HEAD-QUARTERS
Lilongwe
Joined
2024
Website
cisoneccmw.org
Fanny Juma is a Development Specialist with over 9 years’ experience in project management and coordination of livelihoods and resilience projects. She currently works with CISONECC as a Programmes Officer facilitating implementation of climate change and disaster risk management projects. She is very passionate at improving livelihoods of farmers through improving agricultural productivity, helping them recover from impacts of disasters and building their resilience.
Fanny has worked with Oxfam in Malawi as a Private Sector Engagement Coordinator where she coordinated implementation of an advocacy project aimed at promoting responsible and inclusive investments in Malawi while protecting land rights of communities in Malawi funded by Oxfam America. She coordinated Oxfam’s behind the brand campaign that aims at improving the social and environmental policies of the world’s largest food and beverage companies. She has accumulated experience in engaging with investors in Malawi through the Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industries and training them on principles of inclusive investments. She has supported the development of the Malawi Land Policy, strengthened the collaboration between the Ministry of lands and the multi stakeholder platform on large scale land-based investments in Malawi. She also coordinated implementation of a project aimed at promoting access to pro poor clean energy in Malawi through strengthening the collaboration between state and non-state actors in developing the renewable energy sector and supported fundraising for Oxfam Southern Africa Cluster.
From 2018 to 2021, she worked as an Agricultural
Productivity Associate under Feed the Future Agricultural Diversification Activity, a five-year project contributing to USAID/ Malawi’s Feed the Future goal of sustainably reducing poverty and stunting in eight districts of central and southern. Her main responsibilities included supporting implementation of activities aimed at improving household resilience through increasing income and productivity of smallholder farmer while reducing post-harvest losses. She ensured a good collaboration between the project’s implementing partners and all actors providing agricultural services in the projects’ zones of influence. In collaboration with stakeholders such as the Department of Agricultural Research Services, Department of Agricultural Extension Services, local NGOs, seed companies and other stakeholders.
Fanny has also worked as a research assistant with various institutions such as Lochhead Consulting Firm, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Clinton Health Access Initiative and the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Fanny possesses a MSc degree in Rural Development and Management obtained in 2017 at China Agricultural University and a BSc degree in Agricultural Education from the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (2011). She is also a Young African Leaders Initiative fellow, a signature effort by the USAID aimed at developing leadership skills of young Africans and equipping them with knowledge and skills to drive positive change in their communities. She also holds a certificate in Managing the Power sector Reforms and Regulations in Africa obtained from the University of Cape Town (2022)
Technical Skills & Values
- Project management of livelihoods and resilience projects
- Climate smart agriculture
- Agriculture value chains development particularly soybean and groundnuts
- Climate change advocacy
- Private sector engagement
- Cooperative development
- Post harvest management of grain crops
- Land governance
- Proposal development
- Gender and women empowerment
- Honesty, integrity, reliability and accountability
