Davide ZARU

In this role, I manage the overall implementation of a State Department, -funded project supporting Tunisia’s new International Diplomatic Academy, providing technical assistance to the Academy to support its expansion into an international diplomacy training center. My role includes:

1) Overseeing the work of a project team based in Tunis;

2) Implementing project-management roles that include engagement with the leadership of the beneficiary institute, narrative and financial reporting;

3) Implementing substantive tasks, such as the coordination of the development of curricula on introduction to conflict studies, mediation and reconciliation and English for diplomacy.

• Oversee evidence-based contextual analyses on the operating environment with focus on climate and food security; Provide support to the RC's political and policy engagements with authorities in Iran, implementing partners and donors
• Act as secretariat of the pooled fund 'One-UN Impact Fund', including functions of outreach, resource mobilisation, monitoring and evaluation.

• Supervise an integrated (civilian and uniformed personnel) team of seven analysts to develop analysis of strategic developments in the area of operations, with focus on political economy of the conflict
• Delivery of facts-based policy recommendations to the Mission leadership.

• Coordinate a team of 27 analysts providing scenarios/risk assessments for the prevention of violent extremism and identity violence to inform decision-making.

• Provide political and contextual advice on the operating environment to the Head of Mission/Force Commander and act as head of his/her front office
• Support advice for engagement with authorities of Sudan and South Sudan.

• Coordinate the Centre's operational activities in Africa and Asia, with focus in particular on the Central African Republic, Nigeria, Myanmar and Sri Lanka
• Design support to national and local networks of religious and traditional leaders committed to the prevention of hate speech and peacebuilding.

• Engage with armed groups and local representatives of the Government, to promote the restoration of the State authority in the northern Vakaga region; Coordinate forecasting analyses on security and socio-economic developments to inform decision-making processes by the Mission.

• Undertake situational, political and legal monitoring of the situation in the MENA region on possible risks related to mass atrocities and genocide.

• Manage of a 4 million project with the Eritrean Ministry of Justice on Community Courts financially supported by the EU (direct-budget support)
• Manage, including monitoring & evaluation, of about 30 contracts and annual local call for proposal under the programmes 'Non-State Actors in Development' and 'European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights'.

• Act as coordinator of the EU Working Group on Human Rights of the Council of the European Union(COHOM)
• Desk officer for the design, implementation, monitoring & evaluation of grants schemes in the European Neighbourhood (including North Africa) under the EU financial programmes 'European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights' and 'Local Authorities and Civil Society for Development'.

• Responsible for the design and implementation of cooperation programmes between the EU with Latin American and Caribbean countries, in the field of human rights.