Sophie Dupont Kirchhof

Covering Poland, Romania, Moldavia and Ukraine

Covering Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, OPT, Algeria and Jordan.

• Successfully led the organisation of a closed-door event with donors on protection funding and localisation, drafted a Global Protection Cluster publication on protection funding; • Co-chaired Global Protection Cluster Advocacy Task Team

• Coordination: integrated protection principles between Consortium partners for an emergency response in Syria; led the setting-up of an inter-sectoral referral system within the consortium and the adoption of minimum commitments on protection mainstreaming; • Capacity-building of non-protection staff on protection principles and the use of protection tools.

• Strategic direction: strategically led DRC Protection Cluster, incl. with the development of a protection strategy at national and regional level; • Coordination: engaged cluster members and aligned priorities with sub-clusters; • Advocacy/Protection analysis: led on advocacy initiatives towards decision-makers (donors, humanitarian leadership, authorities); strengthened protection analysis; • Capacity-building: coached, conducted training and awareness-raising on protection standards; • Management: set

• Coordination: co-leading the National Protection Cluster in DRC (May - Dec. 2018); • Advocacy: defined key messages towards the UN, NGOs and donors; coordinated initiatives with INGOs; • Protection analysis: coordinated on protection analysis within NRC; drafted protection notes; • Representation: represented NRC in humanitarian fora, as the only NRC staff in Kinshasa.

• Management: elaborating and supporting the strategic development of Trócaire in DRC, part of the Country Management Team; • Liaison/ advocacy: representing Trócaire in humanitarian and development fora and raising Trócaire's profile; incl. on gender issues; developing communication documents; • Donor relations: liaising with donors, contributing to programmes development, drafting proposals and ensuring quality reporting.

Programme management: strategic planning and management of a USD 4.3 million programme to provide access to tertiary education in 40 countries; Donor relations: developing proposals and sharing information on the impact of the programme with the main donor (Germany) and private donors; Technical support: strengthening capacity, providing strategic support and following-up on activities of 40 focal points on tertiary education worldwide; Reporting: drafting annual report on the implementation of the programm

Reviewing EU Asylum Curriculum for the European Asylum Support Office

Advocacy Representing UNHCR externally (NGOs, donors, UN agencies) on child protection issues; liaising internally (desk officers, technical units and field operations); co-organising public events on child protection; Policy development Contributing to UNHCR policy documents on child protection, including on Best Interests Determination and UNHCR’s Framework for the Protection of Children; Program management Reviewing UNHCR yearly programmes; developing child protection indicators; monitoring global str

Coordination / Networking Representing UNHCR at inter-agency meetings and thematic working groups; setting up and leading coordination networks; improving information-sharing between humanitarian actors; Programme management Supervising UNHCR’s returnee protection monitoring programme (with 40 monitors); evaluating and co-planning UNHCR’s programmes for child protection; Training Designing and holding training sessions on international refugee law and human rights issues (Government and UN officers, NGO

Drafting refugee claims for submission to the French Asylum Institutions; researching COI, and following-up on social and medical files; Monitoring the case-law of the French asylum Court of Appeal; drafting the NGO’s newspaper section on “legal updates”.

Reporting on the institutional reforms of the Human Rights Council and its impact on NGOs

Training on Project Cycle Management, Bioforce/ University of Liverpool 1st module of a Master on Humanitarian Programme Management Assessment, logical framework, monitoring and evaluation, risk management