More than 8 years of outstanding work experiences and a solid education background in managing and coordinating agricultural related development projects and disaster risk management and sustainable development program interventions in the areas of climate change and resilience, livelihood and food security for pastoral and agropastoral communities, natural resource management. Whilst gained a hands on working experiences in Somaliland and Somalia. In addition to that, for the past 8 years I was working with different international, GIZ and local organizations in different capacities, whilst served as Agriculture technical advisor, consultant, trainer, researcher, and officer in different livelihood projects
More than 8 years agricultural development projects with more focus on good agriculture practices GAP, fodder production, dry land agriculture techniques and land use management. Seed programs agricultural and natural resource management
Experiences working with the Agronomist advisor and strong background in crop production, crop management, Soil analysis, and sustainable agricultural practices. Skilled in providing technical support to farmers and implementing innovative solutions to enhance crop productivity.That targeted different communities across the country including development projects, livelihoods and food security project in Somaliland and Somalia.
Native Somali speaker, fluent in English (at a C2 level), and in Arabic (at a C2 level)
With more over years of progressive experience in managing multi-sector humanitarian development programs, with a specific focus on fragile, post-conflict and displacement communities. 13 Specific experience in the region: COUNTRY
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Specialist (Agriculture)
World Food Programme (WFP)/Tropical Consult
Somalia
06.2022 - Current
Diagnostic Study aimed at designing a Productive Safety Net in Urban Banadir for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Host Communities
Lead the field research team in conducting comprehensive assessments to identify the needs and challenges faced by IDPs and host communities in Banadir
Develop a productive and sustainable design for the social safety net program, focusing on agriculture and productive sectors to enhance food security and livelihood opportunities
Collaborate with local communities, government agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders to gather insights and foster partnerships that support program objectives
Create strategic frameworks that outline actionable steps for implementing agricultural initiatives and productive sector interventions
Provide training and mentorship to local stakeholders and community members to enhance their skills in sustainable agricultural practices and income-generating activities
Establish indicators and methodologies for monitoring and evaluating program impact, ensuring alignment with the overall goals of improving resilience and well-being in urban Banadir
Prepare detailed reports and presentations on findings, recommendations, and progress to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and accountability
Agriculture Technical Advisor Component Manager
GIZ-LIP livelihood improvement project
Somalila
01.2020 - 07.2024
Company Overview: GIZ- RDRM Improvement of Disaster Risk Management and food security to strengthen resilience improvement project
Responsibilities: as an Agriculture coordinator and partners liaison with more focus on how the work is done by our partners and the governmental institutions MoAD, MoPND and MoWRD
Management and coordination of the project coordination of the project partners and activities
To assisting the national and international advisors of the project particularly in Agriculture and fodder related courses
To support the organization and the management related issues of the project and the identification & coordinating related government institutions (Ministries and Agencies)
To coordinate project partner institutions regarding the preparing, implementation of agreement/s and cluster coordination meetings on agriculture and food security
Providing technical advice to local and international experts and recording best practices and knowledge management
Collecting, processing and distributing relevant information and monitoring coaching the interaction b/w partners
Technical coordination’s meetings of the Project partners
To discuss what has been achieved and the performance of the partners and how they benefited from it and their trainings about GAP, Dry land climate smart Agriculture techniques and fodder production
Conducting trainings for agricultural focal points (AFPs) and supervision for AFPs, farmer groups, demonstration plots and construction sites and fodder production best practices
Initiate and coordinate the preparation of annual work plans based on a standardized format
GIZ- RDRM Improvement of Disaster Risk Management and food security to strengthen resilience improvement project
Short-term Consultancies
GOPA worldwide Consultants GIZ
Somalia
08.2021 - 09.2021
Rehabilitation of technical and Vocational Education and Training TVET basic Agriculture sector as teacher guide and learner guide
The assignment will support the improvement of capacities and capacity development needs for applicable guiding document as well as training document for the TVET institutions on possible course providing for improving the quality of TVET in the agriculture sector
Teaching learning and assessment material (TLAM) as a teacher guide and as a learner guide together with the local expert in agriculture sector for the validation/approval and deliver it to the PMU
Short-term Consultancies
ACTION AID International
Somalia
03.2019 - 03.2019
Climate Resilience on Sustainable Agriculture and Covered training topics
Increasing climate change resilience through sustainable agricultural practices
Building up the resilience of farming systems requires implementing short- and long-term climate adaptation strategies at different scales
At the farm level
Sustainable cropping practices may ensure that crop production is robust enough to buffer against and adapt to current future climate change risks
By analyzing existing research into the effects of sustainable practices on soil, water and biodiversity and impact of climate change on agriculture production areas
Enhancing soil resilience: Soil health plays a crucial role in determining the ability of crop production
