Wiem (Weema) ASKRI
Summary
Talented professional considered knowledgeable leader and dedicated problem solver. Brings seven years of valuable expertise, with a focus on SOGIESC, GESI , youth participation and inclusion and safeguarding.
Attentive to detail with experience in coordinating projects, team management, and reports drafting.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Co-organizer
Qawsuna Summit
08.2023 - Current
Working on the first edition of Qawsuna summit, co-organized between three NGOs, "Mawjoudin" from Tunisia, "Mosaic" from Lebanon, and "Iraqueer" from Iraq.
I am in charge of fund, and external communication, alongside logistics tasks with the team.
The summit will be taking place in September 2024, with an estimated participation of Thunder person (between activists and donors) from the MENA region.
SRHR Project Manager
The initiative Mawjoudin For Equality
04.2022 - Current
- Plan, develop and supervise the execution of the project's required deliverables
- Oversees strategic planning, implementation, and monitoring of programme plans, work plans, initiatives and budgets
- Coordinate between the different stakeholders
- Create and maintain a comprehensive project documentation
- Select and supervise the training and the capacity building session of the new youth representatives of the organizations.
General Coordinator :Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival
The initiative Mawjoudin For Equality
12.2019 - 09.2022
- Manage the different working teams for the festival
- Prepare the programme of the festival, and plan all different parts of the festival
- Coordinate with the guests of MQFF and Supervise the production of a short film as well as other artistic productions
- Management of administrative documents and Draft regular reports for project monitoring
- Securing and managing funds and partners for the festival.
Project Officer
The initiative Mawjoudin For Equality
04.2020 - 03.2022
- Coordinate and execute the different project activities
- Provide counseling and orientation services to the beneficiaries of the project, for queer refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Tunisia
- Keep track of all project's expenses.
Project assistant
Search For Common Ground
01.2019 - 11.2019
- Ensuring the management of different activities
- Keep track of all project's expenses
- Drafting the project's narrative reports.
Project assistant
Civil Society Facility South
07.2018 - 12.2018
- Guarantee the operation of the project, in line with procedures
- Procure what is required for the project, keep all records and draft report of expenses
- Organize project events and meetings, and file related documents.
Project Coordinator
Tunisian forum for Economic and Social Rights
08.2016 - 03.2018
- Plan, organize and execute planned activities
- Plan and organize focus groups and semi individual interview for data collection
- Write narrative and financial reports to be submitted to the different stakeholders
- Assist in accurate financial tracking and record-keeping.
Education
Bachelor in Management - small and medium enterprises management
Virtual School Of Tunis - UVT
07.2021
Skills
- MS Office
- Ideation Leadership
- Project Lifecycle Management
- Communication and negotiation skills
- Conflict transformation
- Stakeholder Communications
- Advanced problem solving
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Coaching and Mentoring
Languages
Arabic
Native language
English
Advanced
C1
French
Advanced
C1
Research
MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL- BEING FOR WOMXN ACTIVISTS IN TUNISIA (2020), As part of the project The Autonomy Campaign by the Coalition of African Lesbians, a research work about mental health and well being of womxn activist in Tunisia
Volunteer Experience
- Power of Pride, 05/2023, Present
Member of the International Advisory Committee : The Power of Pride Alliance is a consortium of three organisations, ILGA-Asia, Pan-Africa ILGA and COC Netherlands; The role of the Committee is to provide the Program Team with advice on all aspects relating to the implementation of the programme
- WOMEN DELIVER, 2016, 2023
Youth Planning Committee member: After participating in the conference in 2016 in Copenhagen, then successfully finishing the program of young leaders in 2019 and attending WD19 in Canada, I volunteered as a member of the youth planning committee for WD23 (in Rwanda) as part of the safeguarding and youth planning sub-committee
Public speaking events
Event : DAR.NA
Organized by : North Africa Centre for Strategic Partnerships
Location and date: Nepal, May 2024
Panel title : Understanding Decolonization and its Epistemologies
Intervention / presentation description : The decolonization of artivism to empower social change
Event : 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Organized by : Ford Foundation
Location and date : NY/USA , December 2023
Panel title : A reflection on Human rights
Intervention / presentation description : Relevance of the universal declaration of Human rights to young activists today, in the Tunisian and African context
Event : Pan Africa Ilga Conference
Organized by : Pan Africa Ilga
Location and date : Mauritius / August 2023
Panel title : Queerly African: Towards A Uniquely Pan-African Movement
Intervention / presentation description : What it means to be Queer as an African person, between previous and future generations: Understanding our heritage and history, as a tool or moving forward with the movement.
Event : African Queer & Trans Displacements
Organized by : the African Centre for Migration & Society, Wits University Johannesburg
Location and date : Johannesburg, December 2022
Panel title : Queer communities in diaspora: heaven in disguise?
Intervention / presentation description : Examine the actualities queer and trans communities face when leaving their countries, by forced or voluntary migration.
Timeline
Co-organizer
Qawsuna Summit
08.2023 - Current
SRHR Project Manager
The initiative Mawjoudin For Equality
04.2022 - Current
Project Officer
The initiative Mawjoudin For Equality
04.2020 - 03.2022
General Coordinator :Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival
The initiative Mawjoudin For Equality
12.2019 - 09.2022
Project assistant
Search For Common Ground
01.2019 - 11.2019
Project assistant
Civil Society Facility South
07.2018 - 12.2018
Project Coordinator
Tunisian forum for Economic and Social Rights
08.2016 - 03.2018
Bachelor in Management - small and medium enterprises management
Virtual School Of Tunis - UVT
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