• The Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development Distinguished Scholar Awards Post-Doctoral Fellowships Program (forthcoming December 2009-December 2010), Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, Kuwait.
• The African Studies Centre (ASC) Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellowship Programme, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands (forthcoming May 05, 2009- July 30, 2009).
• African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Research Grant for Collaborative Research Project on Impact of China-Africa aid relations: Terms of Reference for In-Depth country case study of Sudan. Grant for Eight months January- August 2009. Nairobi, Kenya.
• Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) Post-Doctoral Fellowship Grant Programme 2007, OSSREA Post-Doctoral Fellowship Grant January 2008 – January 2009 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• The Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey (ERF) Fourth Round Research Competition Grant in collaboration with the World Bank Development Grant Facility (DGF) and the Global Development Network (GDN) Regional Research Grants Competition, Grants for 17 months: January 2005 – June 2006.
• The Ford Foundation Grant for participating at the Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (CAPORDE 2004). Organized and hosted by Development Studies Committee and Queens College at Cambridge University – June 29, 2004 – July 15, 2004.
• The Middle East Research Competition (MERC) Grant – The Center for the Study of Developing Countries (CICS) – Faculty of Economics and Political Science – Cairo University – Cairo – Egypt in collaboration with Ford Foundation, Grant for 18 months: March 2003 – September 2004.
• The Middle East Research Competition (MERC) Grant – The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS)- Beirut- Lebanon in collaboration with Ford Foundation, Grant for 18 months: February 2003 – August 2004.
• The Economic Research Forum ERF – University of Minnesota Fellowship Programme in Gender, Work and the Family in the Middle East and North Africa – funded by The Andrew Mellon Foundation, USA, Fellowship for six months: August 2002 – January 2003.
• The United Nations University (UNU) – World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) UNU/ WIDER Ph.D. Internship/ Fellowship for three months May 2002 – July 2002.
• The United Nations University (UNU) – Institute for New Technologies (INTECH) Fellowship for two years: September 1999 – August 2001 and extension of the Fellowship for two years: December 2001– November 2003 – Ph.D. Programme on Economics and Policy Studies of Technical Change.
• The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Small Grants for Thesis Writing Programme. Small grant for two years: 1997–1999. M.Sc. in Economics.
• Others: Academic Invitation:
• Selected and invited amongst 25 young academics from developing and transition countries to receive the Ford Foundation Grant for participating at the Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (CAPORDE 2004). Organized and hosted by Development Studies Committee and Queens College at Cambridge University – June 29, 2004 – July 15, 2004.
• Chosen to represent the University of Khartoum and invited among ten African Students to participate in “The Third Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS) Summer School on: Reforme de l’Etat: reconstruction institutionnelle et modes de regulation”. That held at “Center de Etude de Afrique Noire (CEAN)”– Institute de Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux – University of Bordeaux- in collaboration with the AEGIS “Ten Centers for African Studies In Europe” Bordeaux– France- September 14-23, 1998.

§   Chosen to represent the Faculty of Economic and Social Studies with other seven best- academic students in the University of Khartoum invited to represent the University of Khartoum in the First Arabian Conference for the Best Academic Students in the Arab Universities. That held at Nasir University- the Republic of Libya – October 1992.