Professional experience of more than two decades in rural (participatory) development planning and implementation, focus on micro and small enterprise (MSE), financing value chains, saving promotion, gender, economic empowerment (women youth) for alleviation of poverty and food in-security. Trained as an economist (M.Sc in Economic Policy Analysis, 1999, thesis on Rural Poverty), have been involved in programme evaluation, market research, impact assessment, strategic planning; as well as capacity building, training and consultancy, mainly in African countries — with CRS, CARE/USAID, LASER-PULSE, ICCO-STARS, FRONTIERi, GENESIS-ANALYTICS, Nathan Associates, IFAD, SNV, DAI-First Consult, Oxfam-Novib, SIDA/ORGUT Consult, etc. Skills in quantitative and qualitative data collection, surveys, FGDs, PRA techniques. Relevant journal publications.