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Cologne, Nrw, De

I have the overall responsibility for an impact assessment, exploring the adoption and impacts of improved forage grasses on dairy productivity, profits, household income and food security among livestock keepers in Uganda. Clients for this assignment are Madiba Consult and Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). In addition, we are closely cooperating with colleagues from CIAT and SNV-Uganda.Together with a key evaluation expert, we employ a mixed-methods research design for this assessment. I assume technical responsibility for the quantitative component of this design, such as questionnaire development, collection, cleaning and analysis of data from 600+ livestock keeping households. Analysis will be conducted using difference-in-difference (DiD) combined with coarsened exact matching in STATA. I am closely working together with a key expert responsible for collection and analysis of qualitative data (e.g., most significant change technique). Key deliverables are the submission of a journal article responding to all research questions and the presentation of findings and implications to clients, CIAT and SNV.

I have the overall responsibility for an impact assessment, exploring the adoption and impacts of improved forage grasses on dairy productivity, profits, household income and food security among livestock keepers in Uganda. Clients for this assignment are Madiba Consult and Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). In addition, we are closely cooperating with colleagues from CIAT and SNV-Uganda.Together with a key evaluation expert, we employ a mixed-methods research design for this assessment. I assume technical responsibility for the quantitative component of this design, such as questionnaire development, collection, cleaning and analysis of data from 600+ livestock keeping households. Analysis will be conducted using difference-in-difference (DiD) combined with coarsened exact matching in STATA. I am closely working together with a key expert responsible for collection and analysis of qualitative data (e.g., most significant change technique). Key deliverables are the submission of a journal article responding to all research questions and the presentation of findings and implications to clients, CIAT and SNV.

Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana

I worked as evaluation consultant with the International Potato Centre (CIP) in Tamale (Ghana) in the course of the Generating Revenues and Opportunities for Women to Improve Nutrition in Ghana (GROWING). The final deliverable of the consultancy was a completed baseline report for the GROWING project. This included tasks such as cleaning, processing and analyzing of baseline data in STATA, collected from 1,800 rural households in Northern Ghana, and writing of the baseline report. Data analysis was performed for the project-level women’s empowerment in agriculture index (Pro-WEAI), food security, nutrition, anthropometric measurements, access to agricultural services and household assets/wealth.I closely collaborated with the M&E officer of CIP-Ghana in all technical steps of this assignment. My responsibilities also included regular reporting to project leadership on progress made and challenges encountered in accordance with agreed deadlines.

I worked as a research consultant with CIMMYT India in the course of the Accelerating Genetic Gains in Maize and Wheat (AGG) project. The tasks included writing concept notes and developing methodological approaches for three manuscripts. I was further responsible for cleaning, processing and analyzing household survey data collected from more than 1,000 wheat farmers in Bihar state (India). I employed statistical and econometric techniques to analyze 1) farmers’ adoption of improved wheat varieties from a social inclusion and gender perspective using gender-disaggregated data and 2) the impacts of cultivating public or private sector wheat varieties on yields among wheat farmers. Findings and implications were shared with CIMMYT colleagues during an AGG workshop held in Hyderabad.

Bonn

At DEval I worked on several evaluations as team leader or evaluator. Evaluations included for example 1) Meta-evaluation on the quality of project evaluations in German development cooperation, 2) Effectiveness of German development cooperation in dealing with conflict-induced forced migration crises, 3) Private sector for agricultural development and 4) Promotion of agricultural value chains

Goettingen

My PhD research focused on the determinants and impacts of farmers’ participation in blackberry value chains in the Ecuadorian Andes.

Musoma, Tanzania

Research in cooperation with SNV and Tanzanian partners. Study objective was to identify and evaluate management models of communal animal health services delivered to livestock keepers.

Bangkok, Thailand

Research in cooperation with the German-Thai Chamber of Commerce (GTCC) on foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Thai automobile industry.

Ho-Chi-Minh-City, Vietnam

Advised university lecturer on the design of rural planning course units in close consultation with project management.

Aachen, Germany

Internship with the NGO Misereor. My main responsibilities encompassed a literature review on smallholder agricultural policy in Uganda and writing a working paper on pro-poor growth approaches for dissemination among partner organisations of Misereor.

Phd, Agricultural Economics

Master Of Science, International Development Studies

Master’S Degree, Economic Geography (Major), Economics, Geography (Minors)