Personal cooperation partners
Susanne Thiel has a master degree (M.A.) in Social Anthropology, Psychology and Communication Sciences and Phonetics (Universities of Cologne and Bonn, Germany). From 1999 - 2006 she worked as project manager with the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Since 2006, she has focused on her work as a freelance consultant supporting German and international development organizations, among them Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), European Union (EU), Academy for International Cooperation (AIZ/GIZ), Deutsche Welle Akademie, Welthungerhilfe, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, DAAD and Consulting Companies (GFA Consulting Group, COMO Consult, Madiba Consult).
Susanne Thiel has solid experience in conducting mid-term and final project evaluations including Central Project Evaluations for GIZ (CPE), project appraisals, tracer studies, surveys, assessments, and analyses (including Gender Analysis, Integrated Peace and Conflict Analysis, Human Rights Analysis), and training on intercultural competence and communication, gender mainstreaming, country analyses Afghanistan and Pakistan. Her thematic priorities are Governance; Gender Equality, Diversity and Vulnerability; SDGs, Agenda 2030, Leave No One Behind (LNOB); Fragility, Conflict and Violence (FCV); and Migration. She has extensive regional experience in South, Southeast and Central Asia, the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.
Rima Ramadan has extensive experience in project/program management, grant management, monitoring and evaluation, fundraising and proposal writing. SHe is specialised in the sectors of protection, education, livelihoods and social cohesion projects in the MENA region.
Rima has led several independent evaluations for local and international NGOs and governmental organisations in Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. She has worked extensively on designing and developing programs to break down stereotypes and promote peacebuilding and inclusion. She has also worked on managing grants across the MENA region with multi-national and multi-country stakeholders.
Rima is a senior trainer in grant management, proposal writing, donor-partner effective communication, report writing, project cycle training and budgeting.
Salma Sabri is an M.A holder in Development Studies and one of the founding members of the Egyptian Evaluation Association. For the past 21 years, she has been working as Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation (M&E) and Learning Advisor/Consultant supporting international development organizations. Mrs. Sabri provides strategic and technical advise on learning-oriented M&E systems, participatory evaluations, strategic and operational planning, M&E guidelines, coaching and training, use of evaluations, introduction of learning and feedback culture in organizations.
She has solid experience in conducting Mid-Term and Final evaluations in the thematic areas organizational development, institutional development, good governance, sustainable development, green economy and employment generation., with a varied clientele, among which are Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), UN ESCWA, UNIDO, ILO, EU, AfDB, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank, Universalia and Egyptian NGOs.
Dr. Thomas Doehne a PhD holder in social sciences and member of the German Evaluation Society (DeGEval) has been working as a consultant and expert in international development cooperation for more than 25 years. He holds master’s degrees in adult education and organizational development and has participated in numerous organizational analyzes, conflict, gender and impact studies as well as program evaluations. Several long-term assignments in Nepal as development worker, project manager and most recently as advisor in a Nepalese government organization under the German development cooperation (GIZ) governance program have provided him with in-depth insights and experiences in the functioning of state and non-governmental organizations in various national, ethnic and cultural contexts. As a longtime member of the expert pool of the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF), Mr. Döhne has participated in numerous OSCE / ODIHR and EU Election Observation Missions in the Balkans as well as in Central and South Asia. Mr. Döhne has been trained as a Peace and Conflict Consultant by the Civil Peace Service Forum and has been a member of the editorial board of South Asia for many years.
Ms Nadera Bakheet is a Jordanian Freelance Expert working in the field of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Employment Promotion with a specific focus on Jordan. She holds a diploma in Education and Bachalor in Public Administration.
Nader Bakheet can offer more than 30 years of progressively responsible experience as an educational leader, aligning Jordan’s educational policy with national priorities for economic development and employment. She highly contributed to the elaboration of a series of Jordan’s strategies including the National Agenda, the E-TVET Sector Reform Strategy and The National Humane Resource Strategy. Nadera Bakheet has intensively worked with governmental intuitions as well as donor organizations to support and develop Jordan’s TVET and Employment sector, in particular through assessing TVET and employment promotion institutions, designing of a dual training and apprenticeship program and supporting the reform of the Governance of the Educational and TVET sector.
Dr. Sarba Raj Khadka, is a Nepalese PhD holder in Natural Resources Management form the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. He has been engaging in development sectors as a civil society actor, development practitioner, researcher, human rights defender and academician. He has been active at local, national and international levels’ development policy discourses and practices, mainly in the areas of policy advocacy, peoples’ empowerment, social mobilization, livelihoods, governance and resources management. He possesses more than 25 years of extensive experience, knowledge and expertise in development planning and management for quality results. Currently he has been serving as the President of FIAN International - an international civil society organisation that works in more than 60 countries around the world in issues of right to food and nutrition. He had served as a member of Nepal's High Level State Restructuring Commission and Executive Director of Social Welfare Council and Rural Reconstruction Nepal.
Ferhad Sami Abdulqadir (MA), has a BA in English Language and MA in International Relations – Refugee Studies from the University of Oxford Brookes, UK. He had been working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) inside and outside Iraq form 2005 until 2014. Currently Ferhad Sami Abdulqadir works as a freelance consultant and trainer, mainly in Iraq but also in the regional countries, cooperating with national and international non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations. He also works as a part-time instructor at the University of Salahaddin-Erbil, Kurdistan Region-Iraq. Ferhad Sami Abdulqadir’s mother tongue is Kurdish, and he speaks and writes in Arabic and English fluently, speaks and understands Persian well, and knows the basics of Turkish language. He further has a very good insight about the culture, history, geography as well as the political complexity in the Middle East region.
Bakry Osman is the Country Director Sudan of Sayara International. Bakry Osman comes from a business administration background and has worked with different international organizationsin the field of development cooperation, like GIZ, Expertise France and Sayara International. Bakry Osman has an extraordinary network in Sudan and is an expert for baseline studies, context analyses and project work.
Dr. Susanne Betz Dr. med. is a medical doctor and specialist for psychosomatics, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
She worked several years in the psychiatric clinic in Kempten/Bavaria as well as in the Arche e.V. as consultant for suicidal patients in Munich.
Since 1993 she is a practicing medical doctor in her own clinic with additional specialisation in psychoanalysis and trauma therapy (Luise Reddemann). She successfully completed trainings on trauma therapies with members of different cultures as well as on intercultural competence.
Since 2015 she is a volunteer for refugee assistance and concentrates professionally on (trauma) therapies for refugees in Germany. With this regard, she cooperates with the TAFF project in Kempten/Oberallgäu.
She speaks English and is currently improving her Arab knowledge and skills to better conduct her professional duties.