[2] One of the issues she dealt with during her tenure were the approximately 7,000 street children who had been impacted by violence in the country and the death of parents in the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa.
[4] As part of the policy advisory group on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, she met with other leaders like Scholastica Kimaryo (Tanzania), United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative to South Africa; Nomcebo Manzini (Eswatini) and Hodan Addou (Somalia) of UNIFEM; Litha Musyimi-Ogana (Kenya), gender and civil society advisor to the New Partnership for Africa's Development; Magdalene Madibela, head of the gender sector for the Southern African Development Community; Bernadette Lahai (Sierra Leone), member of parliament; and professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (South Africa) in 2005 to discuss women's involvement in African peacemaking policies.
[11] She urged other member states of the East African Community to implement the protocols necessary to facilitate regional integration so that citizens could benefit from the free movement of labour and services, as well as the economic reduction of tariffs and clear guidelines on imports and exports.
As an example, she said that women predominantly work in farming and hold responsibility for producing, buying, selling and preparing food, but in the region owned "only two per cent of the land".
[21] After her second term in the EALA concluded, Nyirahabineza returned to school and earned a master's degree in gender and development from University of Rwanda in 2020.
After completion of a two-year rehabilitation program, the former combatants are given a certificate and discharged in hopes that they will become productive citizens and encourage other rebels to return home to Rwanda.