Agriculture engineering
ACE uses its expertise to facilitate the design, management, monitoring and evaluation of development programmes ; projects' and programmes' evaluations using the logical framework and ZOPP methodologies and participatory methods. Technical audits.
Main areas :
- Food security : tropical agriculture, agronomy (both rain-fed and irrigated agriculture), agro-industry, agro-climatology, horticulture.
- Environment : biodiversity analysis in mountain areas, adaptation climate change.
- Cartography, remote sensing, GIS, database management
- Feasibility studies, market studies : renewable energies (biofuel, wind farms...).
- Soil science, soil conservation and fertility studies.
- Land evaluation and land use mapping, participatory rural appraisals, natural resources management.
- International project evaluations.
References agriculture engineering :
International programmes assessment :
- Joint Programme mid-term review "Environmental Mainstreaming and Adaptation to Climate Change" - United Nations Development Programme and Millennium Development Goals Funds - Mozambique - 2010
- Joint Programme mid-term review "Mainstreaming Local Environmental Management in the Planning Process" – United Nations Development Programme and Millennium Development Goals Funds - Mauritania - 2010
- Programme evaluation "Rehabilitation of the water supply programme as an integrated initiative within the CDI-Bwamanda development programme" – Belgian Survival Funds - RD Congo - 2008/2009
- Mid-term and final evaluation of the Community Agriculture Watershed Management Project (biodiversity conservation and environmental management) in the Rasht valley - GEF/World Bank/UNDP - Tadjikistan - 2007 et 2009
Development projects and programmes evaluation :
- Second Rural Development Programme (RDP II) - GTZ and European Union - Timor Leste - 2010
- Project of " Support to initiatives of rural communities to improve food security in Mufindi District " project – Belgian Survival Funds - Tanzania - 2008
- Project of " Fighting food insecurity in the North of Mozambique " – Belgian Survival Funds - Mozambique - 2007
- Hodh Chargui Integrated Rural Development Programme – Belgian Survival Fund - Mauritania - 2005
- Sanmatenga Integrated Rural Development Project – Belgian Survival Funds - Burkina Faso - 2004
Financial, technical and organizational audits :
- Food Security Foreign Exchange Facility FSMP 2003-2005 – FOREX : financial audit and evaluation of the institutional reforms and early retirement programmes within the Ministry of Trade & Industry, the National Meteorological Institute & Ministry of Agriculture - Mozambique - 2009
- Support programme to the mining sector (PASMI) – 9th EDF European Union - Senegal - 2008
- Programme, human resources and regional offices evaluation of the Belgian NGO - SOS Faim - Pérou, Bolivie - 2005
Technical assistance :
- Technical assistance in agricultural research – UNDP - Mozambique - 1994/1998
- Technical assistance in natural resources management and land conservation – UNDP - Timor Leste - 2003/2004
- Technical assistance in scientific curriculum development and equipment procurement (agriculture, biological and veterinary science, agro-industry) – Asian Development Bank - Uzbekistan - 2002/2003
Support for initiatives :
- Programme of " Support to Mauritanian populations vulnerable to food insecurity and malnutrition and strengthening of response mechanisms " programme (10605 PRRO) - World Food Programme - Mauritania - 2009
- Project of " Support to initiatives of rural communities to improve food security in Mufindi District " project – Belgian Survival Funds - Tanzania - 2008
- Project of " Fighting food insecurity in the North of Mozambique " – Belgian Survival Funds - Mozambique - 2007