Ismaël Benkhalifa Email & Phone Number

Tunisia

• Coordinating a program funded by United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), with Tunisian Bar and Tunisian Young lawyers Association;• Train 120 lawyers to criminal defense professional skills;• Manage a right awareness campaign (Radio and social media);• Create a task force, to manage 250 criminal cases.

Tunisia

• ILAC’s representative and interlocutor vis-à-vis donors, institutional partners, NGOs, international institutions; • Coordination of ILAC members work on the ground.

Tunis, Tunisia

Country Representative and Senior Legal Advisor 06.2016 – 02.2023• ILAC’s representative and interlocutor vis-à-vis donors, institutional partners, NGOs, international institutions; • Monitoring of ILAC members work at a regional level (MENA: Tunisia, Jordan, Libya, and Morocco;• Political and legal analysis;• Fundraising;• ILAC’s project manager for an NCSC project (Improving court Administration in Tunisia), funded by the state department, sub granted to ILAC:• Part of the team in charge of assessing and drafting a report on Court administration in Tunisia;• Managed the team in Tunisia as part of the senior management team (15 employees);• Assessed the needs, designed, and coordinated trainings and workshops (Statistical data collection, archiving…);• Initiated the development, at a national level, of several digitization projects like a statistical data collection software or the use of the electronic signature;• Managed the project for the equipment of courts, with PC, security equipment for evidence rooms and video-surveillance (terms of reference, call for tenders and follow up of delivery and installation).• ILAC’s project manager for a program funded by SIDA and sub-granted to NCSC (Improving the Administration of the Administrative Tribunal).• Assessed the needs, designed, and coordinated trainings and workshops (Job descriptions, archiving, data collection…);• Initiated the development, at a national level, of several digitization projects, like a case file management software or the use of the electronic signature;• Coordinated exchanges with the Québec Administrative Tribunal;• Coordinated a project of human resources reorganization (assignments, job descriptions…).• ILAC’s project manager, funded by the International Bar Association (IBA) on freedom of press. • Assessed the needs of Tunisian Journalists in terms of defense of press, expression, and publication, designed workshops, and managed the program (logistics, finance...).

Tunis, Tunisia

• Managed A budget of around 500.000 euros/Year, at the local level;• Managed the registration process of ILAC and NCSC, the creation of the shared office, part of the staff’s selection process, finances and administration and office management.• Coordinated and monitored a 2014-2016 SIDA-funded rule of law assistance program operating in nine countries in the MENA region, with five implementing ILAC members.

Tunis, Tunisia

• Long term consultancy, international expert, on a joint program with World Bank on social protection;• Based on an expertise report drafted, for UNDP, in 2022:• Work on capacity building on legal aid for the Ministry of social affairs, social workers, Judicial and Administrative legal aid offices (assessment of the needs, building of curricula’s, training…);• Work on improving functional and material legal aid system with various partners, including Ministry of Justice, Tunisian Bar and Administrative Tribunal;

Tunisia

Publications and Research:• Team leader on a 2023 GIZ report: “Local governance and decentralization process in Libya”;• Author of a 2022 UNDP report: “Legal aid as a lever for social protection in Tunisia”;• Author of a 2022 UNDP report: “Rationalization of Judicial mapping in Tunisia”;• Co-author of a 2021 ILAC report: “Access to Justice for vulnerable groups in times of Covid-19 in Tunisia”;• Co-author of a 2018 ILAC report: “Assessment of the Administrative Tribunal of Tunisia”;• Conducted interviews for the redaction of a 2017 ILAC report: “Rule of Law assessment: Syria”.

Tunis, Tunisia

French Agency for the promotion of higher education and international mobility.

Tunis, Tunisia

- Worked on a social Plan, staff restructuring, development of outsourcing and developed a new process of work organization.

Tunis, Tunisia

Development agency websites to Europe, 17 employees (a subsidiary of Enchanteur des nouveaux médias), Paris. Clients: Ferrero- Managed the Human resources: recruitment and administrative management.- Managed quality: team organization, consistent with the specifications and deadlines.

Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur, France

Responsible for the import in an international transit company

Master (Dess) In Maritime Law And Transportation Law- Viva: Renting - Chartering Of Pleasure Crafts, Law

Master (M.Sc.) In Public International Law And European Law, Law