| Assignment Title | Brief Description | Region | Organization | Expertise | Year |
| Senior Technical Advisor | Four phase pilot activity (the Local Capacity Assessments and Supports [LCapS]) activity has four phases: (1)Baseline Census and Mapping (May 10-September 10, 2024); (2) More intensive organizational capacity assessment tool (OCAT) (September 11-December 30, 2024); (3) TOT (Training of Training) workshops (using 5 modules) (dates: TBD); and (4) Preparation of an evidence-based LCS strategy for USG assistance in Burkina Faso (dates TBD). |
Nine of the 13 Regions of Burkina Faso | Associated Consultants for Sustainable Development (ACSD) (a local consulting firm) | -Institutional and LCS (ACSD) -Applied Research -Project & Strategy Development |
2024-2025 |
| Co-Team Leader | Final Report for the USAID West Africa Analytical Support Services and Evaluations for Sustainable Systems in Agriculture, Environment and Trade (ASSESS) Project | Ghana | United States Department of Agriculture/Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA/FAS) through Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Bureau of Integrated Rural Development (BIRD) | -M&E (Final Report) – Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (LCS)(KNUST) |
2023-2024 |
| Co-Team Leader | Co-creation (with USDA/FAS and its local partners) of separate Monitoring, evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) plans and a core set of reporting rocesses and indicators for four USDA-FAS funded projects | Georgia | USDA through GCAD (The Fund Georgian Center for Agribusiness Development) | -MEAL (Strategy Design) -Institutional and LCS (local USG partners in Georgia) |
2023-2024 |
| Co-Team Leader (with Issa Zerbo) |
A 37-year restudy of sponsored and unsponsored settlers in the river basins and settlers’ home villages affected by the Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP) | Burkina Faso | Associated Consultants for Sustainable Development (ACSD) | -Resettlement -Applied Research -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (ACSD) |
2019-2024 |
| Team Leader | Two person team tasked with preparing the METSS II Project Final report | Ghana | Ghana | -M&E (Final Report) -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (UCC)) |
2023 |
| Consultant | Co-preparation (with C. Phiri) of strategy | Burkina Faso | LWR | -Women in Development (Strategy Design) |
2023 |
| CoTeam Leader | Initial designdesign (with C. Phiri) of proposal submitted to USAID/Nepal | Nepal | Lutheran World Relief (LWR) | -Project, Program & Strategy Design -Food Security Programming (Value Chains) |
2021-2022 |
| Team Leader (Evaluation) |
Four-person team that evaluated the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI) Technical and Financial Support Project | Ghana | METSS II for USAID/Ghana | -M&E (Evaluation) -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (CSIR-SARI) |
2021-2022 |
| Team Leader | Five-person team that evaluated the Strengthening Value Chains (SVC) Activity | DRC | Program Evaluation for Effectiveness and Learning (PEEL) Project for USAID | -M&E (Evaluation) -Food Security Programming (Value Chains) |
2020 |
| Team Leader | Three-person team that evaluated the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Fisheries and Coastal Management Capacity Building Project (FCMCBP) | Ghana | METSS II Project for USDA/FAS | -M&E ( Evaluation) -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (UCC) |
2019-2020 |
| Consultant | Initial design of the follow-on phase of the REGIS-AG (Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel – Accelerated GGCArowth) Project | Burkina Faso and Niger | Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) for USAID | -Project, Program & Strategy Design -Food Security Programming (Value Chains) |
2019 |
| Team Leader (Evaluation) |
Six-person team that designed and executed the mid-term performance evaluation of the Feed the Future Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel—Accelerated Growth (REGIS-AG) Activity | Burkina Faso and Niger | Management Systems International (MSI) for the USAID/Sahel Regional Office | -M&E (Evaluation) -Food Security Programming (Value Chains) |
2018 |
