Project Manager Capacity Building

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Tunisia and Turkey

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY: I am Tunisian expert operating from Tunisia and Turkey, and I have more than 40 years of experience in various countries; in Africa, Middle East and Asia. I am familiar with Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, and Indonesia environments. I managed and collaborated directly and indirectly with different donors and various Big4; USAID, World Bank, PWC, Deloitte, KPMG, KFW, GIZ, Suisse Government, DFID, EU and UNDP.

My expertise: Parliament Trainings, PFM, Finance Law, Audit, Insurance Audit, Risk Assessment, Blending Programs, Agriculture Management &Innovation, Tourism, Electricity Audit (Tunisia STEG) & Hotels Management, Construction Public & Private Management Companies, Grants Management, Health Management & Evaluation, Accounting, Finance Management, General Projects Management, Indirect and Direct Taxes, Compliance, Tourism Sector Management ( Hotels &Travel Agencies), MEL, Project Evaluation (PEFA), Center-Bank Techniques, MSME, TVET & Training-Coaching

Project management (Team Leader and COP) in various subjects; Governance, Public Finance Management and costing, Blending Programs, Finance Law, Indirect & Direct Taxes, Agriculture and Water, Houses & Building Construction, Procurement, Education, Health Management & Evaluation, Audit, Monitoring and Evaluation using PEFA method transparency/anticorruption, Training-Coaching, Tourism & Hotels Management, Finance Criminal Systems, Central Bank Techniques, Central Bank Internal Controls and Protections and Capacity Building,

International advisor and leader in Internal, External Audit, Supreme Audit Institutions, Insurance Audit, Compliance, transparency/anticorruption regulations in public and private sectors including Government Supreme Audit Institutions, compliance, monitoring, Central Bank Special Internal Audit Techniques, evaluation and measurement, project final evaluation, project implementation and impacts, fraud investigations and transparency policies and procedures and capacity building.

Chief of Party and Team Leader positions on Restructuring Government Institutions taking into consideration democracy, PFM, performance program budgeting system and costing process, Taxes design, implementation and reform (VAT and other taxes) change management, transparency and Government procurement procedures: Finance, Economy/Plan, Local Government and Municipalities, Gender development, SOE restructuring and privatization, Education, Health, Agriculture Economics, Banks Reorganization, Center Bank Assessment and Reorganization of different Internal Control Systems, Transportation (Road, Sea & Air), Public Works, Parliament Trainings, SOEs, Energy, Women Affaires, PPP support and Capacity Building.

Public and Private finance, accounting, finance law, management, monitoring and finance measurement framework, taking into consideration transparency, anticorruption and Capacity Building.

Finance, Accounting Management including Chart of Accounts and Capacity Building.

Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Finance Law and Operations Project Director,

Direct and Indirect Taxes, Municipal Taxes, International Taxation including double taxation agreements, fees, government revenues and municipalities revenues: administration, strategy development, budgeting system formulation/execution, accounting, finance reporting and finance management innovation and adaptability including VAT system and Customs reform, design and implementation and Capacity Building.

Government vision and strategies development including performance program budgeting system formulation/execution, accounting, finance reporting and finance management innovation and statistics data adaptability, collaboration on the design and implementation of Finance Management Information System (FMIS) for Ministries of Finance/including Center Bank and Economy Balance and Capacity Building TVET &Training-Coaching)

Good governance and Stabilization for central and local government; including E-governance and SMS platform citizens’ assistance and participation, PFM design and implementation and Capacity Building (Training-Coaching)

SMS platform innovation in Health, Microcredit and Micro Insurance finance services (Alcatel support) and Capacity Building.

Grants management, Grants system review & Management, Finance, accounting and administrative management for projects funded by various donor,

Parliament Members Support; Public Finance Management, Government Audit, Technical Assistance and Outcome Measurement and Capacity Building and Change Management,

Grants and Procurement management in public sectors; health, public works, agriculture-management-innovation, transportation, education, TVET and NGOs management

SME, Microfinance, Cash for Work, Micro Insurance, Guaranty Finance institutions, Audit Insurance, Business Development, Tourism & Hotels Management, Agribusiness, Investment Agencies Support, Gender Business Development and Capacity Building.

Finance Institutions (banks and insurance finance services) activities reform and business development management, innovation and Capacity Building.

Risk management evaluation, mitigation, Risk registers for ministries and local government institutions and Capacity Building.

