Boris Kouassi Kouassi

YEP period 2017 - 2019, batch 14

Young Expert at MDF Training and Consultancy B.V. - Ivory Coast

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First position after YEP

Consultant Agronomic Research & Training Development at myAgro, Mali

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YEP Role

• Perform a Stakeholder Analysis and select participants
• Plan the MSP meetings and draw the agenda
• Facilitate the MSP meetings at the inland valley sites
• Establish and entertain communications with members
• Report on the MSP meetings and write synthesis reports to communicate outcomes, challenges and achievements
• Prepare and give presentations on partial outcomes challenges and achievements of MSP work
• Write policy briefs on MSP outcomes that have a relevance for policy makers

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Skills

Farm management; agricultural research; crop protection; data analysis (R, SPSS); farmers training; agricultural project design and management; innovation transfer; smallholders empowerment; team facilitation

 

Background

Nationality: Ivorian
Education: Agricultural Engineer (master’s degree), Agronomy and crop production. University:  INPHB (Institut National Polytechnique Felix Houphouët Boigny)

 

Experience before YEP

• Research and development Agronomist / Syngenta AGRO SA, Ivory Coast
• (May 2016-October 2017, 1 year 6 months)
• Assistant to the National coordinator/ Humidtropics Program (IITA), Ivory Coast
• (January 2016- March 2016, 3 months)
• Internship, Humidtropics Program, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture(IITA), Ivory Coast
• (February 2015- November 2015, 10 months)