Lesotho
Country
Continent:
Africa
The consultant has a solid background in the field of food and nutrition security for ensuing active and healthy life, has over 25 years of international experience involving communication with various stakeholders, policy-making and strategic planning, results-based management and performance monitoring, and implementation of plans and activities. He is a specialist in agriculture, food and nutri-tion and transformation of agri-food systems, with experience in International Cooperation.
• Over 20 years of experience in the agriculture, food and nutrition sector providing technical assistance to strengthen the capacity of Ministries and relevant authorities with regards to de-veloping Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Policies
• Experience as Team Leader of numerous projects addressing agriculture, food security, and rural development, including conducting evaluations in fragile contexts.
• Solid track record in programme and project management, well prepared to undertake devel-opment and monitoring and review of operational plans, and providing support to implementing them and addressing cross-cutting issues (gender equality, environmental sustainability, and good governance issues).
• Solid track record of conducting evaluations, analysing projects relevance, performance and contribution to development objectives, including relevant aspects of intervention logic and re-sults framework and workplans.
• Angus has worked on food systems and business development across various relevant sub-sectors.
• Good capacity to analyse key actors and business environment. He is well experienced in broad based socio-economic development and poverty reduction processes.
• Solid career in support to programming, risk analyses and the identification of mitigating measures, organizational capacity development, management, and consultation and continu-ous learning processes.
• Practical expertise in capacity building and institutional development, including the provision of training and conducting of workshops.
• Frequent Team leader of multidisciplinary teams
In 2016 and 2017 he he worked in South Sudan in the role of Monitoring and Evaluation_Team Leader
Technical support and advisory services to increase the effectiveness of EU financed Rural Development interventions (FSTP, SORUDEV and ZEAT-BEAD) to support the South Sudan Development Plan 2011-2016 to reduce the vulnerability of rural communities and enhance their agricultural productivity and food security. Key areas of support: 1) Monitoring and coordination of actions; 2) Organising extension services; 3) Supporting calls for proposals and new projects; 4) Evaluating programme performance. Beneficiaries are the implementing partners and key stakeholders of the EU's rural development programmes in South Sudan.
