Timothy Banda Bemba Banda
Lusaka ,Zambia
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Member
National Working Group of the Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, HIV and AIDs Governance Project - National Assembly of Zambia
2019.01 - Current
- Evaluation of the project and the activities, capacity buildings seminars for members of parliament and parliamentary staff and providing technical support to members of parliament in sexual reproductive health rights programming.
National Technical Member
Zambia National Men’s Network for Gender and Development
Lusaka, Zambia
2018.01 - Current
- Providing technical support and promoting gender equality, ending violence on women and girls and promoting boys wellbeing through advocacy, sensitization and capacity building.
Policy, Community, Gender, Youth and Advocacy Advisor
Ipas Southern Africa Region
2016.07 - Current
- Ensuring that women and girls have a conducive legal and policy environment in assessing comprehensive sexual reproductive health rights and services by providing overall management in the planning, budgeting, and implementation of policy, advocacy, community, gender and youth activities using a human rights-based approach.
Member
Ministry of Health Technical Working Groups
2016.06 - Current
- Providing technical assistance in policy and advocacy for the Safemotherhood, Adolescent and Family Planning Ministry Technical Working Groups of the Ministry of Health.
Member of General Assembly
Action Aid Zambia
2014.01 - 2017.01
- Participating in electing and supporting the Action Aid Board, guide and determine long term and strategic direction, participating in appointing an external auditor, participating in the approval of the statutory audit report, annual financial statements, plans, strategies and policies, participating in the review of the organizational performance and performing any other duties as prescribed in the constitution or as requested by the board.
Gender and Advocacy Manager
John Snow Incorporated (JSI) USAID funded Support to the HIV/AIDS Response in Zambia (SHAReII) Project
2013.06 - 2015.08
- Working closely with the leadership and legal teams to support traditional, the media, community leaders, religious leaders and communities to ensure that gender related factors that fuel the spread of HIV/AIDS including, SGBV, early and forced marriages as well as barriers to access health are identified in different traditional and community settings and addressed accordingly.
Legal, Gender and Human Rights Specialist
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP Volunteer Programme – Good Governance Project) attached to the Human Rights Commission of Zambia, Mongu Office (Acting Provincial Coordinator Human Rights Commission Western Region)
2008.01 - 2011.01
- Assisting in the implementation of the Zambian Human Rights Commission Strategic Plan, conducting research in legal policy reform, interviewing, counseling and advising clients on various legal and human rights related matters, investigating and monitoring human rights violations and abuses including survivors of SGBV as well as maladministration of justice, strengthening capacity of HR stakeholders to implement a Gender and Human rights-based approach to development.
Internship
United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund UNICEF) HQ, Gender and Rights Unit, Global Policy Section, Division of Policy and Planning, New York, USA
2007.12 - 2008.05
- Evaluating and analyzing 2006 -2009 Country Office Annual Reports (COAR) using a set of gender and human rights criteria including Results Matrix and the Medium –Term Strategy Plan (MTSP) for 2006-2009, looking at research in gender, reviewing and evaluating new innovations and lessons and reviewing and evaluating of policy versus practice in both human rights and gender.
Trainer of Trainers
Newstart HIV /AIDS Counseling Centre Kitwe
2005.03 - 2007.12
- Training trainers of HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, educating and counseling people living with HIV /AIDS on their fundamental and basic human rights, with strong emphasis on fighting stigma, discrimination, and Human Rights Violations, at family, community and national level and especially at workplaces and providing legal advice to those whose who otherwise were discriminated against because of their HIV/AIDS status.
Legal Advisor
Legal Resources Foundation, Kitwe Legal Advice Centre
2005.01 - 2007.01
- Interviewing, counseling and advising clients on various legal and human rights matters including survivors of GBV, drafting legal documents, investigating human rights violations and abuses, conducting legal and human rights training to the community, advocacy, legal literacy, conducting outreach programmes like visiting prisoners and refugees in refugee camps to help solve their human rights problems, holding mobile human rights clinics in the community and schools with emphasis on gender, women, refugees and children’s rights, resolving disputes ex-curia (outside court settlements through negotiation and mediation) and carrying out various researches and preparing monthly statistics.
Part Time Law and Gender Lecturer
Copperstone University
2005.01 - 2007.01
- Teaching Law and Gender Students, including setting and marking assignments, test and examinations
- Member of the examinations board.
Education
Masters of Degree in Gender and Women’s Law - Gender, Women’s Rights/Law, and Human Rights
Southern and Eastern Africa Research Centre for Women’s Law (SEARCWL), University of Zimbabwe
2007.01 - 2008.05
Bachelor of Laws (LLB) - undefined
Zanzibar University, Zanzibar, Tanzania
2001.01 - 2005.05
Custom
+26 0978966552
Timeline
Member
National Working Group of the Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, HIV and AIDs Governance Project - National Assembly of Zambia
2019.01 - Current
National Technical Member
Zambia National Men’s Network for Gender and Development
2018.01 - Current
Policy, Community, Gender, Youth and Advocacy Advisor
Ipas Southern Africa Region
2016.07 - Current
Member
Ministry of Health Technical Working Groups
2016.06 - Current
Member of General Assembly
Action Aid Zambia
2014.01 - 2017.01
Gender and Advocacy Manager
John Snow Incorporated (JSI) USAID funded Support to the HIV/AIDS Response in Zambia (SHAReII) Project
2013.06 - 2015.08
Legal, Gender and Human Rights Specialist
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP Volunteer Programme – Good Governance Project) attached to the Human Rights Commission of Zambia, Mongu Office (Acting Provincial Coordinator Human Rights Commission Western Region)
2008.01 - 2011.01
Internship
United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund UNICEF) HQ, Gender and Rights Unit, Global Policy Section, Division of Policy and Planning, New York, USA
2007.12 - 2008.05
Masters of Degree in Gender and Women’s Law - Gender, Women’s Rights/Law, and Human Rights
Southern and Eastern Africa Research Centre for Women’s Law (SEARCWL), University of Zimbabwe
2007.01 - 2008.05
Trainer of Trainers
Newstart HIV /AIDS Counseling Centre Kitwe
2005.03 - 2007.12
Legal Advisor
Legal Resources Foundation, Kitwe Legal Advice Centre
2005.01 - 2007.01
Part Time Law and Gender Lecturer
Copperstone University
2005.01 - 2007.01
Bachelor of Laws (LLB) - undefined
Zanzibar University, Zanzibar, Tanzania
2001.01 - 2005.05