Experience

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  International Rice Research Institute

  • Philippines
  • Research Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Implementation Lead - Gender and Social Equity

    • 2023 - Present

    Working in the CGIAR Initiative on climate resilience (ClimBeR), I Iead the implementation of gender and social equity in six countries & across five work-streams: climate de-risking, finance, security, policy, and governance.

  • Social Inclusion Specialist in agri-food systems

    • 2021 - 2023

    I worked across five countries where I integrated inclusive local stakeholders' perspectives into biophysical scientists' priorities on market intelligence and product profiling of new rice varieties.

  • Gender and Youth Specialist

    • 2019 - 2021

    Based in Tanzania and working across four other countries, I enabled cross-cutting teams to ensure gender and youth took centre stage in the development and promotion of new rice varieties.

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  The World Bank

  • Poverty & Equity Consultant

    • 2019 - 2019

    I designed and implemented an assessment of county statistics to meet the need for additional capacity of the 47 Kenyan counties to produce and use statistics.

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  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

  • Nutrition-sensitive agrobiodiversity Consultant

    • 2018 - 2018

    I enhanced the capacity of 40 agriculture and livestock production extension officers on nutrition-sensitive local food systems in highly fragile, refugee and conflict-affected Northern Kenya.

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  World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

  • Nutrition & Food Security Postdoctoral Research Scientist

    • 2016 - 2018

    I coordinated the implementation of multiple projects on climate-nutrition-agriculture linkages in four countries. I also led an assessment of the policy environment of agriculture, forestry and land sectors.

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  Bioversity International

  • Agriculture-nutrition linkages Research Fellow

    • 2012 - 2014

    I led assessment of linkages across agricultural, dietary & nutritional diversity at the smallholder farming household level, including challenges & opportunities for market integration in the wider food system.

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  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

  • Climate Change Intern

    • 2010 - 2010

    I co-developed the ‘climate code’, enabling Kenyan coffee farmers of Baragwi in Central Kenya to respond to climate change by monitoring soil carbon stocks and selling carbon credits.

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  Research Solutions Africa

  • Operations Field Assistant

    • 2009 - 2009

    I supported field operations to solve operational and strategic challenges. I also provided technical support to country teams and simultaneously connected field with office teams.