Smart Vision was formed in 2011 and works in Eastern Africa from an operation base in Mogadishu, Hargaisa and Garowe of Somalia. Recently, it established its Nairobi office. It has a diverse client base including NGOs, governments, donor agencies and the private sector. The company is employee-owned by core team of staff, supplemented by a network of associates.
It is driven by its desire to make meaningful contributions to the development arena, as well as by an imperative to be of service to clients. As a small but growing private company, it recognizes that its survival depends on providing value for money and products that enhance customers’ reputation and impact. To achieve its aims it focuses its work on a set range of specialties and strive to ensure that Smart Vision complements and adds value to customer’s development efforts. In the last six years it has developed four main technical specializations: project/programme evaluations, research and baseline studies, institutional capacity and finance mechanisms and proposal development and project design.
The establishment of Smart Vision was driven by the urgency to respond to the overwhelming needs of organizations in humanitarian and development support, specifically in Somalia and in the whole of the Horn of Africa.
Today, about seven years since inception, Smart Vision for Consultancy and Development has become well known name across greater Somalia (Somaliland, Puntland and South Central Somalia). By providing reputable and thorough professional services its reputation has been proven. Its strengths are in the fields of research, monitoring and evaluation, organizational capacity building and documentation.
Smart Vision is steadily building its human resource profile. Currently, it prides itself for its internationally diverse personnel with expertise in management, research, evaluation, surveys, training, development, communication, demography, market assessment, market development, economic policy and planning and finance. It will further diversify this expertise in other fields as the market demands..
Its track record in meeting client’s needs in the larger Somalia is solid. Major government departments and non-governmental organizations have made positive recommendations due to their satisfaction with its services, giving evidence for other government and non-government agencies to trust us to undertake relevant assignments.
Smart Vision is a registered company in South Somalia, Somaliland, Puntland, Kenya and Ethiopia, it is able to offer consultancy work in most of East Africa and the Horn of Africa. Plans are in progress to register in other countries in which it wants to gain a foothold.