About

we're STOOS

STOOS aims to support its partners to develop their performance, increase their efficiency and enhance their transparency towards their communities and donors. We provide high quality services through skilled teams who work in complex and conflict environments. These teams help us design and implement services in line with the needs of our partners. We work in Iraq with plans to expand further in the region.

Maher Al-Kassem
CEO & Founder

Vision

STOOS works to empower organizations worldwide, enabling them to transcend boundaries and create lasting impact within the communities they serve.

Mission

At STOOS, our mission is to serve as a steadfast guardian of accountability, supporting organizations to uphold unwavering responsibility towards their donors and the communities affected by conflicts and crises.

Values

Our core values are quality, confidentiality, commitment, accountability, and innovation. We strive to maintain these principles in all aspects of our work, ensuring excellence and integrity in everything we do.

Objectives

ᵠ To train and to qualify profit and non-profit sectors and to provide them with the essential tools to become the most professional.
ᵠ To provide high quality of services in project and management consulting, capacity building, and monitoring & evaluation for profit and non-profit actors through equipping them with the most innovative approaches required.
ᵠ To meet the requirements of our partners through customized solutions and services based on deep understanding of different operational contexts with highly-skilled local and international experts

Vision

STOOS maintains its values and ensures that its services are up to the highest professional standards through:
ᵠ Maintaining the confidentiality of information and data of our partners
ᵠ Committing to objectivity, integrity, professionalism, honesty, and sincerity
ᵠ Maintaining and never compromising our high-quality standards

Mission

ᵠ We are set on a mission towards building capabilities to enable organizations to achieve workable advantages and to create a valuable organization that attracts, develops, and retains remarkably solution-oriented professionals.
ᵠ We aspire to unleash potentials and allow for a wide range of value-added operations concept in the consultancy and capacity building services to simplify the entire process for our partners through enhancing people empowerment.

Values

ᵠ STOOS is a company that preserves its values and secures the highest professional standards.
ᵠ We maintain high ethical standards and preserve client confidentiality at all times.
ᵠ We are committed to integrity, honesty and sincerity in providing our services.
ᵠ We maintain and never compromise our high-quality standards.
ᵠ We adopt innovative approaches based on shared information and updated knowledge to meet client’s expectations.
ᵠ We use our global network to deliver the best tangible results by bringing innovations & building capabilities.

Objectives

ᵠ To train and to qualify profit and non-profit sectors and to provide them with the essential tools to become the most professional.
ᵠ To provide high quality of services in Consultancy, Capacity Building and Monitoring & Evaluation for profit and non-profit sectors through equipping them with the most innovative approaches required.
ᵠ To meet the requirements of our customers and exceeding their expectations through customizing cost effective and high-level consultancy services for each profit and non-profit sector uniquely and individually.

our services

Customized and Tailored Services

Quality Services

STOOS aims to support its partners to develop their performance, increase their efficiency and enhance their transparency towards their communities and donors. We operate in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon to implement TPM, evaluation, research, capacity building, and other consulting services for humanitarian and non-humanitarian actors and partners.

About the process

Our Approach and Methodology

STOOS ensures a deep and thorough understanding of the context and project or programme through a detailed review of the documents by its local experts and consultants and through well-established field local teams

STOOS engages its partners in the different stages of the project especially during the initial stages to ensure proper understanding of needs and to ensure joint and participatory design of methodology, approaches and tools

Our methodologies, approaches and tools are designed by our seasoned experts in different sectoral areas to ensure these tools and methods are sector and context-sensitive. They are jointly designed with our clients and partners.

Our local teams (field researchers, trainers, experts, etc.) are local to the areas we operate in to ensure access and a strong understanding of local customs and habits. They are managed by experienced field coordinators and project managers along with international experts

We have well-established quality assurance procedures and SOPs to ensure quality in the different stages of the project which rest on qualified human resources and clear SOPs.

We use different quantitative and qualitative tools and platforms to provide high-quality analysis that is sector and gender-sensitive. Our experts are English native or semi-native experts who have high-quality reporting skills and who engage the partner till final stages of the project

STOOS works with its different valued partners to enable positive results and sustainable impact through the provision of high-quality services.