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Christopher Baker CV

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Personal data
Year of Birth
TAA Member No
Title
Forenames:
Surname:

 1953

 1071

 Mr

Christopher Frederick

 BAKER

Record of posts and assignments
Year Job Title Organisation Country Responsibilities
2002-2011 Freelance Consultant AsDB, FAO, IADB, Scott Wilson (UK)/AfDB and World Bank

 

Various (Caribbean, South Asia, SE Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa) Needs assessments, project identification, preparation, appraisal & supervision, capacity building for emergency relief, medium-term agricultural/ livelihoods recovery & rehabilitation, community-based rural development
1995-2002
Rural Development and Management Adviser/Team Leader
European Commission Jamaica Project management & technical support to integrated agricultural diversification, small-scale farmer micro-project development, watershed management & capacity building programmes 

1994-1995

Freelance Consultant

FAO, ILO and UNDP

Various (South Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa)

Project preparation, supervision & evaluation, Project Management/Rural Development Specialist

1988-1994

Chief Technical Adviser/Team Leader

ILO

Nepal

Project management of Special Public Works Programme (small-scale farmer-managed irrigation, trails/jeep tracks, slope stabilisation, capacity building)

1987-1988

Technical Manager/Team Leader

Mascott (UK) Limited/World Bank

Somalia

Project management of a regional agricultural development project (soil & water conservation, small-scale irrigation, research and extension, etc)

1984-1986

Freelance Consultant

FAO and World Ban

Various (S Asia, SE Asia & Sub-Sahara Africa)

Project formulation, preparation, evaluation & supervision, Land Use Planning/ Soil & Water Conservation

1981-1983

Chief Land Use Planning Officer

Landell Mills Associates/World Bank

Nigeria

Co-ordination of development planning for state agricultural dev project (rem sensing, land resources, soil & water conservn, small-scale irrigation, rural roads, etc)

1978-1980

Agricultural Training Officer

ODA

 

Tanzania

Establishing national training programme, land use planning, soil & water conservation

1975-1976 Land Husbandry Officer ODA Malawi Led land use planning, farm planning and soil & water conservation teams
Skills, expertise and qualifications

Principal Discipline 
Agriculture; Emergency Relief; Project Management; and Rural Development
Subsidiary fields
Development Planning; Emergency Relief; Institutional/Organisational Development; Land Husbandry; Project Management; Project Preparation/Appraisal; Rural Development (community-based); and Soil & Water Conservation
Higher education 

1976-1977: M.Sc. Agricultural Engineering (Land Resource Management), National College of Agricultural Engineering, Silsoe, UK 1972-1976: B.Sc. (Hons) Geography; Kingston-upon-Thames Polytechnic, UK

Countries worked in 
Bangladesh, Gambia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Languages
French
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This page was updated on 10 February 2011

 

 

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