| Consultant | Technical Support to the METSS II Project for results-based reporting including: (1) the development of the projects first PMMP (Project Monitoring and Management Plan [PMMP]); (2) organization of a report writing workshops; and (3) backstopping for the project’s quarterly reports | Ghana | METSS II Project for USDA/FAS | -M&E (Project Monitoring Plan) -Report Writing and Publication Support |
2016-2019 |
| Team Leader | Two-person team that designed and executed the mid-term performance evaluation of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy (FSP-IL) | Myanmar, Tanzania, and (remotely) 11 other countries | Program Evaluation for Effectiveness and Learning (PEEL) Project for USAID | -M&E (Evaluation) -Food Security Programming |
2016-2017 |
| Consultant | Facilitated CRS staff developing refereed journal articles on CRS’s applied research associated with its programming | Global | CRS | -Report Writing and Publication Support | 2015-2016 |
| Consultant | One of two co-facilitators (with Issa Zerbo) of a three-day Emergency Food Security Program (EFSP) M&E Learning Event for USAID/Food for Peace (FFP)-funded EFSP projects in francophone West Africa | Burkina Faso for the Sahel Region | Technical Assistance to NGOs International Technical, Operational and Program Support (TOPS) for USAID/FFP | -M&E (Training) -Workshop and Conference Organization/Facilitation -Post-Conflict/Disaster and Reconstruction -Food Security Programming (Emergencies) |
2016 |
| Consultant | One of two co-facilitators of three five-day workshops for CRS Project staff on the new USAID/FFP guidance for M&E plans | Burundi, Madagascar, and Malawi |
TOPS for USAID/FFP | -M&E (Training, Module Development) -Food Security Programming -Workshop and Conference Organization/Facilitation |
2015 |
| Team Leader | Four-person team that designed and executed the final qualitative evaluation survey and evaluation of the Tubaramure PM2A Program | Burundi | CRS for USAID/FFP | -M&E (Evaluation) -Food Security Programming -Post Conflict/Disaster and Reconstruction |
2014 |
| Co-Team Leader | Two-year process designed to produce a comprehensive review of the CSRL/ISU Program | Uganda | ISU (Iowa State University) | -M&E (Training, IPTT Development) -Workshop and Conference Organization/Facilitation -Report Writing and Publication Support -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (ISU) |
2012-2015 |
| Team Leader | Four-person team that designed the final qualitative evaluation survey and evaluation of the Nema consortium | Mali | CRS | -M&E (Evaluation) -Food Security Programming -Post-Conflict/Disaster and Reconstruction |
2013 |
| Consultant | Identification of the core team and design of a regional food security support program with a special focus on women’s and local capacity strengthening issues | Niger and Burkina Faso (from a base in the US) | IBTCI (for USAID) | -Project and Strategy Design | 2013 |
| Team Leader | Strategy Development Exercise for “Resilience” Programming in the Sahel (Burkina, Mali, Niger, and Chad) | Mali, Burkina, Chad, and Niger | Africare | -Project, Program & Strategy Design -Food Security Programming |
2012 |
| Consultant | Assisted Lead Facilitator in a 4.5 day workshop on MFR (Managing for Results) and Evaluation | Uganda | The Mitchell Group (for USAID/Uganda) | -M&E (Training, Module Development) -Workshop and Conference Organization/Facilitation |
2012 |
| Consultant | Four-person team tasked with developing and pilot testing three training modules on women in development (WID) issues for MCC to use in all of its beneficiary MCA (Millennium Challenge Account) programs worldwide | All MCC-supported countries from a base in the US | Social Impact (for MCC) | -WID (Training Modules) | 2011 |
| Consultant | Co-development (with Alice Willard) of a PMP (Performance Monitoring Plan) for USAID/Russia | Russia | IBTCI (for USAID/Russia) | -M&E (PMP Development) | 2011 |
| Consultant | Routine backstopping of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA/BF) resettlement and WID experts in Burkina Faso to insure compliance with MCC’s resettlement (2008-2012) and WID policies (2009-2012) | Burkina Faso | MCC | -Settlement and Resettlement -Women’s Issues -Environmental and Social Assessment -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (mayors and local organizations affected by MCA/BF activities) -Report Writing and Publication Support |
2008-2012 |
| Consultant | Informal resettlement review of MCC-funded land project on Benin | Benin | MCC | -Settlement and Resettlement | 2011 |
