Employment Record

 

Employment record, additional to above

 
Duration: 01/1980 – ongoing Position: Lecturer and Researcher and consultant
Employer: University of Khartoum and other institutions and organizations Duty station: Khartoum, and other stations inside and outside Sudan
Main duties:

 

Reference

 

no. 1 general

 

Reference:

Professor

 

 

 

 

 Lecturer, researcher and supervision of PhD and MSc students in problems related to forestry, agro-forestry, Environment and Climate Change at the University of Khartoum, Faculty of Agriculture and Faculty of Forestry since 1980, including experience in the key topics of Climate Change mitigation and Adaptation. The mandate of Dean in relation to research of post-graduates involves chairing the Faculty Research Board and evaluation of Research proposal for applied and scientific research.

 

On Land use and Climate Change (Reference no. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6)

On Environmental Impacts assessment (Reference no. 7,8, 9, 10, 11 and `12)

 

In Development at National Level on forestry, integrated natural resources management and related issues and evaluation of projects (Reference no. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28)

 

On desertification and Evaluation of studies and consultancies conducted by others consultancy firms (Reference no. 29 – 33)

 

On training (Reference no. 34 – 40)

 

Presentations

Presentations on the “Role of forests on Climate Change Mitigation” at the Faculty of Forestry, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at FNC, at conferences and workshops nationally and internationally.

 

On Forest Management Plan Preparation

 

 

Land use and Climate Change

 

Duration: Sept/1998 – /to 2009 Position: Short term Lead Author contract
Employer: Government of Sudan, Ministry of Environment, Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources Duty station: Khartoum

 

 
Main duties:

 

Reference No. 2

 

 

 

 

 In the Climate Change Enabling Project in the Sudan, 1998 – 2003, participated in GHG inventory and in the compilation of the First National Communication report (1998 – 2000) and GHG inventory and compilation of the Second National Communication Report (2008 – 2009),

 

Participated in development and evaluation of projects in three states subject to land use changes and vulnerable to climate change impacts (Climate Change Enabling Project in the Sudan, 1998 – 2003).

 

Also in Adaptation mitigation of climate Change impacts in Sudan (capacity building of sectors candidates in REDD).

 

Duration: 02/2002 – 2004 IPCC/AR3 and 2004 – 2006 IPCC /AR4 and 2011 – 2014 LA AR5 Position: Member of the authors groups
Employer: IPCC Duty station: Periodic meeting in selected countries during 2002 – 2013
Main duties:

 

Reference No. 3

 

 Contributed in the UNFCCC, IPCC, Good Practice Guidance on Land use land use change and forestry “LULUCF” contributed in Chapter 4, Forestry (during 2002 – 2004)

 

Contributed in the UNFCCC, IPCC, fourth assessment report AR4 on Adaptation/Mitigation – Sustainable development during 2005 – 200. The publication AWARDED Noble Prize 2007 and so authors have certificates

 

Contributed as Lead Author in chapter eleven of the Fifth Assessment Report published 2014.

Participated as lead author in the 2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and Good Practice Guidance Arising from Kyoto protocol.

 

Employer: Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources (HCENR) Duty station: Khartoum (HCENR)
Main duties:

 

Reference No. 4

 

 

 

 Author contract with UNDP/GEF/HCENR for developing an Outline of National CDM Strategy for the Republic of Sudan (September/ 2010 – February 2011). The consultancy scope was to develop a policy and procedure for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to facilitate the role of Sudan to contribute in environmental protection and Climate Change mitigation based on CDM projects and land use good practices.

 

Ismaeil Elgizoli, (IPCC Chair) Higher Council For Environment and Natural Resources

 
   
Duration: 15 man-days, February-March 2011 Position: Contracted Author
Employer: Forest National Corporation (FNC and IFAD) Duty station: Butana area east Sudan
Main duties:

Reference No. 5

 

 

 Author contract on assessment needs and capacity building on climate Change (REDD) and adaptive capacity in relation to community in the Butana area east Sudan. Participated in project formulation.

 

 

Duration: November/2011 Position: Contributing author
Employer: IPCC Duty station: Amsterdam
Main duties:

 

Reference No. 6

 

 Contributed in a four day meeting and discussion on the impact of Nitrogen on climate Change and then the outcome of the meeting was a design of a paper in which 20 expert contributed (Smith et al 2013).

