Research
Year: 2018
Project: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) project. Supporting Evidence-Based Policy: a longitudinal study of AMR risk behaviors among livestock keeping communities in India.
Job title: Research Associate
Client: Royal Veterinary College, University of London
Location: Maharashtra, India
Thematic areas: Antimicrobial resistance, animal health, human health, animal production, risk perception, behaviour
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Review of the AMR literature related to India
- Development of research methods and tools particularly relating to AMR risk perception and behaviour.
- Conducting household interviews, key informant interviews, focus group discussions and observation.
Year: 2015
Project: One Health project
Job title: Research Fellow
Client: University of Reading, England
Location: Maharashtra, India
Thematic areas: One Health, animal health, human health, animal production, dairy sector, mastitis
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Review of the One Health literature
- For the purpose of the development of a mobile diagnostic App for mastitis: collecting cow bio-data, taking common and thermal pictures of the udder, taking temperature of the udder and to test each quarter of the udder with the Draminski mastitis counter.
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: 2012
Project: Baghlan Agriculture Project (BAP)
Job title: Livestock expert
Client: GFA Consulting group GmbH
Location: Baghlan, 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 through secondary data analysis and on-site research,
- 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: 2006
Project: Consultant HPAI impact assessment and toolkit development
Job title: Consultant rapid assessment HPAI impact and toolkit development
Client: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Thematic areas: livelihoods, poultry, avian influenza
Brief description of responsibilities:
Consultant on rapid assessment of livelihoods, social and gender impacts of HPAI for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Ankara, Turkey. Collaborating with the Commodities and Trade Division (ESC), the Gender and Population Division (SDW) and the FAO Representative in Turkey.
- Developed a checklist and toolkit for rapid assessment of livelihoods, social and gender impacts of HPAI. This included use of participatory tools and their adaptation for use in the context of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI).
- Field-tested and evaluated the checklist and toolkit during a three-week mission to Turkey, including Ankara and selected field locations.
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: 2003
Project: Supporting Pastoral Livelihoods by Facilitating Adaptation and Innovation of Sheep Production Systems in Rajasthan, India
Job title: Researcher
Client: League for Pastoral Peoples
Location: Rajasthan, India
Thematic areas: sheep production, sheep genetic resources, sheep breeding, sheep husbandry, gender, ethnoveterinary medicine
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Development of research methods and tools for research on sheep genetic resources, breeding system, gender-based knowledge and labour division
- Conducting participatory research using focus group discussions, Household interviews, key informant interviews and observation
Year: 2001
Project: Sheep husbandry and ethnoveterinary knowledge of Raika sheep pastoralists in Rajasthan, India
Job title: M.Sc thesis research
Client: University of Wageningen, The Netherlands
Location: Rajasthan, India
Thematic areas: sheep production, sheep genetic resources, sheep breeding, sheep husbandry, gender, sheep disease prevalence, animal health services, ethnoveterinary medicine
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Development of research methods and tools for my M.Sc. thesis on Sheep husbandry and ethnoveterinary knowledge of Raika sheep pastoralists in Rajasthan, India
- Conducting participatory research using household interviews, focus group discussions, key informant interviews and observation
Year: 1998
Project: B.Sc. Thesis research
Job title: Research for B.Sc. thesisOrganization: Instituto de Estudios Indígenas – Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas
Location: Chiapas, Mexico
Skills: Research
Thematic areas: Animal health, animal production, ethnoveterinary medicine
Brief description of responsibilities:
- Research on traditional veterinary practices and sheep husbandry system of the Tzotzil shepherdesses through observation and interviews (group and individual),
- Collection of medicinal plants and sheep faeces samples for ongoing research of the I.E.I on the efficiency of medicinal plants on endo-parasites.