| Design Consultant | (1) Assisted Africare local team in the design of a needs assessment survey which was executed by a local team and (2) co-led (with Issa Konda) the two-person team that designed a food security program in six rural communes of the Northern Region of Burkina Faso | Burkina Faso | Africare | -Project, Program & Strategy Design -M&E (Needs Assessment Survey) -Food Security Programming |
2010-2011 |
| Team Leader | Four-person team tasked with producing the final report on the largest non-lethal counter-insurgency program supported by USAID in Iraq—the Community Stabilization Project (CSP) | Iraq | IRD (International Relief & Development) for USAID | -M&E (Final Report) -Post-Conflict/Disaster and Reconstruction |
2009-2010 |
| Team Leader | Five-person team that conducted the final evaluation of the Livelihood Security Program in Pita and Tilemele | Guinea | OICI for USAID | -M&E (Evaluation) -Food Security Programming |
2009 |
| Team Leader | Final Evaluation of the American Red Cross (ARC) Institutional Capacity Building Grant | ARC’s Title II Food Security Programs (from a base in the US) | American Red Cross (ARC) for USAID | -M&E (Evaluation) -Food Security Programming -Post-Conflict/Disaster and Reconstruction |
2007 |
| Team Leader | Three-person team that designed an integrated food security project in two regions of Chad | Chad | Africare and ADRA for USAID | -Project, Program & Strategy Design -Food Security Programming |
2007 |
| Consultant | Four successive contracts for activities needed to build the capacity of field and HQ staff to develop, execute, monitor and evaluate food security programming | 13 countries where Africare had Title II food security programming (from a base in the US and at the workshops in Niger and South Africa) | Africare for USAID | -M&E (Indicator Guidance, Training, Working groups) -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (Africare) -Workshop and Conference Organization/Facilitation -Food Security Programming |
2007-2008 |
| Team Leader | Three-person team that conducted an internal mid-term evaluation of Africare’s USAID (Title II) funded Institutional Capacity Building (ICB) grant | 13 countries where Africare had Title II Food Security Programs (from a base in the US) |
Africare for USAID | -M&E (Evaluation) -Food Security Programming -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (Africare) |
2007 |
| Consultant | Assisted with the analysis and write-up of a USAID-funded project to assist people living with HIV/AIDS | Rwanda (from a base in the US) | Sub-Contract | -M&E (Evaluation) | 2007 |
| Resettlement Consultant | Three-person team responsible for advising MCC and the Mali government on the evaluation of a MCC-funded irrigation and resettlement scheme | Mali (from a base in the US) | Abt Associates for MCC | -Settlement and Resettlement | 2007 |
| Team Leader | Mid-term evaluation of the USAID Title II Food Security Institutional Capacity Building Grant | ACDI/VOCA’s Title II Food Security Programs (from a base in the US) | ACDI/VOCA for USAID | -M&E (Evaluation) -Food Security Programming |
2006 |
| Team Leader (Evaluation) |
Mid-Term Evaluation of the USAID Title II Food Security Institutional Capacity Building Grant | ARC’s Title II Food Security Programs (from a base in the US) | ARC (American Red Cross) for USAID | -M&E (Evaluation) -Food Security Programming |
2006 |
| Consultant | Co-Design of a training module on Indicator Performance and Tracking Tables (IPTT) | International Programs worldwide (from a base in the US) | CRS and ARC for USAID | -M&E (Training Module Development) -Food Security Programming |
2006 |
| Consultant | External document review and design of a pre-evaluation and mid-term evaluation process for the USAID Title II Institutional Capacity Building (ICB) grant | CRS’s Title II Food Security Programs worldwide (from a base in the US) | CRS for USAID | -Project, Program & Strategy Design -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (CRS) -Food Security Programming |
2006 |
| Team Leader | Comparative research on the impact of Title II programming on household and community capacity to manage risk and household vulnerability | Uganda and Guinea |
Africare for USAID | -M&E (Monitoring Project Impacts on Household Capacity to Manage Risk) -Food Security Programming |
2006 |
