Mohamed Abdi Ahmed is applying to be a trainer for two sessions - Project Management and Organizational Development, and Monitoring and Evaluation - at a youth training in Morocco organized by UNOAC and its Youth Solidarity Fund component. He has over 8 years of experience managing projects for CARE International in Somalia, including on vocational training, youth employment, and gender development. He believes his academic background in social science and experience designing, implementing, and evaluating projects meets the requirements for the trainer position.

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TECHNICAL Cover Letter in response to apply for YSF call for Trainer applications in Morocco(14-18 Jun-13
1. Consultant Profile & Personal Description
I, Mr. Mohamed Abdi Ahmed(Hashi) hereby submit my Technical Cover letter to provide consultancy
services for UNOAC and its Sub-component of YSF with myself being correspondent to the assignment pre-
requisite requirements plus my experience and more than five years I have serviced in a similar
multidisciplinary tasks and assignments.
Based on extensive experience working in Somalia, including conducting research in the core areas of
Education & livelihoods, Emergencies, community safety, Gender Development and Gender mainstreaming
and Child Protection in effective handling of Programme Monitoring and Evaluation as well as sound
Project/Programme Management & Organizational Development as a unique factor in organizational
Development:-
Throughout, I maintained quality standards in my format for service delivery and commitment. Until, I later
self-planned for expanding my initiatives and formed now a functional consultancy firm to formalize the
individual type of service delivery to more comfortable one of institutionalization.
Given my dynamics and diverse experience, get confirmed that I possess all necessary skill set and technical
knowledge required to carry out this assignment to the highest caliber. I trust my submission structured in
the following format, fully demonstrates my ability to meet the objectives set out in the request for
Expression of your Organization Interest to eligibly be contracted as a trainer for the following sessions
selected from the list of training sessions by your reputable organization:-
• Project Management and Organizational Development(Session 5)
• Monitoring and Evaluation(session 6)
in the last four years, I worked for CARE international as a long-serving Education and Livelihood Urban
Programme focal point person. During my stay with CARE, I have been engaged in a large number of
Projects, under CARE’s largest complex Urban Programme.
Basically, CARE implemented a large number of youth enabling, Vocational Trainings, Youth Employment
Promotion Services, Youth Guidance & career advisory services, Young adult mentoring and Coaching
consultative participatory Sessions and Gender development and mainstreaming small scale projects under
the funding of its bigger Urban programme funding of a multiple donors per initiative.
CARE’s single strategy towards its Urban Programme was to enable youth through education and
employment with equal gender representation to reflect and support its organizational gender
development and gender mainstreaming initiatives.
It was to respond to its organizational programmic strategies, policies, goals and objectives in a policy-
responsive climate at a humanitarian context.

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Following are the projects I have managed and implemented as senior Programme Officer, acting non-filled
Area Manager role and Nairobi-based Programme Coordinator:-
• VETAPE(Vocational Education and Training for accelerated Promotion of Employment) Project- with
this project, Save the children had the leading role than the other consortium agency members of
CARE International I was representing as well as CISP. Working with several SC Somalia team in
consortium issues, meetings and technically-shared workshops
• DVTIES(Developing Vocational Training for informal Economy)
• VEEP(Vocational Education and Employment Puntland)
• SPYEP(Somaliland Puntland Youth Employment Promotion)
• SYLI(Somali Youth Leaders Initiatives)
• Dariswanaag Project with Components of Vocational Training & Gender Development, Child
Protection and Development, Food Voucher and General Protection activities
I technically contributed to all above indicated projects with well-established and competency-based, wide
range and multi-sector minds in a participatory approach.
Professionally, I have a mastery of 8 years competitive programme experience in terms of programme
design and development, stakeholder engagement and definition, process definition, monitoring and
evaluation, Project/programme activity/task planning and implementation with verve and drive.
My personal character to be aligned with professionalism, I am self-motivated, result-oriented, excellent
team player & team leader, flexible, open, consultative to perform successfully my personal assignments in
an all inclusive approach.
Academically, I am a holder of bachelors degree in social science with strong professional and technical
competency in all aspects of Project/Programme management.
On top of that During a time when I was at teacher training College, I have done course on the entire child
Development with focus more on developing contextual child protection strategies on how to adequately
plan and create livelihood sources of income, access to basic social services including Education & Health
with mostly children from poor socio-economic background and vulnerable families at a very large scale.
2. My Understanding of your Organizational TOR for the consultant to do this Assignment
To my understanding of UNOAC’S YSF Programme Morocco assignment in this matter, the consultant
Trainer will be leading the development and delivery of one or more of its pre-defined training sessions
numbered from 5 to 12 sessions. Further possessions of the trainers are as follows:-
• Knowledge of and experience of the topic of his/her selected session/sessions.
• Experience in Training/Mentoring/Supporting young adults.

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• Familiarity with the social and cultural contexts of at least one of the following regions; Africa, Asia,
Middle East and North Africa, experience working in( or with people from) at least one of the
following regions; Africa, Asia, Middle East, and North Africa
• Being Fluent in English
Application to be a Trainer of 1) session 5 and Session 6 of the Training( Mohamed Abdi Ahmed(Hashi)-
Founder and Programme Director of Puntland Youth Experts Technical Assistance(Puntland-Based local
technical assistance consulting firm)-based in Garowe.
Available at any time within April if qualified to be recruited for the consultancy offer
Mobile Number: +25290750919/+25290710106
Any kind Response from your reputable organization will highly be appreciated and welcomed
Kind Regards