SAFAA ELAGIB ADAM

Biography

Safaa Adam is secretary general and gender adviser of the Community Development Association. An expert in development, she has advised numerous organizations on the planning and execution of post-conflict community organizations, income generation programs, and relief coordination and distribution networks. She has a background in gender issues in conflict, gender-sensitive and women’s development, international standards of human rights, religion as a tool for peace, relief monitoring and evaluation, conflict transformation, small- and micro-enterprise financing, and project management and strategic planning. She is an executive member of the Sudanese Women’s Empowerment for Peace and Development Network; a founding member of Khartoum’s Community Development Association; and a member of the Sudanese Women’s Solidarity Group, the Civil Society Initiative for Peace Forum, and the Women in Law and Development Network. She is also a member of the expert committee on women within Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Agriculture. Ms. Adam authored a study on women’s role in the informal economy and coauthored a study on Sudanese women entrepreneurs, the latter for the Small Enterprises Promotion and Development Society. An executive member of the Darfur Forum for Dialogue and Peaceful Coexistence and a member of the Darfur Conflict Advocacy Group, Ms. Adam advised the group of women civil society leaders that participated in the seventh round of the Darfur Peace Negotiation in Abuja in December 2005. She is also a board member for the Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre, based in Geneva. Ms. Adam was among the group of 1000 women peace builders nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. (04.2006)

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Learn more about this Network member:

Darfur Activist Wins Swiss Peace Prize
swissinfo
November 7, 2009 

Darfur activist fights for justice, sees hope
Part of a peace builders series published by Africa Insight, Nation Media Group, Nairobi
January 19, 2007

Security Council Arria Formula Meeting:
The role of women in the consolidation of peace
United Nations, New York, 25 October 2006

Recommendations from Sudanese Women’s Civil Society Organizations to the Security Council Delegation, 5-9 June 2006

Contact:
Email: safcdasudan at yahoo.com

Phone: +002 49.183.48.29.06/482703

 

Related Themes

Conflict Resolution, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Refugees, Long-Term Post-Conflict Reconstruction