I am an independent researcher and evaluator, as well as a partner at Economic Development Solutions (E.D.S SARL) since 2018 — a consulting, data collection, impact assessment, and research firm based in Beirut, Athens, and Lisbon.

My approach is qualitative and narrative-based and my areas of focus include gender, social movements, displacement, cash assistance, informal employment, and agriculture in the MENA region. I lead on impact evaluations, gender analysis, and conflict monitoring for development and humanitarian programmes.

Some of my clients include UN Women, OXFAM, United Nations Development Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization, International Alert, Lebanese Reforestation Initiative, Save the Children, Plan International, CARE International, Search for Common Ground, HIVOS International, International Medical Corps, Danish Refugee Council, Mercy Corps, Norwegian Refugee Council, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, among others. My professional CV is linked here.

You can read some of my published research below —

Women from the War Generation: Stories of Strength, Struggle, and Survival in Lebanon’s Civil War - a UN Women report indebted to the stories and recollections of women about the civil war, intergenerational trauma, and memory gathered by KAFA’s team during their Oral History Archive interventions.

Recruitment Mechanisms and Working Conditions for Workers in the Agriculture Sector in Lebanon - an ILO report, cowritten with Kanj Hamade, on dynamics of informal employment (especially focusing on Syrian refugees in Lebanon).

Women’s Voices in the Agriculture and Agrifood Sectors in Lebanon - study conducted under UN Women’s Productive Sectors Development Programme (PSDP) about the lived experiences of women in Lebanon’s agriculture sector.

Photojournalism Case Studies with Gabriel Ferneini on women in beekeeping,  farming, agrifood entrepeneurship, and agricultural work - reports written for UN Women’s Productive Sector Development Programme in Lebanon.

Dynamics of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon’s Agriculture Sector - cowritten with Kanj Hamade as part of an Issam Fares Institute project titled, “Informal adaptive mechanisms among refugees in the Middle East: Understanding adaptation, resilience and agency in securing livelihoods in the informal economy among refugees from Syria in Lebanon and Jordan”, later published as a chapter in a book (Al-Dajani, Haya, et al., editors. Refugee Resilience and Adaptation in the Middle East: Reclaiming Agency in the Informal Economies of Lebanon and Jordan. Routledge, 2024).

Between Mutual Aid and Charity: Community-based Solidarity Initiatives During Cycles of Crisis in Lebanon - a Friedrich Ebert Stiftung report on social movements, feminism, and mutual aid in Lebanon during waves of economic crisis and post-explosion relief.  

Social Capital in the Wake of Disaster - cowritten with Kanj Hamade for Mercy Corps Lebanon on how small businesses in Beirut use social capital to cope with, recover, and respond to the Beirut port explosion.