AGRICULTURAL OFFICER
Resume:
WUNI FAROUK MUBARICK CV
P. O Box ***, Bolgatanga
Mobile Phone: 020*******/054*******
E-Mail: ***********@*****.***
PROFILE
Six years’ experience in crop protection and poverty alleviation intervention across a complete supply, value, and benefit chains. Have managed and supervised trials on competitive production of both perishable and durable commodities annually; with excellent training facilitation for smallholder farmers; market integration between actors along the supply chain. Worked as an Agriculture Production and Capacity Building Officer on the Ghana Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement Program (USAID ADVANCE) in the Upper East Region, reaching over 9,696 smallholder farmers through 30 Outgrower Businesses, in 7 districts; Bawku West, Binduri, Bawku Municipal, Pusiga, Garu, Tempane and Mamprugu Moaduri Districts.
WORK EXPERIENCE
August 2021 to November 2023 Zonal Project Coordinator, Adwuma Pa CARE GHANA
Kumasi Sub - Office
Breman Asikuma (Central Region)
Key Responsibility
• Formation of VSLA groups
• Establishment of community development committees and gender and child protection committees to fight against child labour, forced labour and other labour rights violations in Project communities
• Training women on income generation activities like soap making, pastries, animal rearing etc.
• Collaborating effectively with district level stakeholders to achieve project goals
• Sensitization of community members on labor rights issues
• Providing technical backstopping to community members in the development of community action plans to address developmental and child labor, forced labor and other labor right violation issues in their communities
• Working with chiefs and other opinion leaders in the community using gender dialogues in addressing household related issues and also calling for equal opportunities for the vulnerable in the society.
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May 2020 to November 2020 Outgrower Business Network Advisor USAID- ADVANCE (GHANA)
ACDI/VOCA
Bawku (Kusaug OB Network)
Key Responsibility
• Support zonal OB network and members to design implement appropriate systems and methodologies that will enable them to provide outgrowers with effective farming services such as training in good agronomic practices, land preparation, pre financed inputs, post-harvest handling and other productive resources
• Support OB network to build mutually beneficial relationship for sponsorship and setup demonstration activities for outgrowers productivity
• Support OB network to review and implement capacity needs assessment tools with the aim to develop tailored activities for improving production capacity
• Support network to improve behavior, address behavioral issues from members and strive to adapt business practices that ensure OB network activities incorporate gender mainstreaming activities and youth inclusion
• Support OB network to register and trade on Ghana Commodity Exchange platform
• Assist OB network with the use of appropriate business management practices including but not limited to strategic planning, annual plans, investment plans, cost benefit analysis, business plans, bank loan proposals, computer usage etc.
• Promote the use of ICT tools by OB network, its members and outgrowers to reduce the need of person-person trainings and activities; and enhance information sharing
• Support OB network in maintaining proper business records, financial records and progress report related to grants provided by ADVANCE II, and timely submission of those reports to ADVANCE II Business Linkage Specialist and Grants officer in Tamale
• Timely submit OBNAs progress report and financial advance reconciliation reports September 2017 to December 2019 Production and Capacity Building Officer USAID – ADVANCE (GHANA)
ACDI/VOCA
Upper East Office
Key Responsibility
• Consolidates sustainable systems for the formation of Spraying Service Providers in targeted communities
• Strengthens the capacity of outgrower businesses through farmer mentorship program
• Organizes groups of prospective farmers with certain established capacity gaps to visit farms for first-hand experience in multi-service operations
• Facilitates training in soybean utilization for various kinds of meals by women farmers thereby encouraging Nutritive Sensitive Agriculture among households
• Enhances technologies, services and practices by women and male farmers through farmer field schools supported by actors within rice, maize and soybean value chains 3
• Conducts Good Agronomic Practices, both off-site and on-site Postharvest handling trainings to project actors
• Assists OBs to identify equipment gaps in their operations and business plan from the business point
• Supports field agents to monitor the use of ICT tablets to serve as a database system for the outgrower business
• Sensitize and train smallholder farmers to increase the adoption of improved productivity - enhancing technology transfer, services and practices. September 2016 – August 2017 National Service Personnel USAID – ADVANCE
ACDI/VOCA, Upper East Region
Key Responsibilities
• Supports technical officers to conduct field activities
• Organizes training schedules to be captured in Data Capture Interface (DCI)
• Scanning and filing documents for good record keeping with the Field Accounts Officer
• Outlines work plan in collaboration with technical officers to execute activities on the field
• Reports on weekly basis to the Regional Coordinator
• Performs any other task related to the project that will be assigned by the regional coordinator or his representative
October 2015 Enumerator
ACDI/VOCA, Bolgatanga – Ghana
USAID/ADVANCE II
Key responsibilities
• Collected quantitative (production and labor cost) data on rice, soybean and maize fields
• Demarcated sampled fields for yield analysis
• Tracked sampled farms with the Global Positioning System Unit April 2015 – June 2015 Student Intern
Kintampo Goat Breeding Station
Stock Taking Unit, Kintampo
Key Responsibilities
• Took inventory on livestock, stationery, and equipment
• Monitored the growth rate of livestock
• Administered drenching dose to livestock intermittently
• Supported technical teams to conduct breeding of goats
• Reported on weekly basis to the station Manager
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EDUCATION
August 20221– August 2023 BSc. Agriculture
University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast
October 2013 – July 2016 Higher National Diploma in General Agriculture Sunyani Technical University, Sunyani
September 2006 – June 2009 Senior Secondary School Certificate Tamale Senior High School, Tamale
TRAININGS/ WORKSHOPS
• Gender and the Environment
• Microsoft Office Package
• Aflatoxin management and aflasafe training for maize, groundnuts and Sorghum
• Fall army worm training (Biology, distribution and how to control it) INTERESTS
• Agricultural Developmental Interventions
• Rural and Adult Education
• Climate Smart Postharvest Agriculture
REFEREES
• Alhassan Abdul Rashid
FtF Ghana Market Systems and Resilience Activity, Agribusiness and Supply Management Specialist.
+233-*********, +233-*********
Email: **********@*****.***
• Peter Nabegmado
IDH, Program Agronomist
Email: **********@*****.***
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