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CURRICULUM VITAE Proposed role in the project: 1.

Family name: KARAA

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First names: Kamal

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Date of birth:26/11/1947

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Nationality: Lebanese

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Civil status: Married without children

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Education: Agronomist Engineer

Institution [ Date from - Date to ]

Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:

Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier -France (1970-1971) Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier -France1967-1970

Diplôme d'ingénieur agronome Diplôme d'agronomie générale

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Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - Basic; 5 Excellent) Language Arabic French English

Reading 5 5 5

Speaking 5 5 3

Writing 5 5 4

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Membership of professional bodies: Member of "Ordre des Ingénieurs de Beyrouth" 9.

Other skills: Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Power Point, projects etc,,,), ACAD, (Autodesk), Adobe Illustrator, GIS (Basic), Administrative and technical Archiving system , Software development for technical applications Supervisor of Informatics’ Technology Department "Litani River Authority" ( 9992007) 10.

Present position: Head of Rural Development Department in " Litani River Authority" since 1983.

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1/2001

Years within the firm:

39 years

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Key qualifications: Integrated Water Management, Sustainability evaluation, Projects Evaluation, Water User Association, Irrigation, Agronomic, Water Designs and economical studies Engineer.

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Specific experience in the region: Country Lebanon Mediterranean Area

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Date from - Date to 1971- 2010 Since 2003 by different cooperation Projects with EC

Professional experience

Date from Date to 19832010

Location

Company

Position

Lebanon

Litani River Authority

19982003

Lebanon

Litani River Authority

20032010

Lebanon

Litani River Authority

Head of Rural Development Department

20032010

Lebanon

Litani River Authority

Head of Rural Development Department

19852010

Lebanon

Dar el Handasa Chaer, Dar el Handasa Taleb, Cadres, GICOM,

Consultant

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Head of Rural Development Department Head of Rural Development Department

Description Studies Supervision (5 Studies) Special Complementary studies For World Bank (10 Reports) EC Cooperation Projects (6 Projects) LRF,USAID, IDRC, World Vision Cooperation Projects (5 Projects) Consultancy activities in private sector.

Projects financed by World Bank, UNDP, CDR, EC (15 Projects)

Other relevant information - Problems and measures to be adopted for Irrigation Management sustainability in Lebanon. Lecture, "Ordre des ingénieurs de Beyrouth", Beirut December, 2008, Irrigation Management Sustainability Workshop.

- Modernization of irrigation systems: measures to reduce pressure on water demand in Lebanon K. Karaa, Dr. Fadi Karam, and Renata Raad, Marrakech 29 October to 2 November 2008- MELIA project second workshop, Paper Published in ”Options Méditerranéennes”.

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- Improvement of Irrigation Water Management in Lebanon & Jordan (IRWA): Achievements and Recommendations for Lebanon, Presentation -Second MEDA Water Event on Local Water Management, Marrakech 28-30 April 2008.

- Keys Issues in Irrigation Water Management : Lebanon Experience Extension Planning,-IRWA2 project final conference, Presentation, Amman April 16, 2008 - Water Management and Environmental Safety – Lecture, final conference IRWA project, Kherbet Qanafar (Lebanon) , April 28, 2007.

- Improving water use efficiency of field crops through regulated deficit irrigation, Paper – WASAMED final Conference, Bari 14-17 February 2007, F. Karam, K.Karaa and N. Tarabey. Published in ”Options Méditerranéennes”.

- Harmonization and Integration of Water Saving Options in Lebanon -WASAMED Workshop, Paper, Malta, 3-7 May 2006, in Collaboration with F. Karam and N. Tarabey. Published in ”Options Méditerranéennes”.

- Water User Associations: Litani River Authority Expectation (in French), Presentation, seminar “Institutional aspects of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in arid, semi-arid and irrigated areas : stakeholders involvement in deciding-making” organized by ISIIMM, Zahleh ,27-29 April 2006.

- Litani River and Litani River Authority Projects, Presentation-ISIIMM Workshop, Kherbet Qanafar 24-26 April 2006.

- Crop water use, yield and water use efficiency of some cultivated plants under the semi- arid conditions of the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, Paper -WASAMED Workshop, Amman, Jordan,September 30 to October 1, 2005 in Collaboration with F. Karam and N. Tarabey. Published in”Options Méditerranéennes”.

- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in Lebanon: Key Policies and Future Scenarios, Paper -WASAMED Workshop, Cairo 7-11 December 2004 in Collaboration with F. Karam and N. Tarabey . Published in ”Options Méditerranéennes”.

- Litani river Watershed Characteristics and its Irrigation Projects (in arabic), Presentation, Chtaura (Lebanon) April 17 , 2004.

- Attempts to determine some performance indicators in Qasmieh Ras-el-Ain Scheme-Lebanon”, Paper, WASAMED Workshop, Hammamat, Tunis, 25-28 June 2004 in Collaboration with F. Karam and N. Tarabey. Published in ”Options Méditerranéennes”.

- Capacity-building Initiative for Water Demand Management in the Agriculture Sector in LEBANON- Litani Case, Presentation “- Water Demand Management in Mediterranean Area Seminar– Sharm el Sheik (Egypt), 13-15 December 2003.

- Water Saving Management & Water Cultural Heritage- Lebanon Country Report, Paper- WASAMED Workshop, Sanliurfa (Turkey), 15-19 December 20003 in Collaboration with F. Karam and N. Tarabey . Published in ”Options Méditerranéennes”.

- Water Management in Lebanon, Presentation- Lombardia (Italy),”Acqua Tesoro Futuro Seminar, 29-30 September 2003.

- Ressources Superficielles et souterraines des eaux dans la région de la Bekaa, Lecture ,5-7-2002, Chambre de Commerce de la Bekaa – ZahlehLebanon Special Publication by Association of Friends of Ibrahim Abdel Al.

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16 - Les techniques d’irrigation : Series of Lectures for Engineerings Capacity Building. (Ecole Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Beyrouth, July 2002).

17 - “South Bekaa Scheme", Paper - Advanced Short Course on New Technologies Development for Irrigation Systems Management: 8 to 19 May, 2000- National Council for Scientific Research (Beirut Lebanon).

18 - Les nouvelles techniques d’irrigation , Lecture - Ordre des ingénieurs – Beyrouth, Auguste 1999.

19 - Recent Trends in developing a sustainable irrigated Agriculture in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, Paper In collaboration avec Dr Fadi Karam. published in «Options Méditerranéennes »

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