Tarek Alsaleh

Biography

LOCALISE AID AND
GET RID OF THE
MIDDLEMEN

Half Syrian, half German entrepreneur, has won lots of international awards & pats on the back.

He reckons he will change the aid system (#localisation #tech) so local people get more of the $$$.

"Running my own start-up charity was extremely frustrating,
In the aid sector, each organization is competing with each other – for money, for visibility... Local initiatives are struggling to survive, worn down by bureaucracy.

I want to change this!"

Tarek is now a speaker, thinker and advocate for systemic change. As part of his hands on work supporting million + in Syria he piloted tech tools that cuts paperwork, builds trust and visibility and makes localisation of aid a reality.

He currently develops a modular ‘Mobile first’ WebApp, adapting reporting standards like the harmonizing reporting template 8+3, reasonable due diligence, decentralised decision making to manage community lead projects.