I am seeking an appropriate opportunity to optimally utilize my learning and experience of Participatory community development for the socio-economic empowerment of poor rural communities enabling them to achieve better quality of life through best practices of Agriculture, Agro Marketing Techniques like Hybrid Seeds, Pesticide Application, TNA (Training Need Assessment), Farmer awareness campaign, Demonstration and Trials, Rural Development, Poverty alleviation activities, Gender Mainstreaming and Natural resources management.
Summary of Professional Experience
Management with special focus on agriculture sector: Rural economy is based on the agriculture. I have good command to use participatory methods of research to bring improvement in the agricultural production and identify new potentials for the livelihood improvement of the communities. My expertise includes; focus group discussion, product identification and market development, supply and demand analysis, price analysis, situational analysis and diagnostic studies.
Marketing and Market Development: To better utilize the available resources for the livelihood improvement of the communities, it is necessary to create income generation activities at community level. I have comprehensive experience in the market promotion, strengthening and promotion of farming development services, formation and capacitating farmer clusters, liaison development with government, non-government and private sector organization.
Monitoring and Evaluation: As Monitoring & Evaluation is one the prior requisite to utilize the available inputs (resource) to get the desired outcome. During my profession time I have experience to monitor different activities at both field and office level. I have good command to use my capabilities to supervise & monitor field activities and bring a remarkable change while getting targets. My expertise include; field visits (both schedule &surprise), focus group meetings, staff meetings, review meetings, situational analysis, diagnostic and case studies (reporting) in addition with report compilation.
Social Mobilization /community association formation: Social mobilization provides the foundation for any developmental activity. My expertise in this sector includes community meetings, farmer field days and formation of community based business organization, clusters and networking among their interest groups.
Facilitation and Training Delivery: Training modules development, training need assessment, training delivery and facilitation, coaching and proper follow up.
Report writing: Capacity in compilation of data, data analysis and report writing
• Orchard establishment
• Solar Pumps for water supply
• Solar pumps for water conservation and efficiency of irrigation systems
• Bio Fertilizer units installation to increase organic matter in project area
• Tunnel farming for off- season vegetables cultivation
• Drip irrigation demonstration plots
• Preparation of training materials brochure for farmers’ enterprises groups to enhance capacity building (Behavior Management)
• Seminars on/ public debates on new agronomic practices, drip irrigation and inter cropping.
• Fish ponds to augment new job opportunities and livelihood betterment
• Vegetables plots for kitchen gardening
• Rangeland management and plantation
• Exposure visits to agriculture/ horticulture/ water research institutes and progressive farmers
• Carrying out environment awareness sessions in the communities, to create awareness about the rising environmental issues, their causes and management.
• Delivering kitchen gardening trainings to promote fresh and organic vegetables production and to reduce food security problems.
• Providing seeds and organic fertilizer.
• Establishing vegetable demonstration plots to motivate the community towards vegetable production on commercial basis.
• Delivering bee keeping trainings to promote the locally produced honey.
• Carrying out technical feasibility of land for Orchard establishment.
• Establishment of seed banks in the target community for the easy availability of good quality seeds.
• Raising vegetable in tunnels by the women community and helping them in its marketing.
• Establishment of livelihood related enterprises.
• Capacity building regarding different sort of farming activities of the target groups.
• Establishment of linkages with the other organizations and line departments.
• Carrying out environmental awareness sessions in schools to aware the young generation about the environmental issues.
• Providing technical support and guidance to the NRM assistants.
• Regular monitoring and follow up of all the NRM activities.
• Reporting and time to time feed back to the Project Coordinator.
• Documenting case studies on successful activities.
• Monitoring over all tasks and activities of team to ensure sustainable rural development in project areas.
• Development and capacity building of community members ensuring food security through water conservation technologies.
• Identifying potential communal lands for the drip and sprinkler Irrigation projects.
• Mode of conducting business through dealer/ sales outlets.
• Focusing on client needs i.e. Identifying training needs and requesting frequent trainings for my team and myself.
• Maintaining project monitoring sheets and sharing with executives.
• Work plan of assigning manning to various projects and need assessment of hiring the desired resources.
• Monitoring and managing Project progress, inventory, imports, local purchase, system design and installation.
• Promotion of Water Conservation Technologies through High Efficiency Irrigation Systems for sustainable agriculture.
• Liaison and building relationship with Govt. Departments regarding rural development and community social mobilization through micro Irrigation to save every drop of water.
• Approval of AutoCAD designing layouts, checking, calculating and finalizing cost estimates of projects.
• Productivity enhancement and ensuring food security in rural areas with innovative agriculture.
• Team work for the sustainable agriculture and awareness among the community members in this regard.
• Promoting agricultural production in the water scarce areas.
• Office management, preparation of reports on weekly and monthly basis of the whole team activities, ongoing projects, visits to prospect customers, proposal writing for new projects.