Affiliations and Achievements:
• As a program leader at the USAID/NMSU/AWATT in Afghanistan, I designed, established and managed the following very successful agricultural development programs: (1) Rangeland Watershed Management. (2) Farm Resource Management. (3) Forage Technology Transfer.
(4) Forage Foundation Seed Production Programs.
• At AWATT, I built, trained, inspired, and mentored four strong divers’ local team members in Heart, Nangarhar, Balkh, and Kabul Provinces to implement the above four listed programs.
• At AWATT, I developed very efficient capacity building programs in research and extension methods to upgrade and improve the performance of DAILs/Extension workers and researchers; in addition to the faculty members, teachers and students at the University of Herat, Nangarhar, Kabul and Balkh; and two Agricultural & Veterinary Institutes in Herat and Balkh Provinces.
• At AWATT, I developed and published a large number of technical reports, training courses, training manuals, extension educational materials and fact sheets. These materials were translated from English to the Afghan local languages: Dari and Pashto and submitted to MAIL and DAILs.
• At AWATT, I partnered and liaised with the USAID, USDA, US-Military/ADT, PRTs, MAIL, DAILs, Universities, NGOs, ASAP, private sector, Dairy Unions, Farmers, and Kuchi people; and ultimately, three MOUs were developed with those agencies and organizations to build strong working relationships and use all available resources to implement the USG strategy in Afghanistan.
• For the USDA/Iraq Agricultural Extension Revitalization (IAER) project with Iraq, I served as the organizational and technical communications liaison between New Mexico State University (NMSU) and the various institutional partners working with NMSU.
• At IAER, I developed and delivered training courses in project management and agricultural extension methodology for Iraqi extension workers, professionals, and faculty members at several Iraqi universities.