| Consultant | On three-person mid-term assessment team of the three principal contracts (e.g. agricultural development, natural resource management, rural finance) associated with USAID/Mali’s Accelerated Economic Growth (AEG) strategic objective | Mali | USAID/Mali | -M&E (Internal Assessment) | 2005 |
| Consultant | Baseline survey of the Zondoma Food Security Initiative (ZFSI), which also facilitated staff producing articles that illustrated how Africare’s standard indicator methodologies could be used in a baseline quantitative survey | Burkina Faso | Africare for USAID | -M&E (Baseline Survey; Self -Assessment Capacity Strengthening) -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening -Food Security Programming |
2005 |
| Consultant | Designed module for CRS and ARC on “Planning for Evaluation” | Worldwide (from a base in the US) | CRS and ARC for USAID | -M&E (Pre-Evaluation Planning) -Food Security Programming |
2005 |
| Consultant | Conducted literature review of existing systems for monitoring national capacity building and, based on this literature, proposed a system for monitoring partner capacity and community capacity building in CRS Title II programs | CRS’s Title II Food Security Projects worldwide (from a base in the US) | CRS for USAID | -M&E (Self-Assessment Capacity Indicators) -Food Security Programming |
2005 |
| Team Leader | Three-person Africare team that designed the Africare Title II Food Security Initiative in Agadez and Tillaberi | Niger | Africare for USAID | -Project, Program & Strategy Design -Food Security Programming -Post-Conflict/Disasters and Reconstruction |
2004-2005 |
| Team Leader | Three-person team that designed and executed the final evaluated of the CRS Title II Development Assistance Project in Malawi | Malawi | CRS for USAID | -M&E (Evaluation) | 2004 |
| Consultant | One of three trainers facilitating sessions at a regional monitoring and evaluation workshop for Africare’s Title II project coordinators and M&E specialists | Mozambique | Africare for USAID | -M&E (Staff Training) -Report Writing and Publication Support -Workshop and Conference Design and Facilitation -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (Africare) |
2004 |
| Consultant | (1) Co-facilitated (with Dr. Sidibe Sidikiba): an internal staff assessment of Africare’s Title II food security project in Dinguerye, Guinea; and in-house training for project staff on M&E and reporting (2) revised Title II follow-on Development Assistance Proposal (DAP) in Burkina to conform with FFP Policy Paper |
Guinea (in person) and Burkina Faso (remotely) | Africare for USAID | -M&E (Staff Training) -Report Writing and Publication Support -Project, Program & Strategy Design |
2004 |
| Team Leader | Two participatory site identification, problem analysis, and design missions associated with a new Title II Food Security Grant | Ethiopia | Africare | -Project and Strategy Design -Food Security Programming |
2003-2004 |
| Consultant | Worked with CRS M&E specialists to conceptualize a tracking system for its new Title II Institutional Support Assistance (ISA) grant | CRS’s Title II food security programs worldwide (from a base in the US) | CRS for USAID | -M&E (IPTT and M&E Plan Development) -Food Security Programming -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (CRS) |
2003 |
| Team Leader | Internal design team charged with development of a Title II Institutional Support Assistance (ISA) Grant for Africare | 13 countries where Africare had Title II food programming (from a base in the US) | Africare for USAID | -Project and Strategy Design -Food Security Programming -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (Africare) |
2003 |
| Team Leader | Four-person team charged with evaluating one of the first experiences with using a consortium (CARE, CRS, HKI, Africare) to manage both the programmatic and monetization functions of a Title II Food Security Program | Niger | CARE for USAID | -M&E (Evaluation) -Food Security Programming |
2003 |
| Team Leader | Execution and analysis of a quantitative and qualitative survey of 16 NGOs to assess the final impact of USAID support for the Food Aid Management (FAM) consortium of NGOs involved in Title II food security programming | 16 US-Based NGOs with Title II Food Security Programs (from a base in the US) | CARE for USAID | -M&E (Final Evaluation, Pre-evaluation Planning, Final Survey and IPTT Update) -Food Security Programming |
2002 |
