Taghrid
Khuri, Ph.D.
Email: Dr. Taghrid
Khuri is an independent development, gender
and management consultant. She has multi-disciplinary experience in
development planning and management, gender and development, human resource
development and institutional capacity building.
In management, she managed
NGO projects such as income-generating and small credit programs, from
the selection of staff to project monitoring and financial management. She also carries out management training including
institutional capacity building and organizational diagnosis and development.
In development, she carries
out research, training and evaluation functions. Her research focuses on qualitative methods
including participatory rapid / rural appraisal (PRA) and focus group
analysis, report writing and training in the related action research
methods, and evaluation (M&E) of development projects as well as
impact assessment. As a trainer, she addresses human resource development
through the design and delivery of training packages in the various
socio-economic fields, such as health and education, gender, employment
enhancement and economic empowerment, project design and management,
and monitoring and evaluation techniques, leadership and communication
skills, outreach, community mobilization and empowerment, popular participation,
democratization and civic governance, among others. She also designs and delivers training of trainers
(TOT) packages. Her training
techniques are based on adult-learning theory and participatory methodology. As a gender consultant/trainer
Dr. Khuri focuses on mainstreaming gender issues, defining gender-related
indicators for program monitoring as well as raising gender awareness
within a human-rights framework that is based on the Millennium Development
Goals, in the inter-disciplinary and multi-sectoral
dimensions of development, citizenship and social responsibility. Dr. Khuri taught and continues
to teach part-time courses in gender and Middle East studies in Her career covers an array
of work for government, and non-government organizations, private institutions,
universities, United Nations and international donor agencies in the
Middle East, North Africa and the The languages she masters professionally
are Arabic and English and she can communicate French relatively effectively. She has command over the computer in a functional
professional way, including the use of statistical packages. The countries she worked in are: |