Assisted Newtech (a Sudanese consulting company) with analysis and assessment of the Red Sea State Water Supply and Sanitation Corporation (RSSWSC), with respect to institutional set up and governance issues October-December 2014).
Carried out assessment studies of each of Sudan Academy of Administrative Sciences, and the Academy of finance and Economics (Ministry of Finance and national Economy), for Sudan- world Bank project of administrative Reform, Decentralization and Capacity Building, 2011 and 2012 respectively.
Member of National Steering Committee, the Nile Basin Initiative’s National Trans-boundary Micro-grants Project for Sudan 2003 to 2009 (in which capacity also participated, among other functions, in Workshop on Soil Erosion, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2006 and Workshop on Result-based Monitoring and Evaluation, Cairo, Egypt 2008).
Assisted UNESCO office in Sudan and Sudan’s National Council for Vocational and Technical Education and Training with editing / finalization of project document for a sub-sector study of the country’s vocational and technical education system (2009).
Consulting Team Member (on Local Economic Development – LED) for UN-Habitat and Khartoum State Urban Poor Project (January – June 2008). The project constitutes part of Khartoum State’s Structural Planning process currently underway. The LED study included assessment of the existing poverty alleviation initiatives and the role of micro-finance therein.
Assisted Sudan’s Program for Graduates Self-employment with training of its Micro-finance Beneficiaries (for one-week) in each of Gedaref State and River Nile State, 2007 and 2008 respectively.
Assisted ILO Acting as (its) interim focal point in Sudan (September 2007 –January 2008), in which capacity also participated in Bank of Sudan’s Micro-finance (unit) Conference, Khartoum 2006, and several other meetings and workshops organized by the same unit.
Rural Institutions Consultant for UNFAO Task Force for the preparation of (EU funded) Sudan Productive Capacity Recovery Programme (SPCRP) targeting conflict affected areas in southern, western and eastern Sudan, March – July 2004.
National Consultant for promoting good local governance – UNDP assisted Project SUD/ 02/001- Support to Local Government in Khartoum State, January-March 2003.
National Consultant (Sudan) for the joint UNDESA (DPAPM)/ UNDP RBAS Project RAB/ 01 /006: Transparency and Accountability in the Public Sector in the Arab World; conducting and reporting documentary and field survey (for six months in 2002, and participating in several related and follow-up events, including Global Forum Four – on Government and Administration in Marrakesh, Morocco and other meetings in each of Beiruit, Lebanon and Dubai, UAR).
Participated as a juror in World Bank’s Development Marketplace (micro-finance / micro-project competition) event held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 2002.
Assisted Sudan’s National Council for Childhood in the preparation of its Second National Plan 2002-2007.
Member (and leader) of team for assessment and re-formulation of the (UNDP assisted) Area Rehabilitation Scheme Lagawa Project, West Kordofan State, Sudan, May-June 2000.
Prepared (published) a field study entitled “Local Voluntary Community Participation in the Funding and Provision of Municipal Services in Khartoum State” for joint (regional) conference of the Arab Institute for Urban Studies and Khartoum State (in Arabic, Khartoum, Sudan), October 2001.
Assisted ILO Turin Centre in training engagement teams (of UNDP/ILO supported community development projects) in Malawi and Zambia, July-August 1999.
Assisted ILO Turin Centre in translating (from English into Arabic) five UN System Training Modules on development cooperation and project cycle management, and in applying then (twice) in training development management personnel from Arab countries, during July 1996-February 1999. More recently, also assisted World Bank (Sudan office, 2007), and Sudan’s Zakat Fund and ILO (2006 -2007) translate official documents (English into Arabic and vice versa).
Visiting scholar at Columbia University Institute of African Studies, New York, NY. October 1998-May1999 and at the George Washington University Department of Economics, Washington DC, September- November 1999.
Prepared for UNDP Sudan (at the request of UNESCWA for dissemination in the latter’s region) a study/report on (Sudan’s) Area Development Schemes (ADS) experiment, highlighting lessons of success and failure (including with respect to rural credit / micro-finance), December 1996 – March 1997.
Assisted with community mobilization and training for each of the (UNDP/UNOPS supported) Area Rehabilitation Scheme’s project in Sinkat, Red Sea State and the (UNDP/Habitat supported) Project DUD/97/017: Urban Up-grading and Poverty Alleviation in Greater Khartoum (March 1998 and April-June 1998, respectively).
Assisted UNDP and Government of Sudan (as National Consultant) in starting up Project SUD/96/00- establishing multi-purpose training centres in Dongola, (Northern State) and Juba (Bahr-el- Jebel State), August1996-March 1997.
Assisted (as national consultant) in starting up UNDP/GEF funded project SUD/93/G81- Support to Strategic Planning for Environmentally Sustainable Development (in the River Nile State, Sudan), May-June 1997.
Member of mid-term evaluation team for (the IFAD/UNOPS assisted) El-Nahud Cooperative Credit Project (supporting rain-fed subsistence farming in western Sudan), September 1994.
Participated in a two-week study tour of Grameen Bank (a renowned rural microfinance institution in Bangladesh), January 1991.
Participated in two (week -long) workshops on Development Cooperation and Management (sponsored by World Bank) in each of Nairobi, Kenya 1986 and Amman, Jordan 1988.
Assisted in training and planning, National Institute of Administration in Sana’a, Arab Republic of Yemen, March-October 1977.
Participated in a 2 weak Training-of-Trainers workshop at East Africa Management Institute, Arusha, Tanzania 1976.
Member of UNECA/UNEP mission on National Environmental Management Machinery to countries in east and central Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Burundi, Zambia, Mozambique and Swaziland) November 1975-February 1976.
Taught, supervised and examined numerous post-graduate (M.Sc. and PhD) students in several Sudanese universities.
