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Ailsa Buckley

Advisor Inclusive Economic Development

Products & Solutions
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Field experience
Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, South Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe

Focus areas

  • Private Sector Development
  • Project design, management and implementation.
  • Systemic development approaches.
  • Capacity development for systems development
  • Designing and delivering training and mentoring
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Reference projects

2019 - 2024
Népal, Rwanda, Éthiopie
Agriculture durable
Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness Programme (Anglais)
The project aims to involve smallholder farmer businesses sustainably in agricultural value chains, thereby improving their living conditions and economic situation. By building inclusive agricultural systems, smallholder farmers will have improved access to markets, information, and means of production. Additionally, the project emphasizes...
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2015 - 2021
Ouganda
Agriculture durable
Une agriculture compétitive malgré un climat exigeant
L’Ouganda est l’une des économies les plus dynamiques d’Afrique, bien que cette croissance continue à faire face à d’importants obstacles dans le nord du pays. L’Ouganda est en bonne voie pour atteindre son premier objectif de développement, à savoir diminuer de moitié la pauvreté et la famine d’ici 2015. Cependant, la...
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2018 - 2022
Rwanda
Agriculture durable
Programme d’Amélioration des Systèmes de Marché Agricoles
L'IMSAR aide à commercialiser les produits de l'agriculture en améliorant le fonctionnement des systèmes de marchés agricoles, en les rendant plus efficaces, participatifs (en y incluant les agriculteurs pauvres et d'autres groupes défavorisés) et plus compétitifs.Le Rwanda traverse actuellement un processus de transformation et son secteur...
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2017 - 2020
Mozambique
Agriculture durable
Programme pour la sécurité alimentaire par une production agricole à l’épreuve du changement climatique(angl.)
The FAR Programme aims to create sustainable climate-smart agricultural solutions for households in Mozambique who often face challenges of food security due to harsh climatic conditions brought about by sporadic climatic changes.Mozambique is a country at high risk from climate change affected by increasingly unpredictable rainfall, droughts as...
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  • Strategic and technical ISD assistance to FCDO’s Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) Programme in Uganda, Malawi and Nepal and expansion into Rwanda and Ethiopia.
  • Support to DFID’s Transforming the Economy through Climate Smart Agribusiness (NUTEC) program in Uganda and Inclusive Markets for Sustainable Agriculture (IMSAR) in Rwanda, including ongoing training of teams in ISD.
  • Strategic and technical assistance to SIDA’s Food security through climate Adaptation and Resilience (FAR) Program in Mozambique and SDC’s Horti Sempre Project in Mozambique.
  • Provision of ISD expertise to the GRM-led Livelihoods and Food Security Program in Zimbabwe.
  • Development and management of an Export Capability Programme for TradeMark EA focusing on increased trade for the landlocked countries in coffee, staples and tourism.
  • Training of 40 TMEA East Africa staff in Market Systems Development.
  • Delivered commercial training in PMSD in India and Kenya; delivered capacity development training for PAC in the UK and Zimbabwe; facilitated a PAC African markets summit on MSD innovation.
  • Developed 'learning from practice' knowledge products, case studies and training resources for Practical Action's PMSD Roadmap (pmsdroadmap.org).
  • Facilitated the Practical Action Markets Forum to share lessons, successes and challenges in MSD.
  • Delivered an MSD virtual training program for Habitat for Humanity for staff across Latin America in the housing sector.
  • Developed an MSD framework for EUEI-PDF for the development of energy projects; developed 'learning from practice' knowledge products.
  • Developed training in participatory market systems development (PMSD) and emergency market mapping analysis (EMMA); and delivered commercial training/mentoring packages to EA-based clients.
  • Provided global MSD training for 40+ Christian Aid country directors and mentoring for country offices.
  • Developed a market facilitator's manual for program replication for Land O Lakes: Led an evaluation of the 5-year VCD Kenya Dairy Sector Competitiveness Program and developed and populated a toolkit to enable market facilitators to upscale and replicate the initiative.
  • Provided technical inputs to ILO VCD projects in Somalia: Led market development inputs across 2 projects in Somaliland and S Central in fodder for livestock and the feeder value chain of light engineering.