Training Centre

Thérèse Bouchard

Thérèse Bouchard, M.A., has been a development practitioner for more than forty years. She worked as a volunteer cooperant in Chile for seven years, as an international solidarity coordinator, and did a five-year stint as Assistant Executive Director for Development and Peace.

She also has extensive experience as a human rights, democratic development, and conflict management expert, roles in which she has served with CECI for fifteen years. In this capacity, she collaborated with CIDA as a gender equality trainer and on integration of the rights-based development approach; with the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), the Médiateur du Faso (Burkina Faso ombudsman), and the Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada on conflict prevention in Africa; and with the Organization of African States, the World Bank, CIDA, and the United Nations on conflict management issues in Haiti.

In total, Ms. Bouchard has worked in 33 countries of Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. She has collaborated on the writing of several training manuals.

She teaches the “Development Issues and Perspectives,” “Gender Relations and Development,” and “Citizenship and Development” courses in the Certificate Program in International Cooperation at the Université de Montréal.

Ms. Bouchard has written numerous articles on solidarity, has appeared on television, and is the co-author of books on practical theology.