| Consultant | On-site mentorship of Africare Country Representatives in analysis of monitoring and evaluation data and reporting on Title II food programs | Senegal (for nine of Africare’s country programs) | Africare for USAID | -M&E (Training) -Report Writing and Publication Support -Workshop and Conference Organization/Facilitation |
2002 |
| Consultant | Assist Africare with pre-evaluation planning for the final evaluation of its Title II Institutional Support Assistance (ISA) grant | Africare’s country programs (from a base in the US) | Africare for USAID | -M&E (Pre-Evaluation Planning) -Food Security Programming -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (Africare) |
2002 |
| Team Leader | Three-person team undertaking the main fieldwork for one of the Six Country case studies associated with an assessment of the World Bank’s Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) | Burkina Faso | World Bank | -Environment and Social Assessment (ESA) | 2002 |
| Team Leader | Three-person Africare team that prepared a regional Development Assistance Proposal (DAP), Title II, Food Security Program for the Abeche region in Chad and the Goundam region of Mali | Chad and Mali | Africare for USAID | -Project, Program & Strategy Design -Food Security Programming -Post-Conflict/Disaster and Reconstruction |
2002 |
| Consultant | Assist Africare with: (1) pre-evaluation planning for a mid-term evaluation of a Title II Food Security Project (in Uganda); (2) training the staff associated with a Title II food security program in Ethiopia in reporting; and (3) building Africare HQ staff capacity for results- based reporting on its nine Title II projects | Ethiopia, Uganda, and the Africare HQ office (Washington DC) |
Africare for USAID | -M&E (Pre-Evaluation Planning, Capacity Assessment Tools) -Report Writing and Publication Support -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (Africare) |
2001 |
| Consultant | Assist Africare with pre-evaluation planning for the mid-term evaluation of a Title II food security project | Burkina Faso | Africare for USAID | -M&E (Pre-Evaluation Planning) -Food Security Programming |
2001 |
| Team Leader | Mid-term Evaluation of Africare’s Institutional Strengthening Assistance (ISA) Grant | US | Africare for USAID | -M&E (Evaluation, Capacity Assessment Tools) -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening -Food Security Programming |
2001 |
| Consultant | Organization and facilitation of two parallel workshops (one in French and one in English) to provide hands on staff capacity building in M&E and reporting | Mali | Africare for USAID | -M&E (Training) -Food Security Programming -Workshop and Conference Design and Facilitation -Report Writing and Publication Support -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening |
2001 |
| Consultant | (1) Preparation of a short, “user friendly” version of the federal guidelines for reporting on Title II Food Security Projects; and (2) trained staff from eight countries on the analysis and write-up of M&E field data in a regional workshop | Africare country programs (from a base in the US) | Africare for USAID | -M&E (Training Module Development) -Workshop and Conference Design and Facilitation -Report Writing and Publication Support |
2000-2001 |
| Co-Team Leader | Six-person team charged with: (1) collaborating with seven National Agricultural research centers (NARCs) in conducting a review of constraints to extending higher yielding crop technologies into semi-arid areas of East Africa where agricultural research and extension have traditionally focused on higher rainfall areas; (2) co-organizing a series of country-specific workshops and a regional conference (in Kenya) to share the research findings; (3) conducting the project’s cross-cutting analyses on WID and extension issues; and (4) co-developing (with area specialists) a series of proposals for USAID-funded projects to scale up new technologies | In-country Fieldwork: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, Kenya Remote Interviews and Desk Reviews: Somalia, Djibouti Sudan |
INTSORMIL for the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) and the USAID/Horn of Africa Initiative | -Food Security Programming – WID -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening Capacity (IGAD and the regional national agricultural research centers [NARCs]) -Project and Strategy Design -Workshop and Conference Design and Facilitation |
