreneurship.
  • Provided administrative support for projects; project completion rates improved significantly as a result.

Director, Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs

Government of Rwanda
Kigali, Rwanda
01.2014 - 12.2021
  • Coordinate refugee assistance and protection: Overseeing implementation of assistance and protection activities over all refugee camps.
  • Facilitate government and non-government actor’s coordination.
  • Facilitate the National Refugee Status Determination Committee: Act as Secretary of the National Refugee Status Determination Committee for 5 years, taking decisions over 1000 cases asylum seekers applications.
  • Leading Ministry’s planning, Monitoring and Learning activities: Technical coordination of development of Ministry’s annual action plans and operational plans.
  • Team lead, Contingency planning: Lead and coordinating multistakeholders joint teams to develop national contingency plans for population influx, floods, landslides, drought, storms, earthquake, volcanic eruptions and CBRNE.
  • Team lead, Lead Intervention Sector preparedness plans: Lead and coordinating multistakeholders joint teams to develop national preparedness plans for food and nutrition, search rescue and evacuation, Damage control and initial rehabilitation, Relief, assistance to vulnerable groups and mass causality management plan.
  • Coordinate development and implementation of recovery plans: Leading multi institutional teams including the government, UN, EU, WB to conduct the Post Disaster Need assessment and recovery plans for major disaster occurred between 2014 and 2021 in Rwanda.
  • Team lead, Development of the National Risk Reduction and Management Policy (adopted in 2023).
  • Lead response interventions over all major emergencies: Response coordinator for all national emergencies (refugee and disaster), putting in place needed incident command system, activating response plans, ensuring partner engagement and coordination, mobilizing, allocating and manager resources (Human, equipment and financial) for a smooth emergency coordination.
  • Focal person for civil military cooperation during emergencies: Coordinate with Army and police teams to coordinate response and recovery to major emergencies.
  • Handled more than 2300 asylum applications between 2018 and 2023 over 2,300 cases;
  • Performed over 80% on Ministry’s performance contracts between 2018 and 2021.
  • Technically coordinated response to major emergencies including 2021 volcanic eruption and resulting earthquakes, humanitarian consequences of Covid 19, climate disasters of 2018 and 2020 where more 1.5 million people were directly and indirectly affected.
  • Led team to streamline operations by implementing new strategies.
  • Optimised resource allocation to maximise productivity.

Officer, Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs

Government of Rwanda
Kigali, Rwanda
04.2011 - 12.2013
  • Prepare, and update contingency and preparedness plans: Initiate development and regular review of hazards contingency plans.
  • Ensure prepositioning or relief items for readiness: Ensure national strategic stores for relief items are adequately equipped to deal with any emergency.
  • Facilitate preparation and conduct of simulation exercises: Prepare and facilitate simulation exercises (Fire drills, flood and landslides table tops, earthquake and volcanic eruption functional exercise, and full-scale exercise for epidemics and population influxes.
  • Established National Strategic stores to preposition relief items and ensure national readiness. Response time was reduced from 72-120 hours to 24-48 hours.
  • Organized conduct of 27 simulation exercises combining drills, table top, functional and full-scale exercises and gathering more than 21,000 people including public offices users, health professionals, students, volunteers, members of community, professional bodies etc;
  • Initiated development of first ever hazard-based contingency plans (floods, landslides, drought, fires, epidemics, population influxes, storms) to guide national response systems.

Education

Masters of Science - Development Economics

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) School of Business Studies

Bachelors degree - Development Studies

Kabgayi Catholic Institute

Certificate of Higher Education - Emergency Management

UWM
US
01.2012 - 06.2013

Skills

  • Collaborative leadership
  • Strategic planning tools
  • Conflict facilitation
  • Ethical responsibility
  • Results-Driven approach
  • Risk management tools
  • Innovation and creativity
  • Technical writing
  • Data analytics
  • Risk mitigation
  • Solution development
  • Project leadership

Certification

  • Certified Expert in Emergency Management, UWM School of Disaster Management, US, MM/DD/YY
  • United Nation Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team (UNDAC), 07/01/21
  • Public Policy and Economics, JKUAT, Nairobi, Kenya, MM/DD/YY

Languages

English
Advanced
French
Fluent
Kinyarwanda
Beginner
Swahili
Intermediate

Custom

  • Kayisire Marie Solange, Minister of State for Local Government (Former Direct Supervisor), skayisire@gov.rw, 0788304463
  • Aissatou Dieng MASSECK, UNHCR Resident Coordinator to Rwanda, adiengndiaye@gmail.com, 0788 359 007
  • Dusengiyumva Samuel, Mayor of the City of Kigali, mayor@kigalicity.gov.rw, 0788306635
  • Jeannette Nduwamariya, Care global office, Jeannette.nduwamariya@gmail.com, +2507883009079

Affiliations

Travelling, Hiking, Music

Timeline

Lead Consultant on Development Economics, Public Policy and climate resilience

Eco Consult Ltd
07.2025 - 08.2025

Permanent Secretary – Ministry in charge of Emergency Management

Government of Rwanda
01.2022 - 07.2025

Director, Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs

Government of Rwanda
01.2014 - 12.2021

Certificate of Higher Education - Emergency Management

UWM
01.2012 - 06.2013

Officer, Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs

Government of Rwanda
04.2011 - 12.2013

Masters of Science - Development Economics

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) School of Business Studies

Bachelors degree - Development Studies

Kabgayi Catholic Institute

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