Fauzia Nakuera
Durable Solutions Adviser
Kampala,102
Summary
Experienced leader with strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Known for collaborative approach and commitment to excellence.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
2009
2009
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Norwegian Refugee Council
01.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: Norwegian Refugee Council, Abuja, Nigeria
- Map current programming that has the potential to contribute to durable solutions for IDPs, returnees, and refugees.
- Work collaboratively with NRC Technical Units to map relevant theories of change against pathways to durable solutions.
- Develop a measurement framework to track and analyse progress towards durable solutions.
- Provide training and guidance to NRC and relevant partner staff on how programming and advocacy can mutually support beneficiaries’ preparedness for durable solutions and emergency.
- Train staff and act as a resource for country programmes and partners about durable solutions programming, including providing advice on programme design and integration of global standards outlined in the IASC Durable Solutions Framework and UNHCR Refugee and Protection Mixed Migration: A 10 Point Plan of Action.
- Support the project design/planning processes to ensure programming addresses and is responsive to the changing needs of displaced populations, especially related to livelihood and protection programming that builds greater resilience.
- Lead NRC efforts to integrate programming across borders and facilitate the provision of services across NRC locations and sectors.
- Serve as NRC liaison to durable solutions forums/platforms in the Country Office.
- Ensure that NRC is represented consistently and effectively in the various durable solutions working groups and fora at various levels to the coordination of the humanitarian response by working with Clusters and other relevant coordination forums.
- Support displacement site assessments and mapping, ensuring that findings inform both operational planning and advocacy efforts for displaced communities are shared and inform decision making.
- Support country programmes in developing implementation plans which include focused considerations for solutions and protracted and emergency in each context. This includes working to prepare contingency plans for responding to population movements.
- Engage with other local partner organisations to understand operational and contextual realities, challenges, and opportunities, as well as their perceptions of and ideas about durable solutions.
- Collaborate with partner organisations as appropriate in the development of strategies and approaches to inform programme design and advocacy messaging that promotes durable solutions.
- Support the NRC area offices and country programmes to identify funding opportunities to support durable solutions work and, in coordination with country programs, develop strategic donor relationships.
- Ensure proposals incorporate a durable solutions lens where appropriate.
- Norwegian Refugee Council, Abuja, Nigeria
Norwegian Refugee Council
03.2024 - 12.2024
- Company Overview: Norwegian Refugee Council, Juba, South Sudan
- To support NRC to identify, design and implement activities that contribute to durable solutions for people displaced by conflict in South Sudan, using a community-based approach to include refugees, returnees, internal displaced persons, and host communities.
- Responsible for ensuring compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance, and procedures in relation to durable solutions and self-reliance while contributing to the development of policies, strategies, tools, and new approaches with a focus on innovation and piloting.
- Ensure Country and Area programmes have a clear understanding of durable solutions for displaced populations, relevant to South Sudan context.
- Work with the country programme to develop/update a strategy and detailed plan for advocacy and programming goals around durable solutions promoting community participation, accountability and evidence-based approaches to inform operational planning for displaced communities.
- Coordinate and oversee project implementation, ensuring activities, budget and project documentation are in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements.
- Ensure NRC is well-represented in key durable solutions platforms and that information is shared with relevant regional, country and area programme colleagues.
- Responsible for ensuring that best practices related to durable solutions and self-reliance programmes or initiatives are identified, documented, and disseminated both within the country and region.
- Map current programming that has the potential to contribute to durable solutions for IDPs, returnees, and refugees.
- Work collaboratively with NRC Technical Units to map relevant theories of change against pathways to durable solutions.
- Develop a measurement framework to track and analyse success.
- Provide training and guidance to NRC and relevant partner staff to ensure capacity building of project staff and local partners on how programming and advocacy can mutually support beneficiaries’ preparedness for durable solutions.
- Train staff and act as a resource for country programmes and partners about durable solutions programming, including providing advice on programme design and integration of global standards outlined in the IASC Durable Solutions Framework and UNHCR Refugee and Protection Mixed Migration: A 10 Point Plan of Action.
