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Central Region, Uganda

Uganda

Amberes, Flandes, Bélgica

I am part of a citizens' initiative that created "A Goesting!" the Local Food Council of Antwerp that aims to engage all stakeholders and the city authorities to work on a more local, fair and sustainable food system in and around the city of Antwerp.

Bélgica

WijDelen v.z.w ("We Share") is a non-profit that leads the movement to make sharing and renting the new normal in Belgium. Through living labs, experimentation, business development for Peerby.be, the Green Deal Huren &Delen with the Flemish government and many other initiatives.

Kabale, Uganda

On behalf of The DOEN Foundation, Rushongoka Wa-Mpiira and I conducted an impact assessment of the Sustainable Food Initiative by KMDF in the city of Kabale, and a market analysis to identify similar local food system initiatives across Uganda.

Gulu, Uganda

On behalf of the GIZ Programme for Rural Development (PRUDEV), output area 5 'Water for Agriculture', and managed by the team of AFC, I developed a low- and a medium-cost business case for irrigation-fed agriculture in Northern Uganda. The two manuals describe the social, technical, commercial and financial requirements to set-up irrigation and much more.

Uganda

As a part of the Youth in Agroecology and Business Learning Track Africa (YALTA), I provide mentorship to 8 young agroecological entrepreneurs in Northern Uganda. To turn ideas into viable business models, and operations into impact. With support from the NL Food Partnership.

Uganda

Generation Food aims at identifying and supporting innovative business solutions contributing to a sustainable and inclusive food system in and around Gulu and Mbale, Uganda. Going from 400 entrepreneurs in a two-day Hackathon event, and 150 (75 per city) in a two-weeks bootcamp, 40 (20 per city) social entrepreneurs move to the 1-year mentoring programme.

Tanzania

To guide and design for the implementation of PGS as part of the Food Smart Cities programme in markets of Arusha and Mbeya, in order to build trust about food safety measures and progress towards agro-ecological farming

Gulu, Uganda

I dropped a word on Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) to the dynamic team of Northern Uganda Agricultural Extension Foundation (NUAEF) and 10 days later they sent me a business plan. "Karacelo" means Together in Acholi. Ever since, we are working together to set-up Uganda's first CSA farm. We are still building our community and started the first.

Uganda

Together with Jen Astone (Integrated Capital) and Ivan Mandela (Shona) we are in charge of designing and planning the set-up of the East African Agroecology Accelerator (expected to launch in 2022) on behalf of Biovision Foundation, The Agroecology Fund and UNEP. We aim to provide both technical support, capacity building and access to finance to.

Over the course of 3 to 6 months we work together to get investment ready and get funded by OVO with a loan opportunity of 5-50k€

Gulu, Uganda

Development of a contextual analysis and stakeholder mapping to prepare for the design and implementation of the Food Smart City program of Rikolto, to work towards a healthy, sustainable and nutritious food system in Gulu, Uganda.

Lima, Perú

In-depth study on how to develop a network of direct food sales communities and B2C e-commerce platform in the context of Perú.

I contributed to the strategic management of this Belgian umbrella organization “Consuming Responsibly Network”. With the board we guided a change process to re-center the network's mission and focus on resource scarcity and sufficiency theory.

België En Nederland

Strategy, partnerships, P&L management, HR and operations, governance of a network reaching 130 food communities and direct food sales worth 14 million euros in 2020, by 1000+ local producers and 250,000 Benelux consumers.

Also known as La Ruche qui dit Oui!, Europe’s largest direct food sales network, based on an online platform to empower people to build a fair food system. I launched and developed the Dutch-branded Boeren & Buren network in the Flemish part of Belgium and The Netherlands: business development, onboarding and coaching of the first 25 local food community.

Peru

Functions:+ Develop and monitor annual and quarterly action plans + Coordinate field activities with stakeholders+ Design, implement and manage the M&E system + Support process and results reporting to donors and key stakeholders+ Develop and maintain internal and external communicationAGROECO Project - Ecological and socioeconomic intensification of.

Peru

Functions:+ Design & implement a participatory M&E System to track organizational progress+ Organization and communication for institutional events+ Support in capacity building, the development of new project profiles, evaluation meetings and workshops, training courses, etc.Junior Program of the Belgian Development Agency (BTC). I was working within the.

Mali

Internship with the World Food Program of the United Nations, in the framework of a private-public Partnership with Unilever

Master'S Degree, Business Engineering

Activities and Societies: Completed with distinction. Major in marketing. Minors in HR and development economics.

Erasmus Exchange Program, Ma. Business Engineer

Erasmus Exchange Program, Ba. Business Engineer