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John Pratt CV

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

 1952

743

 Mr

John Haydon

 PRATT

Record of posts and assignments 
Year
Job Title
Organisation
Country
Responsibilities
2010 Consultant in Environmentally Responsible Trade ICON-Institute for Caribbean Forum of ACP States Dominican Republic and 13 CARICOM states Situation analysis and programme formulation for deepwater pelagic fishery zone governance and management; solid waste/recycling; legal drafting
2009-10 Trade Institutional Support Advisor B&S Europe for ACP-EC TradeCom Papua New Guinea Analysis and formulation of strategies, programme planning, budgeting and implementation.
2009 Team Leader: Business Feasibility Cardno Agrisystems/ EC Ethiopia Analysis, formulation: Smallholder Agricultural Marketing Support Programme (AMSP; €10 million)
2008 Start-up Technical Advisor ECORYS / SCANAGRI Kenya Coffee/EC Kenya Start-up TA to Quality Coffee Production and Commercialisation Programme (QCPCP; €5 million).
2008 Forest Products Economist Pioneer Carbon Ltd UK (for Ghana) web investigation into sustainability of wood-based fuel. Forecast of the biomass demand-supply balance
2008 Advisor on product devel. partnerships Eden Research PLC UK (for Africa) Establish African R&D partnerships to develop new products based on environmentally friendly raw materials.
2008 Business Feasibility Consultant World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) UK (for Central Africa) Incubation pathways for maize-based smallholder diversification into tree crop based enterprises
2007 & 2008 Start-up Technical Advisor Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service Kenya Start-up TA to public indirect decentralised management of STABEX HORTICAP capacity building project (€2.4 m).
2007 Team Leader  DAAS for EC Tanzania Sythesis mission: EU Sugar Reform Measures
2007 Team Leader DAAS International for EC Tanzania Formulation mission: EU Sugar Reform Accompanying Measures . Action Plans 2007 & 2008 (€4 m; €2 m).
2007 Interim Team Leader & Socio-Economist SOPEX/Italtrend for EC Nigeria (UK based) Formulation of MPP9 Nigeria: Next Generation of Micro-Project Programmes (€45 million). Financing Proposal.

2006-07

Team Leader & Socio-Economist

SOPEX/Italtrend for EC

Malawi

Income Generating Public Works Programme (€25 million) Mid-Phase Review and Evaluation: roads, forestry, agric.

2004-06

Enterprise Development Specialist

COMPASS II/USAID
DAI

Malawi

Facilitating investment in NR-based product development and strengthening existing NR-based value chains: Honey; Fisheries/Aquaculture; Forest products

2003-04

Team Leader

EC Micro-Projects Programme 6 Ò Niger Delta

Nigeria

Euro42m start-up and management of PMU & six State Micro-Projects Offices + 50 new micro-projects; trainer in participatory project planning/financial appraisal.

2000-02

Marketing & Enterprise Specialist

MAFE/USAID Washington StateU

Malawi

Natural plant products/oils characterisation and commercial development; economics; market probing.

1999-00

Chief Technical Adviser

Intercooperation/ SDC PHP

Pakistan

Multi-partner horticulture sector support. Institutional Development. Budget management. Team building.

1999

Team Leader

MASDAR/PTF

Nigeria

Participatory agricultural extension planning - national

1998-99

Environmental Valuation Consultant

PIEDAR (NGO)

Pakistan

Project planning for community tourism management. Travel cost and contingent valuation methods.

1995-98

Horticultural Marketing & Economics Adviser

Intercooperation/ SDC

Pakistan

Programme Manager; grading, packaging & marketing trials; farming systems research, auctions markets development; economic analysis/value chains.

1993-94

Economist/Bus. Analysis

TACIS/EC

Produce Studies

Russia

Togliatti Wholesale market development; market info. systems; food logistics. Businesses survey & audits.

1993

Marketing Const.

ADB/ Landell Mills

Malawi & Guatemala

Macadamia marketing & logistics; international competition study and expansion recommendations.

1993

Institutional Const.

ODA (DFID)

Honduras

Wood products Demonstration Centre self-funding plan

1993

Trade & Ind. Const.

ODA EC/TDI

Caribbean Regional

Lome IV Indicative Programme for pan-Regional/CARICOM trade development.

1992

Marketing Const.

UNDP/ TANHOPE

Tanzania

Chamber of Commerce horticultural export thrust.

1992

Team leader/Econ.

ADB/ Landell Mills

Equatorial Guinea

Livestock development & veterinary Master Plan.

1992

N.R. Economist

CDB/ Landell Mills

Belize

Road economics, farming systems research.

1991

Marketing Const.

ODA

Tanzania

Horticulture & spice crops export dev. plan, Zanzibar.

1990-91

N.R. Economist

ODA/NRI

Belize

Land resources & forestry economics studies.

1989-90

Project I/D Const.

Seaton Canada

Belize

Citrus for frozen concentrates.

1988-89

Project I/D Const.

Vestey Group

Zimbabwe

Deep freeze industry investment for export.

1986-88

Rep./Pathfinder

Belize Holdings

Belize

Investment identification; Banking/ investment lending.

1976-86

N.R. Economist

CDC

Central America, Africa, Asia

New project investment preparation, monitoring & evaluation; investment/loan project management.

Skills, expertise and qualifications

Principal Discipline 
Project Management
Subsidiary fields
Development Planning, Economics, Financial Analysis, Marketing, Monitoring & Evaluation, Organisations/Institutions, Participatory Development, Project Preparation/Appraisal
Higher education 
Agriculture BSc (Hons) Reading, 1976. Cert. Agro-ind. Dev. CITA/Univ. Costa Rica, 1982. Cert. Environmental Economics & Policy Analysis, HIID/Harvard Univ., 1998
Countries worked in 

Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Languages
French, Spanish, Russian, Pushto
Webpage
http://www.icea.co.uk/cvs/johnpratt.doc
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