Andre is midwife and neonatal nurse with a Master of Science in global health delivery and over 17 years of experience. He held numerous leadership roles in Rwanda around health services and midwifery. Last year, I was awarded “The Most Inspiring Midwife Advocate and Activist Award” by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Rwanda in collaboration with the Rwanda Government. Andre represents African Region as a member of the Board of Directors of Council of International Neonatal Nurses (COINN) since 2015 up to date. A co-founder and former president of Rwanda Association of Neonatal Nurses (RANN). A co-founder of Rwanda Association of Midwives (RAM) and its board member. He was a member of Rwanda Maternal Newborn and Child technical working group for the Rwanda Ministry of Health. Very recently Andre Ndayambaje has been nominated and accepted to join WHO-PMNCH HCPA Constituency Strategic Advocacy Committee with scope of responsibilities to contribute to developing advocacy strategies and programs. This includes high-level political engagement, community mobilization. Constituency engagement; and media mobilization, including for the goals of effective financing and equitable delivery of essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) interventions. Andre is an activist for equity and social justice especially for those mothers, babies and children who continue to die from the preventable and avoidable causes in communities and those teenagers and adolescents who lack fully access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services because of the existing social, legal and cultural norms in Sub-saharan Africa.
