MHACONSULTINGHumanitarian & Rural
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SELECTED CAREER HISTORY

Experience across
humanitarian and rural development.

01

April 2025 onwards · As recorded in the July 2026 CV

Freelance Humanitarian Practitioner & Rural Development Specialist

Strategic advisory support to national NGOs and development actors: training, programme frameworks, organizational systems, participatory planning, needs assessments, and proposal and reporting support.

02

March 2017 – March 2025

Program Director · DDRA

Strategic leadership for humanitarian and development programmes in Darfur, with responsibility for institutional strengthening, programme quality, resource mobilization, team development, and partner coordination.

03

April 2012 – February 2017

Programme Management · DDRA

Programme Manager, North Darfur Office (April 2012 – March 2013), followed by Darfur Programme Manager (March 2013 – February 2017). Work covered rural development, food security, livelihoods, field-team leadership, and donor reporting.

04

March – September 2011

Field Monitor Specialist (Consultant) · USAID/OFDA

Field monitoring of humanitarian interventions in North Darfur, including data collection, reporting, verification, and operational feedback.

05

2007 – 2011

Programme & Protection Roles · IOM Sudan

Roles included National Program Officer, Senior Protection Assistant, and Assistant Protection Officer / Field Assistant. Contributions covered displacement and population monitoring, IDP registration and verification, protection programming, and humanitarian coordination. Mahmoud joined IOM while on unpaid leave from the Ministry of Agriculture.

06

1976 – 2007

Agricultural Operations · Ministry of Agriculture, North Darfur

Operations Officer (1976 – 2006) and Head of Agrarian Quarantine Department (2006 – 2007), with work in agricultural operations, plant protection, rural advisory support, and pest control. Ministry employment and subsequent IOM work should not be read as mutually exclusive periods: he was on unpaid leave from the Ministry when he joined IOM.

EXPERIENCE IN PRACTICE

From field operations
to programme leadership.

A career across government institutions, international organizations and national NGOs.

The chronology brings together agricultural operations, displacement and protection work, field monitoring and DDRA programme leadership. It provides the professional context for MHA’s advisory practice.

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