- Support the project design/planning processes for South Sudan to ensure programming addresses and is responsive to the changing needs of displaced populations, especially related to livelihood and protection programming that builds greater resilience.
- Lead NRC efforts to integrate programming across borders and facilitate the provision of services across NRC locations and sectors.
- Serve as NRC liaison to durable solutions forums/platforms in the Country Office.
- Ensure that NRC is represented consistently and effectively in the various durable solutions working groups and fora at various levels.
- Support country programmes in developing implementation plans which include focused considerations for durable solution in each context. This includes working to prepare contingency plans for responding to population movements.
- Engage with other local partner organisations to understand operational and contextual realities, challenges, and opportunities, as well as their perceptions of and ideas about durable solutions.
- Collaborate with partner organisations as appropriate in the development of strategies and approaches to inform programme design and advocacy messaging that promotes durable solutions.
- Collaborate closely with the advocacy and communications staff to shape messaging and activities related to durable solutions.
- Support the NRC area offices and country programmes to identify funding opportunities to support durable solutions work and, in coordination with country programs, develop strategic donor relationships.
- Ensure proposals incorporate a durable solutions lens where appropriate.
- Norwegian Refugee Council, Juba, South Sudan
Consultant – Durable Solutions Evaluation
Norwegian Refugee Council
10.2023 - 12.2023
Consultant – Cross Border Analysis
Norwegian Refugee Council
12.2022 - 12.2022
Consultant – Durable Solutions Evaluation
Norwegian Refugee Council
08.2022 - 11.2022
Consultant International pour les données du au Burundi
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
02.2022 - 06.2022
Consultant
Northern Frontier Youth League (NoFYL)
03.2021 - 06.2021
- Flood Damage Assessment and Housing Land and Property rights in Beledweyne, Somalia.
Consultant
Norwegian Refugee Council
12.2019 - 02.2020
- Scoping mission: Housing Land and Property in Darfur.
International Consultant
Norwegian Refugee Council and MOPEID Somalia
01.2019 - 12.2019
- Somalia National Durable Solutions Strategy.
Consultant
Norwegian Refugee Council
01.2019 - 06.2019
- Return Intention Survey.
Author
International Rescue Committee
05.2019 - 05.2019
- Training Manual on empowerment of national and state actors.
Consultant
Administration for Refugee & Returnee Affairs (ARRA)
01.2017 - 12.2017
- Durable Solutions Strategy.
Author
Norwegian Refugee Council
12.2016 - 12.2016
- Quick Assessment of Urban refugees in Kampala.
Author
Norwegian Refugee Council
12.2016 - 12.2016
- Housing Land and Property in Camps – Research.
Author
International Refugee Rights Initiative
07.2014 - 12.2014
- Reclaiming Land rights in Burundi: perspectives from refugees, asylum seekers and returnees.
Researcher
Law, Development and Democracy
01.2013 - 06.2013
- Securing Land and property rights; reflections from Darfur, Sudan.
Researcher
Ministry of Agriculture Republic of Indonesia
08.2012 - 11.2012
- Addressing Socio-economic rights in the wake of natural disasters: the case of farmers in Bunyumas, Java.
Research
Philippines Red Cross/International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC)
06.2012 - 08.2012
- Emergency Response Capacity, Flood Assessment – Super Typhoon ‘Rolly - Goni’.
Co-Author
USAID
05.2011 - 09.2011
- Co-authored report to the USAID on Agricultural economics and Financing Livelihoods for vulnerable and poor communities in Northern Uganda.