1999-2001 |
| Consultant | Assist Africare in pre-evaluation planning for two Title II food security projects’ mid-term evaluations | Chad and Mali | Africare for USAID | -M&E (Pre-Evaluation Planning) -Food Security Programming |
2000 |
| M&E Consultant | Assist Africare with: (1) the development of its monitoring and evaluation plan; and (2) a plan for building staff capacity (at HQ and in the field) in M&E and reporting | Africare country programs (from a base in the US) | Africare for USAID | -M&E (M&E Plans, Indicator, Performance Plan, IPTT Development, Staff Training) -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (Africare) -Food Security Programming |
2000 |
| Consultant | WID due diligence review of a proposed loan for the rehabilitation of the Office du Niger and development of new small irrigation perimeters | Mali (from a base in the US) | Buursink International Consultants for the World Bank | -WID Issues -Settlement and Resettlement |
2000 |
| Team Leader | Four-person team charged with evaluating World Bank assistance for health, education, development and urban infrastructure, as well as Bank wide initiatives to reduce poverty and social inequality | Burkina Faso | World Bank | M&E (Evaluation) | 1998-1999 |
| Consultant | Miscellaneous proposal development | Sub-Saharan Africa (from a base in the US) | Buursink International Consultants (BIC) for the World Bank |
-Project and Program Design | 1998 |
| Team Leader | Four-person team conducting social assessment due diligence associated with the privatization of the Cameroonian railroad | Cameroon | Buursink International Consultants (BIC) for the World Bank |
-Environmental and Social Assessment (ESA) | 1998 |
| Consultant | Facilitated: (1) the organization and execution of a regional workshop to assist 11 countries creation of proposals for follow-on socio-economic planning for the Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP) affected region in West Africa; and (2) the finalization of the draft proposals | Burkina Faso | FAO and the World Bank | -Workshop and Conference Design and Facilitation -Settlement and Resettlement -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening Building (Ministries of Agriculture in 11 OCP-affected countries) -Report Writing and Publication Support |
1998 |
| Consultant | Backstopped social impact assessment/due diligence of a community-based natural resource management plan for two protected coastal reserves | Yemen (from a base in the US) | Buursink International Consultants (BIC) for the World Bank | -Environmental and Social Assessment (ESA) | 1998 |
| Team Leader | Three-person team tasked with identifying what types of capacity building and support the Ministries of Transport and Public Works would need to better address some of the environmental issues being raised by a new national program to rehabilitate the country’s transportation infrastructure (including specific recommendations for the highway, port, railroad, and air travel sub-sectors) | Cameroon | Buursink International Consultants (BIC) for the World Bank | -Environmental and Social Assessment (ESA) | 1998 |
| Consultant | On six-person team conducting a social and environmental assessment of an Inter-American Development Bank Agriculture and Trade Policy Loan Proposal for Suriname | Suriname | Buursink International Consultants (BIC) for the Inter-American Development Bank | -Environmental & Social Assessment (ESA) -WID Issues |
1998 |
| Team Leader | Three-person team charged with evaluation of the UNDP/Confederation of Switzerland funded project, GAM/93/004, “Enhancing Rural Capacities through Livestock Development” in The Gambia | The Gambia | Buursink International Consultants (BIC) for UNDP | -M&E (Evaluation) -Food Security Programming (Value Chains; Livestock) |
1997 |
| Consultant | On four-person team to identify ways that WID issues could better addressed in post-conflict development planning in Angola | Angola | DAI (Development Alternatives International) for USAID) | -Post-Conflict /Disaster & Reconstruction | 1997 |
| Consultant | On three-person team that developed proposal and initial implementation plan of World-WID Fellowship Program for the administration of US-supported foreign assistance programs | US | University of Florida for USAID | -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (UF) -Project, Program & Strategy Design -WID Issues |
