Amon Timan

Experience

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  Government of Kiribati

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2005

  Director of Community Development Services

  I retired in 2005 from the government civil service and then began to engage in contract employment, firstly with the Kiribati Peace Corps Program and most recently have started with Kiribati Adpatation Programme 3 from 2013 up to 2016 where am still currently employed.The job responsibilities in the Community Development Services Division of the then Ministry of Internal and Social Welfare included strategic planning and management of government priorities at the time in progressing and advancing development in welfare and casework, youth, sport, women and human rights promotion and implementation thus focussing on CRC for the children and women and CEDAW for women to which GoK has become parties to it; Show less

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  United States Peace Corps / Kiribati

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2008

  Ass Program Manager HCD and Ed

  I provided strategic planning and training to support Peace Corps Volunteers in their orientation, placement and on the job guidance; community consultation and meeting; selection and identification of best guardian families, arrangement for volunteer's home, follow up visits to assist volunteers on how were they interacted with communities, worked closely with Managers in Education and in Health and Community Development programs.

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  Ah Moon Timan

  May 2013 - now

  Community Engagement Expert

  Working with different communities to share critical information on climate change impact and to invite people's feedback on rain water harvesting projects, water supply project and on coastal protection projects. The aims are to mobilize full participation of the whole community and to reach out to those who are not in the mainstream so as to ensure that nearly 100%participation is obtained. In doing so we use extensively existing social institutions with particular emphasis on family levels and small group processes in different settings, eventually we kind of generating community empowerment from within to manage and take over those projects as theirs, and highlighting equal access and human right aspects to be well considered at all times; Show less