Asil Sidahmed
Insight Strategy Impact
About me
I spent over a decade in international aid and government advisory - at Medicines Sans Frontières, as advocacy strategist supporting operations in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America. I served as strategic advisor to the Minister of Health in Sudan’s transitional Government with the United Nations. I hold an Mphil from the University of Oxford, Wolfson College. And is undergoing an IBM certification as a data analyst.
I am a consultant at a boutique consulting firm and regularly contribute to a think and do tank called the Brussels International Centre and serve on the Executive Board for the Oxford Initiative for Global Ethics where I teach.
Book Project
'Circling the Periphery' is a book of ten essays I begun writing in 2023 following my experience in the military coup in Sudan. I took a sabbatical to consider what I had witnessed in the countries I had travelled to as an aid worker and government advisor. The essays chart my experiences in ten chosen cities that I have lived and worked in.
It is intended to be an airplane read to engage audiences in a non-academic and creative fiction style.
These essays explore political institutions, public health and identity politics in what might be considered peripheral cities. I argue that the periphery is shaping our future. And our work today is to embrace the periphery to build institutions resilient enough for the twenty first century.
Consulting
Based on my experience working with public and grassroots organisations in over thirty countries, I endeavour to help organisations become more impactful in their missions. I believe the turn to sustainability encompasses a holistic way that we observe humans, cultures and the environments we operate in. I use ethnography, data and facilitation to help my clients name what they want to do and identify the steps to create the change they seek. Most importantly, there is a global call to action today that I want my clients to be prepared for.
- Insight
is mobilising observation and data to bring insights to clients that they may not already know about what they do.
- Strategy
I have had the privilege of helping governments as well as civil society organisations and not for profits set their objectives and steps for change.
While knowing what you want to do is the job of insight work.
The strategy is how you do it.
I engage in strategy processes that mobilise ethics of equity, compassion, and efficacy to ensure that purpose driven work is felt in both the how and why of organisational change. - Impact
How do you know what you are doing is having the desired impact?
I mobilise data at both the front and back end to give clients a contextual overview of how their work is received at the outcome stage and where they operate as an institution within a broader context.
This can be in the form of market analysis and endline assessments.