Studies, Training, Education and Capacity building in various domains; trainings for professionals and educators; Governance, Investment Agencies, Ministries ( Finance, Education, Agriculture, Public Works, Tourism, Transportation and more…) Public Finance Management, Direct and Indirect Taxes including VAT System/Policies, Audit, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning using PEFA method, Privatization industry cement and energy, Accounting, Banking Finance Services, Central Bank policies and who central banks audit commercial banks on SME activities,

I have excellent English, French and Arabic and I understand Dari. I have also experience in Microsoft Office, FMIS, Team-Mate Audit software and Accounting/Finance software.

EDUCATION:

1. Superior Diploma in Accounting and Finance

– Management Institute, Tunisia, 1973

2. Superior Diploma in Agriculture Management

– Agriculture Management Institute, Tunisia, 1971

PUBLICATION &Teaching (French):

-Internal audit in finance business

-Auditor tools public and private sectors

-Internal audit working papers

-Audit programs techniques

-Value Add Tax (VAT Policies) manual (Tunisia and Morocco)

-Professor Assistant in France in reputed universities and Business School in Strasbourg and Paris (1980 t0 1985)

PHEALTH AND PHYSICAL CONDITIONS:

I practice Yoga

CITIZENSHIP: Tunisian

EXPERIENCE

Local Government Public Finance Management & Risk based Auditing International Expert Team Leader/Chief of Party, Pragma Corporation/USAID/Libya-Tunisia from January 2020; Design, implementation and capacity building (Training-Coaching) on PFM:

1.Municipality Local Law, Budgeting Best Practices: Budget formulation according to the needs of the citizen with best practices and Budgeting Costing process, collaboration with NGOs about Blending Programs,

2. Designed and implemented a municipality budget according to the local law and to the best practices: Objectives, Allotment, Costing Methods, Budget support and evaluation PEFA method,

3. Reviewing and adjusting Municipal Taxes (revenues)

4. Designed and conducted on the job trainings for Pragma team and for finance municipality team on budget formulation; OSR municipality budget and project evaluation taking into consideration PEFA method.

5. Working with 3 pilot projects to develop a medium-term budget and Evaluation systems: Education, Solid Waste, Municipal Construction & Transportation Activities and Health

6. Designed activities for Budget, Planning and Monitoring team; Solid Waste and Health Infrastructures,

7. With the collaboration of selected NGOs, design a citizen committee in different municipalities to identify the real needs of the citizens and support them on different services for better life; Education, TVET, Solid Waste and Health

8. Design Compliance and risk-based auditing process and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning process and reporting…

Public Finance Management and Auditing Reform, Senior PFM Expert Chief of Party OPM/DFID from July 2018 Lebanon to 21 August 2019: Working on performing budgeting for better governance in Ministry of Education of Lebanon (MEHE). The work was various in different areas of PFM, compliance, Risk based Auditing, transparency and anticorruption, Education and Capacity Building (Training-Coaching):

Budget preparation

Budget Execution

Budget Costing

Public Accounting and Reporting

Internal Audit (Risk-Based Auditing), transparency and anticorruption

Compliance auditing

Finance and Taxes Laws

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning process and reporting

Grants Management

Procurement

Audit Insurance

Capacity Building (Training-Coaching and Blending Programs)

Education planning and organization

TVET capacity building program

Special Technical Meetings with the World Bank and the Center Bank Finance Experts

Public Finance Management Reform Mid-Term Evaluation Projects: PFM, Taxes, Auditing and Capacity Building; Evaluation Expert EU/GOPA-Germany International Company, Government of Egypt; January to June 2018; working on the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the projects: Monitoring, Evaluation including Health, Agriculture Evaluation, Education Evaluation, and Learning processing and reporting, Public Finance Management, Costing, Taxes, Government Risk based Auditing, Finance Law and transparency and anticorruption Accounting System, Treasury, Budgeting, PFM evaluation using PEFA method and Fiscal Risk.

IFMS Final Project Evaluation; PFM Evaluation Expert USAID/Social Impact International Company, Government of Haiti; from 28th September to 8th November 2017: worked on the design and implementation tools to evaluate Integrated Finance Management System (IFMS), prepared the preliminary inception report, identified and analyzed the findings and designed and implemented tools to evaluate Software, PFM areas including Costing, Taxes and Audit, developed desk review and diagnosed the different IFMS processes to achieve USIAD objectives.

