Expertise References
| Expertise | Reference |
| Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning | (MEAL) |
| Food Security Programming and Value Chains | (FS&VC) |
| Women in Development | (WID) |
| Project, Program & Strategy Design | (PP&SD) |
| Post-Conflict/Disaster Reconstruction and Development | (PCDR&D) |
| Workshop and Conference Organization/Facilitation | (W&COF) |
| Report Writing and Publication Support | (RW&PS) |
| Institutional and Local Capacity Strengthening | (I&LCS) |
| Environmental and Social Assessment | (ESA) |
| Settlement and Resettlement | (S&R) |
| Assignment Title | Brief Description | Region | Organization | Expertise | Year |
| Senior Technical Advisor | Four–phase pilot activity (the Local Capacity Assessments and Supports [LCapS]) (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 Trainers) workshops (using 5 modules) (dates: TBD due to temporary USG pause); and (4) Preparation of an evidence-based Local Capacity Strengthening (LCS) strategy for US Government (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) | -I&LCS -PP&SD |
2024—2025 |
| Co-Team Leader (with Barbara Arthur) | Final Report for the USAID West Africa Analytical Support Services (ASSESS) and Evaluations for Sustainable Systems in Agriculture, Environment and Trade Project | Ghana | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Bureau of Integrated Rural Development (BIRD) for the United States Department of Agriculture/Foreign Agricultural | -MEAL -RW&PS -I&LCS (of KNUST/BIRD) |
2023—2024 |
| Co-Team Leader (with Keti Gachechiladze) | Co-creation (with USDA/FAS and its local partners) of separate Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) plans and a core set of reporting processes and indicators for four USDA/FAS–funded projects | Georgia | USDA through GCAD (The Fund Georgian Center for Agribusiness Development) for USDA/FAS | -MEAL -I&LCS(of GCAD) |
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) | -S&R -I&LCS (of ACSD) |
2019—2024 |
| Team Leader | Two-person team tasked with preparing the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Technical Support Services Project (METSS) II Project Final Report | Ghana | KNUST/BIRD for USDA/FAS | -MEAL -I&LCS (of KNUST/BIRD ) |
2023 |
| Consultant | Co-preparation (with C. Phiri) of strategy | Burkina Faso | Lutheran World Relief (LWR) for USAID | -WID | 2023 |
| Co-Team Leader (with C. Phiri) | Initial design of proposal submitted to USAID/Nepal | Nepal | LWR for USAID | -PP&SD -FS&VC |
2021—2022 |
| Team Leader | 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 Project for USAID/Ghana and USDA/FAS | -MEAL -RW&PS -I&LCS (of CSIR-SARI) |
2021—2022 |
| Team Leader | Five-person team that evaluated the Strengthening Value Chains (SVC) Activity | Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) | Mendez England & Associates (ME&A), Program Evaluation for Effectiveness and Learning (PEEL) Project for USAID/DRC | -MEAL -FS&VC |
2020 |
| Team Leader | Three-person team that evaluated the UCC Fisheries and Coastal Management Capacity Building Project (FCMCBP) | Ghana | METSS II Project for USDA/FAS and USAID/Ghana | -MEAL -I&LCS(of UCC) |
2019—2020 |
| Consultant | Initial design of the follow-on phase of the REGIS-AG (Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel – Accelerated Growth) Project | Burkina Faso and Niger | Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) for USAID/SRO | -PP&SD
-FS&VC |
2019 |
| Team Leader | Six-person team that designed and executed the mid-term performance evaluation of the Feed the Future REGIS-AG Activity | Burkina Faso and Niger | Management Systems International (MSI) for the USAID/SRO | -MEAL -FS&VC |
2018 |
| Consultant | Technical Support to the METSS II Project for results-based reporting including: (1) the development of the project’s first Project Monitoring and Management Plan (PMMP); (2) organization of a report writing workshop; and (3) backstopping for the project’s quarterly reports | Ghana | METSS II Project for USDA/FAS and USAID/Ghana | -MEAL -RW&PS |
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 | ME&A Program Evaluation for Effectiveness and Learning (PEEL) Project for USAID | -MEAL -FS&VC |
2016—2017 |
| Consultant | Facilitated Catholic Relief Services (CRS) staff developing refereed journal articles on CRS’s applied research associated with its programming | Global | CRS | -RW&PS | 2015—2016 |
