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Ghada Zughayar
Executive Director
MA Rural Development/Institutional Building – al-Quds University 2006

Ghada’s main responsibilities as Executive Director consist in managing and overseeing AMAN’s work as a whole. She also takes an active role in the preparation of AMAN’s strategic plan and projects and oversees their implementation. Furthermore, she participates in the mobilizing of resources and fundraising, and reports to the Board of Directors on AMAN’s daily work and staff performance.
Prior to joining AMAN in 2007, Ghada worked as an English teacher and was active in NGOs such as the Jerusalem Center for Women, where she served as General Director for four years, and the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee (PARC), where she held several senior offices for ten years.
Throughout more than 20 years of professional activity in different civil society organizations, Ghada acquired great coordination, networking and advocating experience in the fields of sustainable development, gender, good governance, integrity, transparency and accountability in NGOs.
Ghada is further a member in several civil society organizations and pressure groups, and she is a founding member of numerous non-governmental feminist organizations.

Email: ghada@aman-palestine.org

Email: isam@aman-palestine.org

Lana Tawasha/Barrouk
Administrative Director
BA English Literature (major)/Translation (minor) – Birzeit University 2000

Lana has been working as AMAN’s Administrative Director since 2010. She is responsible for the management of the HR Department, supervises manpower planning and training, administrates recruitment and selection procedures, and manages the procurement division.
From 2001 to 2010, Lana worked with Talal Abu Ghazaleh International, where she served as a deputy manager.

Email: lana@aman-palestine.org

Abeer Musleh
Research and Development Unit Director
MA International Studies - Birzeit University 2001

Aside from heading the Research and Development Unit, Abeer works on the topics of strengthening transparency and combating corruption by preparing books, studies and training manuals of  relevance. She is currently working on the development of a Palestinian Corruption Perception Index (PCPI) and the preparation of the Palestinian Annual Corruption Report.
Abeer also works as a lecturer in the department of History and Political Science in both Birzeit and al-Quds Universities. She has extensive experience in the Training of Trainers (TOT) and training NGOs on communication skills, conflict resolution and combating corruption to name but a few.
Abeer further participated in the preparation of studies on the Palestinian political situations, which were published in local and regional journals.

Email:  abeer@aman-palestine.org

Hama Zeidan
Advocacy and Legal Advice Center- ALAC Director
MA Democracy and Human Rights – Birzeit University 2007

Hama is the director of the advocacy and legal advice (ALAC) center, where she is responsible for the supervision of all aspects of the operations of the Center to ensure high quality service.
From 1999 to 2008, Hama worked in the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, where she acquired extensive experience in project management and the implementation of statistical surveys, as well as in the redaction and analyzing of statistical reports. She worked as the director of the Governance Survey, served as head of the Institutional National Accounts division, and was a member of the technical committee in numerous statistical surveys (economic, social and geographical).

Email : hama@aman-palestine.org

Wael Ibrahim Ba'alousha
Project Coordinator Assistant
Bsc. Administrative Science and Economics - Al-Azhar University 2004

Wael has been working at the AMAN office in Gaza since 2007. Before working as a project coordinator assistant, he was an administrative assistant on the “National Corruption Campaign” project. Prior to joining AMAN, Wael worked with different local NGOs and youth centers as a field researcher, session’s moderator, and team leader and trainer for the supervision of elections for more than nine years.

Email: wael@aman-palestine.org

Rami Mousa
Resource Center & Webmaster coordinator
Bsc. Information system - Palestine Polytechnic 2002

Rami has been working with AMAN as the Resource Center & Webmaster coordinator since 2004. His responsibilities include developing and updating AMAN's website as well as maintaining the Anti-corruption resource center. Prior to joining AMAN, Rami worked in the private sector for two years in the software development field.

Email: rami@aman-palestine.org

Jamileh Jalal Abed
Project Manager
BA English Literature (major)/Translation (minor) – Birzeit University 2000

Jamileh is currently responsible for the coordination of two projects: “Measuring anti-corruption efforts and building demands for effective national integrity systems in Egypt and the Arab World (MABDA)” and “Enhancing the legal framework of associations in the Arab World through national dialogue and empowerment of civil society”. Upon joining AMAN in 2007, Jamileh was responsible for the management of the Nazaha-project (enhancing integrity and transparency in Palestinian NGOs). Prior to this, she worked at the Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victim of Torture (TRC) as an office manager, and served as academic counselor with the Academy for Educational Development for five years.

