Summary of Contributions

(A)                       To UNESCO TehranOffice

 

 

2003-2008:

 

Established from scratch an active sub-regional office covering Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Turkmenistan and performing UNESCO’s mandates in Education, Science and Culture. Two regional/international water centers have been established in Iran and a third regional water center is under establishment in Pakistan. An active Asian Branch of G-WADI established in the region (12 countries) as well as many pilot G-WADI schemes.

 

 

 

(B)            TO UNESCOPARIS

 

 

June 1999 – 2003:

 

As the Deputy Secretary of IHP, organized the policy oriented meetings of the Intergovernmental Council and Bureau of the programme, deputized the Director of Water Sciences Division in the smooth running of the programme, directly supervised all of IHP activities in Africa and the Arab region, and fully in charge of IHP global Arid Zone activities. During this period I contributed to the establishment of the World Water Assessment Programme (with membership of 28 UN Agencies) and the establishment of UNESCO-IHE in Delft as a Category I UNESCO Institute in Water.

 

 

June 2008 – July 2010:

 

 

 

President of the International Hydrological Program of UNESCO Initiated many actions to keep Water a projects of UNESCO with focus in Africa and the Arab region.

 

 

Sept 2011 – Sept 2012:

 

Secretary of IHP and Director of Water Sciences Division of UNESCO. Called from retirement to solve critical problem in the management of the division which I managed to solve and assisted in the recruitment of a fixed term Director.

 

 

 

(C)                       TO UNESCO CAIRO OFFICE (ROSTAS),UNESCO NOV 1993 – MAY1999:

  • Organized or supervised over 12 training activities in the areas of water resources, ecology, environment and natural heritage (in Egypt, Tunis, Sudan, Qatar, Jordan andMorocco).

 

  • Organized or supervised over 12 regional experts meetings and workshops in the areas of water resources, ecology and environment (in Jordan, Syria, Qatar, Egypt, Morocco, London, Lebanon, Kuwait and PalestinianTerritories).

 

  • Organized or co-supervised international conferences in the areas of water resources (in Oman, Sudan, and Egypt).

 

  • Supervised the preparation and production of many publications in the areas of water resources, environment and naturalheritage.

 

  • Gave advises and invited key-note presentations to organizations and activities in Egypt, Sudan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Kuwait, UAE, Yemen, Libya, Syria andOman.

 

  • Acted for the Director of UNESCO Cairo office for several periods within 1994 and1999.

 

  • Served as the regional Hydrologist and ecologist for UNESCO – IHP in the Arab Region.

 

  • Served as the regional focal point for UNESCO’s new integrated programme of “Environmental, Population and Information for Development”(EPD).

 

  • Supervised the establishment of sustained focal points for IHP and MAB programmes and developed effective partnership with many related organizations (i.e. ACSAD, ALGCSO, CEDARE, FAO,WMO, IAEA, IAD, AL…etc.).

 

  • Supervised the establishment of three active networks on “Wadi Hydrology”, “Groundwater Protection” and “The Arab MAB network”. All three networks are sustained tilltoday.

March – June 2008 :

 

As the Director of the Office solved many problems in the financial and

 

 

 

administrative difficulties of the office (called from retirement).

 

May 2014- Jan 2015:

 

Called upon as the Director of the Office to solve many financial and administrative difficulties of the office (called from retirement), this was achieved successfully and assisted in the recruitment of a new fixed termDirector.

 

(D)            TO THE CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OFKHARTOUM

 

2008–Present:    Assisted in enhancing the regional and international links of theDepartment,staff enhancement and tracing, and institution the process for a watercenter.

 

1979 – 1980 Served as Head of the Department. Main contribution during that term is the establishment of post-graduate studies in Environmental Engineering and the improvement in the number of teaching staff.

 

(E)             TO THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITYOF KHARTOUM

 

2008–Present              Serving   as   a   member   of   the   Faculty   board   focusing as enhancing publications for the staff andpromotion.

 

1990                             Served as Acting Dean of theFaculty.

 

1986                             Convener of a seven-man National Committee for   Rehabilitating and Promoting theFaculty.

 

1986                             Served   as   a   Member   of   the   Faculty   Board   and Faculty Research Committee.

 

1975 -1980                  ServedasaMemberoftheFacultyBoardandparticipatedinmanyofits subcommittees.

 

1977 -1978                  Served as a Member of the Committee that proposed a newcoursestructure and a semester system for theFaculty.

 

1975 -1976                  Organized and supervised the summer training of the Faculty’s   studentsin Egypt.

 

1973 -1975                  Served as a Member of the Students AffairsCommittee.

 

1974 -1975                  Served as a Convener to the Development and PremisesCommittee.

 

1973 -1974                  Served as a Warden of Kassala Hall of Residence for Engineeringstudents.

 

 

(F)             AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM’SLEVEL

 

2009–Present                        Serve as member of the University Council and the executiveand finance Committee of theuniversity

 

2009–Present              Serve as a member of the University Senate.