International Government Internal Audit Team Leader/Chief of Party, GIZ / German Government, Suisse Government and EU; December 2016 to 31 October 2017 supporting the Government of Tanzania on Auditing and Capacity Building (Training-Coaching):

1/. Pre-strategy assessment of audit files and reports for 10 ministries, 3 local government institutions and 2 government agencies

2/. Design and implement audit strategy for 2017-2020 including transparency and anticorruption

3/. Risk based auditing and transparency and anticorruption design and implementation according to the international standards using new tools as statistics systems and more

4/. Design and implement internal audit and monitoring evaluation & learning tools to be used by more 1000 internal auditors in Tanzania

5/. Design and implement training for trainers in risk-based auditing, Finance International Law and compliance; procurement (including transparency and anticorruption) systems, payroll system and taxes/government revenues processes with the participation of Internal Auditors from Ministry of Finance and Central Bank…

6/. Designing and conducting workshops and learning by doing internal audit sessions in various domains: Audit of procurement, Audit of Infrastructures including Audit of the Costing system used, Audit of development budget, Audit of roads and transportation infrastructures, audit of taxes/government revenues and more…

7/. Collaborating and supporting with Supreme Audit Institution…

Senior Expert on Supreme Audit Institution, MSI / USAID; July to September 2016 with the Government of Mali: I revised the Performance and the Conformity Manuals on Audit of the Supreme Audit Institute of Mali with the international norms ISSAI and Capacity Building:

1/ Comparison of the ISSAI norms with the Manuals of CGSP (General Control of Public Services)

2/ Analyze of the differences

3/ Writing of a Supervision Report (Supreme Audit Institution)

4/ Design PowerPoint presentation and conduct workshop (for the Auditors of CGSP)

5/ Adjusted and updated the CGSP manuals

Chief of Party/Team Leader Monitoring and Evaluation Project, Crown Agents/Syria Recovery Trust Fund; November 2015(Short Term) - Monitoring Finance and non-Finance Activities: Development Monitoring Inception Report, Monitoring Tools, Monitoring Plan and Monitoring Training Materials (Finance) Health, Education Evaluation and Agriculture Evaluation. The Project is focused on various sectors; Health, Food, Procurements, Grants and Infrastructures Management.

Senior Microfinance Expert, AFC Germany / GIZ Germany (EU); December 2014 (short term assignment), Implementation of Microfinance in Tunisia; supporting the Control Authority of Microfinance and Microfinance Institutions and gathering the design and the implementation of the Micro-Insurance in Tunisia.

Senior Internal Auditor Leader of Afghanistan Projects, Development Alternative International (DAI); November 2013 to August 2014; I audited DAI projects in Afghanistan taking into consideration Internal Control Systems and transparency-anticorruption systems, Compliance Procedures, Grants system review and USAID rules and regulations. I supported finance director to prepare finance statements, taxes, budget, and accounting system and finance reports and Capacity Building (Training-Coaching). I supported the internal auditors of the Da Afghanistan Bank (Center Bank) to design the Internal Audit Programs for the Banks and Center Bank according to the international law…

Leader, Senior Capacity Building Expert, MSI/Democracy Council Monitoring and Evaluation Team, Project in Turkey/Syria. August 2013 short-term assignment; I designed and Implemented trainings on Monitoring and Evaluation Techniques, Grants system review, Audit Insurance, and Transparent Procurement Procedures. The Project is focused on various sectors; Health, Food (Ministry of Agriculture), Education and Capacity Building, TVET, Monitoring and Evaluation Techniques.

Senior Capacity Building Expert, DAI, Board Supreme Auditors (Supreme Audit Institution), Iraq, June 2013 short-term assignment; I designed Risk based Auditing training material on auditing techniques and transparency and anticorruption for Board Supreme Auditors and Parliament Members in Iraq (Audit, PFM, Budget, Direct and Indirect Taxes, transparency-anticorruption systems)

Leader, Senior Public Finance Expert, Deloitte, Ministry of Economy and Finance

Doha (Qatar), October 2012, short-term assignment; I monitored and evaluate the actual performance program budget submission process and I designed and implemented trainings on program budgeting system and on quality assessment of the actual budget submission (Assessment scoring sheets and statistics data analysis). As example, I developed Program Budgeting System for the Ministry of Health (Hamad Medical Corporation). I conducted trainings and workshops on program budgeting system and on monitoring, evaluation and measurement of the outputs and outcomes of the budget including procurement procedures and FMIS.

