About Abdul Kamara
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Academic Level Degree Bachelor
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Gender Male
About me
I am a dedicated social worker with over 10 years’ experience in development work. I am an experienced trainer and manager that have diverse teams in planning and implementing community projects both in rural and urban communities, have expertise in project planning, team management, budget management and problem solving. I am a result-oriented person that has managed both short term and long-term projects that impacted the lives of our clients economically, socially, mentally and politically. Have proven skills in male and female engagement trainings, advocacy, sanitation marketing, business skills, gender core concepts and gender laws. Hold organizational policies and safeguarding values. I am somebody personate about self-initiative that promotes social justice and community development.
Education
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1993 - 1999
Fourah Bay College
Bachelor of Social Sciences with Honors in Sociology
I have passed Bachelor Degree in Social Sciences with honors in Sociology.
Experience
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2025 - Present
AgriCodeExpo Inc. Sierra Leone
Volunteer
: Provide voluntary advisory and technical support to the AgriCodeExpo team.
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2023 - 2025
Organization: International Rescue Committee(IRC)
Senior Project Manager
• Develop project budget and spending plan on quarterly, semi- annual and yearly bases. Ensure that budget is spent accordingly
• Develop project implementation/work plan for the project and ensure it understood by all implementing staff to ease smooth/timely implementation
• Conduct capacity gap analysis to staff to support capacity building training and ensure that the staff are trained in relevant skills/ concept for successful implementation.
• To work on the adaptation of existing operational manuals on community-based interventions for SRH prevention / response.
• Contribute to knowledge management, learning and documentation with regards to SRH programming and take lead in producing all required reports including periodic progress report and donor reports as well as documenting stories of change.
• Promote assessment, and collect, analyze, document and disseminate information related to SRH issues including key experiences/ lesson learnt in the implementation of country level work
• Work closely with partners and community stakeholders to ensure the successful implementation of projects.
• Acted as Program Coordinator for three months. -
2023 - 2025
Organization: International Rescue Committee(IRC)
Senior Project Manager
• Develop project budget and spending plan on quarterly, semi- annual and yearly bases. Ensure that budget is spent accordingly
• Support in identification of project marketplaces.
• Conduct Training of Trainers(TOT) for project staff in business skills using “Learn to Earn” and “CEFE” curricula
• Train community facilitators in Discussion Groups series(DGS)
• Develop project implementation/work plan for the project and ensure it understood by all implementing staff to ease smooth/timely implementation
• Conduct capacity gap analysis to staff to support capacity building training and ensure that the staff are trained in relevant skills/ concept for successful implementation.
• Contribute to the documentation of all required reports including periodic progress report and donor reports as well as documenting stories of change.
• Work closely with partners and community stakeholders to ensure the successful implementation of projects.
• Lead grant disbursement to clients. -
2020 - 2021
International Rescue Committee
Senior Project Manager ( Protection of Women Through Empowerment and Response(POWER) project):
• Develop project budget and spending plan on quarterly, semi- annual and yearly bases. Ensure that budget is spent accordingly
• Develop project implementation/work plan for the project and ensure it understood by all implementing staff to ease smooth/timely implementation
• Contribute to the documentation of all required reports including periodic progress report and donor reports as well as documenting stories of change.
• Work closely with partners and community stakeholders to ensure the successful implementation of projects -
2018 - 2020
International Rescue Committee
EMAP /EASE Specialist ( Protection of Women Through Empowerment and Response(POWER) project)
• Conduct ToT all field staff on Engaging Men Through Accountable Practices(EMAP) and do supportive supervision in the field to ensure that the training is properly cascaded to the clients in the communities.
• Train staff in the implementation of the IRC Economic and Social Empowerment(EASE) model.
• Support in the development of project implementation/work plan for the project and ensure it is understood by all implementing staff to ease smooth/timely implementation
• Contribute to the documentation of all required reports including periodic progress report and donor reports as well as documenting stories of change.
• Give relevant guidance/ advice in the implementation of the EMAP and EASE model to the Project Coordinator and field staff
• Support in the compilation of case studies/ success stories. -
2016 - 2018
Goal Sierra Leone
Sanitation Marketing Officer
• Sensitize project communities on the use of latrine and other sanitary products
• Conduct training on the use of sanitary products, it advantages and disadvantages.
• Identify sanitary product contractors to train communities on how to produce latrines prototypes • Record latrines that were constructed because of GOAL’s intervention in project communities.
• Contribute to project report writing and success stories
• Attend WASH committee meetings to give project update on sanitary products. -
2013 - 2015
. Organization: International Rescue Committee(IRC)
Economic and Social Empower Manager
• Provide TOT for all project field staff on Village Savings and Loans(VSLAs), Discussion Groups Series and Business Development skills
• Give relevant support to VSLAs like recording keeping training and facilitate the procurement of toolkits for them
• Contribute to the documentation of all required reports including periodic progress report and donor reports as well as documenting stories of change.
• Support in the compilation of case studies/ success stories
• Work closely with like partners and community stakeholders to ensure successful implementation. • Contribute to the writing of project report to the donor • Trained partner staff on IRC EASE model. -
2005 - 2025
United Nations Development Program (UNDP – Arms for Development)
Sensitization Officer for the South
• Sensitization on the dangers of keeping arms without licenses
• Part of the community arms collection
• Attend security meetings at District and regional levels to give updates on arms collected in project chiefdoms in the southern region.
• Contribute to project report writing -
2001 - 2004
GIZ
Axis supervisor (Income Generation Activities (IGA) sector)
• Facilitated the formation of IGA groups in the project communities • Train IGA groups in business skills together with community – based staffs • Part of the revolving loan disbursement team.
• Monitors revolving loan groups and standby groups.
• Write the axis report and send it to management