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Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

Torit, Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan

Libya And Tunisia

Managed and coordinated programming with UNMAS And Libyan MineAction Center (LibMAC) on mine action project transitioning to Humanitarian-Development-Peacebuilding nexus. Internal facing, ensured good team working between the different services within HI (operational, HR, Finance, Logistics, and security) to optimize effective and efficient operation while coaching and mentoring staff reinforcing their technical capacities while working on daily tasking.

Afghanistan

- Overseeing six (6) interlinked components with Emergency Response, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Food Security, Livelihood and Civil Society Capacity Building as key areas of thematic intervention covering two provinces of Badakshan and Takhar with head office in Kabul.

Juba, South Sudan

Overall management of UNHCR-funded “Delivery of protection support to IDPs through community mobilization and empowerment in Central Equatoria Estates”- Maintained a system that ensures team’s effective and efficient project implementation using a result-based approach.- As protection lead in Protection of Civilian sites (POCs), ensured that project’s activities (protection mainstreaming including handling SGBV cases, MHPSS, livelihood) are implemented in coherence to other organizations working in area of intervention.- Submitted PM Box internally and Monthly and Quarterly reports to donors on time and acknowledged donor’s feedback to the reports and ensured feedback formed part of organizational learning.

Kabul, Afghanistan

Overall management of EC, UNICEF/UNHCR, War Child Holland and US Department of State-funded projects of War Child UK in Afghanistan. - Violence against Children Project - European Commission- Child Protection for Street working Children and Youth through Income Generation & Education- UNICEF- Education for Street working Children and Child Friendly Space - War Child Holland- Strengthening the Case Management of Unaccompanied Minors and Facilitating Family Reintegration in the Western Region - UNICEF- Community-based Education for IDPs in Pashtoon Zarghon, Herat, Afghanistan- UNHCR- Supporting Children in Conflict with Law, Herat,Afghanistan – US Department of State- Early Childhood Care and Development in Rural Herat, Western Afghanistan – Lewis Trust

Kabul, Afghanistan

▪ Reviewing of the existing core processes in the Ministry of Public Works;▪ Identifying the gaps in these existing core processes and strategy formulation on how to address the gaps which will aim to strengthen/improve existing mechanisms/processes in the ministry;▪ Mapping, simplifying and re-engineering of the processes;▪ Introducing the new systems and processes with components of series of awareness raising and public relations campaigns; ▪ Massive capacity development initiatives based on capacity building plan including creating training modules/packages.▪ Building the capacity of the local counterparts as per the training needs assessment (TNA) with components of pragmatic applications of the training modules/packages while in the process of mapping and simplifying/re-engineering the processes;▪ Documenting lessons learnt as well as progress (monitoring and evaluation) against the capacity building plan.

Kabul, Afghanistan

COMMUNICATIONS and PROGRAM ANALYST December 26, 2007 to February 3, 2011 ActionAid International AfghanistanHouse # 705, Street 9, Taimani, Kabul, AfghanistanInternational Non-government OrganizationResponsibilities:▪ Developed the 2009 to 2011 Communications Strategy for ActionAid and managed its implementation which seeks to increase the visibility of the organization within Afghanistan and overseas and highlights its program and policy innovations and impact; ▪ Managed outreach activities and leads the development of overall communications dynamics in accordance with Country Strategy Plans;