| Consultant | Co-facilitated (with Issa Zerbo) 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) Project for USAID/FFP | -MEAL -W&COF -PCDR&D -FS&VC |
2016 |
| Consultant | One of two co-facilitators of three five-day workshops for CRS Project staff on the new USAID/FFP guidance for MEAL plans | Burundi, Madagascar, and Malawi |
TOPS for USAID/FFP | -MEAL -FS&VC -W&COF |
2015 |
| Team Leader | Four-person team that designed and executed the final qualitative evaluation survey and evaluation of the Tubaramure Preventing Malnutrition in Children under 2 Approach (PM2A) | Burundi | CRS for USAID/FFP | -MEAL -FS&VC -PCDR&D |
2014 |
| Co-Team Leader (with Lorna Butler) | Two-year process designed to produce a comprehensive review of the CSRL/ISU Program | Uganda | ISU (Iowa State University) | -MEAL -W&COF -RW&PS -I&LCS |
2012-2015 |
| Team Leader | Four-person team that designed the final qualitative evaluation survey and evaluation of the Nema consortium | Mali | CRS | -MEAL -FS&VC -PCDR&D |
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) | International Business and Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI) (for USAID) | -PP&SD | 2013 |
| Team Leader | Strategy Development Exercise for “Resilience” Programming in the Sahel (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Chad) | Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Niger | Africare | -PP&SD -FS&VC |
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) | -MEAL -W&COF |
2012 |
| Consultant | Four-person team tasked with developing and pilot testing three training modules on women in development (WID) issues for Millennium Challenge Corporation (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 | 2011 |
| Consultant | Co-development (with Alice Willard) of a PMP (Performance Monitoring Plan) for USAID/Russia | Russia | IBTCI for USAID/Russia | -MEAL | 2011 |
| Consultant | Routine backstopping of the MCA resettlement and WID experts in Burkina Faso to ensure compliance with MCC’s resettlement (2008–2012) and WID policies (2009–2012) | Burkina Faso | MCC for MCA/BF | -S&R -WID -ESA -I&LCAP (mayors and local organizations affected by MCA/BF activities) -RW&PS |
2008—2012 |
| Consultant | Informal resettlement review of MCC-funded land project on Benin | Benin | MCC for MCA/BF | -S&A | 2011 |
| 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 | -PP&SD -MEAL -FS&VC |
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/Iraq | -MEAL -PCDR&D |
2009—2010 |
| Team Leader | Five-person team that conducted the final evaluation of the Livelihood Security Program in Pita and Tilemele | Guinea | Opportunities Industrialization Centers International (OICI) for USAID/FFP | -MEAL -FS&VC |
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) | ARC for USAID/FFP | -MEAL -FS&VC -PCDR&D |
2007 |
| Team Leader | Three-person team that designed an integrated food security project in two regions of Chad | Chad | Africare and Adventist Development and Relief (ADRA) for USAID/FFP | -PP&SD -FS&VC |
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/FFP | -MEAL (Training, Working groups) -I&LCAP ( of Africare) -W&COF -FS&VC |
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/FFP | -MEAL -FS&VC -I&LCAP (of Africare’s FFP programming) |
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 for USAID | -MEAL | 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 and MCA/Mali | -S&R | 2007 |
| Team Leader | Mid-term evaluation of the USAID Title II Food Security Institutional Capacity Building (ICB) Grant | Agricultural Cooperative Development International/Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance’s (ACDI/VOCA’s) Title II Food Security Programs (from a base in the US) | ACDI/VOCA for USAID/FFP | -MEAL -FS&VC |
2006 |
| Team Leader ( |
Mid-Term Evaluation of the USAID Title II Food Security Institutional Capacity Building (ICB) Grant | ARC’s Title II Food Security Programs (from a base in the US) | ARC for USAID/FFP | -MEAL -FS&VC |
2006 |
| Consultant | Design (of a training module on IPTTs | International Programs worldwide (from a base in the US) | CRS and ARC for USAID/FFP | -MEAL -FS&VC |
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 | Worldwide (from a base in the US) | CRS for USAID/FFP | -PP&SD -I&LCS (CRS’s FFP Programs) -FS&VC |
