Capacity building
Year: 2017
Project: Green Initiative for Afghanistan’s Agriculture (GIAA)
Job title: Gender and Natural Resource Management expert
Client: GFA Consulting group GmbH
Location: Kabul, Parwan & Bamyan, Afghanistan
Thematic areas: Gender & Natural Resource Management
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Gender and NRM expert for the ‘Green Initiative for Afghanistan’s Agriculture (GIAA)’ project in Afghanistan funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and implemented by GFA
- Stakeholder mapping of organisations involved in gender and NRM
- Explore opportunities for collaboration
- Train project staff on gender and NRM issues
- Developing a gender-sensitive project strategy and work plan
Year: 2013
Project: Baghlan Agriculture Project (BAP)
Job title: Livestock expert
Client: GFA Consulting group GmbH
Location: Baghlan & Badakshan, Afghanistan
Thematic areas: Sheep production, goat production, cashmere production, cashmere value chain, fodder quality
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Developing and managing an livestock extension training program for district government agricultural extension staff,
- Developing and implementing a cashmere goat production feasibility study,
- Analyzing possibilities of improving fodder quality and fodder management for sheep project beneficiaries
Year: 2013
Project: Baghlan Agriculture Project (BAP)
Job title: Gender and livestock expert
Client: GFA Consulting group GmbH
Location: Baghlan & Badakshan, Afghanistan
Thematic areas: Gender, sheep production, poultry production, animal health, gender
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Development of a concise gender approach within all BAP activities, but especially in the animal husbandry component,
- Development of monitoring and evaluation methods and tools for BAP livestock activities,
- Assessment of possibilities for improving animal health within the project area,
- Liaising with Government extension services and identify training needs in the area of livestock production and health
Year: 2012
Project: Baghlan Agriculture Project (BAP)
Job title: Livestock expert
Client: GFA Consulting group GmbH
Location: Baghlan & Badakshan, Afghanistan
Thematic areas: Gender, sheep production, poultry production, animal health, livestock value chains, gender
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Review of sheep and poultry value chains in the BAP project area,
- Critical analyses of BAP livestock project activities and their relevance for improving household income,
- Building the BAP-livestock’s team capacity in conducting situational and problem analyses through PRA training sessions,
- Assisting the BAP livestock team in managing monitoring data,
- Identification of bottlenecks and issues within the poultry and sheep husbandry system and value chains,
- Give recommendations for realistic improvements/adaptations
Year: 2010
Project: Poultry value chain study
Job title: Consultant
Client: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Thematic areas: poultry, value chain, backyard poultry sector, livelihoods, poultry trade, poultry production
Brief description of responsibilities:
Consultant for the Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD). The value chain study took a socio-economic approach principally studying the rationales of poultry producers in the value chain.
- Developed the research capacities of three National consultants through a 3-day research skills training program including quantitative as well as participatory research methods.
- Identified linkages between producers and other stakeholders in the poultry sector.
- Characterised practices and attitudes of farmers regarding poultry keeping in general and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in particular.
- Gained a better understanding of underlying believes and norms with regards to practices and behaviour that might facilitate disease maintenance and spread in order to move from ‘dictating’ certain behaviour changes to targeting certain believes underlying these potentially risky behaviours.
- Contributed to the design of better-targeted pro-poor disease control efforts and thus to achieve more efficient disease control through analyses and evaluation of results and findings.
Year: 2007 & 2008
Project: Animal Health, Breeds and Livelihoods (AHBL) project
Job title: Consultant project coordination and supervision
Client: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Thematic areas: farm animal genetic resources, livelihoods, animal health, animal production
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Coordinating and supervising ‘Animal Health, Breeds and Livelihoods (AHBL)’ project activities in Cambodia. The objective of the project is to define HPAI control strategies that have neutral or positive impact on the livelihoods of small-scale poultry keepers and also help in maintaining poultry breed biodiversity.
- Identification of suitable local partners and national consultants.
- Determine training needs of local partners and national consultants and organize and contribute to training programs accordingly.
- Provision of technical and administrative support.
Year: 2006 & 2007
Project: HPAI impact assessment
Job title: Consultant project coordination and supervision
Client: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Thematic areas: avian influenza, livelihoods, poultry, animal health, animal production, gender
Brief description of responsibilities:
The underlying objective of this consultancy is to support the national government of Egypt in the development of effective and enforceable livestock policies and strategies, in mitigating the effects of the Avian Influenza emergency and control measures on food security and livelihoods.
- Preparation and implementation of a national research skills training program. Specifically, organise, co-ordinate and carry out training of 15 national researchers, including classroom theory and exercises, and field practice.
- Formulation of data collection methodologies and supervise data collection teams in Egypt.
- Tailor and adapt socio-economic impact assessment checklist and toolkit (developed in previous assignment) within the national poultry production systems, genetic resources, and policy constraints.
- Developing analysis procedures for the data collected and assistance in the initial data analysis.
- Analyses and evaluation of results and findings of mission work with the aim of assisting national government policy development.
Year: 2003
Project: MISEREOR
Job title: Trainer sustainable management of farm animal genetic resources
Client: MISEREOR
Location: Dinajpur, Rajshahi, Noakhali and Dhaka, Bangladesh
Thematic areas: Farm animal genetic resources, animal production
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Assisting 9 Bangladeshi NGOs in developing data collection methodologies for research on animal production systems and animal genetic resources. The methods used consisted of participatory workshops including practical fieldwork where participants put their newly gained knowledge and skills into practice.
- Clarifying concepts of sustainable livestock management and,
- Making recommendations for the development of a strategy strengthening the issue of sustainable livestock management for each of these NGOs.
Year: 2002
Project: Volunteer work
Job title: Volunteer
Organization: Asociación Fundación para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Comunal de El Salvador (CORDES)
Location: Tecoluca, El Salvador
Thematic areas: Sheep production, sheep health, livelihoods, gender.
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Advisor on sheep husbandry and healthcare management for the gender expert of CORDES working with women in local re-settler communities in El Salvador for a period of two months.
