Afghan Immigration Insight
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03 Mar 2022 |
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Zoom Online Event
You will receive a link on March 3, 2022, to join the Zoom meeting at 6:30 pm.
Jim Halderman
Chair, D5450 Peace Committee
Homayoon Milad, Community Sponsorship Coordinator
Homayoon Milad is the Afghan Placement Assistance Community Sponsorship Coordinator at International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Denver. Prior to being employed by IRC in November 2021, Milad was Peace Process Program Manager at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Afghanistan. He was responsible for providing political briefings to a wide range of stakeholders across government, the international community, and organizations in the country, including conducting research and analysis on the pathways to achieve a political settlement of the Afghan conflict and draw on comparative peace processes. Before joining USIP, Milad was Project Manager for the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs and was responsible for managing the National Maintenance Strategy and Afghan Police Academy reform.
Before his work at the Afghanistan Ministry of Interior Affairs, Milad was the Project Director for the Community-based Agriculture and Rural Development Project of the United States Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). Milad was responsible for implementing the area-based alternative development projects to reduce poppy cultivation in the highly poppy cultivated areas of Afghanistan. Milad also designed the Commercial Greenhouses Production Zones in Afghanistan Comprehensive Agriculture and Rural Development framework. In addition, he also created and implemented the umbrella program of Alternative Development and the Climate Change Adaptation initiatives.
Homayoon Milad also served for ten years in the National Area-Based Development program of Afghanistan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development in the capacity of Project Director for Livelihood Improvement in Tajik Afghan Cross-border Areas (LITACA). He also served as Department Head of District Development Assemblies. Milad established and institutionalization 388 District Development Assemblies across the country. He has pioneered the One Village – One Product process in Afghanistan. During his work with the Afghanistan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, one of his significant achievements was developing the Policy for Improving Governance and Development in Districts and Villages.
Homayoon Milad earned a Master of Science in International Cooperation Policy from the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University of Japan, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Agronomy from Kabul University.
He will speak about:
- Historic American air evacuation from Kabul.
- Economic, social, and political impacts of U.S. and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Review of International Rescue Committee (IRC) Community Sponsorship program and how the partnership and contribution of local community help their new neighbors integrate into their new lives in the U.S.