Hakim Sahibi, Senior  Legal Advisor  to World Bank

Hakim Sahibi

Senior Legal Advisor to World Bank

World Bank

Location
Afghanistan
Education
Master's degree, Laws
Experience
18 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 1 Months

Senior Legal Advisor to World Bank at World Bank
  • Afghanistan
  • My current job since September 2016

Legal Advisor to World Bank/Ministry of Finance Revenue Dep.. Amended Income Tax Law, Tax Administration Law, redrafted Land Tax Law, redrafted Law on Debt. Redrafted procedure of Tax Dispute Resolution Board, redrafted Tax Accountants Ruling, Provided professional technical legal assistance to Revenue Directorate. Worked on Accelerated Depreciation, Transfer Pricing, Professional fee, Dividend tax, Insurance, Mining Taxes, International taxation, Fixed Taxes, Exemption Threshold, Base Erosion, Profit Shifting, And Contract Withholding Tax and proceeding cases in court for the favor of the Ministry of Finance.

Legal Advisor at USAID,AEAI,Ministry of Energy and Water
  • Afghanistan
  • My current job since July 2010

Legal Advisor and Contract Specialist to Ministry of Energy & Water(MEW), USAID/Advanced Engineering Associates International, to provide legal and technical support to MEW Regarding Contracts, Laws, Legislation, Litigation, Audit, Attorney cases, Administrative Affairs, Technical Translation and various concerned Affairs as instructed by MEW.

Legal Advisor at UNAFO
  • Afghanistan
  • October 2009 to December 2009

Drafting and Bringing Pesticide Act to national legal framework for the Ministry of Agriculture

Legal Advisor and Senior Trainer at USAID/Bearing
  • Afghanistan
  • May 2008 to April 2009

Legal advisor and senior trainer to USAID/Bearing Point Project on custom law provoded technical advices, worked on capacity building, appeals, legislation and management aspect of Custom Department in the Ministry of Finance.
and other relevant issues

Legal Advisor and Senior Trainer at Asian Development Bank
  • Afghanistan
  • November 2006 to October 2007

technical Legal Advisor and senoir trainer
Asian Development Bank
Kabul Afghanistan,

I have Provided the following materials:

1-Organizational structure of the Ministry of Finance
2) Legal frame work of Revenue collecting agencies (Mustofiat)
3) system of Mustufiats Accounts sweeping
4) General Management
5) Case Management
6) Business Communication
7) Training of Trainers
8) (BRT) Business Receipts Tax
9) (RWT) Rental Withholding Tax
10) (WWT) Wages Withholding Tax

for further information you may see my CV and the following brief summery:
• Designing the concerned programs.
• Draft background paper for programs and its negotiation
• Making annual budget.
• Providing the cycle of projects
• Writing quarterly and annually report to the donors
• Making logical frame work for project activities
• Setting indicators for project’s activities and its outcome, outputs and inputs
• Performing basic managerial support to the projects in field of prioritizing needs, Planning, organizing, actuating, controlling, reviewing,
• Appraisal of projects proposals and its consistency with national priority
• Monitor and expedites implementation of project activities
• Evaluation of external and external reports of projects
• Maintain records of economic and social data and carryout analyses of such data
• Correspondence with government on programming and implementation
• Maintain contact with local representatives of the people, NGOS….
• Arrange meeting and attend meetings
• Doing accounting of financial activities
• Design programs for the capacity building of employees
• Supervising and assist technanagerial support to employees
• Perform other relevant duties

Legal Advisor at UNOPS
  • Afghanistan
  • January 2005 to November 2005

• Legal Advisor to (UNOPS) / Norms and Standard’s Project (Ministry of Commerce)
• Drafting and review of norms and Standard’s Act and setting its objectives
• Assessment of Regulatory Act and search on power of law, construction, food, Medicine, accreditation, certification, administration and inquiry regarding causes of infringement of standardization regulations,
• Assessment of legal Metrology Act (trade law) and high level translation
• Providing legal advice in commercial affairs
• Drafting code of service conduct for staff and employees.
• Evaluation of norms and standard’s applicability and its concerned regulations
• Review of the back ground of norms and standards in Afghanistan
• Diagnoses of implementing fields for norms and standards in Afghanistan
• Review of working policy for norms and standards in Afghanistan
• Assessment of its sound effects in economy of Afghanistan
• Management of overall standard’s legal concerned affairs
• Discussions with different organizations to draw attention of national and international community toward standard’s importance in Afghanistan
• Review of Afghan investment law and high level translation
• Review of concerned contracts for the Ministry of Health

Legal Advisor and Deputy Director to Audit Department at USAID/ Ministry of Finance
  • Afghanistan
  • July 2004 to October 2004

Legal Advisor & Deputy Director to Internal Audit Department in Afghanistan’s Ministry of Finance funded by USAID
• Audit of the management of legal affairs
• Audit of the management of financial affairs
• Audit of the management of customs affairs
• Audit of the management of revenue affairs
• Audit of the management of value of money & projects affairs
• Audit of the management of administrative and general affairs, official documents
• Audit of the management of contractual affairs
• Assist the internal audit director in the preparation of internal audit PRR
• Responsible of drafting reform policies for compliance, governmental law, and regulations of MOF
• Translation of internationally recognized audit standards into local languages
• Audit of the management of Human Resources affairs
• Audit of the management of meeting affairs & Instructions to employees
• Audit of the management of educational and training affairs
• Providing high level advice to the Internal Audit Director

Researcher and Assistant Author at UNDP
  • Afghanistan
  • April 2004 to May 2004

Researcher & Assistant Author to National Human Development Report (NHDR)
UNDP-Kabul, Afghanistan
• Research on human development
• Research on human rights
• Research on human security
• Research on rule of law in Afghanistan
• Research on government development policy
• Research on human resources and capacity building
• Translation from local languages into English language
• Translation from English language into local languages

Legal Advisor at World Bank/ Bearing Point
  • Afghanistan
  • September 2003 to March 2004

Legal Advisor to the Treasury Department in Ministry of Finance
Bearing Point World Bank & USAID funded project)
• Review of grants and others agreements and documents to ensure that they are consistent with the policies of the ITSA as set out by Cabinet
• Holding meeting and negotiation of the agreements with the parties
• Legal objections and criticism of agreements, inquiry in case of violation of law
• Correction of contradictions and repetitions between articles of agreements
• Elaborations and explanations of legal, commercial, and contractual terminologies
• Legalization of agreements according to international criteria
• Demanding of concerned documents from contractors when missing
• Settlement of controversial matters in case of violations and infringement of agreements
• Revision of all concerned documents as authorization to payment, opening letter of credits, eligibility of opening new special accounts, confirmation letters, letter of guarantees, documents for advance payments
• Holding weekly meetings with World Bank, Da Afghanistan Bank, AACA, ARDS
• Summarizing subject matter of grants and others agreements
• Translation of the legal and other aspects of documents into local languages
• All other legal tasks assigned by the Ministry of Finance

Education

Master's degree, Laws
  • at International Islamic University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • September 2005

I took admission in 2000 for LL.M. program and graduated in 2005 My GPA is above 3 and I had merit schlarships

Master's degree, Laws
  • at Internatinal Islamic University Islamabad
  • September 2005

I took admission in International Isalimic University for LL.M in 2000 and graduated from the above stated University in 2005 and my GPA is 3. 18 and I have around 20 years expereince with international Organizations as world Bank, USAID, ADB, ....

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Teaching
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