Thursday, May 17, 2007

Agenda update

Tomorrow, Friday, is holiday here.

On Sat (a relaxed day here) we will work from 11am until I do not know when. Khalid cannot come that day so I guess I will make Riffat crazy. Shibby will join us.

On Sun we will travel to Kordofan (Riffat cannot join us because he has to work with a consultant who will do a base line and prepare for the annual review). We will be there (Um Ruwaba) two net days:

  • I suggested that the first day (Mon) we spend it with the field team (two people from Kordofan and one from Darfur). I will ask Khalid and Shibby to lead a short explanation of our approach and the we will do preliminary PMM together ... yes, again! (it is fundamental that the team feels comfortable with the technique so that they do it with market actors).
  • The second day (Tue), we will meet farmers from the different Kordofani villages where the project is working.

On Wed, we will return to Khartum (6 hours trip).

On Thu, we will meet with Evans to discuss AMAP's financial issues and then we will possibly meet an officer of the World Bank who contacted Shibby to see possibilities of joint work. She is the person in charge of the public-private partnerships in the WB for Sudan.

On Fri, I will return to the UK.

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I contribute to the quality and effectiveness of Practical Action's Markets and Livelihoods Program. My roles involve building the capacity of the field teams in participatory market systems development, project design and monitoring, knowledge management, and international influencing. Projects that I have or am managing: USAID AMAP Becoming an Effective Learning Organization; and New Partners for Value Chain Development Learning. I facitate the Market Facilitation Initiative (MaFI) which is a working group of the SEEP with the technical support of Practical Action. I moved from Chemical Engineering into appropriate technologies in 1995 and then worked for seven years in Fundacion Social (Colombia) in the field of International Cooperation. During that period I acquired experience in participatory local development and project design and M&E. I was a fellow of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in two programs; I studied International Cooperation and Development Projects and I have an M.Phil. in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies (UK) where I focused on value chains, innovation systems and social networks.