Francisco Nhanale

Responsible for all expatriate and national staff.

Managing human resources in conformity with applicable labor laws and with internal regulation.

Performance appraisals and objective setting in line with program requirements.

Formulating the country strategy for Solidaridad in light of political, economic context.

Acting as key contact with head offices, local partners, NGOs, UN agencies, local authorities,

Government authorities, donors.

Acting as a focal point, to issue policy recommendations in collaboration with field staff and Headquarters.

Representing Solidaridad to partners, NGOs, local authorities, government authorities and donors.

Defining the programmers with the coordinated team.

Ensuring achievement of the program's objectives.

Ensuring the organization has adequate resources.

Ensuring programmer is still appropriate, according to the situation, the context and the programmes and Objectives.

• Coordinate and manage all Solidaridad projects in Mozambique, Zambia and malawi  Manage a Dutch government-funded project i.e. SAPSCAF

• Develop detailed project plans with time frames, deliverables and allocated budgets

• Design detailed work plans for each person in the Mozambique based SAPSCAF team

• Draft detailed contracts for each partner relating specifically to the funds to be disbursed to each partner, liaise with project partners on their deliverable

• Develop detailed training programme for submission to the funder

• Identify, recommend oversee service providers to complete key tasks for the programme e.g. building construction company, a food security impact assessor, suppliers of equipment

• Report on the project on a monthly basis, detailing progress against the project plan and spending against budget

• Manage a farmer’s support programme (FSP) cotton in the Niassa province, in partnership with JFS (João Ferreira dos Santos).

• Ensure that regular monitoring visits take palace to the project and that template reporting forms are completed

• Attend the Mozambique soy commercial company task team meetings

• Raised funds for project activities

• Implemented project

• Supervised projects in the Beira Corridor

• Arranged and managed workshops

• Created of a dialogue platform within private sector and public institutions

• Dealt with governments institutions e.g.: CEPAGRI, NEPAD, MADER, MIC, MCT, GAZEDA, etc.

• AgriFUTURO is a USAID-funded program where the main goal is to improve agribusiness competitiveness In Mozambique

• Focussed on Beira Corridor with activities in the provinces of Manica, Sofala, Tete and Zambezia

• Supervised 16 staff members

• Identified opportunities in agriculture

• Identified and developed business opportunities

• Conducted analysis of businesses

• Drafted business plans

• Developed grant proposals

• Evaluated grant proposals

• Coordinated weekly meetings and other coordination activities

• Predicted crop yields based on plant densities for all the Vandúzi farms

• Managed the Mucombezi farm – one of the Vandúzi farms comprising 6 000 ha and 200 ha of horticulture in production

• Implemented the crop protection programme

• Oversaw the fertilisation programme and soil correction

• Managed the irrigation and fertigation programs for chilies, lettuce, cabbage, courgettes, baby corn, passion fruit, mangetout, sugar snaps, fine beans.

• Gained wider experience in the use of fungicides, herbicides and insecticides

• Worked on a regular basis with drip irrigation, sprinklers, central pivots and flood irrigation

• Gained knowledge in tractor use for planting, spraying, ridging and fertilizer application