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Aden Eid Qalombi

Hargeisa

Summary

  • 11 Years within the firm: 2 years
  • Key qualifications:
  • 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)
  • 10 Present position: Expert 1

Accomplishments

  • PROPOSED ROLE IN THE PROJECT:
  • Expert Email: adanqalombi@gmail.com Family name:
  • Aden First names:
  • Eid Qalombi Mobile: + 252 (0) 63 4478522 Nationality:
  • SomaliCivil status:
  • Married International
  • Short-term
  • Consultancies
  • 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
  • Khadar Awale GIZ Events &logistics Specialist Phone: +252634411486 Email: khadar.awale@giz.de
  • Abdirisak Osman Dt-global Collaboration and Leaning Manager Phone No: +252634000712 Email: abdirisak.osman@dt-global.com Page 2

Interests

DATE FROM-TO COUNTRY , DATE FROM-TO COUNTRY DATE FROM-TO Somaliland 2023 - current

Timeline

Technical Specialist (Agriculture)

World Food Programme (WFP)/Tropical Consult
06.2022 - Current

Short-term Consultancies

GOPA worldwide Consultants GIZ
08.2021 - 09.2021

Agriculture Technical Advisor Component Manager

GIZ-LIP livelihood improvement project
01.2020 - 07.2024

Short-term Consultancies

ACTION AID International
03.2019 - 03.2019

Short-term Consultancies

ACTION AID International
07.2018 - 07.2018

Agriculture Coordinator

International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD)
01.2015 - 10.2016

Agriculture Officer

Somali Pastoral and Agropastoral Forum (Solpaf)
01.2014 - 12.2014

AIZ -

International Cooperation

DATE -

Bachelor of Science - Agriculture and NRM

DEGREE(S) OR DIPLOMA -

Hajee Mohammed Danesh Science and Technology University

Masters of Science - Agronomy

Gollis University
Aden Eid Qalombi