 

Environmental Impact Assessment

 

Duration: 09/2007 – ongoing Position: EIA Expert
Employer: Lahmayer International Duty station: Khartoum
Main duties:

 

Reference No. 7

 

Lahmeyer International Khartoum

 Worked on ESIA in the Blue Nile, Dinder and Rahad irrigation project, with main duties on:

  • Forests surveys, Forests Reserves locations, Forests and communities in the area and project impacts
  • Impact of land use on Dinder National parkand on Pastoralists and nomadic routes within the area from southern Blue Nile State to Senar State and Northern Gezira State, Butana grazing areas Northern

Reports on history and extent of expansion of mechanized farming in Gedarif, Gezira, Sennar and Blue Nile States and the impact on Dinder National Park

 

Duration: 07/2009 – 12/2009 Position: Contracted Author and member of a team as environment expert
Employer: Ministry of Agriculture, Yemen Duty station: Yemen (20 days for data) and Sudan to complete work
Main duties:

 

Reference No. 8

 Author contract on study on EIA on modern irrigation projects in 16 governorates on the high lands and coastal plain in Yemen in 2009. A consultancy report for the ministry of Agriculture, Yemen.

 

Duration: One man-month, Februar 2011 Position: Contracted Author
Employer: Ministry of Electricity and Dams Duty station: Khartoum
Main duties:

Reference No. 9

 Author contract on a peer review on an evaluation of eight studies on Environmental Impact Assessment on eight dam construction sites on the Nile, the Blue Nile and Attbara River conducted by international consultancy firms

 

Duration: Two man-month, March – May 2011 Position: Contracted Author
Employer: Environmental Division, Kenana Sugar Company, Khartoum (KSC) Duty station: Khartoum
Main duties:

Reference No. 10

 

 

 Author contract on a peer review on Environmental Impact Assessment of three irrigated agricultural Projects along the Blue Nile in Sudan, proposed for Sugar Production

 

Dr. Abdelrahman Eltahir, (KSC), dratahir@yahoo.com
Main duties:

Reference No. 11

 

 Author contract on Environmental Impact Assessment for Africa City of Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology November 2013 – April 2014

 

 

Duration: 04/1999 – 12/1999 Position: Contracted Author
Employer: Wady Hadhramout Agricultural Development/ Yemen Duty station: Yemen (2months) and Sudan to complete the work
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Reference No. 12

 Author contract on a study of mesquite spread and environmental impacts assessment in Wadi Hahdramout, Yemen 1999. A consultancy report for Wadi Hahdramout agricultural project leading for a project for Mesquite control and management.

 

Forestry and Natural Resources

 

Duration: 04/2007 – 12/2007 Position: Contracted Author and team leader
Employer: Forests National Corporation (FNC) Duty station Khartoum
Main duties:

Reference No. 13

 

 

 Author contract for the FNC/FAO on updating Forest Sector Review in Sudan: to update the review publish by World Bank 1984 updated as Forestry Sector Review 2007.

 

Ref: Dr. Abdalla Gaafar Mohamed Siddig, abdalla_gaafar@yahoo.com

 

Duration: 04/2001 – 12/2001 Position: Contracted author and Sudanese team leader
Employer: IGAD/IUCN Duty station: Nairobi 10 days and KRT rest of period
Main duties:

Reference No. 14

 

IGAD Djibouti and IUCN, Nairobi

 Author contract for a study on Community-Based natural resource management in the IGAD region, report and published as a book in which I wrote chapter 7 on Sudan.

 

Duration: April/1994 – April/1995 Position: Consultant Author contract
Employer: FAO/FNC Duty station: Khartoum, and visits to sites
Main duties:

 

Reference No. 15

 

 

 FAO/FNC project GPC/SUD/047/NET

  1. National Forest inventory April/1994-April/1995, personal role Inventory Consultant
  2. Fuel Wood Development for Energy in Sudan August/1995 – December /1995, Elrawashda Forest Reserve, tasks Inventory and Data entry and contribution to management plan preparation.
  3. Training of Forests National Staff on inventory and compilation of the management plan for Sunt (Acacia nilotaca) flood-basins plantations along the Blue Nile (during 1996 – 1998) personal involvement Team leader

 

Duration: 03/1994 – 10/1994 Position: Contracted author and team leader
Employer: FNC/GTZ Duty station: Three weeks in Jebel Marra Forest Circle (JMFC) and the rest in KRT
Main duties

 

Reference No. 16

 Evaluation of the GTZ/FNC Forestry project in Jebel Marra and submission of report on social and environmental impacts.

 

Prof. Hassan Osman Abdel Nour

+249 9 22535526, hoanour@gmail.com

 

Duration: 01/1996 – 12/1997 Position: Contracted author and team leader
Employer: FNC/GTZ/JMFC Project Duty station: JMFC two months and KRT
Main duties:

Reference No. 17

 

 Data collection and compilation of a Ten-year management plan (1996 – 2006) for soft-wood and Eucalypts plantation in Jabel Marra Forest Circle (JMFC).

