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Project, Program and Strategy  Design Highlights

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Design of bilateral and multi-lateral donor funded programs in the areas of:

  • Food security programming
  • Agricultural research and extension
  • Community-based land management and natural resource management
  • Post-conflict reconstruction and development
  • Settlement and resettlement
  • Local Capacity Strengthening (LCS)

Project, Program and Strategy Design

Food Security Programming

  • Team leader on eight Title II food security program design missions (in Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Niger)
  • Coordinated needs assessments in four of the eight (in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Niger)

Agricultural Research and Extension

  • Co-facilitated the process needed to develop to proposals to the USG for promoting the diffusion of higher yielding semi-arid agricultural technologies to women farmers in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Eritrea
  • Facilitated the development project proposals and Requests for Proposals for projects that target rural development in general and rural and urban women for Burkina Faso’s National Action Plan for the Environment (NEAP)

Community-Based Land Management and Natural Resource Management: Team leader or member in the preparation of a series of community-based land management and NRM projects

Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development: Co-team leaders on the design of a series of initiatives to promote gender issues on the post-conflict reconstruction and development portfolio

Settlement and Resettlement: Facilitated national planning teams developing proposals to promote community-based land management and development in the isolated river basins covered by the Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP) in West Africa through technical assistance (in Burkina Faso, Mali, Togo, Ghana) and workshops (in the other 7 OCP countries: Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Niger, Sierra Leone, Senegal)

Batha Ouaddai Food Security Initiative

Multi-Year Assistance Program

Project, Program and Strategy Design Assignments

Type of Program/Topic Agency Countries/Region
Food Security
Design USAID/Title II Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Niger
Needs Assessment Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Niger
Agricultural Research and Extension
Strengthening the Consideration of Women Farmers and NGOs in the Design and Execution of Agricultural Research in Semi-arid Areas of East Africa USAID, IGAD Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea
Strengthening the Consideration of the New Lands Settlement in the OCP River Basins in Infrastructure and Agricultural Planning USAID, World Bank Burkina Faso, Togo, Ghana, Mali
Community-Based Land Management and Natural Resource Management
Literacy Training to Strengthen Participatory Rural Development UNDP CAR
Environmental Projects  for Inclusion in the  4th UNDP Country Program of Nigeria during the UNDP 5th Cycle UNDP Nigeria
Projects for Inclusion in the National Environmental Action Plan World Bank Burkina Faso
Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development
Issues in Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development USAID Angola
Local Capacity Strengthening (LCS)
Four phase process to inform the development of the first USG strategy for LCS in the Sahel USAID/SRO Burkina Faso