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 | -MEAL -FS&VC |
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 | -MEAL | 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 | -I&LCS (of the ZFSI Project) -FS&VC |
2005 |
| Consultant | Designed module for CRS and ARC on “Planning for Evaluation” | Worldwide (from a base in the US) | CRS and ARC for USAID/FFP | -MEAL -FS&VC |
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 | -MEAL -FS&VC |
2005 |
| Team Leader | Three-person Africare team that designed the Africare Title II Food Security Initiative in Agadez and Tillaberi | Niger | Africare for USAID | -PP&SD -FS&VC -PCDS&D |
2004—2005 |
| Team Leader | Three-person team that designed and executed the final evaluation of the CRS Title II Development Assistance Project in Malawi | Malawi | CRS for USAID/FFP | -MEAL | 2004 |
| Consultant | One of three trainers facilitating sessions at a regional monitoring and evaluation workshop for Africare’s Title II project coordinators and MEAL specialists | Mozambique for Africare staff in 13 countries that support Title II food programming | Africare for USAID/FFP | -MEAL -RW&PS -W&COF -I&LCS (of Africare’s Food Security Programs) |
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; and (2) revised Title II follow-on Development Assistance Proposal (DAP) in Burkina Faso to conform with FFP Policy Paper |
Guinea (in person) and Burkina Faso (remotely) | Africare for USAID | -MEAL (Staff Training) -RW&PS -PP&SD |
2004 |
| Team Leader | Two participatory site identification, problem analysis, and design missions associated with a new Title II Food Security Grant | Ethiopia | Africare for USAID/FFP | -PP&SD -FS&VC |
2003—2004 |
| Consultant | Worked with CRS MEAL 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 | -MEAL -FS&VC -I&LCS (of CRS’s ISA Grant) |
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 | -PP&SD -FS&VC -I&LCS (of Africare’s ISA Grant) |
2003 |
| Team Leader | Four-person team charged with evaluating one of the first experiences with using a consortium (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere [CARE], CRS, Helen Keller International [HKI], Africare) to manage both the programmatic and monetization functions of a Title II Food Security Program | Niger | CARE for USAID | -MEAL -FS&VC |
2003 |
| Team Leader | Design 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/FFP | -MEAL -FS&VC |
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 | -MEAL -RW&PS -W&COF |
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 | -MEAL -FS&VC -I&LCS (of Africare’s ISA Grant) |
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 | 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 | -PP&SD -FS&VC -PCDR&D |
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 | -MEAL -RW&PS -I&LCS (of Africare’s Title II programming) |
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 | -MEAL -FS&VC |
2001 |
| Team Leader | Mid-term Evaluation of Africare’s Institutional Strengthening Assistance (ISA) Grant | US | Africare for USAID | -MEAL -I&LCS (of Africare’s Food Security programming) -FS&VC |
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/FFP | -MEAL ) -FS&VC -W&COF -RW&PS -I&LCS (of Africare’s Food Security programming) |
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/FFP | -MEAL -W&COF -RW&PS |
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, and Kenya Remote Interviews and Desk Reviews: Somalia, Djibouti, and Sudan |
International Sorghum and Millet Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) (INTSORMIL) | -FS&VC – WID -I&LCS (of IGAD and the regional NARCs) -PP&SD -W&COF |
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/FFP | -MEAL -FS&VC |
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 | -MEAL -I&LCS(of Africare’s Title II funded programming)-FS&VC |
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 (BIC) for the World Bank | -WID Issues -S&R |
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 | MEAL | 1998—1999 |
| Consultant | Miscellaneous proposal development | Sub-Saharan Africa (from a base in the US) | BIC for the World Bank | -PP&SD | 1998 |
| Team Leader | Four-person team conducting social assessment due diligence associated with the privatization of the Cameroonian railroad | Cameroon | BIC for the World Bank | -ESA | 1998 |