1997 |
| Consultant | Translation and revision of: (1) paper on WID issues in the OCP river basins; and (2) report on the concept of participation in Burkinabè development policy for publication in World Bank Technical Paper Series | Burkina Faso | World Bank | -Report Writing and Publication Support | 1995 |
| Team Leader | Team Leader of two-person team charged with evaluation of the UNDP Project, CAF/91/009, “Renforcement des ONG/OG aux Fins de Développement Participatif“ | Central African Republic (CAR) | Buursink International Consultants (BIC) or UNDP | -M&E (Evaluation) -Institutional & Local Capacity Strengthening |
1994-1995 |
| Consultant | Preparation, presentation, final revision and publication of policy paper, "WID Issues in Follow-up Planning for the OCP Zone,” at the first 11-country inter-ministerial meeting (held in Paris) on socio-economic-environmental planning for the OCP river basin control zone | 11 OCP-Affected Countries (from a base in the US) | World Bank | -WID Issues -Settlement and Resettlement |
1994-1995 |
| Consultant | On four-person multidisciplinary team person team that evaluated the USAID-funded Africa region PARTS Project (USAID) that supported multi-disciplinary, comparative research in agricultural and natural research management in Sub-Saharan Africa. | Sub-Saharan Africa (from a base in the US) | Tropical Research and Development (TRD) for USAID | -M&E (Evaluation) -WID Issues |
1994 |
| Consultant | On three-person multidisciplinary team that prepared USAID’s contribution to the first 11-country inter-ministerial meeting (held in Paris) on socio-economic-environmental planning for the OCP river basin control zone | 11 OCP-affected countries from a base in Ouagadougou | USAID | -Settlement and Resettlement | 1994 |
| Consultant | Prepared paper on WID issues in natural resource management and agriculture for presentation at a Sahel regional conference on natural resource management | Burkina Faso from a base in the US | World Bank/Burkina Faso Resident Mission | -WID Issues -Settlement and Resettlement |
1993 |
| Team Leader | Five-person team that prepared the only national case study for the Bank-Wide Learning Process on Participatory Development based on interviews with beneficiaries, donors, and administrators connected World Bank projects in four sectors (agriculture, natural resource management, health, and urban infrastructure) | Burkina Faso | World Bank | -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening -Environmental & Social Assessment |
1993-1994 |
| Consultant | Potential overlap between planning issues being raised by the OCP and USAID strategic objectives and programs at the national and regional levels | Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal | Vector Biology Control (VBC) Project for USAID | -Settlement and Resettlement | 1992-1993 |
| Team Leader | Three-person national team charged with: (1) the design of a program to increase the capacity of ongoing and new World Bank-funded agricultural programs in Burkina to address WID; and (2) the design and execution of two participatory workshops (in-country) and one workshop (in Washington DC) to finalize the strategy | Burkina Faso | World Bank | -Environmental & Social Assessment -WID Issues -Project, Program & Strategy Design |
1992 |
| Consultant | On three-person team evaluating USAID Farming Systems Research and Training Support Project (ARTS) | Burkina Faso | USAID/Burkina Faso | -M&E (Evaluation) -Food Security Programming -WID Issues |
1992 |
| Consultant | Backstopped the Makerere Institute for Social Research (MISR) in: (1) the organization of the first international African Conference on Environment and Settlement in Kampala, Uganda; and (2) facilitation of the process that led to translating the talks into chapters in a World Bank Technical Paper | Uganda | World Bank, Africa Area Environmental Division | -Workshop and Conference Organization/Facilitation -Report Writing and Publication Support -Settlement and Resettlement -Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening (MISR in Uganda) |
1991 |
| Consultant | On multi-person, multi-donor team that identified the environmental needs of the semi-arid areas of northern Nigeria for the fourth UNDP Country Programme of Nigeria during the UNDP Fifth Cycle 1991-1996 | Nigeria | Buursink International Consultants for UNSO/UNDP | Environmental and Social Assessment (ESA) | 1991 |