Education
MSc. - Public Economic Management
Birmingham University
BSc. - Quantitative Economics
Makerere University
Skills
- Humanitarian assistance
- Emergency Management
- Conflict Zone Expertise
- Sustainable solutions
- H-D-P Nexus
- Design and execution of development initiatives
- Multinational Companies
- Humanitarian System Understanding
- Operational structures coordination
- Funding Mechanisms
- Humanitarian Standards
- Protection Programming
- Recovery
- Restitution
- Reconstruction
- Land and Property Rights
- Project and Programme Evaluations
Consultancies
- Norwegian Refugee Council, Somalia, Consultant – Durable Solutions Evaluation, 10/01/23 to 12/31/23
- Norwegian Refugee Council, Tanzania, Consultant – Cross Border Analysis, 12/01/22
- Norwegian Refugee Council, Nairobi, Kenya, Consultant – Durable Solutions Evaluation, 08/01/22 to 11/30/22
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bujumbura, Burundi, Consultant International pour les données du au Burundi, 02/01/22 to 06/30/22
- Northern Frontier Youth League (NoFYL), Beledweyne, Somalia, Consultant, Flood Damage Assessment and Housing Land and Property rights, 03/01/21 to 06/30/21
- Norwegian Refugee Council, Darfur, Consultant, Scoping mission: Housing Land and Property, 12/01/19 to 02/29/20
- Norwegian Refugee Council and MOPEID Somalia, Somalia, International Consultant, Somalia National Durable Solutions Strategy, 01/01/19 to 12/31/19
- Norwegian Refugee Council, Kakuma, Kenya, Consultant, Return Intention Survey, 06/01/19
- International Rescue Committee, Mogadishu, Author, Training Manual on empowerment of national and state actors, 05/01/19
- Administration for Refugee & Returnee Affairs (ARRA), Somali Region, Ethiopia, Consultant Durable Solutions Strategy, 2017
- Norwegian Refugee Council, Kampala, Uganda, Author, Quick Assessment of Urban refugees, 12/01/16
- Norwegian Refugee Council, Author, Housing Land and Property in Camps – Research, 12/01/16
- International Refugee Rights Initiative, Bujumbura, Burundi, Author, Reclaiming Land rights in Burundi, 07/01/14 to 12/31/14
- Law, Development and Democracy, Researcher, Securing Land and property rights, 01/01/13 to 06/30/13
- Philippines Red Cross/International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC), Philippines, Research, Emergency Response Capacity, Flood Assessment, 06/01/12 to 08/31/12
- Ministry of Agriculture Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, Researcher, Addressing Socio-economic rights, 08/01/12 to 11/30/12
- USAID, Kampala, Uganda, Co-Author, Co-authored report to the USAID, 05/01/11 to 09/30/11
Timeline
Norwegian Refugee Council
03.2024 - 12.2024
Consultant – Durable Solutions Evaluation
Norwegian Refugee Council
10.2023 - 12.2023
Norwegian Refugee Council
01.2023 - Current
Consultant – Cross Border Analysis
Norwegian Refugee Council
12.2022 - 12.2022
Consultant – Durable Solutions Evaluation
Norwegian Refugee Council
08.2022 - 11.2022
Consultant International pour les données du au Burundi
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
02.2022 - 06.2022
Consultant
Northern Frontier Youth League (NoFYL)
03.2021 - 06.2021
Consultant
Norwegian Refugee Council
12.2019 - 02.2020
Author
International Rescue Committee
05.2019 - 05.2019
International Consultant
Norwegian Refugee Council and MOPEID Somalia
01.2019 - 12.2019
Consultant
Norwegian Refugee Council
01.2019 - 06.2019
Consultant
Administration for Refugee & Returnee Affairs (ARRA)
01.2017 - 12.2017
Author
Norwegian Refugee Council
12.2016 - 12.2016
Author
Norwegian Refugee Council
12.2016 - 12.2016
Author
International Refugee Rights Initiative
07.2014 - 12.2014
Researcher
Law, Development and Democracy
01.2013 - 06.2013
Researcher
Ministry of Agriculture Republic of Indonesia
08.2012 - 11.2012
Research
Philippines Red Cross/International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC)
06.2012 - 08.2012
Co-Author
USAID
05.2011 - 09.2011
BSc. - Quantitative Economics
Makerere University
MSc. - Public Economic Management
Birmingham University
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