Consultant
UNICEF
Total years of experience :27 years, 0 Months
- OMAN
Managing project aiming at developing Strategy on Social Work
April - to date
Diagnostic Study on Disability
UNICEF - OMAN
Oxford Policy Management
Developing Diagnostic Study on Disability in Oman for the Social Work Strategy
June - December 2014
Survivor Center
Libyan Institute for Advanced Studies
Build a peer support training program for amputees
Develop country profile on the right to employment for persons with disabilities for UAE, Jordan and Egypt
Implementing community based rehabilitation projects in Duleil and Ruweshid.
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National Disability Strategy Review
AED/
Jordan Government
A national consultation on progress achieved during 2007 - 2009 and development of second phase (2010 - 2015).
Developed a comprehensive national disability strategy adopted by the government of Bahrain.
National Campaign on inclusive Education
Developing sign language services
MOE/UNESCO
Training teachers on three levels of sign language.
Managed peer support programs in 6 overseas network offices including Vietnam, Colombia, Bosnia and Herzogvina, Ethiopia, El Savador and Jordan.
Drafting Sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities, UN HQ, NY, USA.
•September 2004, VIP Jordan Paralympics Guest, Athens 2004 Paralympics Games, Athens, Greece.
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Human Rights Training the Trainers Program
Ford Foundation
/Arab Institute for Human Rights
Trained persons with disabilities on human rights and disabilities.
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•Email: mona@RightsAndDev.org
Annex Conferences, Meetings & seminars attended
•May, 1999 - 2007 Annual Meetings of State Parties. Mine Ban Treaty.
•March 2000 - 2004 International Campaign to Ban Landmines, General Meetings.
Drafting the Convention on the Right of Persons with Disabilities.
UN HQ
Participated in 8 sessions of the committee responsible for drafting the Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities.
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Psychosocial Program
Direct Implementation
Managing a peer support program for landmine survivors in various governorates of the Kingdom.
Managing grants and micro enterprise programs which target landmine survivors.
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Group Lending and Saving Program.
Direct Implementation
•Establish and manage credit branches in 4 different governorates in Jordan.
International Conference for Development and Landmine Clearance in the North West Coast, National Council for Human Rights, Cairo, Egypt.
•July 2005, Seminar on South-to-South Cooperation for Decades of People with Disabilities, Advocating for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An Experience from the Arab World, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand.
•December 2005, The Doha Expert Meeting on Disability, A Proposal to Monitor the Disability Convention on the Regional Level, the Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on Disability, Doha, Qatar.
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The International Workshop on Risks of Landmine and Explosive Remnants of War, What is Victim Assistance? The Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services, Sharjah, UAE.
•July 2004, Anabtawi 14 Workshop on Human Rights, Disability Rights are Human Rights, the Arab Institute for Human Rights, Hammat, Tunisia.
Deinstitutionalizing persons with intellectual disabilities
USAID/YAI Network
Established the first group home initiative with the Ministry of Social Development.
National Accreditation Standards on Special Education
UK funded project/British Council
Developing national accreditation standards on special education services adopted by the MOSD and MOE.
Seminar on South-to-South Cooperation for Decades of People with Disabilities, Advocating for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An Experience from the Arab World, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand.
•December 2005, The Doha Expert Meeting on Disability, A Proposal to Monitor the Disability Convention on the Regional Level, the Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on Disability, Doha, Qatar.
Disability rights in Jordan, A publication for Japanese International Cooperation Agency.
•December 2004, The International Workshop on Risks of Landmine and Explosive Remnants of War, What is Victim Assistance? The Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services, Sharjah, UAE.
Higher Council for the Affairs of Persons with Disabilities
Jordan
Introduction to the CRPD, Workshop on Shadow Reporting, Manama, Bahrain.
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British Council/
Training persons with disabilities on film making and to produce 5 PSAs.
Promote Victim Assistance in Middle East Region
DESA
/International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Train and raise awareness of Arab government representative on victim assistance efforts in Middle East region and held high level conferences in Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, and Syria.