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AGRACountry Programs Lead - CPL
Mar. 2025Ouagadougou, Centre, Burkina FasoAs the Country Programs Lead, I play a pivotal role in advancing AGRA-funded programs, ensuring alignment with AGRA’s strategic objectives. Collaborating closely with the Country Director, Regional Manager, and Business Line Leads, I lead the in-country Technical Team to design and manage programs, fostering strong partnerships with technical teams, the Country Deal Team, and the Center of Technical Expertise to identify grantees and scale investments for maximum impact. My responsibilities focus on delivering AGRA’s country strategy, mobilizing resources, and building partnerships to drive inclusive agricultural transformation. Key Duties and Responsibilities: Conduct scoping exercises to identify investment opportunities in market analysis, sustainable farming, policy, and input systems. Develop and pursue resource mobilization opportunities, advocating for public and private sector support to scale AGRA’s intervention models. Lead annual program workplan development with Business Line Leads. Coordinate donor-funded interventions, ensuring innovative delivery across the value chain. Oversee timely design, execution, monitoring, and reporting of AGRA interventions. Build and maintain strategic partnerships with public and private sector stakeholders. Develop a partnership framework to advance private sector collaboration. Translate partnership opportunities into actionable projects, maintaining daily engagement with key partners. Leverage AGRA’s technical expertise in seed systems, sustainable farming, inclusive markets, policy, finance, gender, nutrition, and climate. Provide strategic leadership, coaching, and talent management to technical teams. Develop grantee and partner portfolios to address systemic agricultural constraints. Publish impact stories and knowledge products to showcase progress in agri-food transformation. Update the country risk register quarterly and address audit recommendations promptly.
Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA)Deputy Country Director
Jul. 2023 - Feb. 2025Bamako, MaliSAA is currently focusing on three pillars; (1) regenerative agriculture; (2) nutrition-sensitive and (3) market-oriented agriculture. Cross-cutting areas are capacity building, inclusion, and digitalization. - Lead program development at the country level to ensure that country program goals, objectives and activities are appropriately aligned with the overall SAA work plan, and that appropriate expertise is leveraged at right time. - Provide oversight and quality assurance of project implementation, including capacity building, and ensure impact to the satisfaction of key stakeholders and following SAA financial standards and monitoring protocols and funders. - Coordinate, supervise and monitor all activities related to business development; - Lead the formation of innovative and mutually beneficial partnerships that will increase the impact of SAA interventions. This includes developing a partnership framework and taking the lead in mobilizing additional resources to supplement core funding. - Support the Country Director in providing administrative and fiduciary oversight of Country Program staff, assets and finances in relation to all aspects of SAA’s operations in the country. - Drive innovation of SAA products and services: facilitate evidence-based learning, documentation and knowledge development in collaboration with SAA’s global team and partners. - Assist the Country Director in developing an achievable plan for smooth operation and ensuring financial viability of SAA and high-quality project design. - Assist the Country Director in preparing periodic country progress and annual reports required by SAA management, donors and other stakeholders - Build partnerships and maintain excellent relationships with donors, partners, local governments, businesses, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders
Groupe de Recherches et d'Applications Techniques - GRATTechnical Support Specialist - Agriculture and Climate change
Jan. 2023 - Jun. 2023Bamako, MaliTwelve cooperatives (about 800 members with 97% women and 48% youth) in 16 villages in Sikasso and Kadiolo regions • Improved the development of seven value chains (tomato, onion, okra, roselle, groundnut, cowpea, and maize) • Reached women cooperative farmers (97% women and 48% youth) by training them in household vegetable production, climate change and mitigations, agroecology practices, inclusive market participation and leadership development • Trained the cooperative women farmers in pile and pit composting for sustainable vegetable and legume production • Trained the cooperative women farmers in vegetable household gardens and good agronomic practices • Educated and aware of the cooperative women farmers in nutrition-sensitive agriculture • Trained 12 cooperative leaders on organizational and financial management and bookkeeping • Train 12 cooperative leaders on collective marketing strategies and contract farming around groundnut, cowpea and vegetable corps • Build the capacities of cooperatives to become stronger and well-organized • Elaborated training modules and reports
ICRISATCrop Improvement Operations Team (CIOT) - Cluster Lead
