Edwin K. Email & Phone Number

Nairobi County, Kenya

• As the Program Manager, I am responsible for:
• Client and project development.
• Project Management.
• Technical assessment and knowledge transfer.

Mityana District, Uganda

• As an action researcher, I facilitated the assessment of innovation in livelihoods and the agricultural systems in a context of climate change for smallholder farmers in Mitayana District Uganda. Main responsibilities.
• Context and situation analysis to understand the practices of small holder farmers in the area.
• Characterization of the landscape, landuse and farming typologies in the area.
• Landscape zonation and characterization of the different farming systems.
• Oral literature review and historical analysis of smallholders farmers in the area.
• Designing structured and semistructured questionnaires for data collection.

Nakuru, Kenya

• Lead in the identification, selection, and onboarding of BSF entrepreneurs and BSF smallholder farmers
• Manage and support the implementation of BSF economic empowerment initiatives that enhance access to BSF Feed (i.e., agro-waste and household waste), production techniques and marketing for enhanced commercialisation.
• Working closely with the MEAL Assistant, take the lead in ensuring the MEAL system and plans for the project aspects are properly in place, digitized as planned and operational.
• Consolidate timely and high-quality project progress reports as per DCA PPM and donor requirements; as well as regular updates on project progress to DCA Kenya Country Office (attention Project Coordinator and Area.
• Facilitate/support collaboration and cross learning among DCA & partners staff through information sharing, exposure visits including active partner engagements.
• Produce monthly project progress reports to DCA on BSF production and commercialization system and perform any other responsibilities as determined and assigned by the Project Coordinator from time to time.

Turkana, Kenya

 Offered technical support in the design, planning, implementation and monitoring of food security, livelihoods and financial inclusion interventions. Lead a team of 20 community based facilitators where we were able to recruit and train over 2000 beneficiaries in nutrition sensitive climate smart crop and animal production. Technical lead in a cash for.

Nairobi

The JIF project was an innovative project promoting the farming and utilization of insects as a source of protein and micro-nutrients. It was a multiyear project supported through Danish funding. Major tasks assigned were: Onboarded and trained over 500 new farmers on the set up of insect farms and utilization of insects as food including fortification of.

Kasarani, Nairobi, Kenya

The INSFEED project was a multiyear project jointly funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). The projects major focus was on enhancing the poultry and fish valuechains in Eastern Africa region through utilization of insect protein in feed formulations. I was able.

Kirinyaga, Kenya

Ensure raw materials received meet the required specificationsEnsure Rice processing is up to standards and follows ISO 22000 food safety specificationsMonitor product safety and quality throughout the manufacturing processMonitor and ensure that the processed and unprocessed rice storage ware houses are kept clean and rice is stored in an orderly.

Master Of Food Science And Technology, Food Science

Bachelors In Food Science And Technology, Agriculture, 2Nd Class Upper

Activities and Societies: Society of Food Technologists and Nutritionists