Experience

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  IM Swedish Development Partner

  • Regional Director Middle East

    • Oct 2020 - Present

    As a director of a regional office in the Middle East, my mission is to lead with values, actively shift power and challenge established norms. Committed to empowering individuals and communities and striving not only to alleviate poverty but more considerably to promote a resilient civil society. With a specific focus on fostering social, economic and climate justice, my duty entails overseeing operations in Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon. Together with a passionate and driven team, I lead a program in partnership with around 30 authentic civil society entities, media outlets and think tanks.

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  Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Human Rights

  • Amman - Jordan

  • Head of Programs

    • Jul 2019 - Jul 2020
    • Amman - Jordan

    Responsible for the strategic development and management of 5-million dollar programs related to women’s and children’s access to justice, protection of human rights, gender justice, women’s empowerment, freedom of expression, migrants and refugees rights, peace-building, social cohesion, and economic empowerment and development.

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  The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian law

  • MENA region

  • Senior Program Officer- MENA

    • Mar 2015 - Apr 2019
    • MENA region

    In charge of capacity development of Judicial Institutes in the MENA region to integrate international human rights Standards in national laws, focusing on the role of the judge in protecting rights and freedoms. Among other requirements, the assignment entails encouraging research, issuance of comparative studies and regional books, and reinforcing the regional network, cohesion and exchange of experience. The work also entails high level representation and coordination skills, extensive travel to North Africa and Middle East, meeting with ministers, directors of higher judicial councils and judicial institutes, civil society representatives and other stakeholders in the judicial sector.

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  Save the Children UK

  • BMENA Civil Society Consultant

    • Jul 2013 - Jan 2014

    Responsible for designing and delivering a survey to gauge opinion from civil society actors in the MENA region about women empowerment, youth economic development and freedom of expression. The purpose of the survey is to shape and influence the BMENA workshop design and output. Have also been in charge of designing and leading the Youth Economic development workshop held between 8-10 Dec. 2013 which gathered 20 youth activists from the BMENA and around 7 government representatives from Europe, the States, Japan and the BMENA region to enhance the dialogue among them. The overall goal of the workshop is to come up with policy recommendations disseminated at different official and non official levels.

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  Canada International Development Agency CIDA

  • MENA

  • Director & Coordinator; The Regional Human Rights and Peacebuilding Fund

    • Sep 2008 - Sep 2012
    • MENA

    Director & coordinator of a Regional Program on Human Rights and Peacebuilding of 5 million Canadian dollars covering Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia, the West Bank and Gaza. Managed 30 projects (programatic and financial management), including coaching, monitoring and evaluation • Held assessment surveys and extensive consultations with a wide range of civil society organizations.• Contributed to developing the guiding rules and regulations of the fund. Simplified all management tools such as results based matrix, operational, monitoring and financial plans in order to make them more users friendly. The program main themes focused on enhancing democratic reform and transition (the Arab Spring), psychosocial and legal support for women and youth, peacebuilding and conflict resolution initiatives, capacity buildings, teaching Human rights through creative tools, and human rights in Palestinian camps. Have issued a survey on the Human Right situation in Iraq and managed the production of a short film regarding the fund, please watch Breezes of Hope video online : https://vimeo.com/43454211 password: rhrpff . The program had an implementation rate 0f 96% with highly rated results in terms of quality, efficiency, and effectiveness as assessed by an external evaluator.

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  UNOPS

  • Iraq

  • Portfolio Manager Human Rights & Project Manager of Civil Society Forum

    • Dec 2004 - Aug 2008
    • Iraq

    Working with UNOPS as a Human Rights Portfolio Project Manager (2006-2008) and as a project Manager for the Iraqi Civil Society Forum (2004 – 2006), I managed different projects for Iraq totalling 8 million USD funded by the EC and the Iraqi Trust Fund. In addition to management, my work required partnering and coordinating closely with the different program stakeholders such as ministries, donors, UN agencies, local, Arab and international agencies. It also required reporting per results using indicators, while raising recommendations and lessons learnt used for the second phase of program planning. Monitoring project progress against workplans and budgets, and reviewing proposals were also among the main tasks handled. Projects focused on the protection of detainees, rehabilitation of torture victims, capacity building of civil society organizations in addition to CSOs grants .Projects had an Implementation rate of 93%. The visibility of these projects were high. Produced an article entitled “ Nurturing Human Rights in Iraq “ published in a booklet for UNOPS 2007 and a media Kit containing a multi media report, a booklet and a brochure about the program .This has attracted the EC as a donor to provide UNOPS with triple funding to continue the work jointly with UNDP.