CURRICULUM VITAE

Family name:
ABUSROUR
First names:
Amal
Date of birth:
17/04/1971
Nationality (passport holder):
Palestinian
Place of residence:
Ramallah
Education:
Institution (Date from Date to)
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
Leeds University, UK Sept 2001 to Nov. 2002
MA
/
Politics
and
International
StudiesDevelopment Studies
Dissertation title: Civil Society and the
Palestinian Authority: The Relationship of
Conflict
University of North Carolina-USA (06/2005Post Graduate Diploma-Public Policy and Public
6/2006)
Administration (political science, social science,
sociology, economics)
Jerusalem University-Abu Dies Sept 1998 to
BA Social Science
Sept. 1992
TRAINING CERTIFICATES
Nov. 2015
Training of Trainer, Association for Talent Development, Ramallah, West Bank
January 2014
Gender Framework- Gender At Work, Ramallah, West Bank
August 2012
Making Market for the Poor, COADY International Institute, Ramallah, West
Bank
October 2012
Gender Enterprise Market (GEM) and Gender Adaptation Market Mapping
(GAMM), Oxfam GB, Armenia
January 2012
Completing the Action: Final Reporting, DG ECHO, Amman, Jordan
May 2010
Humanitarian Negotiation, Conflict Dynamics International for Humanitarian
Country Team, Ramallah
April 2008
Training of Trainers in Participatory Social Development- ESCWA, Jordan
January 2007
Certificate in Strategic Planning- PASSIA, Jerusalem
March 2006
International Financing and Development Seminar, International Monetary Fund
and the World Bank, USA
January 2006
Certificate in Coaching and Coalition Building- UNC Chapel Hill- USA
January 2006
Project Management, Interactive Consulting Services, UNC, USA
November 2005
Certificate in Change Management- UNC Chapel Hill- USA
November 2005
Non-Profit Management, Duke University, USA
Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - excellent; 5 - basic)
Language
Reading
Speaking
Writing
Arabic
mother tongue
English
1
1
1
Membership of professional bodies: Other skills: Advanced computer skills in MS Office, MS Project, MS Access, web design; excellent
managerial, co-ordination, analytical and reporting skills.
Present position: Independent International Consultant
Years with the firm: 12 Years
Key qualifications (relevant to the assignment):
Strong knowledge in civil society and civil society organizations and published a
research paper on role of civil society in defining the political nature of the state
Project design, monitoring and evaluation, needs assessment, strategic planning, project
planning, project management, gender planning, proposal writing, civil society empowerment
and participation, change management, women and youth entrepreneurship
Good leadership skills. Work well both independently and within a team and contributes actively
to achieving results; willingness to take initiatives as well as assist and support colleagues and
respond positively to requests for help or information, highly adaptive to challenging
environment.
20 years of experience in project design and management, training on project cycle
management and logical framework approach and proposal writing, design of policy papers and
prepared a large number of proposal documents on various human rights, health, education,
agriculture, food security, WASH, and emergency and relief projects. Design of socio-economic
empowerment programs for both youth and women based on small enterprise, advocacy and
capacity building skills of various community segments, adopt rights based approach in various
designed projects and proposal. Designed several policy papers and different projects proposal
with different donors (EC, NRO, ECHO)

Designed several socio-economic empowerment programs for both youth and women based on
small enterprise, and have advocacy and capacity building skills, adopt rights based approach in
designed projects and proposal.
Participate in evaluation of several projects (youth empowerment, women and agriculture,
gender based violence)
Led and managed several program funded by EC, SDC, NRO, ECHO with various national and
international organizations
Developed research papers published with different universities (Kings College London and
Columbia University)

Specific experience in the region:

Country
Occupied Palestinian Territory

Date from - Date to

1992-2015

Professional experience
Date
Location
from
Date to
Feb. 2014
oPt
to present

Company& reference person

Position

Description

Women Centre for Legal Aid and

Counselling

Director of
Programs

Responsibilities of developing and ensuring quality of programs designed and

implemented in accordance with mission and vision of the Centre, support designing
strategic plans (the overall strategy of the centre, media and advocacy strategy)
monitor implementation of action plans and project, support in report writing, ensure
efficiency and effectiveness of programs implementation, represent the Centre at the
national and international levels and contribute to capacity building of staff.
Research on Opportunities and challenges for small-scale women farmers
engaging with value chains in the West Bank of the occupied Palestinian
Territories
A team leader with Human Resource Development, which was commissioned by
Action Aid to conduct a research on gender livestock value chain in eigh
communities in Area C in southern West Bank. The specific objective of the
assignment was to identify opportunities and constraints related to womens greate
participation in and benefit from livestock value chains.
Leading four partner organizations implementing a program funded EC, SDC and
Oxfam GB specific responsibilities are:
Ensure program implementation in accordance with designed work plan
Monitor program indicators to ensure achieving anticipated outcomes and
impact
Conduct quarterly and annual reports presented to the donors
Build partnership with line ministries; Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry o
Economy
Build coalitions and partnerships with community based organizations
local councils and local authorities
Contribute to designing advocacy plan for the olive sub sector in Palestine
Contribute to designing the olive sub sector strategy in Palestine with
participation of different stakeholders (MOA, CSOs, CBOs, cooperatives and
individual male and female farmers)
Contribute to creating a dialogue between cooperatives and SCOs and MOA
and local authorities
External evaluation of EU funded project- NSA LA, Empowering Young Women
to Increase their Economic Opportunities and Participation in Decision Making in the
Seam Zones of the West Bank aiming to support them in project design using
integral approaches for sustainable local development - 2012-2015
Filed mission visits to six communities and six local authorities
Stake holders meetings, local authorities officials, CSOs, CBOs and
community leaders
Quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
Focus group facilitations
Review of the evaluation report
Capacity building of local authorities through Design and conduct a 30 hours

2015

oPt

Action Aid

Researcher

04/2012
03/2014
Full time
job

Occupied
Palestinian
Territory
(West Bank
and East
Jerusalem)

Oxfam GB
Mohammad Sawafta
msawafta@oxfam.org.uk
Mobile: 0599359102

Program
Manager

1/2014
3/2014

Occupied
Palestinian
Territory
(West Bank)

Civil society
expert

09/2013

Occupied

European Union
Y Care international
www.ycareinternational.org
International Program manager
Susannah Taylor
susannah.taylor@ycareinternational.or
g
Ramon Lee & Partners Kemp
House, 152-160
City Rd, London EC1V 2NP UK
AMIDEAST

Capacity

11/2013

Palestinian
Territory
(West Bank)

Ramallah
Capacity Building for Central Election
Commission
Reema Awadallah
rawadallah@amideast.org

building expertcivil society

organizations

10/2011
11/2011

Occupied
Palestinian
Territory
West Bank

Food and Agriculture Organization of

the United Nations (FAO) Via Al
Markaz for Development and Marketing
Consultancies
ahmad@markazco.com

Civil society
expert

07/2011
09/2011

Occupied
Palestinian
Territory
West Bank

Norwegian Representative Office Via Al

Markaz for Development and Marketing
Consultancies
ahmad@markazco.com

Civil society
expert

ARD Civic Engagement Program

Ramiz Younis
ramiz@irdpal.org

Civil society
capacity
building expert

Islamic Relief World Wide

Jamal Athamneh
jathamneh@yahoo.co.uk

Head of
Programs

04/2011
05/2011

12/2009
04/2011
Full time
job

Occupied
Palestinian
Territory
West Bank

Occupied
Palestinian
Territory
West Bank

training on project cycle management for employees of Central Election Commission