Email: jamileh@aman-palestine.org

Fadel Suliman
Project Manager

ACTION Project Director & Training Supervisor

Has six years of experience in written media as well as a producer and television, radio programs presenter. He also worked as a reporter for Abu-Dhabi and Kuwait news agencies in Palestine

He was the director of 4 short documentary /films in cooperation with A-Quds University, Bisan center for research, and the Modern Media Institute.  He issued four books on capacity building, development, media,  and schools parent councils; 

participated in numerous conferences at the local and international levels; worked for three years as projects manager; was a director of the Social Responsibility Program at TEACHER CREATIVITY CENTER; he was also  the Director of Team Work Consulting and Training Company in Ramallah for two years; has ten years of experience in training;  prepared several training manuals which enriched his knowledge on training that is based on good practices known as ( Active Training), as well as on participation and philosophy of adult education.

Email:fadel@aman-palestine.org
 

Wael Haj Mohammed
Project Coordinator  
MA American studies - al-Quds University 2007

Upon joining AMAN in March 2010, Wael undertook the management of the project “Enhancing the effectiveness and independency of the judiciary authority”. This EU-funded project targets the Justice Sector as one of the most important Palestinian sectors and its three main pillars, the High Judicial Council (HJC), the Public Prosecution (PP) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). This project is considered of central importance given its role in enhancing integrity and the rule of law in the Justice sector.

Email: waelhaj@aman-palestine.org

Muhammad Fareed Liftawi
Project Coordinator
Bsc. Political science and International Relations – The International University - Vienna 2005

Mohammad works as a project coordinator for The Pro Poor Integrity project. He previously worked as an administrative assistant with AMAN since 2006. He was responsible for following up on activities relating to the project entitled “National Campaign for Advocacy of UNCAC Provisions in Palestine/ the National Anti Corruption Campaign”, previously implemented by AMAN.  He was also responsible for coordinating activities for the pressure group Palestinian Parliamentarians against Corruption.

Email: mliftawi@aman-palestine.org

Lina Falah
Project Coordinator
Bachelor degree in English literature and translation-major/minor - Birzeit University 2005

Lina is responsible for the coordination of the “Students in Confrontation”, the third phase of the project “National Endowment for Democracy/Fighting Corruption through Education”. In addition to this, she is currently organizing the national campaign to enhance participation in local elections.
Prior to joining AMAN in 2009, Lina worked as a project coordinator at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society as well as at Birzeit University, where she acquired experience in the coordination of projects and the writing of reports.

Email:lina@aman-palestine.org

Belal Barghouthi
Legal Advisor - Part Time
LLM - Birzeit University 2005

Belal works as a legal adviser for AMAN since 2009 and offers legal advice regarding the complaints of ALAC.
He previously worked at the Center for Democracy and Workers Rights for a period of two years, as a lawyer and coordinator of the Law Unit, and worked in the Legislative Council for a period of ten years as a legal adviser to the Economic Commission. He is currently also active as exterior legal counsel, lecturer and coach for a number of public institutions as well as experts in legislative drafting. Furthermore, he is also engaged as an activist in the field of human rights and has published several books, such as: "The Right of Access or Free Access to Information"; "Discrimination in Public Office"; "Labor Disputes and the Palestinian Judiciary"; "The General Administration of Public Institutions"; "Non-Ministerial, Critical Review of the Decision of the Law on Money Laundering".

Email: belal@aman-palestine.org

Baker AL Turkmani
Legal Advisor Advocacy & Legal Advice Center (ALAC)
BsC – Law 2005

Baker has been working as legal advisor for the AMAN – Gaza office since 2010, where he provides legal consultancy for the complaints in ALAC. He previously worked as a lawyer in the Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolutions for four years, and is currently working as a consultant in several subjects such as advocacy, gender & human rights. He is furthermore active as a volunteer lawyer for detained children for the Al-Rabee Association for the care of youth detention centers in Gaza. Baker is a member in the al-Amal Alliance to combat violence against women, and expert in the women's issues and child abuse cases.

