Alvaro Valverde Email & Phone Number

Schwarzenberg, AT

Austria & The Netherlands

• Developing and managing CABI's Private Sector Engagement and Public Private Partnerships (PPP) strategy and portfolio.
• Researching, establishing and managing new partnerships with private sector companies both at the corporate and program levels.
• Conceptualizing and implementing strategies and work processes to significantly grow CABI’s Private Sector Engagement portfolio globally, as well as increasing CABI's country member base.
• Representing CABI externally on issues of Private Sector Engagement and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships, including the High Level UN Least Developed Countries Ministerial Conferences, UNECE's International Forum on.

Austria

Austria

Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) is a 5-year and £30 million programme financed by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. CASA aims to drive global investment for inclusive climate-resilient agri-food systems that increase smallholder incomes. The programme makes the case for increased agribusiness investment by.

Austria

My role as relationship manager is to identify key stakeholders (investors, donors and lead firms among others), bottlenecks and opportunities to generate new evidence (from high quality research) and spaces for stakeholder interaction, to substantially increase the amount of investment available for agribusinesses and smallholder farmers across Africa and.

Austria

Between July 2019 and January 2020 I acted as interim Research Lead for the whole CASA programme. During that time I was responsible for developing and commissioning eight pieces of research to inform the communications and engagement strategy of the programme, while contributing to the wider literature in the field of investments in smallholder farmers.

United Kingdom & Austria

• Advising regional and field offices in the use of communication technologies in livelihoods programmes. Countries supported include Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh.
• Leading Oxfam’s participation in mNutrition (funded by DFID and managed by GSMA), including matrix management of a 5-member team. The program will take place over 3 years in 13 different countries in SSA and Asia. It.
• Leading Oxfam's work on ICTs for Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care), funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Including management of a 4-member team and the design, implementation and analysis.
• Developing innovative, insightful and strategic projects and programs that use new technologies to deliver food security and knowledge exchange and extension to women smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia.
• Researching, establishing and managing new partnerships with private sector companies across the ICT, agriculture and finance sectors that will have a positive effect on increasing food security, social protection, and.
• Project managing a consortium between Oxfam, the International Sustainability Unit (HRH the Prince of Wales) and GSMA to conduct a landscaping survey on the use of ICTs for Sustainable Agriculture.

Tanzania

Consultancy to identify key components of successful mobile based agriculture business models with potential impact on poverty reduction. This consultancy included secondary and primary research, and resulted in a set of recommendations for the design and implementation of Technoserve’s global ICT4D strategy.

United Kingdom

Understanding Chinese Investment and its Impacts in East Africa. Project to identify and evaluate the implications of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on African development.

Austria

• Monitored and evaluated the implementation of eight projects carried out by Caritas Armenia and financed by Caritas Tirol. The projects focused on education, social protection, and the development of refugee communities.
• Designed and implemented the first international volunteer program of Caritas Tirol.

India

India

Microfinance program for the empowerment of 10.000 women

Spain

Spain

Spain

• Business Consultant. Clients included: Santander Bank Group and FCC Group.
• Operations Specialist - Business Management Operations. Department for Spain, Portugal, Greece, Israel and Turkey.

Ma, Globalisation And Development, Graduated With Merit

Activities and Societies: Promoted and coordinated the first series of Development Debates between IDS and Sussex Philosophy.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business And Economic Administration

Erasmus, Business And Economic Administration

Evaluating Social Programs, Randomized Control Trials