Methodologies: inter-disciplinary research; socio-economic evaluation; field research (survey design, sampling, rapid rural appraisal, interviewing); statistical analysis; gender analysis, handling sex-disaggregated data and information. Use of qualitative and quantitative research tools.
Monitoring and evaluation of projects and programmes, and related field surveys. Supervision of consultants conducting fieldwork and evaluation.
Project design, implementation of development projects and programmes with international research centers and the United Nations agencies: Middle East, Golf States and North Africa, Central Asia: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, in addition to Pakistan and Afghanistan in West and Central Asia and a few African countries.
Gender mainstreaming, gender equality and women’s empowerment, research on employment, rural livelihoods, value chains, agro-biodiversity, migration, natural resource management, entrepreneurship.
Women's Leadership and Management Training through Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2010.
Capacity strengthening in socio-economics and development, value chain development, stakeholder involvement in research and development projects and programmes, project cycle, monitoring and evaluation, humanitarian principles and protection in emergencies and resilience building, entrepreneurship, gender budgeting, gender and climate change, etc.
Regular reviewer of scientific articles for referee journals of science and development, regularly updated on the state-of-the-art development, gender and socio-economic issues.
Methodologies: inter-disciplinary research; socio-economic evaluation; field research (survey design, sampling, rapid rural appraisal, interviewing); statistical analysis; gender analysis.
Partnership with foreign universities and expertise exchange between institutions, under a USAID funded-project on Water and Livelihoods. Lectured on gender and development in the Arab States at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, in 2012.
Partnership with other United Nations Agencies such as UNFPA, WFP, ILO, IOM, UNWOMEN and UNESCO together with line ministers in concerned countries.