NELSON NGALYA

· Conducting the (Agriconect) project to help smallholder Improving income and nutrition in Southern Tanzania by managing and coordinating 3 regions (Iringa, Mbeya and Njombe) to promote the inclusiveness, productivity, competitiveness and resilience of smallholder farming while fostering sustainable livelihood, nutrition, gender equality, among farming families.

· Provide trainings on proposal writings to 54 Agricultural Market Cooperative Society (AMCOS) to the 3 mentioned regions

· Developing the curriculum, tools, methods, and approaches for training

· Provide Project Cycle Management (PCM) training to grantees (cooperative representatives)

· Ensure that projects are designed with agricultural technology package aimed at creating self-sufficiency, as well as enhancing the food security status of farmers’ households/local communities

· Ensure that baseline data on existing farming systems and water management techniques and income generating activities is updated for use in assessing the impact of the project interventions.

· Working closely with the Programs Manager to ensure that program and Finance, donor reports are prepared in a timely fashion for submission to donors and other.

· supporting the implementation of socioeconomic and wealth ranking surveys to inform targeting, monitoring and facilitation the engagement of development programmes.

· Ensure that technical leadership is provided in the development and implementation of livelihood activities, including income generation, cash for work, market development, livestock and climate change adaptation as prioritized by communities and local authorities through technical best practices and targeted training.

· To coordinate closely with all sector specialists to ensure cross-sector integration of programming at the field level.

· In coordination with government and other stakeholders, ensure livelihood/food security and livelihood asset development activities are well planned, coordinated and monitored.

• · Ensure that enhanced modern farming techniques and Rangeland Management techniques are well understood at the community level, among staff, with partner agencies, government institutions and other external partners.
• · Establish, Manage and oversee food & no-food commodities accounting, tracking systems/standards and procedures at County (Base) level, including warehouses management.
• · Provide direct management and oversight to food aid program activities and staff

· Assist in development of food aid project proposal and budgets, including managing a food logistics budget based on tonnage and other available resources.

· I Conducted a research project (Innovating the horticultural value chain in Tanzania) to provide overall technical assistance to help 1,000 smallholder farmers to advance the work through periodic visits to observe advice, recruit, mentor and monitor field-based production activities. Eg. I provided counseling and advisory services to farmers on implementing new technology and practice, crop rotation, cultivation and harvesting, in Morogoro region.

· Conducts market research and associated studies about market projections, trends, and conditions relative to prices and other market factors in order to determine market potentials and improve marketing prospects for agricultural commodities (including grain crops, livestock, fruits, vegetables, etc.)

· Facilitating the registration of the Farmers groups based on the purpose to increase bargaining power and unit. Eg. Horticultural farmers group or AMCOS, then I prepared business proposal, identifying potential financial institutions (Microfinances) with good terms of providing loans to these farmers group.

· Provides technical assistance and advice to farm organizations, commodity groups, growers, buyers, and others in order to develop program operations or resolve problems associated with farmers market programs, electronic marketing, or grain and livestock marketing systems.

· Provide assistance and expertise implementing programs to improve agricultural productivity, agribusiness development, regional and/or international trade of agricultural products as well as to improve competitiveness of agriculture-related industries and value chains.

· Researches and assembles data in order to support planning, organizing, and development activities associated with new or existing marketing systems.

· Educate farmers and agriculture business owners on diseases and pest control and complying with environmental pollution-control laws and regulations.

· Supporting the Project Manager towards the development and design of annual work plan activities and management and oversight of activities implementation.

· Work closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Unit to conceptualize, design and successfully implement project intervention to achieve contract results.

· Promote leadership on improved technologies and adaptations required to meet smallholder needs and increase uptake by integrating findings into papers and articles, participating in industry events, and delivering presentations. Eg Documentations of success stories, collection of case studies and best practices from project implemented areas to show case the impact of our work to the government, donors and other stakeholders.

· Provide assistance and expertise implementing programs addressing the challenges of agricultural competitiveness and trade in specific sectors and value chains.

· Contribute to the organization of and/or participate in meetings, conferences, workshops, consultations and field visits as needed; contribute to building collaborations and partnerships.

· Conducted a project to raise awareness and mobilized about 500 small-scale farmers on benefits of application of improved seeds; whereby in demand assessment about 50 farmers were linked with seed companies like Farmbase Company Ltd, wholesale local distributors, contract market and financial institutions for group and individual agricultural loans.

· Carry out value chain analysis and research to generate evidence including preparation of policy briefs, facts sheets and case studies for advocacy interventions

· Strengthened farmer groups with knowledge on collective decision making and market searching paving doors to quality production and income generation among farmers.

· Facilitate dialogues between small holder farmers, Cooperatives and decision makers at district, regional and national level;

· I provided technical expertise and manage technical staff working in areas such as agribusiness, enhanced agricultural production, post-harvest handling, storage, and processing, improved food safety and security, improved market linkages, business development, new product marketing and branding and regional trade facilitation and capacity building of project partners and grantees;

· I supported the implementation policy of “Mali Mbichi” project through collaboration with respective government department in assisting the farmers in developing their capacity on fertilizers usage along with complementary measures such as emphasize improved agronomic practices to maximize the effect of fertilizers for improving productivity.

· I trained 30 farmers for each month to improve their agricultural products use of media as tools for lobbying and advocacy to inform the public on challenges faced by farmers and the actions taken by the leaders

· Providing agricultural business consultant to smallholder farmers in rural area