Evaluation, needs assessment, strategy development
I evaluate projects and programmes as well as national and regional organisations in the MENA region.
Evaluation
(Please note that the vast majority of the reports of these evaluation tasks are internal to the concerned organisations)
- Senior Consultant for an Impact Assessment Evaluation of the Human Rights and Good Governance Secretariat in the oPt, contracted by MDF Training & Consultancy BV (Netherlands).
- Senior Expert for the evaluation of selected NGO projects funded in the Occupied Palestinian Territories through the Human Rights Fund of the Government of the Netherlands. This is part of a policy-oriented evaluation in four countries contracted through Human European Consultancy, the Netherlands.
- Evaluating the Arab Human Rights Fund (AHRF), a regional organisation based in Beirut, Lebanon.
- Evaluating the International Advocacy Program of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, a regional organisation based in Egypt (for the EU funding – midterm evaluation and final impact assessment).
- Carrying out an appraisal of human rights and good governance organisations for Mu’assasat, a multi-donor Secretariat set up by Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and Austria, and the predecessor of the current secretariat: the NGO Development Center (NDC).
- Co-authoring a stock-taking report on the Right to Education Project’s work on the right to education indicators.
Needs assessment and strategy development
(Please note that the vast majority of the reports of these needs assessment and strategy development tasks are internal to the concerned organisations)
(Please note that the vast majority of the reports of these needs assessment and strategy development tasks are internal to the concerned organisations)
- Developing the strategy for the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat in Palestine.
- Lead Consultant on a project examining issues facing the sustainability of human rights and development organisations in the Middle East and North Africa, for Oxfam Novib, Open Society Foundations, and the Ford Foundation.
- Developing strategy and leading needs assessment and a consultation on a strategy towards strengthening the engagement of NGOs with the League of Arab States, sponsored by the Open Society Foundations, working on this with major international, regional and national human rights NGOs in the MENA region.
- Carrying out a needs assessment for the development of the capacity building strategy for the work of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- Producing a report for the Board of the Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders (EMHRF) on EMHRF’s strategic orientations to strengthen the work of EMHRF for 2013-2016 and the necessary means to put this in place.
- Consultation, field research and producing a report commissioned by Cordaid (a Netherlands-based development organisation) to identify priorities for a four-year strategy for the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
- Producing an internal briefing for Oxfam-Novib on Provision of Justice in Egypt, as part of a larger project which involves five countries around the world (consultancy implemented through MDF Training and Consultancy, Netherlands).
- Authoring “An overview of Civil Society in the Arab World”, Praxis Paper No. 20, INTRAC, Oxford, UK (assessing the situation and needs of capacity-building programmes for civil society organisations in the Middle East and North Africa).
The following are the main organisations I’ve worked with. Please also see testimonials below from some of these partners.
(in alphabetical order – not an exclusive list)
- ActionAid
- Amnesty International
- Arab Human Rights Fund (AHRF), Beirut, Lebanon
- Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Egypt
- Cordaid, Netherlands
- Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders (EMHRF)
- European Human Consultancy, the Netherlands
- Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat, Palestine
- INTRAC, Oxford, UK
- MDF Training and Consultancy, the Netherlands
- Mu’assasat (multi-donor Secretariat set up by Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and Austria), Palestine
- Open Society Foundations / Arab Regional Office
- Oxfam Novib
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
