pascal odoch

Pascal W. Odoch, a PhD. holder funded by the prestigious International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada, is an accomplished and seasoned community economic development expert, having wide and cumulative international and regional experience spanning over 25 years. He holds a PhD in Education (building economic empowerment module in Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed Doctrine) from University of British Columbia, Canada. He understands how the Private, Public and Civil Society sectors work having served at various capacities in all domains over the years as an Area Member of Parliament in Uganda, a Director appointed by a Ugandan Head of State onto a Statutory Agency, and as a Director of Civil Society Organisations. Dr. Odoch who is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Lusaka, Zambia, http://www.unilus.ac.zm/Scholars.aspx, has been at the fore-front of the crusade for socio-economic transformation in Eastern and Southern Africa. He has mostly driven this fight through his Greenstar International Ltd – a Consultancy firm where he is the Managing Director. With over 14 years of senior management experience and over 10 years of governance and boardroom experience, Dr. Odoch is one of the most experienced middle-aged experts in the East African region. This wealth of experience and exposure explains why he has been sought after to serve on various national governing boards. Dr. Odoch is a high caliber expert with proven track record and who has cumulatively undertaken a series of assignments at international, national and regional levels in qualitative and qualitative designs. His key output under assessment of Uganda’s Economic Governance Pillar of the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) led by Professor Adebayo Adedeji, fed into Agenda 2030 which are both critical in shaping the continental and national development landscapes. These add to the Uganda National Vision 2040 http://npa.ug/wp-content/themes/npatheme/documents/vision2040.pdf blue-print whose formulation process he participated in as a Director where he brought to NPA a diverse blend of academic, political, technical and managerial skills coupled with strategic thinking and analytical/conceptual skills as well as innovative team-building skills needed to achieve optimal results in development planning process in Uganda. He brings the following competencies, qualifications and experiences to Government: Key note Speaker on the theme: The Land Sector in Uganda: Delivering Ugandans to the middle-income status by 2020: Key Opportunities, Key Setbacks March, 28th 2017 Kampala, supported by Food Rights Alliance and Government of Uganda Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development. Served at the highest level of planning body in Uganda (National Planning Authority) where he successfully participated in the formulation of Uganda Vision 2040 blueprint and the first National Development Plan 2010/11-2014/15 that succeeded Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP). Team Leader (Governance Cluster) on the World Bank-Government of Uganda Fiduciary and Safeguard Assessment of capacity at Uganda’s health and education sectors in terms of adequacy of systems and procedures for the implementing and beneficiary agencies at central, district and facility levels to inform the World Bank funding support using Program for Results (PfR) Instruments, to health and education sectors, to enable the two sectors effectively manage resources under the new (2017) Government of Uganda’s Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers (IGFT) mechanism Lead Consultant on Economic Governance and Management Pillar of Uganda’s African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) under NEPAD and chaired by Professor Adebayo Adedeji. Team Leader on review of the independent final evaluation of government of Iceland support to the Uganda’s quality assurance for fish marketing project 2009-2014 covering Lakes Albert and Kyoga accessed on www.iceida.is/media/pdf/Evaluation-Brief_Uganda.pdf Decentralisation Expert in formulation of the Local Government Sector Blueprint – Decentralisation Policy/Strategic Framework/Local Government Sector Strategic Investment Plan 2006-2016. Team Leader for Mid-Term Evaluation of Diakonia in Uganda Country Programme supported by the Embassy of Sweden in Uganda 2011-2014 and Review of Strategic Programme & Plan, 2015-18 Team Leader on Development of Uganda Human Development Report (2007): Rediscovering Agriculture funded by the UNDP as seen at http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/uganda_national_human_development_report_2007.pdf Continuous guidance on strategy formulation and evaluations to organisations as well as graduate students pursuing strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation as part of his academic and practice engagements. 25 years’ experience in the community development and empowerment, strategic planning, Decentralisation, development planning, conflict and post-conflict settings, livelihoods and human rights promotion, voice and accountability assignments as a consultant to various clients in government, civil society, and the private sector, notably the World Bank, EU, DANIDA, GIZ, Swedish Embassy in Uganda, UNDP, including UNESCO as seen at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001414/141482e.pdf Experiences in formulation of strategic plans using a combination of approaches, notably, human rights based approach (HRBA), conflict sensitive approach, gender sensitive approach, and partnership approach. Excellent research and report writing skills.