Samah Ben Tareef
Samah is a passionate young woman in transformative change in communities. She has professional experience in monitoring, evaluation and project management in many sectors including education, socio-economic research, needs assessments and management consulting. She has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Jordan. She is a PMD certified candidate. She was selected as the recipient of the fellowship for the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) of the the Middle East and North Africa Scholarship Programme (MSP) under the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She passed the PHAP Credential Program Core Certification in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning. Samah currently is a senior consultant at PwC where she works in the project management on big transformative projects in the gulf region.
Oumayma Sessi
Oumayma Sessi is an English and International Relations graduate. She chose to dig into this field because of her keen interest in public affairs. Oumayma is a diligent and dedicated person, with a heartfelt desire to make a positive impact. She has contributed to volunteer work with I Watch Organization. Furthermore, she had an enriching experience at the diplomatic level during her internship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
By joining the Lazord Fellowship, she started her first professional experience in a field that she is passionate about-the field of humanitarian action in civil society. Through the fellowship, she did her placement at the Tunisian Organization for Social Cohesion, where she was lucky enough to occupy various positions.
Oumayma is a perseverant person who aims to complete tasks to the fullest; she uses her positive attitude and good spirits to also encourage others to accomplish their tasks.
Amira Ben Hassen
Amira is an ambitious, dedicated, and committed Tunisian woman, who believes in the power of transformative education for well-being and peace.
Her ambition is to contribute to the development of the Tunisian educational system for enhanced peace and strengthened societies. She is dedicated to this ambition and her professional career working with national and international organizations helped to widen her horizons about the promising impact of investing in youth positive development.
She is committed to supporting youth to unleash their talents and transform vulnerabilities into opportunities for more peaceful communities.
She has 5 years’ experience managing and coordinating projects for several age groups, and mainly youth following approaches that foster dialogue for social cohesion and violence prevention, gender equity and social inclusion (GESI), youth positive development, leadership, preventing/countering violent extremism (P/CVE), participatory governance, women and vulnerable groups’ empowerment, community development, and rehabilitation of ex-prisoners. Her orientation towards results-based management motivated her to extend her knowledge on aspects related to monitoring, evaluation, and learning, this was further consolidated by collaboration with Synergy management and consulting.