Agriculture Engineer
Highest degree :
Bachelors
Field of study :
general Management
Location :
Palestine
Citizenships :
Palestinian
Experience :
20 Year(s)
Countries :
Palestine, Jordan
Gender :
Male
Sectors :
Senior Food Security and Economic Security Programme Manager with over 20 years of experience in humanitarian and development programming across the West Bank. Specialized in food security, livelihoods resilience, cash and voucher assistance (CVA), protection mainstreaming, climate adaptation, and market systems development. Demonstrated expertise in programme cycle management, multi-million-dollar budget oversight, donor compliance, and inter-agency coordination with UN agencies, INGOs, local NGOs, and government institutions, including active participation in Food Security Sector (FSS) coordination and HRP vetting mechanisms, particularly in complex contexts like the Refugee Camps, Seam Zones, around settlements, Hebron H2 and within herding communities located in Area C of the West Bank.
Experience
ECONOMIC SECURITY & AGRICULTURE PROGRAMME MANAGER
Palestine
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
August 2021
-December 2025
Re-established and scaled the Economic Security (EcoSec) programme in the West Bank to alleviate the humanitarian consequences of IL occupation policies for the most vulnerable people in the Refugee Camps, Seam Zones, around settlements, Hebron H2 and within herding communities located in Area C of the West Bank. Led agriculture, livestock, and livelihoods protection-driven approach interventions across the full programme cycle.
FOOD SECURITY &AGRICULTURE PROGRAMME MANAGER
Palestine
MA’AN Development Center
June 2019
-July 2021
Developed and managed food security and agriculture projects funded by Global Affairs Canada and the Australian Aid Program (AMENCA 3). Strengthened Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) approaches for MA’AN s humanitarian and development work in West Bank.
PROGRAMME MANAGER
Palestine and Jordan
Eco Peace Middle East
April 2018
-February 2019
Led planning and implementation of Eco Peace Palestine’s portfolio, including the Swedish International Development Agency SIDA- ,USAID West Bank/Gaza CMM-, Government of Canada-, and the German Konrad- Adenauer-Stiftung- funded water and energy projects.
FIELD COORDINATOR/ PROJECT MANAGER
Palestine
Oxfam Italia
January 2014
-February 2018
Managed a Belgium Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid DGD- funded project to protect and strengthen the livelihoods of herders and farmers in vulnerable Palestinian communities in the Eastern Slopes of the West Bank. Managed four Belgium Development Cooperation DGD- and Italian Agency for Development Cooperation AICS – Livelihood-based Protection projects within Oxfam Italia Economic Justice and Right to be Heard programme to strengthen the resilience of the herder’s communities in Area C of the West Bank to violations of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law. Led administrative, financial, HR, and reporting functions, and supported partner capacity-building and field coordination with Palestinian Hydrology Group PHG, Land Research Center LRC, and the Palestinian Livestock Development Center PLDC.
AGRONOMIST – ACCESS TO LAND PROGRAMME MANAGER
Palestine
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
October 2010
-December 2013
Managed the full project cycle of Access to Land interventions (Agro support, Cash for Work -CFW, Vocational training for women, and MEI activities) to improve farmers’ and herders’ land access in Seam Zones, around settlements in Area C of the West Bank. Provided technical support, monitoring, and final evaluations; contributed to lessons learned; led administrative and budget management; and represented the ICRC Supported the implementation of Access to Land projects that enabled PAL HHs who live in Area C of the West Bank and affected by settler violence and/or limitation in infrastructural development in contravention of IHL to preserve their land rights by strengthening their livelihoods through specific agricultural and animal health interventions.
FOOD SECURITY FIELD OFFICER SUPERVISOR
Palestine
Action Against Hunger (ACF)
January 2009
-December 2009
Managed a Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation ACCD- funded project to strengthen trade and export capacities of small Palestinian farmers and cooperatives in northeast West Bank markets (Israeli and international), while leading all administrative, financial, reporting, and donor relations to enable partner organizations (Arab Center for Agricultural Development-ACAD, Applied Research Institute Jerusalem-ARIJ and Peres Center for Peace-PCP) to focus on technical implementation.
Education
AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
Palestine
An- Najah National University
September 1990
-June 1995
Plant Production and Plant Protection
PALESTINIAN GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
Palestine
Al-Fadliya Secondary School
September 1987
-June 1989
Languages
Experience with financing agencies
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