| Consultant | Facilitated: (1) the organization and execution of a regional workshop to assist 11 countries in the creation of proposals for follow-on socio-economic planning for the OCP-affected region in West Africa; and (2) the finalization of the draft proposals | Burkina Faso | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Bank | -W&COF -S&R -I&LCS Building (of the Ministries of Agriculture in 11 OCP-affected countries) -RW&PS |
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 | -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 | BIC for the World Bank | -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 | BIC for the Inter-American Development Bank | -ESA -WID |
1998 |
| Team Leader | Three-person team charged with evaluation of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)/Confederation of Switzerland funded project, GAM/93/004, “Enhancing Rural Capacities through Livestock Development” in The Gambia | The Gambia | BIC for UNDP | -MEAL -FS&VC |
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) | -WID -PCDR&D |
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 (UF) for USAID | -I&LCS (of the UF World-WID Project) -PP&SD -WID |
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 | -WID -RW&PS |
1995 |
| Team Leader | Two-person team charged with evaluation of the UNDP Project, CAF/91/009, “Renforcement des ONG/OG aux Fins de Développement Participatif” “ and preparation of the follow-on program | Central African Republic (CAR) | BIC or UNDP | -MEAL (Evaluation) -I&LCS |
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 -S&R |
1994—1995 |
| Consultant | On four-person multidisciplinary team that evaluated the USAID-funded Africa region Policy, Analysis, Research, and Technical Support (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 | -MEAL -WID |
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 | -S&R -PP&SD |
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 -S&R |
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 to World Bank projects in four sectors (agriculture, natural resource management, health, and urban infrastructure) | Burkina Faso | World Bank | -I&LCS(of the World Bank’s programs in the Sahel Region) -ESA |
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 | -S&R -PP&SD |
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 | -ESA -WID -PP&SD -I&LCS (of the World Bank’s agricultural support in Burkina Faso) |
1992 |
| Consultant | On three-person team evaluating USAID Farming Systems Research and Training Support Project (ARTS) | Burkina Faso | USAID/Burkina Faso | -MEAL -FS&VC -WID |
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 | -W&COF -RW&PS -S&R -I&LCS (of MISR at Makerere University 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 | BIC for UNSO/UNDP | 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 | -S&R -W&COF -RW&PS |
1991—1992 |
| Consultant | On eight-person team that designed Burkina Faso’s National Action Plan for the Environment (NEAP) | Burkina Faso | BIC for the World Bank | -ESA-WID | 1990 |
| Deputy Director | 11-country study of the environmental and development impacts of the 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 | -S&R -RW&PS (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 | -ESA -S&R |
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 Volta Valley Authority (AVV) sponsored settlements at Mogtedo | Burkina Faso | West Africa Farming Systems Project, Purdue University for USAID | -S&R | 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 | -S&R | 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 | -S&R | 1974 |
| Academic Employment | |||||
| Courtesy Scientist, | (1) Served on a limited number of M.S. and Ph.D. committees; and (2) Guest lectures |
US | Department of Anthropology, University of Florida | 1987—Present | |
| Assistant Professor | (1) Taught undergraduate and graduate anthropology courses; (2) Supervised and sat on Ph.D. and M.A. students’ committees; and (3) Started the “Anthropology and Food Policy” Seminar and working group that catalyzed the edited book by the same name |
US | University of Kentucky (UK) | -I&LCS (for the Anthropology and Food Policy Program at 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 complement UF’s ongoing USAID-funded programs | US | University of Florida, (UF), Center for African Studies | -I&LCS (for the Food in Africa Program at (UF) -PP&SD-FS&VC |
1981—1986 |