Meridian Group Somalia brings government-grade rigor in demography, mortality surveillance, and survey systems to governments, UN agencies, and development partners — from the team who has built these systems from the inside.
Meridian Group Somalia is a specialized consulting firm delivering demography, mortality surveillance, national survey design, geospatial analysis, and monitoring & evaluation services. We're founded and led by the demographer who has served as Somalia National Bureau of Statistics' Head of Data Science, Health Analytics & Statistical Systems Innovation since 2023 — the bureau's first such unit.
Our work sits at the point where field data becomes national policy: we've designed enumeration-area sampling frames, run nationwide fieldwork with 45+ supervised staff, applied WHO ANACoD tools to mortality data quality, and coordinated Somalia's SDG reporting to the UN High-Level Political Forum. Clients get technical delivery and senior policy advisory from the same team — not a handoff between the two.
Each line is backed by direct national-system delivery experience, not theoretical capability.
ICD-10/11 cause-of-death classification, WHO ANACoD data quality assessment, verbal autopsy analysis, mortality trend monitoring.
Population estimation, projection modelling, and indirect demographic techniques for data-scarce settings.
DHS/MICS-standard surveys — sampling methodology, questionnaire design, CAPI/CSPro deployment, nationwide field operations.
Enumeration-area & boundary mapping, survey cluster design, participatory community GIS, cartographic production (QGIS/ArcGIS).
Voluntary National Review coordination, SDG indicator tracking, monitoring & evaluation for donor-funded programmes.
Statistical modelling, machine learning, and interactive dashboards for real-time demographic and health intelligence.
Independent evaluation of governance systems, service delivery, and multi-stakeholder programmes — including EU/AU-level assessments.
Structured training in data analysis, complex/multi-source data analysis, R, Stata, and Power BI, plus field tools such as CSPro and KoBoToolbox/ODK.
Who we serve: Federal and Federal Member State government institutions · UN agencies (WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNDP) · Multilateral and bilateral donors (World Bank, EU, USAID) · International and national NGOs implementing health, population, and M&E programmes.
Selected engagements, drawn directly from national-system delivery.
Designed a unified data architecture linking survey, administrative, and surveillance data; applies WHO ANACoD tools to mortality data quality; leads a team of 10+ statisticians and data scientists.
Assessed regional migration governance, data systems, protection services, and return/reintegration support across an EU–Africa partnership — evaluated coordination, sustainability, and EU added value.
Directed monitoring and validation of all 17 SDG indicators; led preparation of Somalia's Voluntary National Review presented to the UN High-Level Political Forum; supervised 15+ staff across federal and state levels.
Designed the national sampling frame and enumeration-area maps; supervised 45+ field staff nationwide; produced Somalia's official IMR, U5MR, MMR, TFR, and CPR estimates to DHS Programme standards.
Nine years of progressive leadership inside Somalia's national statistical system — from Head of the Population and Social Statistics Section (2016) through coordination of the Somali Health and Demographic Survey and Somalia's SDG/VNR reporting, to leading SNBS's Data Science, Health Analytics & Statistical Systems Innovation unit today.
MSc in Population and Development (Demography), University of Gezira, Sudan. BSc in Econometrics and Social Statistics, University of Bakht Al-Ruda, Sudan. Member of IUSSP, the AU's STG-Social, and UAPS. Fluent in Arabic, English, and Somali. Proficient in R, Python, Stata, SPSS, SQL, CSPro, and GIS platforms.
Biography reflects professional experience gained through SNBS employment. Meridian Group Somalia operates independently of SNBS.
Whether it's a national survey, a mortality data quality review, or an M&E framework for a donor programme — reach out to discuss scope.