Ghada Al Sharif

Project management, Good Governance, Dealing with Governmental Organizations, Development projects Design and management, Project Cycle management, Governance (participation, transparency, accountability), Local Administration Management, Building partnerships and liaison with stakeholders; Donor Liaison, Reporting, Capacity Building, training, coaching and mentoring; Working on projects for people with disabilities; Design and delivery of training curriculums; working with national and international partners in Amman, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen; organizational development of CSO’s and Local governance organizations (Local councils and provincial councils); design and implementation of capacity building and training materials; working with international donors on local and regional projects. Gender mainstreaming; Monitoring and evaluation and project cycle management. Design of monitoring and evaluation systems; Economic Empowerment concepts and implementation, Good governance practices design, implementation management and evaluation; Projects/programme conceptualization and design; Institutional and strategic planning; Project/Programme management, monitoring and evaluation; Familiarity with the development work in the Arab region; Diversified experience with bilateral and multilateral donors; Diversified experience with Governmental and non-Governmental organizations; Gender concepts and programming; Women’s Economic Empowerment, Capacity building of Civil Society organizations both on the grassroots and macro level; Disability Rights Programming; Diversified experience in development programming; Proven experience in management including, programme management, grant management, staff management and human resources management in general; Liaising with governmental and non governmental stakeholders, forming working groups comprising of governmental and non governmental organizations. 

I have finished a six months job with the Jordanian National Commission for women as a Policy Director, where I designed the road map for inclusion of gender and incorporation of the National Women Strategy in the Government indicative plans, throughout building partnerships and managing relations with partner governmental organizations to ensure gender mainstreaming in their work. Moreover, I was responsible for the management of preparation of policy papers advocating for gender equality and integration, and proposal writing. My mission also included gender integration in the work of the government of Jordan.

Previously. I have worked as Governance Advisor on two big project in non-regime areas in Syria, one was funded by EU and called Tamkeen, and the other was funded by USAID and called Syria Essential Services SESII implemented by Blumont. The projects aimed at building institutional resilience and social cohesion in non-regime areas in Syria. I have been able to build partnerships with more than 55  local councils and 4 municipalities in Syria, where I initiated and managed the partnerships with these organizations to build their capacities in the area of community engagement and good governance (participation, transparency, and community accountability). I have worked with these local governance organizations to build capacity of stakeholders in better outreach and services to their communities for better responsiveness and impact. I was responsible for training counterparts on participation, good governance and accountability. I was responsible for the governance component implementation in both projects. Additionally I worked with the Raqqa Women Committee on gender issues and gender mainstreaming in their work.

Prior to my Syria experience, I have worked with national and international organizations, in addition to bilateral and multilateral funding, on both the grassroots and macro levels in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Moreover, I have always been responsible for partnering with Government and non-governmental/ civil society organizations and build sound relationships to better mainstream best practices. Throughout my experience, I have built networks, written proposals, managed interventions in addition to staff. I have also conducted the research on programmes targeting youth in Jordan, which was published by UNICEF in 2002, and was the basis for building the youth strategy. Moreover, I was always responsible for the technical design and implementation in addition to planning and organization of the tasks I manage. Additionally, financial management has always been an integral part of my tasks, where overseeing budgets and expenditures were integral to my job descriptions. 

BSc in Computer Science. On job trainings in all aspects of governance, gender, and programme managment.