ZAMZAM ABDI
Gender Protection and Inclusion Advisor
Stockholm,AB
Summary
A gender equality champion envisioning a just world with no human suffering.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
Gender Protection and Inclusion Advisor
Islamic Relief Sweden
Stockholm, Stockholm County
01.2019 - Current
- Ensure improved programmatic results on gender equality and women's empowerment through Islamic Relief Sweden´s interventions.
- Review IRS' funded gender justice and women's and girls' empowerment programming.
- Strengthen its rights-based gender justice mainstreaming approach in humanitarian and development interventions by focusing on the linkages between programming and advocacy, and their connection to the Swedish gender policy framework.
- Strengthen the capacity of IRS and its staff capacity to enhance gender mainstreaming practices in all their program and operational interventions.
Desk Officer and Gender focal point
Islamic Relief Sweden
01.2013 - 01.2019
- Responsible for the effective coordination, operational management and quality assurance of interventions within humanitarian relief and long-term sustainable development cooperation financed by Sida, ForumCiv and Radiohjälpen.
- My country portfolio primarily covered Sida funded projects in MENA and Africa, e.g. Syria and South Sudan, with annual budgets ranging between 15-30 million SEK.
- Responsible for the overall relationship and engagement between IR Sweden, IR Country and Regional Offices and IRW (HQ), ensuring that the projects in my portfolio were aligned to the strategic priorities of IR Sweden as well as to Sida and the national Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs).
- Developed and maintained contextual expertise of the humanitarian situation as well as political, economic and social developments in assigned countries and regions.
- Assessed new funding opportunities within the assigned portfolios and developed concept notes together with Country Offices.
- Key focal point for dialogues between IR country offices and donors, as well as internally between departments relating to my assigned portfolio.
- Leading the overall grant management process cycle, including dialogue and qualified support to Country Offices, throughout all steps - from project design, proposal development and setting up of cooperation agreements to budgeting, quality assurance and monitoring and reporting to donors.
- Responsible for financial monitoring of respective grant, including identifying and addressing deviations from budget/BVA/financial report as well as from work plan and results framework, in collaboration with financial controllers.
- Regular monitoring missions to assigned countries and external representation at various forums and working groups, such as the Swedish Network for Humanitarian Actors (SNHA).
- Appointed to work with organisational development at the international department.
Gender focal point
Swedish Migration Board
01.2011 - 01.2013
- The role includes work with, among other things admission, discharge and visitation as well as informing about asylum decisions.
- Pay attention to and deal with any special needs of those in custody and hold activities for those in custody.
- Ensure that there is a calm, safe and secure environment at the center by carrying out, among other things, checks and visits.
- Participation in transport and some administration is also included in the service.
Campaign Assistant
Amnesty International-Uganda
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Providing support and guidance to campaign teams, volunteers, and activists involved in International's campaigns, including training, mentoring, and coordinating activities.
- Help communities make positive changes by encouraging them to recognize their problems, come up with solutions, and work together to build a fairer society.
- By focusing on preventing Gender-Based Violence (GBV), I played an important part in supporting and empowering the community to respond to GBV.
Capacity Building Officer
Coalition For Grassroots Women Organizations
Mogadsihu, Somalia
01.2001 - 01.2008
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Development Studies
University of Nairobi
Nairobi 01.2000 - 01.2003
Commission Of Trust
Chairperson, Local union committee at Islamic Relief Sweden
Training
- Anti-corruption, Sida Partnership Forum, 2017, Tools for detecting and dealing with corruption.
- Bortom Workshop - Hur bidra till hållbar kapacitetsutveckling?, Sida Partnership Forum, 2020, Increase internal capacity of authorities and organisations.
- The Right(s) Way Forward - a community based participatory tool, ForumCiv, 2019, Empower community members to analyse environmental degradation.
- Integration of conflict sensitivity in programming, Sida Partnership Forum, 2018, Tools and analytical frameworks within the areas of conflict.
- Risk and budget management, ForumCiv, 2017, Identification/management of risks and budget efficiency.
- Audit (Sida and EU) - effective management, review and control, PWC, 2017, Guidance within the principles of good governance.
- Communication in development, Sida Partnership Forum, 2014, Themes of communication of development and sustainability.
Thematic Knowledge And Interests
- Gender equality
- GBV/SGBV
- SRHR
- WPS
- Economic and political empowerment
- Climate justice
- Forced migration
- HRBA/sustainable development
- Humanitarian reform
- Decolonisation
- Project management
- Organisational development
Timeline
Gender Protection and Inclusion Advisor
Islamic Relief Sweden
01.2019 - Current
Desk Officer and Gender focal point
Islamic Relief Sweden
01.2013 - 01.2019
Gender focal point
Swedish Migration Board
01.2011 - 01.2013
Campaign Assistant
Amnesty International-Uganda
01.2008 - 01.2009
Capacity Building Officer
Coalition For Grassroots Women Organizations
01.2001 - 01.2008
Bachelor of Arts - Development Studies
University of Nairobi
01.2000 - 01.2003
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