Jun. 2021 - Jan. 2023Bamako, Mali• Assign, select, train, schedule, tutor, recruit, counsel and coach employees. • Communicate job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising and reviewing job contributions. • Contribute operations information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; prepare and complete action plans; implement production, productivity, quality and delivery standards; resolve problems; identify trends. • Forecast requirements; contribute to preparation of annual budget planning; schedule expenditures; analyse variances; initiating corrective actions. • Develop operations systems by determining demands; develop, implement, enforce and evaluate policies and procedures; develop processes for receiving supplies, equipment utilization, inventory management and shipping. • Analyze process workflow, employee and space requirements and equipment layout; implement changes. • Maintain safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following and enforcing standards and procedures; complying with institutional regulations • Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations • Accomplish operations and organization objectives by completing related results as needed • Manage staff levels, contract labor in response to available resources • Responsible for all team leads, with review/approval responsibility for all operations employees • Serve as primary point of contact when there are performance issues related to activity quality, or accidents and mishaps on-site for the operations team • Communicate activity delivery issues with operations team and devise ways of improving quality, including resolving problems and complaints • Work closely with the breeders to set and/or implement policies, procedures and systems and to follow through with implementation
AkvoProgram Manager, Agriculture & Climate Change in West Africa
Oct. 2019 - Feb. 2021Bamako, MaliProgram Management - Manage, monitor and execute large-scale programs in West Africa (partners include FAO, UNICEF, KfW, IFDC, SNV, ICCO cooperation, Oxfam, NEF, IDH, Mali-Sheat, Afdi, LuxDev, Government departments’) • Act as spokespersons for multi-stakeholder meetings Development of affairs • Improve Akvo's understanding of the water, agriculture and climate change sector in West Africa • Establish new partnerships, write project proposals and represent Akvo at international conferences and networking events. Consulting / technical assistance • Understand the needs of partners and adapt them to innovative digital data solutions • Provide high-level advice on digital data solutions in collaboration with Akvo data experts Sharing knowledge • Actively contribute to Akvo's internal processes and share knowledge within the organization.
International Fertilizer Development CenterActing Country Representative & TAAT Coordinator in Integrated Soil Fertility Management
Jul. 2019 - Sep. 2019Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoLeadership • Oversee the day-to-day management and implementation of Soil Fertility Compact activities in close collaboration with country value chain implementation teams to expand the scale and reach of the program. • Represents IFDC and the program at all meetings, conferences and other opportunities conducive to publicizing, promoting and marketing the impact of the program. • Create and maintain good working relationships with AfDB, IITA, other CGIARs, Ministries of Agriculture, donors and other relevant stakeholders. • Ensure all program activities are in line with policies and regulations of local/national authorities, as well as of the AfDB. Programmatic and Technical • Ensure timely and effective implementation of all program activities. • Monitor program indicators KPI in accordance with the Performance Monitoring Plan, evaluate program results and take necessary corrective actions whenever needed. • Prepare and lead major program interventions (backstopping, evaluation, etc.). • Ensure that quarterly and annual consolidated technical and financial reports for the Soil Fertility compact are prepared and submitted to the PSC on schedule. • Prepare and present the activities, results, impacts and outcomes of the Soil Fertility compact at professional, donor and other stakeholders’ meetings. • Support the development of young entrepreneurs through demonstration and training in close collaboration with the ENABLE-TAAT Compact. Communication and Outreach • Oversee the Communications strategy of the program. • Review and approve all Public Relations materials. • Facilitate the internal communication and sharing of experiences among COMPACT leaders. Financial and Administrative • Ensure sound financial management and compliance with laws. • Oversee and be responsible for financial and administrative aspects of the program including managing the budget. • Ensure quality of local implementing partners’ contracts and their smooth handling.
International Fertilizer Development CenterTAAT Technology Transfer / Delivery Specialist in Integrated Soil Fertility Management
Aug. 2018 - Sep. 2019Ouagadougou Burkina Faso• Oversee and manage all technology transfer-related activities • Assist the TAAT Soil Fertility Compact Coordinator in the day-to-day management and implementation of Soil Fertility Compact activities in close collaboration with the 22 countries TAAT including 6 priority countries value chain implementation teams to expand the scale and reach of the program. • Prepare quarterly and annual consolidated technical reports for the Soil Fertility compact for onward submission on schedule to the Performance Services Contracts. • Assess and evaluate agri-inputs technologies to be disseminated. • Lead the implementation of technology transfer activities and annual work plans • Monitor implementation of activities with national public and private partners as well as CGIAR and international partners. • Responsible for ensuring the technical assistance/services provided by international and local experts are technically sound and appropriate. • Organize workshops/meetings etc. with partners/stakeholders as and when needed. • Organize meetings/seminars and conduct practical training courses on technology transfer mechanisms for partner scientists and extension workers. • Analyze, summarize and interpret data. • Participate in the procurement and fiduciary team, financial management (procurement, financial management and disbursement of funds). • Establish and update documentation on technologies disseminated and feedback received • In the absence of the TAAT Soil Fertility Compact Coordinator, prepare and present the activities, results, impacts and outcomes of the Soil Fertility compact at professional, donor and other stakeholders’ meetings. • Undertake any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned by the TAAT Soil Fertility Compact Coordinator to meet the objectives of the compact.
