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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 both the IMPACT project, and Farm Africa’s work in Uganda

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 perspectives, and for providing the necessary technical support to ensure gender integration throughout the wider project.Made sure that that… Show more 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 perspectives, and for providing the necessary technical support to ensure gender integration throughout the wider project.Made sure that that gender mainstreaming and analysis are well conducted throughout the project period. Show less

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 coffee production and marketing.•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 safety, cross-cutting issues… Show more •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 coffee production and marketing.•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 safety, cross-cutting issues, agronomy of non-coffee crops, farming as a Family Business, 4C• 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 and marketing.• 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 safety, cross-cutting issues, agronomy of… Show more • 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 and marketing.• 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 safety, cross-cutting issues, agronomy of non-coffee crops, farming as a Family Business, 4C Certification and verification, and reported on their effectiveness and level of adoption.• 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 • Supporting the field officers and TOTs in delivery of FFS approach to Farmer groups and • Created a collective marketing system and organized for good quality agro-inputs through YARA (for fertilizers), Agrovic and other local agro inputs in the area of operation.• Coordinated the establishment of three coffee nurseries and one shade tree nursery at affiliated Kiboko (dry) mills to increase coffee yields due to increased access to quality planting materials, increased acreage, and the availability of affordable quality planting materials.• Trained youth under Provision of financial and non-financial services through coffee service centers project in certification and Coffee Service Provision for on farm economic, social, and environmental sustainability.• Collaborated with affiliated dry mill managers and cooperatives to mobilize, add value, and market farmer's coffee to Ugacof, and collected over 1,000 tons of FAQ.• Empowered and managed the team of Field Officers working in central and western Uganda project areas. Show less

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, setting up experiment and collecting data on paper variety, and then analyzing the data using GenStat software.• 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 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, setting up experiment and collecting data on paper variety, and then analyzing the data using GenStat software.• 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 and groundnuts intercrops to determine their economic viability and sustainability.• 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.• Report writing and submission to the immediate supervisor Show less

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 diseases (CMD), cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) and cassava bacteria blight (CBB),evaluate cassava germplasm on most pests like white… Show more • 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 diseases (CMD), cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) and cassava bacteria blight (CBB),evaluate cassava germplasm on most pests like white flies, mealy bug and others, extract cassava starch and analysis of cassava starch for different aspects like free sugar, swelling power, amylase, cynine and others.• 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