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Hashim Abdireshid Ahmed

Humanitarian
Baidoa

Summary

Dedicated humanitarian professional with 15 years of experience in refugee and internally displaced person (IDP) protection, program implementation, and field-level coordination, with robust experience in emergency and protracted crises. Proven expertise in engaging with displaced populations, developing community-based solutions, and collaborating with diverse stakeholders to achieve impactful outcomes. Highly skilled in needs assessment, case management, reporting, and interagency coordination, complemented by a strong commitment to diversity and exceptional leadership abilities. Passionate about advocating for the protection of IDPs, refugees, and asylum seekers while promoting sustainable development and empowering vulnerable communities.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Protection Officer (NOA, National Professional Officer)

UNHCR
10.2024 - 06.2025
  • Stay abreast of political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment.
  • Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards, and codes of conduct.
  • Assist in providing comments on existing and draft legislation related to PoC.
  • Provide legal advice and guidance on protection issues to PoC; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation.
  • Conduct eligibility and status determination for PoC in compliance with UNHCR procedural standards and international protection principles.
  • Promote and contribute to measures to identify, prevent, and reduce statelessness.
  • Contribute to a country-level child protection plan as part of the protection strategy.
  • Contribute to a country-level education plan as part of the protection strategy.
  • Provide inputs for the development of protection policies and standards within the AoR.
  • Implement and monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.
  • Manage individual protection cases including those on GBV and child protection. Monitor, and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents.
  • Recommend durable solutions for the largest possible number of PoC through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement.
  • Assess resettlement needs and apply priorities for the resettlement of individuals and groups of refugees and other PoC.
  • Contribute to the design, implementation, and evaluation of protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners.
  • Contribute to and facilitate a programme of results-based advocacy with sectorial and/or cluster partners.
  • Contribute to and facilitate effective information management through the provision of disaggregated data on populations of concern and their problems.
  • Assist capacity-building initiatives for communities and individuals to assert their rights.
  • Participate in initiatives to capacitate authorities, relevant institutions and NGOs to strengthen national protection related legislation and procedures.
  • Intervene with authorities on protection issues.
  • Assist the supervisor in deciding priorities for reception, interviewing and counselling for groups or individuals.
  • Assist the supervisor in enforcing compliance of staff and implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.
  • Enforce compliance with, and integrity of, all protection standard operating procedures.
  • Perform other related duties as required.

Protection Associate

UNHCR
05.2017 - 09.2024
  • Consistently apply International and National Law and applicable UN/UNHCR and IASC policy, standards and codes of conduct.
  • Assist in providing comments on existing and draft legislation related to persons of concern.
  • Provide advice on protection issues to persons of concern; liaise with competent authorities to ensure the issuance of personal and other relevant documentation.
  • Assist in conducting eligibility and status determination for persons of concern.
  • Contribute to measures to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.
  • Monitor the implementation of protection partners day-to-day activities
  • Contribute to a country-level child protection plan as part of the protection strategy.
  • Contribute to a country-level education plan as part of the protection strategy.
  • Monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all protection/solutions activities.
  • Manage individual protection cases including those on SGBV and child protection. Monitor, and intervene in cases of refoulement, expulsion and other protection incidents.
  • Assist in identifying durable solutions for the largest possible number of persons of concern through voluntary repatriation, local integration and where appropriate, resettlement.
  • Contribute to the design, implementation and evaluation of protection related AGD based programming with implementing and operational partners.
  • Contribute to effective information management through the provision of disaggregated data on populations of concern and their problems.
  • Participate in initiatives to capacitate authorities, relevant institutions and NGOs to strengthen national protection related legislation and procedures

Associate Protection Officer -ERT (International Experience)

UNHCR
11.2019 - 01.2020
  • Strengthen UNHCR’s permanent presence in Bama Local Government Area, Maiduguri
  • Coordinate and monitor the smooth roll-out of the revised protection monitoring tool in LGAs.
  • Ensure that UNHCR organizes and chairs coordination meetings at LGA level as well as is represented at other coordination fora at LGA level.
  • Strengthen protection mainstreaming in all other sectors.
  • Build the protection capacity of national and local government, partners and civil society to assume their responsibilities vis-a-vis all persons of concern through protection training, mainstreaming and related activities.
  • Contribute to the development of monthly protection reports, advocacy papers, thematic protection reports, protection factsheet report and other information management products.
  • Perform other related duties as required.

Biometric coordinator

UN-WFP
06.2016 - 05.2017
  • Provide the overall coordination of the refugee camp biometrics verification procedure.
  • Ensure adherence to all relevant standard operating procedures, such as procedures for food and NFI collection, ID checking, issuance and maintenance of IT equipment, security and maintenance of the premises.
  • Liaise between WFP, UNHCR and ARRA (Ethiopian government counterpart) in the refugee camp and food distribution sites.
  • Ensure agent actions are taken when there are developments obstructing the smooth verification process by liaising with appropriate ARRA and UNHCR staff.
  • Coordinate and held meetings with ARRA and UNHCR staff and refugee community workers at the end of each distribution cycle to assess how the verification process has progressed and agree on remedial actions to improve the next cycle.
  • Monitor and report on the process and perform other assigned program activities.

