Natural Resources Management and Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist/Expert with:

• Extensive experience in rural development more than 15 years, in the fields of natural resources,forestry, agriculture, poverty alleviation, resilience and human development (including gender mainstreaming) in arid and semi-arid zones;
• Experienced in Environmental and Social Safeguards policies, Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation and Resilience for about 10 years;
• Wealth of experience in food security in post conflict areas of the African continent for about 6 years;
• Well versed in program and project management, with good coordination, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation (results-based M&E) skills;
• Experience in fundraising (Participated in preparation of document to UN Women in collaboration with UNIDO and the programme approved and financed in 2017 with 2 million USD. Another one rose to Islamic Development Bank- Jeddah with 8 million USD in the pipeline under the title of food security & palm dates. Two additional fund for natural resources raised to GEF and financed with 5.5 million and 5,9 million both of them approved and now under implementation. The last one with 0.5 million from WRI (World Resources institute) in the pipeline for rehabilitating Gum Arabic Belt in Sudan.
• Knowledgeable about Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF), Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and financing agricultural value chain;
• Vast experience with procurement methodologies and related specifications of rural development requirements of WB, UNIDO and UNHCR;
• Capacity of nurturing relationships with donor representatives such as WB, CIDA Canada, GEF, UN and IsDB Jeddah and other implementing partners/institutions like German Agro-Action & Practical Action;
• Experienced with baseline surveying, socio-economic surveying and biophysical surveying.