Adapting crop varieties and farming systems
Traditionally farmers in villages cultivated local crop varieties, resulting in poor productivity due to extreme weather conditions like heat, droughts, or floods
Short-term Consultancies
ACTION AID International
Somalia
07.2018 - 07.2018
Farming Community Training on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Covered contents of the training
Agronomical soil and water conservation measures (Land preparation)
Introducing good agricultural practices for dryland crops such as cereal Grains and Legumes crops - Sorghum, Maize, Cowpea and Soybean and cash crop vegetables - Water melon, Onion and Tomato
Dry land farming techniques- flood water harvesting in cropped fields
Intercropping and crop-rotation- e.g cowpea + sorghum + Onion
Integrated weed management methods - e.g Manual and mechanical
Pest and disease control - local botanical usage (bio-pesticides)
To address the current pressing challenges of Agriculture production and draw recommendation to farmers
Agriculture Coordinator
International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD)
Somalia
01.2015 - 10.2016
Coordination all agricultural activities seed programs, dry land agriculture techniques, soil fertility management good Agriculture practices (GAP), and postharvest losses and storage
Increased agricultural production knowledge by training of smallholder farmers both male and female
Improved capacities of plantation in a modern way of agricultural production and food security and climate change adaptation and resilience
Prepared agronomy manual guide translated with illustrations that guiding the farmers was prepared for each FFS group
This assisted them to solve many problems
Enhanced living standards of farmers headed households and sustainable management of natural resources in Argo-pastoral and pastoral community
Improved food security and promoted endogenous knowledge in farmers through the upgrading of agriculture production of new commercialization channels both producers and women’s entrepreneurship
Training farmers in cropping systems and intercropping, Farmers technical training, about how to apply fertilizers in order to increase their productivity as well as to protect from pests and harmful insects
Agriculture Officer
Somali Pastoral and Agropastoral Forum (Solpaf)
Somalia
01.2014 - 12.2014
Management and planning quarterly workplan of, the ongoing projects, in the sector of Agro-pastoral crop production and fodder production
Working closely with the program director, human resource and finance section
Conducting Agro-pastoral trainings for farmers to ensure effective productivity of appropriated information on GAP Soil management, water management, IPM, green compost production efficient and safe use and IWM
Identification of the needs of farmers and the farming practices used and formulation of an available achievable strategy to improve agricultural production within the limited resources to farmers
Preparing focus group discussions and meetings to the related-on agriculture cooperatives in project sites in order to assess the needs of the farmers
Monitoring and Evaluation of the end of project meeting with the beneficiary in a rural area of the target villages and Government institutions
Education
AIZ -
International Cooperation
01.2022
01.2021
DATE -
01.2020
Bachelor of Science - Agriculture and NRM
01.2019
DEGREE(S) OR DIPLOMA -
Hajee Mohammed Danesh Science and
Technology University
Bangladesh
01.2018
Masters of Science - Agronomy
Gollis University
Hargeisa-Somaliland
01.2015
Skills
Facilitation Skills and Moderation
Bangladesh Research Wheat Center,2018
Threshing and Storage of Wheat
7 Language skills: Indicate competence from A1 (beginner) to C2 (proficient)
LANGUAGE
READING
SPEAKING
WRITING
Somali
Mother tongue
English
C2
Arabic
8 Membership of professional bodies: n/a
9 Other skills: Office package, data analysis (SPSS, Excel,Data collection tools ODK, KoBo Toolbox)
Climate Resilience on Sustainable Agriculture and Covered training topicts
Increasing climate change resilience through sustainable agricultural practices
Building up the resilience of farming systems requires implementing short- and long-term climate adaptation strategies at different scales
At the farm level
Sustainable cropping practices may ensure that crop production is robust enough to buffer against and adapt to current future climate change risks
By analyzing existing research into the effects of sustainable practices on soil, water and biodiversity and impact of climate change on agriculture production areas
Enhancing soil resilience: Soil health plays a crucial role in determining the ability of crop production
Adapting crop varieties and farming systems
Traditionally farmers in villages cultivated local crop varieties, resulting in poor productivity due to extreme weather conditions like heat, droughts, or floods8-30.9.
Somalia
GOPA worldwide Consultants GIZ
Short-term
Consultancies
Rehabilitation of technical and Vocational Education and Training TVET basic Agriculture sector as teacher guide and learner guide
The assignment will support the improvement of capacities and capacity development needs for applicable guiding document as well as training document for the TVET institutions on possible course providing for improving the quality of TVET in the agriculture sector
Teaching learning and assessment material (TLAM) as a teacher guide and as a learner guide together with the local expert in agriculture sector for the validation/approval and deliver it to the PMU Other relevant information: Upon request
Effect Of Gibberellic Acid (Ga3) on the Growth And Yield Of Aromatic Rice Varietites
JETIR Vol 9, issue1 2022 Jan
Https://www.jetir.org/view?paper=JETIR2201475
Indigenous Seed varieties of Sorghum and Maize published GIZ-Communication department website only
Hermetic Bags A Promsing Innovation For Seed Storage
Published GIZ-Communication department website only
References
16: References Name Oraganization Title Contact Inforamiton
Carola GIZ Head of component in the SRPL project Yemen Phone: +4915290004336 Email: Carola.morstein-von@giz.de
National Protocol & External Relations Officer (NOA-Step 10) at World Food Programme (WFP)National Protocol & External Relations Officer (NOA-Step 10) at World Food Programme (WFP)
Finance and Operations Consultant at Somdevelopment Construction & Daawad ConstructionFinance and Operations Consultant at Somdevelopment Construction & Daawad Construction