Tieby

Ms. Tieby has18 years of experience working in the Middle East and North African region in the sustainable development arena. During the last ten years, she has been dedicated to the development of the sustainable microfinance industry. Ms. Tieby has extensive experience in designing microfinance services and streamlining the management of institutions’ operations.  Since 1999, Tieby has been certified as a trainer of trainers for sustainable microfinance courses and has been actively involved in training initiatives in various countries in the MENA region. In 2001, Tieby served as a consultant to UNICEF in Yemen, where she helped them launch their Micro Credit Program. During this consultancy, she conducted intensive training, developed policies and procedures, mobilized targeted communities, and completed on-going monitoring and evaluation missions. In 2003, Tieby conducted a review of the policy constraints facing the microfinance industry in Jordan, with a focus on the regulatory, legal and financial environments. In early 2004, Tieby has focused her activities on capacity building and advocacy for sustainable microfinance initiatives in conflict zones and transitional economies in Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan.  During the last few years, Tieby has undertaken numerous short-term assignments in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, and Tunisia. These additional assignments covered sectors of primary health care, gender mainstreaming, community infrastructure program design and organizational restructuring. In this context, descriptive, impact and relevance analysis was carried out in addition to sustainability analysis to verify the potential of the continuity of the projects’ benefits. Where necessary, policy review of the overall legal and regulatory environment was carried out and action plans presented to policy makers, donor organizations and stakeholders in order to minimize their negative effects and ensure the sustainability of their on-going developmental activities.