Dilshad Rostum

Global Technical TPM, MEAL & Evaluation Expert

Dilshad Rostum Ali is an international humanitarian and development professional with over 28 years of experience across Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and Lebanon. He specializes in MEAL, program management, WASH, Shelter, Livelihoods, CCCM, Health & Nutrition, and humanitarian response. Since 1995, he has worked with UN agencies and international NGOs—including UNICEF, IRC, IRD/Blumont, IMC, Qatar Red Crescent, and Muslim Aid-UK—serving in various technical, managerial, and leadership capacities.

At i-APS, Dilshad supports projects across Sudan, Iraq, and Syria. In this role, he manages assessments and satisfaction surveys, develops MEAL frameworks and indicator tracking systems for clients such as OCHA, conducts baseline and evaluation studies, and provides capacity building to NGO and partner teams in Iraq, Yemen, Sudan and Syria. He has also led needs assessment and quality assurance functions—covering WASH, NFI, food security, income generation, and health and nutrition—in Sudan for over 22 UN Implementing Partners.

Beyond his MEAL expertise, Dilshad brings substantial program leadership and operational experience. He has served as Head of Mission for Qatar Red Crescent in Sudan, Head of Programs for Muslim Aid-UK, and in several Program/Project Manager roles across Iraq and Syria. His extensive in-country experience, long-standing expertise in humanitarian programming, and multilingual fluency in English, Arabic, Kurdish, and Turkish enable him to provide strong technical oversight, contextual analysis, stakeholder coordination, and quality assurance in complex operating environments.