International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Officer
Oct. 2022 - Oct. 2023Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria- Worked with VCDF-IITA project team on the OGSTEP project to apply a gender lens to overall project execution, to ensure that women or vulnerable people get equal opportunities to participate in project and that project teams avoid any form of bias.
- Worked with the team in strengthening private-sector-led agri-food chains by ensuring farmers in production clusters have off-taker agreements with agribusiness that are gender and youth-disaggregated, particularly in the six local government areas of Ijebu zone, Ogun State.
- Data collation, aggregation and validation of 2500 farmers across various value chain
- Contributed gender expertise to agricultural value chain development in cassava, maize, soybean, sesame, fishery, horticulture (vegetables, pepper), poultry and rice. - Development of business plan for 674 farmers on various value chains
- Enabling effective monitoring, learning, and evaluation of project implementation while safeguarding environmental and safety issues in the project location.
- Documentation and publication of activities via newsletters, video, audio, photograph, and reporting.
- Worked with the team in promoting, strengthening, mentoring, and sustaining an LGA-level value chain innovation platform comprised of producers, input suppliers, service providers, off-takers, and other actors engaged in active climate-smart low-emission production practices in order to improve resilience and mitigation efforts during the pre-investment and investment phases.
- Facilitate training on Digital-smart Climate Advisory Service (DCAS)
- Trained validated farmers on good agronomic practices (GAP) in various crops and agricultural value chains, that is, cassava, maize, rice, horticulture (leafy vegetables, tomatoes etc); safety and good hygiene in poultry and aquaculture management; social, economic and environmental safeguard operational policies and guidelines, agricultural value chain development operational process etc.