Lowell Fuglie and Moringa ...

WORK EXPERIENCE

August to October, 2005: Manu River Union Project Manager.

Assisted in the initiation of a USAID conflict management and prevention project implemented by Computer Frontiers Inc., based in Accra, Ghana, to support ICT enhancement among civil society organizations in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

November 1988 to July 2005: West Africa Regional Representative for Church World Service.

Responsible for administration of Dakar regional office, local staff and program budgets; for proposing, initiating, supervising, evaluating and reporting on all CWS-sponsored development and relief projects in the West Africa region; for representation before government officials and funding agencies; and for liaison with and institutional support to local partner organizations including church development offices, national NGOs and village associations.

1989: Organized the distribution of 10,000 CWS blankets and 30 tons of locally purchased food among refugees displaced by the Senegal-Mauritania border conflict.
1989: Participated in refugee assessment surveys in the Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone, and was part of the first NGO team to conduct needs assessments in Liberia (November 1989, during the first civil war).
1990: Introduced hand-operated machines for inexpensive manufacture of chain link fencing for employment- and income-generation in north and south Senegal, Niger, the Gambia and Guinea Bissau.
1990-91: Contacted (in Freetown and Monrovia) leaders of the various denominations of the Liberian Council of Churches and arranged meetings to help re-establish this organization. Thereafter supported relief efforts through purchase of 40 tons of smoked fish in Senegal for distribution by the Liberian Council of Churches, and conducted visits to the CWS medical team stationed in that city.
1990-91: Helped sponsor the creation of ASREAD, a Senegalese NGO that grew out of the CWS Keur Momar Sarr Integrated Development Project.
1990-91: Conducted a survey of national NGO development in three Sahelien countries (Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali) which culminated in a 94-page report on types of NGOs and approaches to north-south NGO partnership.
1991: Assisted in designing a small enterprise development credit program for the Nazarene Solidarity League in the Cape Verde islands.
1991: Established a new partnership and participated in designing a development program with the AHLLUCOF women’s association in Guinea Bissau.
1991: Established a new partnership and participated in designing a development program with the AFET association in the Gambia.
1991: Conducted a survey of inter-village self-help associations in the Casamance (southern Senegal) that was published and distributed among development organizations under the title “Repertoire des associations villageoises en Casamance.” (132 pages).
1992: Participated in a joint CWS/CRWRC (overland) refugee and development needs assessment in Guinea.
1992: Participated in a needs assessment visit to Malian Tuareg refugees living in camps in Mauritania and organized support for a program of assistance implemented by Veterinarians Without Borders (Vétérinaires Sans Frontières).
1992-94: Organized three 10-day seminars on financial management for NGOs. In all, seventy NGO representatives and accountants from nine West African countries participated, sponsored by CWS, CRWRC, LWR and Bread for the World.
1995: Helped design a plan for re-organizing the structure of the Mozambican Council of Churches from a relief- into a development-oriented agency. This plan was accepted by the MCC donor agencies.
1995: Negotiated a co-funding agreement between USAID/Senegal (80% of budget) and CWS (20%) for a $570,000 program, implemented by ASREAD, for a women’s credit program in northern Senegal.
1995: Negotiated a co-funding agreement between USAID/Senegal (80% of budget) and CWS (20%) for a $350,000 program, implemented by ADECOR and ADY, for a market garden development project in southern Senegal.
1995: Participated in negotiating a co-funding agreement among ICCO, CWS, CECI and CRDI for a three-year, $850,000 environmental protection and natural resource management project in northern Senegal, implemented by ASREAD.
1995: Participated in negotiating a co-funding agreement between ICCO and CWS for a three-year, $150,000 garden irrigation project in northern Senegal, implemented by ASREAD.
1995: Helped negotiate a co-funding agreement between LWR, Bread for the World and CWS for a three-year garden development project in Niger, implemented by the APRN.
1995: Initiated a new partnership agreement with the organization KILABO in Mali and participated in the design of their development program in the southwest of that country.
1995: Initiated a new partnership agreement with the organization Promo-Femmes/Développement-Sport in Burkina Faso.
1995: Initiated a new partnership agreement with the organization SOTOPRODER in Togo and participated in the design of a project to establish a training center for domestic raising of agoutis.
1996: Initiated a new partnership with the organization AMAPROS in Mali and participated in negotiating a co-funding agreement between CWS and Diakonia for their development program in the west of that country.
1996: Initiated a new partnership agreement with the organization ASSAFE in Mali and participated in the design of their development program in the central part of that country.
1996: Initiated a new partnership agreement with the organization ABAC in Burkina Faso.
1996: Initiated a new partnership agreement with the organization APS in Burkina Faso and participated in the design of their development program in the northern part of that country.
1997: Initiated a new partnership agreement with the organization AGADA in southern Senegal and participated in the design of the Mother and Child (Moringa) Nutrition Project.
1997: Conducted an evaluation and wrote a strategic plan for the CWS-supported program in Rwanda.
1998: Initiated a new partnership agreement with the organization Njarawa Agricultural Training Center in the Gambia.
1998: Designed and supervised the construction of an improved manual hydraulic seed oil press.
2001: Helped organize and sponsor an international conference on the development potential of Moringa products. Over 100 people from 27 countries participated in this conference, held October 29 to November 2 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
2003: Negotiated a collaborative agreement for a project entitled “improving household and livestock nutrition in low-income mixed farming systems in The Gambia” in collaboration with the National Nutrition Agency and the International Trypanotolerance Center.
2004: Negotiated a collaborative agreement for a project entitled “Casamance rebuilding socal infrastructure” in collaboration with Catholic Relief Services and Christian Children’s Fund with financing from USAID.

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The advantages of using Moringa in malnutrition prevention programs