Mr Khalil Ansara has 28 years of experience, 19 of which are focused on development cooperation in the fields of international human rights, good governance, peace-building, youth, in civil society development. Throughout his career he has designed and facilitated design of programmes and projects in the fields of Human Rights, rule of law and legal reform, youth, civil society development and strengthening, particularly in Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, and Sweden. As an advisor and facilitator, he has coached, advised, facilitated sessions, and provided capacity development to staff on programme development using participatory and interactive methods to enhance ownership and complementarity with other programmes. Through working with multi-disciplinary teams, he has facilitated the design of different types of programmes, and managed quality assurance work primarily using OECD/DAC evaluation criteria coupled with a mix of methods and approaches including: Outcome Mapping, Theory of Change, conflict sensitivity, and Do No Harm. He has used his strong facilitation, communication, and team building skills to develop targeted capacity development programmes and organisations. He has vast experience in using tools and develop stakeholders’ analysis, contextual analysis, conflict sensitivity, logical framework, progress markers and indicators, strategies, and structure for result based management and reporting, as well as participatory organisational needs assessment.
Mr Khalil is an experienced programme manager and director, with excellent Project Cycle Management (PCM) skills, including the use of tools, and manual for programme operation, baselines, M&EL tools. As Programme Director for the Human Right and IHL Secretariat in Palestine he was responsible to develop the programme, provide advice on selection of partners CSOs, develop their programmes, and advise on capacity development needs, and creation of systems for management for results.