Services / issues

1. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Presentation on Appreciative Inquiry at Society for International Development's Knowledge Management group, 12/09 http://www.microlinks.org/multimedia/SID_AI/player.html 

Published “A Wealth of Knowledge: Case Studies in Learning from a PVO’s Most Precious Assets” article in Monday Developments with G. McAuliffe http://www.scribd.com/doc/17003730/MDDec2008

2. PROJECT DESIGN:

• International food security and food aid
• • Sustainable small-scale agriculture
  • Microenterprise, especially women’s solidarity groups
  • Health and nutrition
  • Primary school education
• HIV/AIDS in Africa
• • Prevention messages
  • Care/ support – especially for safety nets of AIDS-infected and their orphans
• Rural Economic Development (see regions worked in)
• Gender analysis of project design

3. MONITORING and EVALUATION (M&E)

• Qualitative assessment/evaluation tools
• Rapid/ Participatory Rural Appraisal

4. STAFF TRAINING and FACILITATION / TEACHING

• Topics above
• Facilitator of a process of change – restructuring, closer collaboration of departments/ staff, HQ and field offices, donor-grantee relations, inter-agency collaboration
• Teaching
• • African development
  • Eastern European political change

5. PROPOSAL WRITING / REVIEW, DONOR REPORTING and GRAND MANAGEMENT (ESPECIALLY U.S. GOVERNMENT)

• U.S. Agency for International Development grants (Food For Peace, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance) – development (MYAPs), transition, and emergency proposals
• U.S. Department of Agriculture grants

Private donor proposals
Donor relations
Grants management

6. STRATEGIC PLANNING and CONSULTING

• Setting organizational goals and objectives
• Marketing
• Streamlining activities
• Managing employees

7. RESEARCH and INTERVIEWING

• Topics above (and see resume/ C.V. for details)