Identify project cycle and identifying needs
Stakeholder analysis
Problem analysis and objectives design
Design of project logframe
Budgeting and identifying resources
Data collection and monitoring tools
Report writing and quality control
Civil society expert: Study on Womens Participation in Agriculture Work in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip. The overall objective of the study is to reveal the
qualitative dimensions of womens involvement in the agriculture sector in terms o
providing indicators to assess womens roles and their importance in the informa
productive sector and their economic value-added. More specifically the study wil
contribute to providing recommendations to bridge the gaps in the valid statistics
relevant to womens involvement in the working force and in the agriculture, and
deepen the understanding of the womens involvement in agriculture and the informa
sector. And to provide the agriculture sector members with further evidence-based
information to promote women-focused policy analysis and contribute in the ongoing
gender mainstreaming in the framework of the Agriculture Sector Strategy.
Evaluation of Stand together project II implemented by Association of Women
Social Work Committees (AWSCW):
A civil society expert worked with Al-Markaz for Development and Marketing
on conducting a final evaluation of Stand Together Project. Stand Together
was designed to establish an inclusive, participatory multi-sectoral process
that combines socio-economic and professional approaches to the multi-level
challenge of combating Gender Based Violence in Palestinian society.
The project was funded by Norwegian Representative Office and
implemented by the Association of Women Work Committees.
Meeting with different stakeholders in the West Bank (MOSA, CSOs, youth
clubs, local committees, women organizations and local councils)
Capacity and Admin Development of NGOs
Conduct 60 hours training on project cycle management for a group of 20
professionals. The objective of workshops was to provide participants with knowledge
necessary to manage projects process and issues using best practices and case
studies. This included preparing training material related to project managemen
approaches and develop and evaluation plan with staff for projects process and
action plans during the training sessions.
Managing a team of project managers and coordinators a total of 7 persons
managing all development programs in the West Bank,
managing staff leading project and monitoring their day-to-day activities,
provide technical support as well as management advice to the team and the
Head of Mission,
conduct strategic plans and policy papers in accordance with Islamic
Worldwide mission,

formulate project proposals to enhance the organizations funds,

promote the organization amongst local, governmental and international
organizations,
conduct evaluation of all projects implemented, conducting progress and
annual report presented to donors and the HQ in UK
Capacity building of PA employees
Conduct three 30 hours training programs on project design based on project cycle
management: role of logical framework in project design, design of goals and
objectives, design of indicators, design of project work-plan, identify means of
verifications, risk analysis and risk management, and monitoring of project
implementation
Responsible of project design and fundraising through formulating projects
proposals (non-state actors, food security, land development, women socioeconomic empowerment, youth empowerment, WASH programs),
needs assessment based on PRA and rights based approach,
Contribute to internal planning,
Develop internal policies (gender policy and child protection policy),
Develop funding opportunities, contributing to the preparation of brochures
and pamphlets,
Monitoring and evaluation of projects, and developing projects relevant
reports.
Contribute to capacity building of local NGOs and CBOs
Coordination with various Palestinian ministries to formulate their
organizational structures,
Contribute to the formulation of development plans of various ministries,
formulating benchmarks and indicators in accordance with reform plans,
Coordinate with National Reform Committee (consists of
representatives of civil society and private sector)
Responsible of the community based rehabilitation program in the
south (Bethlehem and Hebron) through networking with national and
international institutions,
Formulate annual plans and monitoring their implementation,
Supervise 14 field workers day to day activities,
Conducting capacity building and training of new field staff,
Conduct staff appraisal,
Conducting annual and periodical reports,
Advisor for social work students at Bethlehem University.

08/2008
09/2009
02/2010

Occupied
Palestinian
Territory
West Bank

UNESCO
Bir Zeit University
Centre Continuing Education
Fatina Al-Jamal
fjamal@birzeit.edu

Civil society
capacity
building expert

08/2006
11/2009
Full time
job

Occupied
Palestinian
Territory
West Bank

MAAN Development Centre

Sami Khader
sami@maan-ctr.org

Resource
Development
Officer

05/2003
05/2005
Full time
job

Occupied
Palestinian
Territory
West Bank

Department of International
Development DIFD
Bassel Jaber
basil@rcsu.org

Public
Administration
and civil
service reform
Coordinator

10/1992
6/2000
Full time
job

Occupied
Palestinian
Territory
West Bank

Diakonia- Bethlehem Arab Society for

Rehabilitation
Lana Bandak
lanaband@hotmail.com

Assistant
Project
ManagerCommunity
Based
Rehabilitation
Program

Other relevant information (e.g. publications):

Palestinian Civil Society: A Time for Action: Research Paper Published by: International Centre for the Study of Reconciliation and Political Violence:
Kings College London, March 2009
The Effect of Conflict and Militarization on Palestinian Women: Chapter 21 in the edited book: Terror in the Holly Land: Inside the Anguish of the IsraeliPalestinian Conflict by Judith Kuriansky, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006.
Present a paper on Coaching and Mentoring for Better Leadership
http://www.aiwfonline.com/Files/SpeechesAndPub/Jordan2012/Mentoring_and_Coaching_Amal_Abusrour.pdf at Arab International Women Forum:
Young Arab Women Leader: Voices for the Future, Jordan, June 26 th, 2012