Daud Kachamba

Experience

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  Ministry of Agriculture Malawi

  Jun 2003 - Aug 2004

  Agricultural Officer

  Duties and responsibilities:I was involved in the promotion of cereals and horticultural crops to smallholder farmers in Kasungu district of Malawi.

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  Ministry of Agriculture, Malawi Government

  Aug 2004 - Feb 2005

  Land Resources Conservation Officer

  Duties and responsibilities: The job involved dissemination of soil and water conservation technologies and soil fertility Improvement including Agroforestry to field staff and farmers in Ntchisi District of Malawi.

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  Fredskorpset

  Jan 2011 - Dec 2011

  FK NORWAY SOUTH – SOUTH EXCHANGE PROGRAMME IN AFRICA 2011 FELLOW

  Fredskorpset (FK) Norway is a Norwegian Government body supporting professional exchange between institutions in Norway and Africa, Asia and Latin America. Through this exchange program I spent 12 months at Institute of Economic and Social Research of the University of Zambia where I was involved in teaching and conducting research.

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  LUANAR-Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

  Mar 2011 - Apr 2012

  Deputy Head of Department. Department of Forestry, Lilongwe, Malawi

  Duties and responsibilities included: - Management of both human and financial resources, - Coordinating and conducting research, consultancy, and outreach, - Facilitating supervision of students’ research and industrial attachment; - Preparing progress and monitoring reports.

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  NMBU - Norwegian University of Life Sciences

  Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

  Teaching Assistant for Research Methods Course (EDS 115 and EDS 312).

  Teaching Postgraduate and Undergraduate Students on Research method courses in support to the main teacher for the course

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  LUANAR-Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

  May 2017 - now

  Duties and responsibilities included: - Teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students on a wide variety of subjects including GIS and remote sensing, Forest biometry, Forest mensuration and inventory- Conducting research and managing projects- Supervising undergraduate and postgraduate research projects- Resource mobilization Key roles and responsibilities included: - Developing plans for the department; - Preparing timely progress and monitoring reports; - Staff capacity building, - Mobilizing resources for teaching learning,- Conducting research, consultancy, and outreach

  • Senior Lecturer in Forest Sciences

    Mar 2005 - now

  • Head of Department, Department of Forestry.

    May 2017 - Jun 2020
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  African Forest Forum

  Sept 2020 - Sept 2024

  Program Officer

  Duties and responsibilities: • Developing and managing project activities in some of the following broad areas: Sustainable management of forests and trees outside forests, including policies and governance requirements for the same; Enhancing understanding of the contribution of forests and trees to a better environment in Africa, specifically with regard to adaptation to and mitigation of climate change; Better management and conservation of forests and trees outside forests to enhance their provision of ecosystem services; Generating evidence-based information to support the development of sustainable supplies of sufficient good quality forest products, as well as enhancing the contribution of these resources to poverty eradication on the continent, national incomes and attainment of the SDGs; Strengthening the capacity of relevant institutions and individuals to undertake activities in the areas outlined above; Strengthening Africa’s capacity to effectively participate in multilateral environmental processes related to forestry and facilitate mainstreaming of decisions from the same. Collation, synthesis and dissemination of critical information and knowledge to stakeholders through publications in peer reviewed journals, policy briefs, factsheets, working papers and other avenues.• Developing annual plans of work and budgets, as well as relevant reports;• Securing the attainment of project objectives, outcomes and other deliverables;• Ensuring quality assurance with respect to project outputs;• Identifying and securing the implementation of project changes and interventions necessary to achieve project outputs;• Facilitating the undertaking of project evaluations and assessment of project results;• Representing my institution wherever / whenever needed in this work;• Contributing to resource mobilization through project proposals development for the institution. Show less