Senior Business Advisor
CurrentBusiness Advisor/Public Private Partnership department: permanent consultantWest Africa Trade and Investment Hub (WATIH) a USAID funded project to develop agribusinesses in West Africa.• Developed a pipeline of potential grantees (mostly exporters to the USA, Europe, and West Africa region)• Funded different sectors including Health and telemedicine, WASH, ecolodges, farmers and agri-business SMEs, agribusiness exports. • Provided short-term technical assistance to grant applicants including: o Co-creating Projects with selected grantees. o designing concept notes, expression of interest, full applications, monitoring plans and work plans.o making financial analysis, environmental review, risk analysis etc. o writing business plans. o training grantees and consultants. o evaluating grant requests presented by colleagues.• Reviewed quarterly reports.• Monitored and evaluated grantees projects.