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Strategy managmentTraining and capacity building Coordinaiton and Newrking technical support for USAID grants in Bangladesh

Led Libya Security Sector (SSR) strategy design. Monitor 30 potential grantees in drafting documents outlining strategy and program objectives on community stabilization and development programs in Libya . Manage over 15 small grants aiming to increase local stabilization and support community initiatives on SSR and DDR. Reviewed grant concepts and budgets and proposed changes and adjustments that helped in securing quick approvals from the tState/CSO. Assisted in developing and improving monitoring and evaluation systems. Facilitated four workshops for thirty Libyans from across 14 cities to engage in constructive dialogue around the issues of peace and stabilization programs. Devised conflict sensitive curricula for the workshops; worked to engage participants in a variety of activities, and led training in Arabic.

Condcuted research and country analysis for Tanzania, Sudan and Centeral Africa Republic informed USIP program policy, strategies and objectives, especially in stabilization programs. Synthesized key themes and lessons from various sources and incorporated them into program design and policy recommendations. Led the design of security assessment and prevention program in Tanzania; Duties include conducting underlying security assessments, analyzing root drivers of instability, and assessing community vulnerability to violent extremism and radicalization. Using this analysis to inform program design and implementation strategies. task includes participating in the creation of a USIP assessment tool kit that combines justice and security tools and a unique countering violent extremism (CVE) methodology.Coordinated for nine training workshops with the objective of improving community stabilization and peaceful dialogue. The duties included selecting and coordinating with local six non-government agency and partners and 480 local participants, developing training context, and providing technical support. Supported USIP’s Sudan initiatives, especially coordination and mainstream communication between regional partner in Gambia and local partners in Sudan. Conducting a Sudan partnership engagement assessment and support country legal framework analysis in area of Sexual and gender base Violent (SGBV) and conflict in Sudan. Participated in carring out a field research in the Central African Republic aimed at the provision of policy recommendations for US policy makers regarding root causes of protracted ethno-religious conflict in the country.

Led study on community resilience and vulnerability to violent extremism through matriarchal and tribal identity in South Libya and Northern Niger. Conducted KIIs and FGDs to produce report to inform policymakers and CVE IPs in the Sahel. Provided contextual updates and analyses of political transitions and the security situation in North Africa to shape country program strategies and objectives. Prepared and facilitated USIP cross-border security training programs for US Army personnel, civil society, and government officials. Provided policy recommendations and reviewed grant applications. Served on the USIP team in security sector development program. Participated in a training for Regional Taskforce of North and Western African countries in Security Sector development, including empowering committed civil society, law enforcement, and ministry officials with the core capacities and technical knowledge of criminal justice sector reform, conflict analysis, and project management. Supported Taskforce members to increase engagement in national level reform efforts and promotion of reform initiatives across their communities.

Designed political transition program, managed in-kind grants and services contract. Oversaw USAID requisitions and compliances. Monitored a non-Federal organization implemented rapid small grants under a Federal contract, cooperative agreement both in the field and in the home office. Monitored and evaluated political and transitional program. Trained and mentoring OTI Libya local staff in the OTI grant development process and database applications and OTI online database. Successfully created an applications system for M&E evaluation clusters that captured grant inputs and program outcomes and trained the local staff on these system applications. Supervised activity inputs and information into the USAID/OTI database to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness for USAID grant clearance procedures and reporting purposesAssisted in developing and improving monitoring and evaluation systems. Ensured that activity objectives and contexts were in alignment with program strategy. Reviewed Grants’ Final Evaluation Reports and ensured that the reports sufficiently articulated outputs, outcomes, and lessons learned, and informed future activity development. Trained local staff in OTI program concept and grant development process.

Researched the socio-economic and political history of slavery in the Middle East and North Africa.Conducted qualitative research, discourse analysis, and archival research depicting social history in Sudan. Translated narratives, text books, and materials for publicat

Provided capacity building for the South Sudanese transitional government, legal institutions and civil society in transitional areas of Sudan and South Sudan to promote rule of law and community and political reconciliation. Developed transitional grants and worked with OTI counterparts to conceptualize, design, and implement grant activities to further enhance political stabilization, good governance, water for peace project, rule of law, and civil society development.

Carried out an qualitative anthropological research focused on “Contested Autochthony. Land and Water Rights, and the Relation of Nomadic and Sedentary People in South Kurdofan. Studied land tenure systems and conflict over natural resources between nomads and residential populations in Sudan. Carried a research focus on customary law, and legal system reform in Sudan, ethno-political conflicts and national identity formulation in Sudan