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Hasina Rasuli M.D. Senior Advisor at European Institutes of Peace. An Educational/Vocational, Development expert. Dr. Hasina Rasuli is a gender Expert and an entrepreneurship specialist with more than 20 years of working experience in Afghanistan, Canada, USA and European countries. She is proficient in designing training programmes aiming to improve the education of girls and young women and has sound experience delivering training in rural areas and other relevant sectors for the project, like the development of professional skills in agricultural operations. She has proven knowledge in developing TVET training tailored for women and young people, with a focus in helping to generate economic income for women and add value to their professional lives.

Dr. Hasina Rasuli has conducted several missions aiming to identify women to participate in bridging courses, internship, and mentorship programmes and developing tailored learning plans for each participant. Ms. Hasina Rasuli is also proficient in designing reforms in the education field. In fact, as a gender advisor, she conducted in the past needs assessments and designed training for approximately 16,000 women including 10,000 schoolgirls and 6,000 farm women in three different regions of Afghanistan. Dr. Hasina Rasuli will be an important asset for the project due to her strong experience in both gender and education spheres. Her wide working experience as a Vocational Education Consultant and her excellent knowledge of the cross-cutting social issues faced by Afghan women will facilitate the team to link gender support with education and vocational training programmes, in order to rethink the reforms needed in the country. Thus, besides her institutional knowledge of the education field in Afghanistan, she has strong field skills conducting surveys with secondary and high school girls and identifying skills and experience gaps limiting competitiveness for graduate scholarships. It is also important to note that Ms. Hasina Rasuli was the director of Education of UNICEF Afghanistan from 1998 to 2001 and has thus an excellent knowledge of key education stakeholders since then. Therefore, thanks to her strong communications skills, she will be able to put in contact the team with key stakeholders from the private and civil society.

Dr. Hasian Rasuli is an experienced physician, gender expert, consultant to development organizations, journalist, and manager of a major United Nations program in a post-war environment. She is a public speaker on the complexities of the cultural, social, economic, and political fabric evolving in Afghanistan. She has served as a consultant to international public and private development aid institutions engaged in rural health, education, and human rights projects in Afghanistan. She excels in developing, strategizing, and implementing communication media for Afghanistan gender rights interests Like many international consultants with core capabilities—organizing women, in my case—She also has experience in seemingly unrelated fields like project start-ups, close-out assessments, turnarounds, marketing and promotion, conference management and government relations. She has designed programs, built teams, managed subcontractors, identified research priorities, organized distributions, and assessed program impacts. She has trained SMEs, extension workers, and municipal officials. Most of her recent work has been in agriculture and most gratifying work is to identify income-generating activities, creating jobs and raising incomes. Her greatest value to projects may be in institutional coordination and interaction with government officials. Many development projects recognize the importance of having someone to represent them to local institutions, from village councils to national ministries.

She commands attention and respect. Her connections provide access to decision-makers, and her insights mitigate the naiveté, gaffs, ill-conceived strategies and backfiring tactics of outsiders that leave them out in the cold wringing their hands, wondering what went wrong and blaming it on laziness, ignorance, and obstinacy of local counterparts. She knows how to do her homework, know who’s who, who’s important and why, when to keep listening and when to speak up.