Kamela Sediqi

c/o Mercy Corps,
Street 5, Qala-e-Fatullah
Kabul, Afghanistan
Phone: 070.298.204

Personal information

Nationality: Tajik
Occupation: Consultant and Business Development Trainer

Education

2005 Project Artemis, Thunderbird, Arizona, USA. Successfully completed an intensive Business Management course (two weeks).

2004 Completed training (follow-up) in Business Awareness and Business Management Training – a training package developed specifically for Afghanistan as part of the Women Entrepreneurship (WED) Project implemented jointly by the International Training Centre of the International Labor Organization (TTC ILO) and the ILO Kabul office

2003 Completed a five week training in Turin, Italy in Small business development and Microfinance as part of the ITC ILO WED Project.

2001 Completed a two month course in MS Office User, Khurasan computer course, Kabul –Afghanistan

1994 -1995 Completed a two year course in Dari literature, Dari Department, S. Jamaldin Afghan Teacher Training Institute-Kabul, Afghanistan

1991 – 1993 Completed Nawasn Khirkhana High school, Kabul, Afghanistan

Work Experience

August 2004 Director, Owner and Founder of Kaweyan Business Development Services and Consultancy Company
• Implemented CEFE Grassroots training for women clients in Bamyan province (IOM)
• Impemented CEFE TOT Grassroots training for thirty men trainers of the DDR program Herat province (IOM)
• Gender awareness training for thirty women and men (together) in Kandahar province, 2004

2003 - 2004 Mercy Corps-Kabul, Afghanistan
• BDS Trainer in Economic Development: Implement TOT training in Herat for 30 men in DDR program for IOM.
• Consultant to the Community Development Center-District 7, Kabul

2002 - 2003 IOM Afghanistan
• Support Assistant to the Jangalak Construction Project, District 7, Kabul
• Project Manager of the Afghan Volunteer Refugees: relief distribution, recruitment, Jangalak Project

2001- 2002 IOM Afghanistan (during Taliban period)
• Coordinator of three projects: Relief, Microfinance and Vocational Training
• Administration work related to these projects: produced activity reports, wrote proposals, distributed salaries

1999 - 2001 UN Habitat Afghanistan
• Production Manager in community projects (established tailoring, embroidery, bee keeping, woodwork projects)
• Coordinator of the Community Development Center, District 10, Kabul

1996 – 1999 Started and developed a successful home-based tailoring and embroidery business, Roya

1994 - 1995 Taimany High School, Kabul, Afghanistan
Part-time teacher while completing my college studies

Training Certificates

• Participate in US Global Leadership Campaigns 10th Anniversary Gala Dinner honoring Secretary   Condoleezza Rise( USA 2005 )
• International visitor Leadership program Entrepreneurship for women “ A Regional project for South of Asia   April 2 -23’2005 in US in Washington’ New York’ Memphis’ San Diego’ New Orleans USA 2005
• Thunderbird Management School, Arizona (USA 2005)

• Sewa Trade Facilities Center (India 2004)
• ITC ILO Capacity Building for Better Implementation of Microfinance in Afghanistan (Italy 2003)
• ITC ILO Entrepreneurship Development and Handicraft for Women in Afghanistan – Training Skills
  (Italy 2003)
• (Afghanistan 2003)
• TOT on Entrepreneurship Development Afghanistan (Afghanistan 2003)
• AGEF (Association of Expatriates in the Field of Migration and Development Corporation), TOT Advanced   Business plan (Afghanistan 2003)
• Tarango, Bangladesh, TOT in CEFE for Grassroots people, Women’s Training Support project
   (Afghanistan 2003)
• Consortium of Women entrepreneurs of India, diploma in Community Development and Business (India 2002)

Private Business Experience

2004: Registered the Kaweyan Business Development Services and Consultancy Company

2003: Started a carpentry small business using a grant given by AGEF to successful participants in a course on           how to write a business plan

2003: Started a Gabune-making business. The business employs 250 women.

1996: Started tailoring business in Kabul. This business lasted for three years. I employed four hundred women            in this project and distributed garments among provinces. Then, this company joined with UN Habitat            and started more handicrafts projects with the Community Forum of District 10. These products were            subsequently sold in five districts of Kabul.