Current Projects:
In 2006
- Coordinating and editing a book on ‘Shaping a Better Africa: The Way Forward’, commissioned by the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam and financially supported by the National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NCDO). The book will be published in the spring of 2006
- Policy Research on Social Remittances of the African Diaspora in Europe for the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe. Strategic policy paper will be published in May 2006
- Member of an evaluation team on TMF Organisations in the Field of Peacebuilding for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Findings of the evaluation will be published in March 2006
- Lead advisor for NCDO on ‘Shaping a New Africa’ programme, a series of public debates in cooperation with Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA) organised in De Balie in Amsterdam, covering issues such as NEPAD, Democracy, Good Governance, African Intellectuals, Urban Africa, Diaspora and Migration, Development Cooperation, etc
Previous Projects:
In 2005
- Feasibility Study on Reversing the Brain Drain in Africa for the Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education (Nuffic). This resulted in a strategic policy document on Reversing the Brain Drain in Africa: Harnessing the Intellectual Capital of the Diaspora for Knowledge Development in Africa, published in September 2005.
- Policy Research on Mobilising African Diaspora for the Promotion for Peace in Africa for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This resulted in a policy report on Mobilising African Diaspora for the Promotion for Peace in Africa, published in May 2005
- Consultant for International IDEA’s Democracy Building and Conflict Management Unit. This has resulted in a policy report on The Political and Institutional Reform Process in Bahrain: A Catalyst for the Gulf-states, Report for International IDEA, June 2005
-Training for Conflict Transformation Skills was part of a wider and ongoing programme: ‘Mobilising African Diaspora for the Promotion of Peace in Africa’. The programme was co-funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ICCO and NCDO. The first training for Conflict Transformation Skills started on 8 October and ended on 19 November 2005. The African diaspora organisations and groups that have participated in the training course have come originally from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Sudan.
In 2004
- UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention & Recovery, Transition Recovery Unit Roster of Consultants
- Feasibility study on the Critical Role of the Diasporas in Conflicts in the Great Lakes and the Horn of Africa regions. SAHAN undertook this policy oriented study in collaboration with The Network University in Amsterdam. This collaboration efforts resulted in a feasibility study document on Mobilising African Diaspora for the Promotion of Peace in Africa, published in October 2004
- Project advisor and consultant for Inter-Church Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO) on Diaspora and the peace process in the Sudan. This resulted in a policy report on Building a Peaceful and Democratic Sudan: Sudanese Diaspora Perspectives’ that ICCO handed over to Jan Pronk, the UN special representative for Sudan. The report compiles the views and insights articulated by the Sudanese Diaspora as a contribution to the formulation of the Netherlands government policy positions and strategies towards the peace initiative in the Sudan.
- Lead advisor for NCDO on ‘Shaping a New Africa’ programme, a series of public debates in cooperation with Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA) organised in De Balie in Amsterdam, covered issues such as NEPAD, Good Governance, Civil Society, Partnership, Diaspora and Migration, Development Cooperation, etc. The proceedings of the discussions organised in 2002 and 2003 were presented in a conference on Africa that was held on 26 May, 2004.
In 2002-2003
- Lead researcher and consultant for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs on institutional capacity building in Africa. This has resulted in a strategic paper on ‘Institutional and Capacity Enhancement: An African Perspective’ that has been distributed to the Netherlands embassies in the Great Lakes Region
- Lead researcher and consultant for UNHCR on Somalia Project
- Lead advisor for NCDO on ‘Shaping a New Africa’ programme, a series of public debates in cooperation with Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA) organised in De Balie in Amsterdam, covered issues such as NEPAD, Good Governance, Civil Society, Partnership, Diaspora and Migration, Development Cooperation, etc.
- Evaluation consultant for Oxfam Netherlands /NOVIB on food security issues in the Horn of Africa. This has resulted in a report aimed to contribute to the efforts of developing a well regulated livestock trade with long-term quality assurance in Somaliland, Puntland and Somali Regional State of Ethiopia
- Lead researcher and consultant for AfroNeth on the role of African Diaspora in relation to development in Africa. This has resulted a policy report on ‘African Diaspora in the Netherlands and Development of Africa
- Training consultant for Royal Tropical Institute (politics and culture about Somalia)
- Training consultant for Training Institute Kontakt der Kontinenten (politics and culture about Somalia)