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I was the Local Expert and Trainer of colleagues in Equipment management system, Equipment counting by mobile phone and in stress management. I have been working as the DRC CO Assets Focal point and supervised Counters and Assets focal points of the DRC CO Sub-offices. I worked closely with Asset Support and other sections. 
WFP equipped me with great experience in analytical thinking and planning.  
With several duties travel for administrative support missions in the provincial offices of PWFP. 
I thereby developed advanced skills in the areas of general administration.  
 I would like to highlight my main strengths in achieving results and quality in planning and following through implementation as well as my adaptability and flexibility. 
I learned how to work in multicultural environments, under pressure and   meeting the deadline.


A typical day at WFP involved coordinating logistics, tracking shipments, and ensuring timely food delivery. I learned efficient supply chain management, adaptability in crisis zones, and the value of teamwork under pressure. Management was supportive yet performance driven. The culture emphasized integrity, collaboration, and accountability. The hardest part was working in high-stress emergency settings with limited resources. The most enjoyable part was knowing our efforts directly helped vulnerable communities and made a real impact on people's lives.

It was in 2005 to 2006 I was deployed to Nuba Mountains in Kadugli /South Kordofan in Nuba mountain after the CPA in 2005. A typical day I experience with hard and tired some work of registering  and verification  of 5,000 beneficiaries in a day in a certain village. These were the new returnees from  Khartoum who need food assistance. I have to supervise the whole exercise within a day and render report  to the senior manager.  I was to supervise 5 officials from Care International which was WFP -Partner. This gave us experience and tolerance of the hard job but later  we all felt great of the job done.

My typical day at work has extremely been busy with concentrating on individual work and reports, but also support to colleagues in different operation areas and discussions. My learning on-job-training opportunity and online courses have been really helpful in my job. Although my organization has been very good in the past till now, there have been some biased and unfair cases in some countries. This affected work place culture in terms of feeling valued, empathy, transparency and fairness. Nonetheless, salaries and benefits are satisfactory.

I had a nice day at work; meaning it was really challenging. That was when my boss at then went to another country to take on a new assignment and I was being left with the unit to oversee. Being faced with a lot of responsibilities and well expected deliverables, I learned how to build my confidence in the midst of job'c complexities and pressing demands and thereby management giving me the full support and believe in my level of expertise and ability.

The most important things in the work is how to improve your experience, and I thing I am lucky to work with WFP,
I learned a lot of things such as time management and administration business.
The most enjoyable things in the work that when we are doing it in high professional level with very good supervisors.
As my duty station in Geneina AO we share the Information with other colleagues in the field office.

I have been working with WFP since 2012, both in HQ, in the field and remotely (current job). I have learnt a lot over this time with WFP, especially during my years in Bolivia and Honduras where I had the chance to work closely with extraordinary professionals and get the feeling of how humanitarian and development assistance practically works on the ground. The most exciting part of this job is being on the field and liaise directly with beneficiaries. This is something I truly miss now that I am working  as a remote consultant but I hope to have the opportunity to get back in action soon!

The World Food Programme's mission slogan is "saving lives, changing lives". Its employees are driven to serve the mission purpose. It strives to serve vulnerable people around the world in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goal around world hunger. Serving the mission comes at a cost of having to work in a bureaucracy with often little information and direction given. It is a place suited for people driven to shape their work and get at results within the confines of a bureaucracy and limited provision of information and context.

Multicultural and prestigious humanitarian organization to work with if you have a heart of helping suffering people. WFP works around the globe to provide food assistance to those who need it most breaking all barriers which sometimes is life threatening to its employees. The best organisation to work with ever given the opportunity, the benefits are awesome! Long WFP, long live UN! 

There was a time I requested for approval or decision to be made by my project manager for some additional works at the site which were beyond my agreed tolerance, which took long as it was also beyond the project manager's tolerance. That resulted to the contractor who took blame on me for delaying to give them go ahead. The works were then completed after the approval was done one week behind schedule.

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