Mohamad Al-Ashmar, Phd Email & Phone Number

Independent Consultant, Researcher, Trainer & Team Lead at MENA Development Valley, I have over 12 years of experience providing audit services, third-party monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MEAL), capacity-building services for UN agencies, development, international donors, and humanitarian NGOs in the Middle East, North Africa and Global South regions.I have successfully delivered and managed various Civil society support, capacity strengthening, and MEAL assignments and research exercises ranging from qualitative evaluations using participatory methods to large-scale quantitative assignments. I have also developed strategic partnerships with international consultancy groups and academia and supported NGOs and INGOs at the field and organizational levels. My mission is to drive change and innovation in humanitarian and development programmes, focusing on social development, youth, civil society strengthening, and education. I have a strong expertise in MENA economics and politics and am fluent in English, Arabic, and French.Highlights:▪ Project/programme development in the field of humanitarian governance, social development, youth, civil society strengthening, and education; inclusion of vulnerable groups in project development; focus on women/gender, minorities. ▪ Performing and providing MEAL services, assessments, reviews, and outcome evaluations.▪ Managing transnational local consultancy groups working in crisis-affected areas and countries on monitoring, evaluation, capacity strengthening, recovery, and peacebuilding-based programming.▪ Development of strategic partnerships with other international consultancy groups and academia.▪ Deliver impact studies and evaluations ranking from qualitative evaluations using participatory methods to large-scale quantitative surveys using mobile data collection.▪ Project monitoring and assessments of large, complex, multi-donor partnerships and institutional arrangements.▪ Designing and managing proposals, team building, field coordination, and data/information collection plans for baseline and context-specific data.▪ Conducting assessments regarding targeted areas and communities and developing effective evaluation schemes for the project activities.▪ Providing specific recommendations, support, and reports on monthly evaluations, emphasizing results and impacts.▪ Record of accomplishments in training teams, achieving targets, allowing projects to meet deadlines, budgets, and result-based objectives

Listed skills include Microsoft Office, Accounting, Financial Reporting, Account Management, and 5 others.