Expatriates: Political analysis, preparing policy papers, research, training, international humanitarian law, women's rights, peace building

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Bio: Mona Haitham (@munaHaitham) President of the Partners Foundation, Coordinator of the Aden Women's Forum, Mona is a political researcher. Her current areas of interest are studying and analyzing political issues, especially in the field of peace building, in which she is very active .

Mona began her feminist activism by writing politically on the southern Yemen issue on social media and newspapers independently, and by participating in the mass demonstrations of the peaceful Southern Movement from 2010 to 2015. In 2014, for a full year, she was involved in political empowerment and women's leadership programs.

After that, in 2015 she began her career as a trainer and facilitator in political empowerment programs, after receiving national and regional training. Recently, Mona held training on the mechanisms of applying international humanitarian law within the Network of Friends of International Humanitarian Law. 

Mona is a member of a number of national networks, including the Aden Consultation Group, the Feminist Summit, the Women's Voices of Peace Network, the CEDAW Alliance Committee, and also a founding member of the Yemeni National Reconciliation Movement. During her activity with the Aden Consultations Group, Mona studies important issues for the city of Aden as a member of a strategic thinking team to prepare policy papers on these issues and follow up with the city’s authorities.

Due to her extensive expertise, as a political analyst, she is currently holding the position of consultant, facilitator and author of policy papers for three important projects focused in the southern regions of Yemen. The projects that Mona supervises focus on integrating the efforts of Track II women with the efforts of local women mediators. These efforts have had great impacts, as a number of women have been empowered indecision-making positions in the local authority in both Al-Hawtah, Zanzibar and Radfan districts, by official assignment decisions issued by the governor of Lahj and from the governor of Abyan.

 Mona has many intellectual productions in addition to political research, where she participated in writing the book Southern Women’s Struggles and their Future Prospects, and published eight political research papers on contemporary and historical issues, and in political theories at the Academy of International Relations in Istanbul. In addition to a research entitled the problem of the federal option in Yemen and the appropriate alternative, and another research entitled the direction of conflict and the direction of peace in Yemen. Recently, I issued a number of political papers, such as a reading of Resolution 1325 through three station sand beyond?, And another policy paper entitled How can the political process in Yemen succeed? She also participated in writing a general CEDAW shadow report within the Yemeni Women's Alliance for CEDAW led by the Arab Sisters Forum.

 Mona holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Sana'a University. And a higher diploma in political science from the Academy of International Relations in Istanbul. She is currently studying a master's course in political science at the second year at the Istanbul International Relations Academy.

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