Alain Kisombwe is the Chief of Party for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative’s (ABA ROLI) USAID-funded Action to Reduce and Respond to Exploitation and Trafficking (ARRETE) Activity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He is an attorney and expert in access to justice and advocacy on public policy reform programs. He has been working with ABA ROLI since 2009. He recently led the Human Rights and Access to Justice Activity in Burkina Faso, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which aimed to support the National Human Rights Commission and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to strengthen their collaboration for the implementation of their mandates to promote, protect and defend human rights as well as to provide legal and judicial assistance to vulnerable people victims of serious human rights violations. Before joining the Burkina Faso program, he worked with ABA ROLI in Mali and the DRC. In Mali, he led an anti-slavery program funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), which aimed to strengthen the capacity of Malian CSOs to provide services to victims of hereditary slavery, provide legal aid to victims, increase the participation of local leaders and communities in the fight against slavery, increase the capacity of justice sector actors to investigate and prosecute cases of slavery, and strengthen advocacy by Malian CSOs in favor of the adoption of an anti-slavery law in Mali. In the DRC, he worked as a training officer in the Gender and Justice project funded by the Netherland Embassy in DRC (2010-2011); Coordinator of the Enhancing Legal and Material Conditions of Detention in the Prisons of Goma, Bukavu and Kindu project funded by DRL (2011-2014); and Project Manager of the Advancing Human Rights and Promoting Electoral Justice program funded by USAID (2016-2018). He also worked with the Independent Electoral Commission of the DRC (2006-2007) as Legal Expert. He has a degree in public law from the University of Lubumbashi in the DRC.