Smart Vision

Ahmed Hersi Osman

Director of Programmes

Osman is a dedicated and committed result-driven Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and learning consultant with skills, knowledge, and experience to implement complex projects within the field of M&E and Research.

Ahmed comes with more than a decade of first-hand experience in Monitoring, Evaluation and Research through his career with various international and national organizations operating in Somalia/Somaliland at both fulltime and short time engagements. In the 10 years Osman has delivered more than 30 assignments that include projects and programs evaluation, independent monitoring, research, needs assessment, M&E training, and capacity building across different sectors from Food security and livelihoods to Economic growth, education, good governance, health and nutrition, WASH, Natural resource management among several others.

Osman has worked with many organizations over the past ten years at different M&E capacities that include Caritas, care international, USAID, RTI International, Save the Children, ILO, UNDP, I-APS, Candlelight, Pharo Ventures, Relief International, DFID, World Bank Group, and handful of international M&E consulting companies in Somalia/Somaliland. Ahmed has double MA in Project Management and Planning and Community development. He Possesses excellent skills for communication and delivery of reports to stakeholders and competent in analysis of projects’ complex datasets using MS Excel, DHIS2, Open Data Kit, NVivo, Atlas.ti, Epi Info, SPSS, and STRATA. He is native in Somali, fluent in English and proficient in Arabic.