 

2008 – 2009                  Served as a member of committee for specialpromotion.

 

 

 

 

1990 -1991                  Served as DeputyVice-Chancellor.

 

1990 -1991                  Served as a Member of the UniversityCouncil.

 

1986present                 Serving as a Co-opted Member of the UniversityPromotionsCommittee. 1979 -1980          Served as a Member of the Senate of theUniversity.

1979 -1980                  Served as a Member of Examinations &Prizes Committee. 1979 -1980          Served as a Member of the BuildingsCommittee.

1974 -1980                  Offered Technical advices on problems dealing with water supply and sewage disposal in all campuses of theUniversity.

 

1976 -1980                  Participated   in   the   establishment   and   running   of   the   Institute of EnvironmentalStudies.

 

1975 -1976                  Served as a Member of the Committee formedby theVice-Chancellor, University of Khartoum that had investigated the financial, social and academic problems of the University’s members ofstaff.

 

1974 -1975                  Served as a Member of the Staff AffairsCommittee.

 

(G)            TO KING SAUD UNIVERSITY, KINGDOM OF SAUDIARABIA

 

2008–Present              Serve as an advisor for the Chair on WaterConservation.

 

1981-1983                    Convenor   of   the   Water   Resources   Group   of   theCivil Engineering Department.

 

1982-1985                    Advisor of the Post-graduate Students in the area of Hydraulics andWater Resources.

 

1980-1983                    Member   of   the   Post-Graduate   Committee   of   the Civil   Engineering Department.

1981-1983                    Member of the Post-Graduate Committee of the CollegeofEngineering. 1981-1983          Member of the Board of Directors, Council of the Research Centre,College

of Engineering.

1982-1983                    Member of the College of EngineeringCouncil.

 

1981-1983                    Participated in the organization of Symposia and Short Courses   invarious Water Engineeringtopics.

 

(H)            GOVERNMENT AND OUTSIDEACTIVITIES

 

(a)    Inside theSudan

 

2009–Present    Serve as a member of the Governing Council of Sudan Universityfor Science &Technology.

 

 

 

 

  2008 – Present Serve as a member of the Research Committee of the Ministry of Higher Education.
2008 – Present Serve as a member of ad-hoc committees formed by the Ministry of Education, Irrigation, Industry, Governor of Al-Gezira …. Etc.
1992 – 1994 President of the Sudan Engineering Society.
1991 – 1994 President of IHP National Committee of UNESCO.
1973 – 1993 Served on several committees, formed through Ministerial Decrees or orders of Board of Directors to evaluate problems in the fields of Water Resources, Agriculture andEducation.
1974 – 1980 Participating in the activities of the Council for Scientific and Technological Research through research teams, committees and workshops.
 

 

(b)

 1977 – 1980

 

Abroad

 Member of the Higher Council for Curriculums, Training and Publication; Ministry of Education.
  1993 – Present Contributing to the activities of Regional Organizations such as: ALECSO, ACSAD, AOAD… etc.
  1975 – Present Contributing to the activities of International Organizations and Scientific Societies such as the ICE, the IAHR and the IWRA, UNESCO, ESCWA … etc.
  1980 – 1991 Served as a Member and later on the chairman of a three-man contact committee, selected by IAHR council, to serve as a contact group with IAHR on matters related to the development of IAHR objectives in the African countries. The work of the committee had led to the establishment of an African DWISion in 1991.
  1991 – 1994 President of the African Division of the IAHR
  1980 – 1983 Served as an External Examiner, Civil Engineering Department, Dar Es Salam University, Tanzania.
  1984 – 1990 Served as an External Examiner to many M.Sc. theses from the Civil Engineering Department, Dar Es Salam University, Tanzania.
  1985 Served as an External Examiner to M.S. theses in the College of Earth Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  1985 Served as an Examiner to M.S. theses in the College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  1984 – 1989 Contributing   to   the   progress    of   the   newly   established                      “African Development Expert”.

 

 

 

1979 – 1980 Prepared a Technical report on “Artificial Groundwater Recharge: A Review of the State-of-the-Art on this Topic”, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado,U.S.A.

 

1976                 Served as a Member of a multi-disciplinary team which   studied the development of Almahweet District in the Arab Republic ofYemen.

 

1976                 Evaluated and reviewed the surface water measurement devices adoptedin the basin of Eldow inSyria.

 

1974 – 1975 Served as a correspondent to the Newsletter published by the Federation of African Organization of Engineers.

 

1980 – resent   Serving as a Reviewer to various reports of Sponsored Projects, by the   King Abdel Aziz City for Science & Technology (KACST), in the area of Hydraulics and WaterResources.

 

1977 – Present   Serving as a Referee and Advisor to many scientific journals.

 

1987 – 1990 Leading a team of about 50 experts who investigated and recommended solutions for the problem of Groundwater rise in Riyadh.

 

1988     Served as a member of the promotion panel for academic staff in theCivil Engineering Department, King Abdulaziz University,Jeddah