| Consultant | Miscellaneous contracts related to settlement-related issues associated with river blindness control in the valleys covered by river blindness control |
11 OCP-affected countries in West Africa from bases in the US and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | World Bank | -Settlement and Resettlement -Workshop and Conference Organization -Report Writing and Publication Support |
1991-1992 |
| Consultant | On eight-person team that designed Burkina Faso’s National Action Plan for the Environment (NEAP) | Burkina Faso | Buursink International Consultants for the World Bank | -Environmental and Social Assessment (ESA)-WID | 1990 |
| Deputy Director | 11-country study of the environmental and development impacts of the Onchocerciasis (river blindness) Control Programme (OCP) in West Africa and Team leader of the three-person team that designed and implemented the national case study in Burkina Faso | Intensive Fieldwork with In-country Teams: Burkina Faso, Mali, Togo, and GhanaLess Intensive Fieldwork (through consultants): Benin, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Niger, and Côte d’Ivoire |
Institute for Development Anthropology (IDA) for the World Bank | -Settlement and Resettlement -Report Writing and Publication Support (with Thayer Scudder and Thomas Painter) |
1988-1990 |
| Consultant | Design and execution of detailed literature review on the environmental and planning Issues raised by self-directed and involuntary (Forced) New Lands Settlement in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Asia | Worldwide from a base in the US | US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), Department of Food and Renewable Resources | -Social and Environmental Assessment (ESA) -Settlement and Resettlement |
1986 |
| Research Assistant | Design and execution of a study to examine the environmental and developmental impacts of planned settlement on settlers recruited from the Kaya region to the AVV sponsored settlements at Mogtedo | Burkina Faso | West Africa Farming Systems Project, Purdue University for USAID | -Settlement and Resettlement | 1978-1981 |
| Graduate Student | Assisted with design and implementation of first census of the AVV planned settlements in the OCP-affected river basins in Burkina Faso | Burkina Faso | Northwestern University (for the Ford Foundation) | -Settlement and Resettlement | 1977 |
| Undergraduate Student | Research in Kabye villages of northern Togo focusing on the economic and social impact of veteran resettlement | Togo | Agnes Scott College and Northern Virginia Community College | -Settlement and Resettlement | 1974 |
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| Courtesy Scientist, | Served on a limited number of MS and Ph.D. committees Guest lectures |
US | Department of Anthropology, University of Florida | Resource Person | 1987-Present |
| Assistant Professor | (1) Taught undergraduate and graduate anthropology courses (2) Supervised and sat on Ph.D. and MA students’ committees (3) Started the "Anthropology and Food Policy" Seminar and working group that catalyzed the edited book by the same name |
US | University of Kentucky | -Institutional and Local Capacity Building (Anthropology and Food Policy Program, UK) | 1986-1988 |
| Assistant Director, Center for African Studies, University of Florida (UF) | First assistant director appointed to the University of Florida African Studies Center. Activities included: (1) Coordination of the African Studies public affairs programs; (2) Faculty advisor for the undergraduate certificate in African Studies programs ; (3) Routine backstopping of the Director for all grant applications and reports ; (4) Coordination of visits and support for all visiting scholars from Africa ; (5) Creation and management of “Food in Africa” speaker series; (6) Coordination of a university-wide review of curriculum issues in the study of African food issues; and (7) Development of a series of donor-funded linkage programs with Cameroonian universities to compliment UF’s ongoing USAID-funded programs | US | University of Florida, (UF), Center for African Studies | -Institutional and Local Capacity Building (Food in Africa Program, (UF) -Project, Program & Strategy Design -Food Security Programming (Food in Africa Programming) |
1981-1986 |