Junior training officer

Right To Play
05.2014 - 12.2015
  • Represent Right To Play and have regular consultations with partners, stakeholder and key beneficiaries in the assigned community.
  • Identify community needs and ensure all Right To Play activities are aligned with the ToC and with project plans and proposals.
  • Produce periodic reports on activity implementation, progress towards achieving outcomes and write case studies and best practices.
  • Document best practices and change on the lives of children as the result of the project intervention of Right To Play and partners.
  • Train head coaches and coach trainers/incentive workers in activity planning, equipment and facility management.
  • Ensure high level and sustained participation of children and young people in the process of project planning and implementation.
  • Assist with the facilitation of training workshops conducted by coach trainers and other program staff temporarily assigned to the project.
  • Perform project monitoring activities in educational institutions and in the community.

ECCD program officer

Save the children International
09.2011 - 04.2014
  • Prepare the ECCD program implementation plan and monthly activity plan and ensure that they are followed.
  • Take a leading role in inspiring and empowering the team in all technical and practical tasks regarding the ECCD program.
  • Building and enhancing effective education networks at all levels and connecting them as fully as possible through education committee and refugee central committee.
  • Ensure that ECCD interventions are informed by and integrated with other core sectors of child protection, health, nutrition, food security and livelihoods.
  • In collaboration with the procurement staff and camp coordinator, purchase the necessary materials and equipment for education activities.
  • Arrange proper referral systems like health issues, disabilities and gender with other implementing partners to provide the necessary assistance for extremely vulnerable children.
  • Monitor the school feeding program activities in the child friendly space and perform other activities as assigned.

Storekeeper

UNHCR
02.2010 - 08.2011
  • Loading and offloading and placement of items in the assigned storage areas.
  • Maintaining filling systems and records as necessary or materials traceability.
  • Checking inventory and condition of the stored items at regular intervals, maintaining good housekeeping in all store areas.
  • Issue materials from stores against material issue notes as approved by responsible bodies.
  • Carry out initial checks on received materials for verification of items as per purchase order.
  • Follow up of released items proper deployment in the field and perform other duties as assigned.

Education

MA - Disaster Risk Management and sustainable development

Africa Institute of graduate studies
08.2025

BA degree - educational planning and management

St. Mary’s University college
01.2019

Diploma - teaching social science

Kotebe college of teachers’ education
01.2009

High school - undefined

Dollo Ado, Ethiopia high school
01.2006

Primary school - undefined

Dollo Ado, Ethiopia primary school
01.2004

Skills

  • Skills, capabilities and knowledge of program implementation in collaborative and teamwork manner with excellent coordination experience with stakeholders
  • Have the technical and managerial capabilities related to education in emergencies, child protection and ECCD programming particularly in humanitarian refugee/IDPs operation
  • Knowledge and experience of implementing youth program activities, training and life skill development
  • Proficient to communicate and liaise effectively in writing and orally to negotiate substantive and difficult issues with partner officials
  • Knowledge and experienced in planning, facilitation, translation and interpretation of trainings
  • Extreme kills and experience of project management and coordination of activities
  • Capable and experienced in initiating and contributing ideas towards project planning, monitoring and implementation
  • Skills and knowledge of report writing including project implementation reports, success stories and donor reports
  • Proven experience and ability to deal with complex analytical and strategic work process, coordination and inter-personal skills with ability to work independently with clients

References

Eyob, Fekadu Kefele, Protection Officer, fekade@unhcr.org, +252613359212, UNHCR, Somalia, Galkayo, Galkayo, Somalia

Training

  • Education training focusing on child centered learning.
  • INEE (inter-agency network for education in emergencies) minimum standards of education training in Dollo Ado
  • Attended TOT training on developing life skills through sports and play-based approach by Right To Play in May,2014 in Addis Ababa
  • Protection mainstreaming training and Cluster coordination.
  • Completed the UN mandatory online courses.
  • AAP regional training (TOT)
  • Developing inter-personal communication strategy (Global learning center online course 21st April 2011)
  • Humanitarian communications training in save the children, October 2012
  • Psychosocial support training conducted by world vision Ethiopia program in Dollo- Ado, September,2012
  • Participated in GBV and PSEA (protection of sexual exploitation and abuse) training.
  • Participated in HLP (Housing, Land and Property) training by NRC in May,2017- Baidoa, Somalia
  • Participated in CCCM (Camp coordination & camp management) orientation training in June,2017 by IOM-Baidoa
  • Participated in CPiE (Child protection in Emergencies) training by Unicef in May,2017– Baidoa, Somalia
  • Attended UNHCR Workshop on Emergency Management (WEM) in Starum, Norway between 18-28 June,2019
  • Attended UNHCR Program Management training.
  • Protection in armed conflict and humanitarian negotiations

D. International experience/missions

  • Support mission to Kigali, Rwanda on establishment of Emergency Transit Mechanism with UNHCR – 22 September to 08 October,209
  • Worked at the capacity of Associate Protection Officer(P2) in Maiduguri, Nigeria for emergency deployment with UNHCR – 01 November,2019 to 30 Jan,2020

Timeline

Assistant Protection Officer (NOA, National Professional Officer)

UNHCR
10.2024 - 06.2025

Associate Protection Officer -ERT (International Experience)

UNHCR
11.2019 - 01.2020

Protection Associate

UNHCR
05.2017 - 09.2024

Biometric coordinator

UN-WFP
06.2016 - 05.2017

Junior training officer

Right To Play
05.2014 - 12.2015

ECCD program officer

Save the children International
09.2011 - 04.2014

Storekeeper

UNHCR
02.2010 - 08.2011

BA degree - educational planning and management

St. Mary’s University college

Diploma - teaching social science

Kotebe college of teachers’ education

High school - undefined

Dollo Ado, Ethiopia high school

Primary school - undefined

Dollo Ado, Ethiopia primary school

MA - Disaster Risk Management and sustainable development

Africa Institute of graduate studies

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