Curriculum Vitae
He has has written many project proposals and developed
project appraisals using Sustainable Rural Livelihoods analysis and is also well versed in the Making
Markets work for the Poor approach (M4P). He has organised and carried
out a number of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) workshops; most recently in Turkey
to analyse the current status of organic agriculture and opportunities to
develop new organic projects for the inception report of the EU project, Organic Farming for Turkey. In Bangladesh
during 2010 he devised a new approach to value chain analysis with regard to
existing and new value chain activities to highlight the most effective
interventions.
Over the last 5-10 years he has advised upon and
managed the certification processes in relation to organic standards, fair
trade, integrated crop management and wild collected certification schemes in
many countries including Bangladesh,
Nepal, Turkey, Romania,
Ghana and Malawi. He has wide experience in managing projects
working on a diverse range of value chains such as such as charcoal production,
resin from pine trees, fibre crops, essential oil extraction , medicinal
plants, mushroom production, honey production, biomass and energy crops. His
business administration experience is supported by a Certificate in Management
which he gained in 1994 in the UK
and more recently by attending training in Policy,
Programmes and Project management run by Crown Agents in Dubai
(2009) and Leadership in Development
run by CINFO in Switzerland
(2011). In Africa he has worked in Malawi in particular to help create the IFOAM
accredited organic standards for the country in collaboration with the Malawi
Bureau of Standards (making use of the East Africa standard used in Kenya, Uganda
and Tanzania)
Over the last 2-3 years he has managed a
large food security project in Cambodia and has also been advising the Nepal
Swiss Community Forestry Project (NSCFP) based in Kathmandu where he linked
income generation activities with cross cutting themes of governance and gender
equality. He was working directly with Community Forestry Users Groups (CFUGs) to
increase their income from timber and non timber products. He has written a number
of papers on this and issues surrounding regulatory constraints to economic
development in the forestry sector in Nepal (see below). He worked as income generation specialist for 4 years for
the Partnership for Rehabilitation project
based at a leprosy hospital, working with those disabled by leprosy, providing
practical training courses in agriculture. He followed this up with the paper Perspectives on disability, technology and poverty.
Some of the skills brought by the consultant arise
out of experience working on projects funded by DFID, SDC, World Bank, USAID,
EBRD, ADB and the EU in countries such as Malawi, Liberia, Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh,
Cambodia, India, Kosovo, Turkey and Romania.