Team Leader, Senior Compliance, Risk Management, Internal Audit and New Financing Services (With acting Chief of Party), DAI, USAID, Afghanistan, from August 2010 to August 2012. I worked in the implementation of Agriculture Development Fund (ADF) in Afghanistan. I designed and implemented specific tools and SME mechanisms in various subjects:

Policies, procedures and internal control systems

Finance Law, Compliance and Monitoring

Taxes

Procurements

Grants management review for different sectors; Education, Agriculture, Health and more (Developing Safran Production)

Transparency and anticorruption

Internal Audit before and after disbursement taking into consideration transparency anticorruption rules

With the collaboration of the Director of Internal Audit Department of Ministry of Finance, conducting special training for the Internal Auditors of the Center Bank

Risk Management before and after disbursement

Risk measurement of the implementation of the project after disbursement SME Innovation and Business Development including gender and Agriculture Products development for Tourism business

Capacity Building/Training-Coaching in SME new finance products, auditing and risk management

TVET management for saffron farmers and trade

Finance, accounting and administrative director

Acting Chief of Party

In Internal audit and Risk Management areas, I created technical tools to assess before disbursement the borrower capacity to use the loan properly generating sufficient benefits.

I created also technical tools to measure, evaluate and assess technical, financial and administrative efficiency of the borrower using ADF loans in different sectors including education, agriculture, health and more…

I worked also in business development areas through designing and implementing new lending and finance products in agriculture sector as crops cash facilities, leasing, factoring, risk sharing fund and gender specific SME loans design.

Senior Manager Data Support, RTI International, USAID, Iraq, from March 2010 (short-term assignment). I designed and implemented E-Governance mechanisms including the work plan, the monitoring and the change management tools to increase the quality of the relationship between the local government, municipalities and the citizens; SMS Platform services will be the main mechanism that will be used to target our objectives (monitoring process in 4 areas: Good-governance, Parliament trainings, human resources, municipality activities, rural development support, procurement process, transportation infrastructures, health emergency…) and Capacity Building

The citizen will use E-Governance tools to suggest and prioritize projects and services. He will be able also to monitor ongoing projects and services. Parliament Members Support; Public Finance Management including integration of FMIS, Government Audit, Technical Assistance and Outcome Measurement and Capacity Building and Change Management. The SMS platform will be used in the future for social finance activities; microcredit, micro insurance and more.

Leader, Senior Financial Sector Expert, Frankfurt School for Finance and Management, KFW (EU), short term assignment, from June 2009 to October 2009, I designed and implemented training programs in the areas of Finance Management, change management, taxes, VAT system and other government revenues including international taxation (double taxation), and monitoring and evaluation process for local government representatives (governorates and municipalities employees in Erbil); Budget formulation, Budget execution, Procurement Process, Internal Audit in Government Institutions. Parliament Members Support; Public Finance Management, FMIS integration, statistics data, Government Audit, Technical Assistance and Outcome Measurement, Capacity Building and Change Management in different Ministries including Ministry of health, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of transportation and Ministry of education…

Senior Public Finance Advisor and Senior Internal Audit Leader, Capacity Development Program, USAID, BearingPoint/Deloitte, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2007 – 2009; Worked in public finance, Finance-accounting-administrative director and internal audit areas; Designed and implemented program budgeting system, budgeting monitoring, change management process, FMIS integration and audit with the collaboration of the Ministry of Finance staff, and budgeting team of various ministries (Public Works, Health, Education, Transportation and others) and Parliament Members .Worked in internal audit issues with the World Bank and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) experts. Developed internal audit approach and internal audit technical training manuals for trainers and trainees. Assisted various ministries on day-to-day internal audit activities, supported ministries in both, program budgeting and internal audit techniques implementation (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Education including TVET support, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Construction & Infrastructures, Ministry of Health, Supreme Audit Institution, Center Bank, Local Government Offices and Municipalities), coached and mentored more than 300 internal auditors in internal audit techniques, and internal audit quality assurance. Designed efficient internal audit department structure and developed internal audit quality assurance tools to assess and measure internal audit improvement in various ministries including Education, Agriculture, Health and more… (monitoring and evaluation tools). I worked with Afghanistan Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) and UNDP experts on designing and implementing training materials in finance procedures like, governorate and municipality internal audit systems. With the collaboration of UNDP experts, I developed local government finance management training materials (Internal Audit, Finance Management, Accounting, VAT system and Human Resources Management) and trained local finance employees from 32 provinces.

Senior Public Finance Internal Audit Leader, Local Government Program USAID Research Governance Expert, RTI International, Baghdad, Iraq, 2006 – 2007; worked with Iraqi government in public finance ereas including, developing a provincial strategy for five years with the collaboration of Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and Ministry of Finance. Designed and implemented the provincial budget formulation, budget execution, FMIS integration, procurement process and monitoring and evaluation budgeting implementation tools. Worked on public and private sector partnership and on provincial Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise strategy improvement including TVET education sector. Focused also on coaching, training, and assisting Iraqi government officials on public finance, administration management reform, budgeting, taxes, VAT systems, municipality revenues, accounting, procurement procedures, human ressources management, internal audit issues and trainings for Prliament Members. Collaborated also with Department of International Development (DFID) experts on capacity building in the area of Provincial Strategy Development. Restructed accounting and budgeting departments with the collaboration of the municipality and governorat officials in the south of Iraq. Parliament Members Support; Public Finance Management, Government Audit Supreme Audit Institution, Technical Assistance and Outcome Measurement and Capacity Building and Change Management in different sectors: Health, Education and Agriculture.

