HopeBase Advisory was founded on a straightforward observation. Across Somalia and northern Kenya, institutions, enterprises and community organisations are asked to deliver results, prove them with evidence, and remain accountable to those who fund them. They are asked to do this while systems are still being built, reliable data is scarce, and access is constrained. Very few advisory firms are willing to work at that intersection, and fewer still are based in it.
We built the firm to do exactly that work. Ministries engage us to design information systems their own staff will operate. Development partners engage us because we carry their compliance obligations without needing to be managed through them. Non-governmental organisations engage us for the technical depth their programme teams do not hold in-house. Enterprises and producer groups engage us for practical improvement they can act on the following week.
Our work spans health systems and information management, enterprise and agribusiness development, financial and grant management, monitoring and evaluation, governance, and geospatial services. What connects them is a single test: does the client institution end the assignment more capable than it began? A registry that still produces data next year. Controls that hold up under audit. A women’s group that keeps its books after the facilitator has left.
We are deliberate about what we claim. Every assignment described in this profile is supported by a signed contract, service order or completion certificate that we will provide on request. In a market where credentials are often asserted rather than evidenced, we would rather be verified than impressive.
As a Somali-owned, women-owned firm, we also carry a responsibility beyond any single contract: to demonstrate that work of international standard can be delivered by a national firm, staffed by national professionals, from an office in Mogadishu. Every assignment we complete makes that argument on behalf of others as well as ourselves.
Faiza Abdirahman Muse
Founder and Managing Partner, HopeBase Advisory LLC