Institut d'Economie RuraleAssociate Researcher - Field Trials Manager in Maize Improvement Program
Nov. 2017 - Jul. 2018Regional Centre for Agricultural Research, Sotuba, Bamako• Developing and designing protocols for effective screening of breeding lines • Setting up and managing field experiments in collaboration with the Principal Scientist • Participating in seed multiplication and dissemination of elite varieties • Participating in technology dissemination activities
World Vegetable CenterPost -Harvest Technologies Project Coordinator
Feb. 2017 - Sep. 2017BamakoEvaluation of low- cost vegetable cooling and storage technologies in Mali • Distributing of the low- cost vegetable cooling and storage products (ZECCs and Zeer pots) in 3 regions in Mali (Bamako, Sikasso and Mopti) • Designing and conducting trainings with technical staff and farmers groups and on best practices in the conservation of vegetables • Designing tools and conducting baseline interviews with households and community groups using the cooling and storage technologies • Installing and monitoring of electronic equipment (sensors) on ZECC and Zeer pots • Collecting and analyzing data and providing periodic reports • Publishing, documenting successes and challenges of the postharvest project.
ICRISATResearch Fellow in Crop Physiology area
Dec. 2013 - Apr. 2014Région de Hyderabad, IndeDissertation Topic: ''Understanding Physiological Responses for Improving Tolerance to Drought in Groundnut Genotypes (Arachis Hypogaea L.)'' - Screening genotypes to undesrtand their responses through the Vapour Pressure deficit (VPD) and DryDown /FTSW (Fraction of Transpirable Soil Water ) experiments. - Empirical drought studies of leaf and root traits for understanding genotypes responses under well-water and drought stress conditions.
ICRISATPhD Research Scholar -Groundnut Breeding
Jul. 2013 - Dec. 2016Bamako• Topic: Early generation selection for Drought Related traits in Mali • Research carried out in the greenhouse, on-station, and on-farm in Mali and India • 6 high yielding and drought-smart groundnut lines developed for Sahelian farmers • 4 publications, 2 posters presentations, 1 thesis written.
University of GhanaPhD Student in plant breeding
Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2016West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement, Accra Ghana• Topic: Early generation selection for Drought Related traits in Mali • Research carried out in the greenhouse, on-station, and on-farm in Mali and India • 6 high yielding and drought-smart groundnut lines developed for Sahelian farmers • 4 publications, 2 posters presentations, 1 thesis written.
World Vegetable CenterVegetable Seed Specialist
Nov. 2008 - Sep. 2011Bamako, Mali• Managing the Genetic Resource Unit • Regenerating and characterizing of introduced and collected germplasm accessions • Producing, processing and disseminating of the promising and released varieties • Promoting sustainable vegetable seed production through seed fairs, trainings of trainers • Working with public and private seed actors • Supervising students for their final year project work • Managing 4 Seed Projects which were: a) Vegetable Seed Kits for Immediate Rehabilitation of Vegetable Production and Consumption for Disaster-affected Households in Developing Countries (10,000 seed kits with 5 crops) b) West Africa Seed Association WASA/USAID foundation seed production with 4 crops; c) KickStart International (US NGO) (1,000 seed kits with 5 crops) d) Vegetable Breeding and Seed Systems vBSS program for Africa
World Vegetable CenterResearch Assistant in Vegetable breeding
Mar. 2008 - Nov. 2008Bamako•Conducting research activities (on-station and on-farm) •Design protocols for experiments, collect and analyze data from observations •Participating in technology dissemination activities ( fields days, participatory varietal selection, etc) •Supervise students
MalifolkecenterConsultant Jatropha-Natural Resources Management
Jan. 2008 - Mar. 2008• Monitoring & Evaluation of Jatropha curcas L. Euphorbiaceae production in Mali • Using GPS Global Positioning System to characterize Jatropha fields • Mapping 28 villages, 350 farmers’ fields totalizing 450 hectares of Jatropha
EndaCommunity Development Agent - Vegetable Gardening & Credit Saving Loans for Women
Nov. 2006 - Sep. 2007Markala, Mali
CIRADGraduate Student Intern
May. 2005 - Aug. 2005Région de Montpellier, France
PADFR- NGO Lowland RiceProject Assistant - Agri-Inputs Business Development
Mar. 2003 - Nov. 2003Klela, Sikasso
ICRISATResearch Technician-Entomology
Jun. 2001 - Dec. 2002Bamako-Kolokani
ICRISAT-MaliIntern-Entomology program
May. 2000 - Dec. 2000Bamako-KolokaniBSc TOPIC: Integrated Pest Management against sorghum midge, Eurystylus oldi Poppius (Heteroptera:Miridae) in select villages in Mali
CMDT - Malian Company for Cotton Textile DevelopmentIntern
Apr. 1999 - May. 1999Yorosso
IPR katibougouBachelor Student/Etudiant Ingenieur en Agronomie
Oct. 1995 - Dec. 2000Katibougou/Mali
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