Senior Financial Analysis Expert, IZDIHAR Project USAID Louis Berger Group/AECOM International Development Inc., (former TSG), Iraq 2005 – 2006; worked in various subjects; auditing, banking, Insurance companies, Microfinance and Micro-Insurence Institutions, Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), SOE management, restructuring, privatization and capacity building. Conducted audit for six commercial banks and insurance companies and revised the internal control systems of lending departments. Designed and implemented SMEs cash flow system in more than 12 private and public banks including investment and insurance agencies support. Designed Developed and Implemented Guaranty Fund Institution (lending and Insurance Services) and trained public and private banks employees in internal audit techniques, internal control procedures, risk management procedures, SMEs cash flow techniques and accounting. Designed and implemented new combination Microcredit and Micro Insurance services. Designed and implemented with the collaboration of government officials the Iraqi Privatization Agency and I trained more than 40 officials during 5 months in privatization, bid/procurement process, administrative and finance management techniques (industry, tourism, energy and financial SOEs). Finance, Accounting, Human Resources and Operations Director, (short term)

Finance, accounting and administrative director and Management Director, Global Consulting Tunisia, North Africa, Middle East and Europe, 2000 – 2005; worked with more than 60 experts in various domains including, banking services, privatization, public finances including FMIS, income taxes, (VAT and municipality taxes), international taxation (double taxation)design and implementation, Customs reform, Government procurement reform, agriculture, industry, tourism, transportation, telecommunication, human resources management, reorganization and Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), Developed several projects in Tunisia, North Africa and Saudi Arabia in the areas like: agricultural financial support system, Microfinance and SME design and implementation, Micro-Insurance, risk management system, investment agencies support, budgeting in public sector, fiscal reform and public revenues development, procurement procedures, internal audit support, SOE restructuring and privatization, municipality accounting and finance systems, governance, transparency-anticorruption systems and administration management reform. Parliament Members Support; Public Finance Management, Government Audit Supreme Audit Institutions, Technical Assistance and Outcome Measurement and Capacity Building and Change Management,

Collaborated with IT experts from Alcatel French technology international company to design and implement various E-governance services (Best Value-added Services in health, education, transparency-anticorruption systems and finance in 2004). During the period 1996 – 2000, I worked in finance, accounting and administration management director for construction companies in Tunisia and Morocco and I achieved several projects: buildings, hotels, roads, dames and NGOs projects.

Chief of Party Leader Capacity Building and Conferences Technical Director (1992-1995) of Institute L’Encadreur Tunisia, North Africa, 1987 – 1995. Dsigned and implemented finance and accounting systems and various education and training and conference programs and materials for educators, trainers and trainees in internal and external audit, accounting techniques, governance, transparency-anticorruption systems, Government procurement system, banking management, new service development (factoring and forfeiting techniques), fiscal systems, financial law and regulation, privatization techniques, capacity building, human resources improvement, Microfinance, Micro Insurance and SME management and investment agencies support, established special training programs for banks, centre bank ministries of education, ministries of finance, ministries of energy (electricity, budgeting and costing) of Tunisia and Morocco in the areas of: internal audit, Government Audit risk management, privatization agencies, governance, municipality management, internal control procedures, administrative and finance management, Grants Systems Management and MSME lending cash flow system. Designed and implemented direct and indirect taxes including VAT, international finance law and taxation (double taxation) with the collaboration of various finance ministries in North Africa. Parliament Members Support; Public Finance Management, Government Audit, Technical Assistance and Outcome Measurement and Capacity Building and Change Management,

External Auditor, KPMG and PWC Tunisia, Africa, Middle East and Europe, 1976 - 1987

Conducted external audits in various public and private companies with Capacity Building; banks, center bank, insurance companies, industry companies, electricity company (STEG) hotels, agriculture companies - I supervised working papers and external audit reports of more than 30 experts, I designed and implemented internal and external audit training programs in finance law and taxes sectors and I instructed and trained external audit teams in Tunisia and Morocco in privet and government sectors. I designed external audit conferences for students in different universities.

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