Social sector development; community driven local planning and development and service delivery; social mobilisation and organisation with a deep insight on rural support programmes’ (RSPs) development approach. Community led policy development. Project management in decentralized context, including scoping, planning, design, budgeting, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of multifaceted rural development programmes with focus on poverty alleviation through community participation and collective action, social infrastructure, rural enterprises, value chain, economic growth, women empowerment, sustainable livelihoods and peace and stability.

CBOs, NGOs and civil society engagement and mobilisation; donor coordination; gender mainstreaming and equality; social accountability; local planning and governance; multi-stakeholder dialogue and consultation in volatile and conflict prone areas; crises prevention and mitigation. Early Recovery and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management. Conflict analysis and prevention using participatory data collection survey techniques; institutional capacity development and assessment; advocacy and communication in post-emergency situations.