Email: baker@aman-palestine.org

Ayman Rezqallah
Accountant
BA Accounting – Birzeit University 2009

Ayman has been working as an accountant for AMAN since December 2010. His tasks include preparing, reviewing and filing financial documents, writing checks for suppliers, managing all bank accounts, relevant records, fixed assets and financial transactions, following up on receivable and payable accounts and coordinating with the related departments. In addition to this, Ayman assists in processing the employees’ monthly salaries and guarantees the maintenance of the accounting records. Prior to joining AMAN, Ayman worked as an accountant for the Ma’an Development Center for two years.

 Email: ayman@aman-palestine.org

Luay Jaber
Administrative Assistant - ALAC
BA Public Administration - Birzeit University 2008

Luay works on receiving complaints by telephone and personal reviews from citizens at the center and assists them in filling out forms. He also provides initial legal guidance for the reviewers and orientation on the action that must be taken to follow up on complaints.
He further works to sort and classify complaints based on their relation to corruption and participates in the preparation of case files submitted to the center. He is furthermore responsible for entering the complaints-related data into the database of the center.
Prior to joining AMAN in 2008, Luay worked for al-Amin Advertisement and Marketing as an administrative supervisor as well as for the Near East Consulting Group as a researcher.

Email: luay@aman-palestine.org

Salam Zahran
Administrative Assistant
Diploma Secretary and Office Administration – al-Quds Open University 1999 / currently studying for a BA in Social Services

Salam has been working with AMAN as an adminstrative assistant since November 2008. She is responsible for the files "Employees' affairs" and "Board of Directors", runs the office of the “Commission for Combating Corruption” and works on organizing and developing the institution’s archive system.
Between 1995 and 2007, Salam worked for several NGOs and private companies, where she acquired wide experience in the field of employees’ affairs. She is furthermore an active and founding member in a number of NGOs and Training Centers.

Email: salam@aman-palestine.org

Viola Attallah
Administrative Assistant
BA Public Administration - Birzeit University 2009 / currently studying for a MA in Democracy and Human Rights

Viola has been working with AMAN as an administrative assistant since March 2010 for the "Enhancing the effectiveness of an independent judiciary" project.  From October 2009 to February 2010, she worked as a volunteer in AMAN’s administrative department and Resource Center.

Email: viola@aman-palestine.org

Somod Barghouthi
Administrative Assistant
BA Public Administration – Birzeit University 2009 / currently studying for a MA in International Studies

Somod has been working with AMAN as an administrative assistant for the Pro-Poor Integrity Project since March 2010. She is currently also working as a research assistant in the Research and Development Unit. In this respect, she reviews reports published by the unit and assists the team in the investigation and production of research papers on topics relating to corruption fighting.
Prior to her employment with AMAN, she volunteered in this department in January 2010 and trained in the Resource Center from June to August 2009, where she acquired great experience in writing news reports.

Email: somod@aman-palestine.org

Manal Koneh
Administrative Assistant
BA Public Administration - Birzeit University 2009

Manal has been working as an administrative assistant for AMAN since 2010. Her main task is the management of all acquisitions and petty cash expenditures. Prior to joining AMAN, she volunteered in the organization for three months. She previously worked for four months in the marketing field.
Manal is also active in different organizations such as Caritas Jerusalem, where she has been volunteering for six years, and was elected member of the Taybeh municipal council in May 2010.

Email: manal@aman-palestine.org

Marwa Abo Odeh
Administrative Assistant
Bsc Business Administration – Banking & Finance 2006 Islamic University Gaza / currently studying for a MA in Development Economy

Marwa has been working for AMAN's Gaza office since April 2010. She works as an administrative assistant on the project "Enhancing the effectiveness of an independent judiciary & empowering the civil society's monitoring role on the judiciary". She is responsible for the coordination of the activities relating to this project. Marwa previously worked for different local NGOs as a workshop facilitator and project coordinator.

Email : marwa@aman-palestine.org 

Amani Jamal
Secretary
Ina'ash al-Usra 2005

Amani has been working as AMAN's secretary since 2009. Her tasks include receiving calls, archiving incoming/outgoing correspondence, helping in preparing and organizing workshops and meetings, sending out invitations and confirming attendance of AMAN members to various events and submitting price offers within the set deadlines.

Email: amani@aman-palestine.org

Faeda Daghra (Um Abdallah)
Caretaker

Um Abdallah is responsible for keeping the office clean and the staff happy. She has been working with AMAN since the beginning of 2007. Apart from cleaning the office and tending to the continuous flow of guests, she makes sure that every employee is pampered equally. She is very valued at AMAN!

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