Dammika Carr

• More than 20 years of experience in Climate Smart Agriculture (crop and livestock) sector development: market linkages and value chains; policy analysis and development; livelihoods and food security and development of Private Public Partnerships • Team leader for Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (baseline, mid and end terms) and impact assessment for various donor funded programmes • Years of experience in natural resource management (NRM), Good Agricultural Practices, and private sector lead commercialised agriculture programme design, implementation and management • Well experienced in institutional capacity building, research and extension, public reform, budget allocation to improve efficiency and effectiveness of agriculture extension programmes in Africa and Asia • Well experienced in Small and Medium Agri-businesses development, analysis of capacity, gaps and weaknesses in business plans, cost benefit analysis and Farming as a Business • Write comprehensive project reports, research papers for international journals and winning proposals for donor funded programmes • Years of working experience in international development sector, multi-cultural environments and a vast network with donor community; EU, USAID, DFID-Zimbabwe (senior adviser for Livelihoods & Food Security, Resilience Programme, Green Economy and Climate Fund), GIZ, DANNIDA and SDC funded programmes, Governments of Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka; private sector; Universities of Reading, UK (research) and Zimbabwe (visiting lecturer), International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI, consultant)-Ethiopia, NGOs and various farmer organization - particularly women and youth empowerment in Africa and Sri Lanka