GoK/World Bank ,Economic Inclusion Programme

Youth empowerment through technical training, capacity building, character development, life skills training and employment linkages, Entrepreneurship development including business training, business planing etc

I managed resilience building activities related to food security among 10,500 target farmers in Machakos County. I guided and supervised agricultural assets creation. Offered technical backstopping on farm level production. I trained farmers on Good Agribusiness/Agricultural Practices (GAPS) to increase production and productivity. I facilitated community level activities including development of CAPs, DIPs, review reflection and learning fora, market linkages. Value chains development. I… Show more I managed resilience building activities related to food security among 10,500 target farmers in Machakos County. I guided and supervised agricultural assets creation. Offered technical backstopping on farm level production. I trained farmers on Good Agribusiness/Agricultural Practices (GAPS) to increase production and productivity. I facilitated community level activities including development of CAPs, DIPs, review reflection and learning fora, market linkages. Value chains development. I oversaw VSLA establishment, management and monitoring and partnership engagements. I coordinated and facilitated stakeholders and partnership activities which included consortium members, seed suppliers, Financial Institution and other service providers. Show less

Duties and responsibilities:• Developing and ensuring implementation of the Institute business plan• Conducting market surveys and linking production team to relevant markets• Advising Institute leadership on current market trends and prevailing business opportunities• Training trainers and farmers on agribusiness• Planning and coordinating exhibitions, seminars and workshops• Supervising research projects and ensuring they are completed within set time lines and within… Show more Duties and responsibilities:• Developing and ensuring implementation of the Institute business plan• Conducting market surveys and linking production team to relevant markets• Advising Institute leadership on current market trends and prevailing business opportunities• Training trainers and farmers on agribusiness• Planning and coordinating exhibitions, seminars and workshops• Supervising research projects and ensuring they are completed within set time lines and within the allocated resources.• Participating in development of departmental budget, work plans and performance contract and ensuring strict adherence to the same.• Participating in monitoring and evaluation of research projects.• Planning and conducting field surveys and studies.• Designing and laying field experiments• Participating in data collection and statistical analysis.• Writing survey, study and experimental reports.• Management and supervision of a casual labour workforce of up to 100 personsKey Achievements:• Development of Institute business concept and a working Business plan• Timely departmental reports delivery• Played a key role in the development of the Kenya sugar industry Mill-Synchrony model• Hands on involvement in executing of the following projects from planning, implementation to reporting:o Sugar reforms support program funded by the European Union.o Integrated approach in addressing the declining sugarcane yields: A case study of Kakamega Countyo The Agribusiness of Sugarcane farming in Kenya: The case of Economic plot size and distance in the expanding crushing capacity and shrinking cane supply environment.o Choice of Crops and its effect in the food security situation in the Kenya Sugar industryo The cost of Sugarcane variety development in Kenyao Evaluation of KESREF selection cycle to reduce selection time.o Sugar industry data and database managemento Development of the Kenya sugar industry web-based databaseo Sugarcane-mill synchrony model Show less

Managing farmers and farmer groups