Enrico Muratore Aprosio

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I am an international good governance, human rights and civil society specialist with extensive African (and West-African) experience, and I would like to apply for the position of Country Director in Burkina Faso.

For the last year and a half I worked as Oxfam International's Regional Good Governance Programme Coordinator for West Africa, based in Dakar (and as such I am in charge of the definition and implementation of OI’s advocacy, lobbying and campaigning activities at ECOWAS and UEMOA levels in the areas of access to information/ transparency; civil society participation; and access to justice, particularly in the extractive industries and agriculture sectors). Even though I am happy with Oxfam and the work I do, I think the opportunity to become Country Director for SNV in a stimulating country like Burkina Faso, would be for me an excellent career development opportunity at this time.

I hold a degree in International Law, a Masters degree in Human Rights and a second Masters degree in Political Science, and I am currently a PhD candidate in Environmental Law (waste management in Senegal) at the University Cheick Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal.

After some ten years of experience as journalist in Italy, France and Monte Carlo, I have gathered over fifteen years progressively responsible professional experience at national and international levels in international development and governance, human rights, child rights and gender, particularly as a programme and project manager, providing strategic leadership and mobilizing partnerships and resources, essentially in Africa (Angola, Rwanda, DRC, Kenya, Burundi, Senegal and West Africa).

Amongst my previous relevant assignments, I served the United Nations as Human Rights Officer in three successive peace keeping operations in Angola (1998-2003), then as Human Rights Officer at OHCHR-Geneva (2004-2006); successively I have been the Country Director for OCHA-IRIN in Angola (2006-2007), always with excellent performance evaluations (best 2% of UN staff).

I have also occupied senior management positions in the NGO sector, such as Country Director for Lawyers Without Borders in Rwanda, and Head of Programmes and Field Operations of Peace and Sport – Monaco.

More recently, I held the position of Regional Governance Specialist of the UNDP Regional Centre for West and Central Africa in Dakar (2009-2010), managing a regional programme in the area of Public Administration Reform and E-Governance (covering 8 West African Countries and funded by AECID).

At the end of the assignment above, I remained based in Dakar, Senegal, from where, in 2011-2012 I provided consulting services to various organizations, including Senegalese local governments and UN agencies, such as the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for West and Central Africa, UNICEF Senegal (provision of technical assistance to local governments in Casamance region, to help them develop and implement rights-based, gender-based and child-rights based participatory budgets; and to strengthen their capacity in various areas, and achieve child rights and MDGs at the local level, through a rights-based approach) and more recently the Swedish foundation Reach for Change, managing a child-centered social entrepreneurship in three countries (Senegal, Chad and the DRC), until I took the position of Oxfam International Regional Good Governance Programme Coordinator for West Africa.

I am also the founder and the Secretary-General of the Association of Captain Mbaye Diagne for the Culture of Peace in Dakar, whose goal is to promote the memory of Captain Mbaye Diagne, Senegalese UN peace-keeper who rescued hundreds of people in Rwanda until he was killed in May 1994. Please see Paying Tribute to Captain Mbaye Diagne, The Senegalese Hero of Rwanda; also see the BBC documentary A good man in Rwanda and the UN Security Council Decision to coin a medal dedicated to Captain Mbaye Diagne Creating Medal Named after Captain Mbaye Diagne, Creating Medal Named after Captain Mbaye Diagne, Security Council Honours Senegalese Peacekeeper’s Heroic Actions during 1994 Genocide in Rwanda). Also see the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the Captain’s death, which I organized in Dakar on 31 May 2014, in partnership with the Regional Office for West Africa of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Hommage au capitaine Mbaye Diagne : Les Nations-Unies louent son courage | CINU Dakar. The Association counts, amongst our Members of Honor, the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein, and the UN Special Adviser on prevention of genocide Mr. Adama Dieng. Please check our website (| Ready To Save Not To Kill) and Facebook page (Association du Capitaine Mbaye Diagne - Nekkinu Jàmm).

I am also an active communicator on sustainable development and environmental protection, with a focus on sound waste management (for an example see Exploitation des déchets : Une véritable valeur économique, selon Enrico Muratore), and I run a blog on the United Nations, justice and human rights on one of Italy's leading newspapers, Il Fatto Quotidiano (Blog di Enrico Muratore - Il Fatto Quotidiano -).

As a result of the above, I have developed extensive experience in policy development, lobbying, advocacy and campaigning; project and programme design, management and implementation (I managed programmes of up to 2.5 M EUR and teams of up to 60 people), monitoring, evaluation and learning, and knowledge management, as well as in resource mobilization (donor liaison, representation, reporting, proposal design with a wide range of donors including the EU, WB, AfDB, UN, USAID, DFID, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, SIDA, CIDA, Swiss cooperation, Belgian Cooperation, AECID, as well as private foundations such as OSIWA and Mo Ibrahim Foundations).

To conclude, I am fluent in several languages; I hold UN language proficiency certificates in English, French and Spanish and I am also fluent in Portuguese and Italian (mother tongue).

Please note I can make myself available by providing a one-month notice to Oxfam (my current contract ending on 30 April 2015).

Kindly find attached my updated CV containing references.

Thank you for your kind interest and best regards.

Enrico Muratore

Phone (Italy): 0039/3249071922

Phone (Senegal): 00221/775291389

Email: enricomura@yahoo.com

Skype: enrico.muratore

LinkedIn: Enrico Muratore