Almedina Komic
Team Leader
Puntland, Somalia
As team leader, Almedina is responsible for the preparation, execution, and completion of the LIS
in Puntland. This includes monitoring the activities of the national Landmine Impact Survey teams and carrying out field visits as
required to ensure survey quality. She also represents SAC to local stakeholders and the United Nations and supervises the GIS &
Database Officer and the Operations & Administrative Officer.
Almedina began her career in 1997 working with Care International as the Project Manager in Bosnia
and Herzegovina for a project dealing with the rehalbilitation of elderly people and children. In this position she supervised and
managed four separate offices and was in charge of training employees and managing the projects implementation. In April of 1998
she transitioned into the position of Team Leader of another project with Care International dealing with local capacity buliding
and community development. In this position she was responsible for preparing project proposals and supervising other team members.
Towards the end of 1999 she moved to yet another project with Care International, serving as the Office/Administration Manager of a
reconstruction, civil society, and income generation project. In this position, she was responsible for the supervision and
adminstration of the main office and three sub-offices.
In January of 2001 Almedina entered the field of Mine Action working as the Program Manager for a
Bosnian organization, Action Against Mine. She supervised the implementation of mine clearance and mine awareness projects. In
October of 2002, she began working with Handicap International as the National Operation Coordinator for the Bosnia and Herzegovina
Landmine Impact Survey where she established, supervised, and organized all field activities for the survey. After the successful
completion of the LIS, Almedina became the Disability Country Manager for Handicap Internationals’ South East Europe disability
program where she was in charge of project development and management. In 2004, as a SAC Trainer, she spent three weeks in Angola
(in Luena city, Moxico province) training the senior staff of three NGOs (Santa Barbara, InterSOS and MAG) who are currently
implementing portions of the LIS in Angola.
Almedina received a degree in Economics in 2001 and is a certified medical technician (nurse) with
5 years of experience during the last war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
