Benjamin Okia Email & Phone Number

Kampala, Uganda

Delivery of business-focused activities in line with the IMPACT project implementation plan, Support project management and coordination, Budget management financial reporting and compliance, Monitoring and Monitoring, evaluation and reporting, Manage the Rukungiri team, office facilities and fleet, Play a key role in delivering the wider objectives of.

United Kingdom

planning and delivering all the activities under the UK aid component of the project (budget UGX 1 billion over 21 months) and served as the technical lead, tasked with identifying gender-based constraints facing young women and men in Kanungu and steering project activities to directly address these issues.Advocating for greater attention to gender.

Kampala, Uganda

• Formation, registration, and strengthening of over 540 producer organizations or village savings and loans associations, as well as 40 cooperatives, while taking gender into account to enhance their efficiency in.
• I provided advisory services, facilitated, and trained farmers on Gender mainstreaming, Good Coffee Agronomic Practices, Post-harvest Handling, Village Saving and Loan Association, financial literacy, Health and.
• I provided advisory services, facilitated, and trained farmers on Gender mainstreaming, Good Coffee Agronomic Practices, Post-harvest Handling, Village Saving and Loan Association, financial literacy, Health and.
• Supporting over 5 field officers in their project work Show less

Kampala, Uganda

• Formation, registration, and strengthening of producer organizations or village savings and loans associations, as well as cooperatives, while taking gender into account to enhance their efficiency in coffee production.
• I provided advisory services, facilitated, and trained farmers on Gender mainstreaming, Good Coffee Agronomic Practices, Post-harvest Handling, Village Saving and Loan Association, financial literacy, Health and.
• I provided advisory services, facilitated, and trained farmers on Gender mainstreaming, Good Coffee Agronomic Practices, Post-harvest Handling, Village Saving and Loan Association, financial literacy, Health and.
• Used FFS to facilitate farmers in the project components especially in coffee Agronomy.
• Conducting and coordinating the farmer field days as one of the exchange learning approaches to adaptation of the project components or trainings.
• Gathering and consolidate success stories to show case the impact of the projects

Mukono, Uganda

• Hands-on experience in horticultural production such as citrus grafting, setting and maintaining horticulture nursery beds such as Amaranthus experiment based on effects of spacing on yield through weeding, irrigating.
• Hands-on experience in the production of annual crops such as beans, maize, rice, soya beans, peas, groundnuts, and many others, as well as the establishment and… Show more
• Hands-on experience in the production of annual crops such as beans, maize, rice, soya beans, peas, groundnuts, and many others, as well as the establishment and collection of data on rice and maize intercrops and rice.
• Hands-on experience in agro-forestry production, such as the production and management of various tree species, as well as the production of cocoa and coffee.
• Hands-on coffee production experience, including planting, good management practices, harvesting, and post-harvest practices.
• Hands-on experience with livestock production and apiary management practices, including poultry, pig or porcine production, dairy production, goat production, and many other small ruminants.

Wakiso, Uganda

• Setting up, managing, and collecting data for research experiments on potatoes, cassava, rice, beans, and horticulture, among other things.
• New crop technologies and field production and management of especially cassava, that’s to say pollinating cassava, taking data on cassava breeding experiments like evaluation of cassava germplasm on Cassava mosaic.
• New crop technologies and field production and management of especially cassava, that’s to say pollinating cassava, taking data on cassava breeding experiments like evaluation of cassava germplasm on Cassava mosaic.
• Basic Practical knowledge in production of various including beans, rice, maize, horticulture, sweet potato, and livestock pasture.
• Submit and presented reports on weekly basis to immediate supervisor. Show less