Alison Griffith Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

As a senior consultant I work on a variety of long and short term contracts where I can add value for example:UN Food Systems Summit 2021 SME Research lead for Wasafiri Consulting - to bring the Small Business Agenda into the heart of the UN Food Systems Summit process. https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/unfss-small_business_agenda.pdf YCARE International 2020 Mentoring and training program teams and country partners in market systems development approaches for youth livelihoods. Remote training and support using Zoom to involve Africa partners along with Head Office staff.World Bank, Enabling the Business of Agriculture - 2018 - 2020Senior consultant to the EBA team developing a strategy for improved stakeholder engagement, specifically to connect with civil society to increase awareness and use their expertise and perspectives to strengthen the EBA. Advising on facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes and connecting CSOs with the EBA program at country level to ensure it becomes a valuable tool for strengthening agricultural systems in ways that benefit smallholder farmers. Christian Aid, Inclusive Markets team - 2017 - 2018 Advisor to the team developing Christian Aid's approach to using market systems to tackle poverty. Specifically provided support and inputs to the new Inclusive Markets Development Framework and Program Practitioners Users Guide. Economic Advancement Program, Open Society Foundation (OSF) and the Food Systems Group, Oxford University - 2017 to 2020: - Senior consultant on “Farmers and Food Systems” a research program funded by OSF to help direct future investment in agriculture. - Working with local organisations and researchers in Ghana and Zambia, to link local findings with emerging global trends and issues, and support them to build future scenarios for local food systems. - Facilitating multi-stakeholder engagement to consider future trajectories for small-scale agriculture.

Warwickshire, Uk

I led Practical Action's work on systemic change processes for sustainable development. Developing strategies and approaches for engaging private and public actors to achieve systemic change. I have led external and internal work to ensure that policy and practice change is informed by: innovation; evidence of what can work; and critically, by those who will be most affected by the outcome.

Leading Practical Action’s international Markets and Livelihoods programme my responsibilities included: Developing strategy Leading a multi-country team Analysis and sharing lessons and evidence from the programme.  Funding proposals  Managing the UK team Financial and budget management I provided mentoring, facilitation and training to other organisations and programs as they developed work in agricultural systems.

ULG (a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbrian Water Ltd) was an International Consultancy company delivering environmental and agricultural projects worldwide. As Business Development Manager I was involved in the preparation of proposals and pre-qualification documents for the major funding agencies; supporting bids and developing new business opportunities.

Developing new initiatives in East Africa supporting smallscale food producers and agri-businesses; worked with the trading company to develop a new Food Purchasing Policy

Ma By Research, Fair Trade

Bsc, Agriculture And Food Marketing