Serving on the executive board of Airwars; a not-for-profit transparency watchdog that tracks, assesses, archives and investigates civilian harm claims in conflict-affected nations.

Senior Specialist Accountability to Affected Populations

• Strengthen communication engagement and participation at all stages of IMPACT’s research cycles. 

• Develop mixed-method, action-oriented research project including innovative participatory research methods.

• Develop ethical, appropriate methods for research with various groups (children, youth). 

• Influence decision-makers to place affected people’s voices at the centre of humanitarian planning.

• Led assessments that involved co-creation with first aid respondents in Sudan with a coalition of INGO forum members, civil society organizations and UN. 

• Assisted Mannion Daniels consultancy on a Dutch Ministry funded project to strenghten civil society in Niger and co-produce action research. 

• Organised and facilitated debate on labour migration in Tunisa on behalf of the Henrish Boel Foundation involving civil society, academia, and government actors.

• Worked for the IMPACT HQ team providing research, advocacy and strategic support to REACH country offices in West and Central Africa (particularly Burkina, Niger and Central African Republic).

• Supervised and provided capacity building on partnership building, project development and donor engagement 

• Worked on scoping and fundraising for a new research on vulnerability related to conflict, displacement and mobility in the region to inform humanitarian and donor community in West/Central Africa. 

Country Coordinator for Libya and Tunisia.

• Represented REACH externally, among the humanitarian community, sectors and donors, INGOs. 

• Developed and implemented an outreach strategy including partnership building with local organizations and community outreach with vulnerable groups. 

• Fundraising for the REACH Libya programme from 2016 (annual budget of approx. USD 1.5 million).

• Disseminating research findings in various coordination forums and bilaterally to influence humanitarian and stakeholders and advocacy groups with messaging on implications on aid prioritisation and do no harm principles. 

• Responsible for quality assurance and providing research/technical support for all REACH assessments in North Africa (Libya/Tunisia) including: Vulnerability assessments with a multi-sectoral lens (food security, protection etc), migration assessments (cross-border, labour migration), social protection systems (access to services and exclusion from social protection systems of vulnerable groups including women, migrants, children). 

•  Managed a team of over 35 international and local staff in Tunisia and Libya. 

• Country office management and acting as liaison between different departments: finance, HR, logistics; management of field staff (incl. remote management).

Senior Assessment Officer for IMPACT Initiative in Libya. 

• Setting up REACH programming in Libya. 

• Fundraising for new REACH mission and developing new research agendas. 

• Country focal point for implementation of assessments and partnership building in Libya.  

• Data management, analysis, reporting: secondary data review, report writing, presentation of findings at UN cluster meeting.

• Research design, analysis, reporting: secondary and primary data analysis, development of mixed methods methodologies, quantitative & qualitative analysis, drafting of research outputs (reports, factsheets, presentations).

• Conducting research on migration and displacement in East Africa (Kenya, Somalia) for various stakeholders including the UNHCR, IOM, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC): 

  • Managing qualitative and quantitative field data collection.

  • Field interviews, focus group discussions and key informant interviews. 

  • Writing reports and policy brief on migration governance (devolution in Kenya and its impact on refugee management for the Regional Durable Solutions Secretariat ReDSS), durable solutions (spontaneous returns from Somalia to Kenya for UNHCR Somalia), labour migration/refugee economies (various assessments on Kakuma refugee camp), housing, land and property (HLP) issues for IDPs with a policy brief for advocacy. 

• Finding appropriate advocacy platforms and message.

• Desk research mapping the policy& legal frameworks for migrant domestic workers in the Middle-East. 

• Stakeholder mapping of actors and civil society organisations working on migrants rights in the Middle-East and liasing with relevant actors. 

• Conducting interviews and FGDs with activists on migrant domestic issues. 

• Conduct primary and secondary research activities in Arabic and English in Oman. 

• Designing a competency framework for public sector organisations in the GCC countries. 

History Lecturer at the University of Oxford Heritage Summers Program

• Teaching Islamic history to pre-university students and designing curriculum using innovative teaching methods 

• Co-researcher, REACH/OCHA, Nationwide Assessment of Humanitarian Needs in Libya to inform humanitarian planning, Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA) May 2021.  Link >

• Co-researcher, REACH/OCHA, Muli-Sector Needs Assessment, Migrants and Refugees, April  2020.  Link >

• Co-researcher, REACH/OCHA, Comprehensive study of sectoral needs in Libya to inform the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO), 2018 Multi-Sector Needs Assessment, 2019.  Link >

• Co-researcher, REACH, Assessment Mapping local communities, stakeholders and infrastructure - Sebha Area Based Assessment 2022  Link >, Azzawiya Area Based Assessment, June 2019. Link >

• ILO (International Labour Organisation) – Assessment of the Legal and political frameworks pertaining to migrant domestic workers in the Middle-East, 2014. 

• Co-author, Samuel Hall/UNHCR – Cross border study on Somali Spontaneous Returns from Kenya to Somalia, 2015.  Link >

• DRC (Danish Refugee Council) – Kakuma Refugee Camp Market Assessment, 2016.  Link >

• Co-author, Samuel Hall/DRC (Danish Refugee Council) – Devolution in Kenya as a potential key to durable solutions, 2016.  Link >

• Co-author, Samuel Hall/NRC (Norwegian Refugee Council) – Development of advocacy package for HLP (Housing, land and property) in Somalia, 2016.  Link >

• Guest speaker, Intersection of Humanitarian and Civic space in humanitarian crisis, the case of Sudan, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024. 

• Facilitator at conference on Hidden hardship of an unnoticed workforce, The economic lives of refugees and migrants in Tunisia, Henrich Boll and Mixed Migration Center, Tunis, Tunisia, 2021. 

• Facilitator at conference, UNHCR Libya and IMPACT Initiatives, Mixed Migration Trends in Libya: Changing Dynamics. Tunis, Tunisia, 2017.