 

Duration: June 1998 – December 1998 Position: Contracted Author and team leader
Employer: JMFC/SECS/British Embassy Duty station: Jebel Marra for 20 days and completed in KRT
Main duties:

Reference No. 18

 

 Community-based Study (1998) Natural Forests Reserves Management in Jebel Mara forest Circle with consideration to community needs.

 

 

Duration: 01/2001 – 12/2001 Position: Contracted author and team leader
Employer: GEF/FNC Duty station: JMFC for 2 months and completed in KRT
Main duties:

Reference No. 19

 

 Feasibility study: Bio-diversity assessment and management in Jebel Marra area.

 

 

Duration: January/1998 – September/1998 Position: Consultant Author Contract
Employer: Ford Foundation/Institute of Environmental Studies , Univ. KRT Duty station: Khartoum, and visits to sites
Main duties:

 

Reference No. 20

 

 

 Mesquite Spread Study

  1. Socio-economic, Environmental and management aspects of Mesquite (Prosopis juliflora) in East Sudan January/1998 – September/1998. Personal tasks included, (i) Mesquite survey and mapping along Gash River (ii) Questionnaire of communities and (iii) a consultancy report for Ford Foundation/ Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Khartoum, Sudan.

 

Duration: 07/2004 – 12/2005 Position: Contracted Author
Employer: FAO/ Cairo Duty station: Sudan
Main duties:

 

 

Reference No. 21

 

 Author contract with FAO/Cairo on the following topics as a forestry/ agro-forestry expert

  1. Author contract with FAO/Cairo on a study on “Prosopis species in Yemen, Sudan, Oman and Somalia, July – September 2004

 

Duration: 2006 Position: Contracted Author member in a team from Finland
Employer: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Finland) and VITRI (Tropical Resource Institute of Finland) Duty station: KRT, Sudan
Main duties:

 

 

Reference No. 22

 

 

 Contracted for a study on: Partnership between public and private actors in forest-sector development: Options for dry land Africa based on experience from Sudan with case studies on Laos, Nepal, Vietnam, Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania. (Tropical forestry Report (31) VITRI 2006.

 

 

Duration:

 

 1996 – 1999 Position:

Supervisor for MSc student on integrated forests and Wildlife Management in Jebel Marra
Employer: University of Khartoumm Duty station: Jebel Marra as visits for 3 months
Main duties:

 

Reference 23

 A consultancy for the Higher Council for Environment protection leading to a two years supervision on an MSc study on Integrated management of forests and wildlife development in Jebel Marra

 

Duration:  

December 2003 – January 2004

  

Position:

Contracted author and team member (for 2 manmonth)
Employer: Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources, Duty station: Sennar
Main duties:

 

 

Reference 24

 

 

 A report on Management and Land Use Planning in Dindir Park Area (Blue   Nile, Sennar & Gedarif States): For prosperous Future associated with a training Workshop held in Senner State for awareness raising of communities and administraters of different sector related to Dindir Park Development in relation to Land Use in Blue Nile, Sennar & Gedarif States,Sudan. December 2003.

 

 

Duration:  

01/1991 – 12/1999

  

Position:

Contracted author and team member (12 members)
Employer: Forestry Commission, Zimbabwe / Arab Organization for Agric Development, KRT Duty station: Harari for two weeks and completed in KRT
Main duties:

Reference No. 25

 

 

 Feasibility study on management of Nature Reserves in Zimbabwe for forests products, hunting and photographic Safarie and watershed management based on communities involvement

 

 

Main duties:

 

Expert for peer review for a main evaluation report for the MFAs of Finland

Reference No. 26

 

 15-mandays Author Contract (07/01/2010 – 21/01/2010) for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland conducted a peer review on an evaluation of “Forestry and Biological Resource Intervention in Partner Countries(four African countries) of Finland for the period 2000 – 2010. The evaluation conducted by a consultant company and I evaluated the compliance of the main evaluation to terms of reference.

 

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Reference No. 27

 

 

 Author contract in May 2014, with UNEP (UNEP/PCDMB) on study “Support the lessons learnt study and the dissemination and validation workshop”. I was the facilitator of the workshop held on 27/05/2014 and to contribute to the writing up of the main lessons learnt report with regards to project experience in land management on participatory approch, make quality control “proof reading” to the Arabic version of the main lessons learnt report and support the Khartoum level workshop.
Main Duty

 

Reference no 28

 Author contract with East Africa Water Partnership on a study “Increasing drought resilience in the Sudan” a one man-month study