Mana’ Abu village, North Malaita Province, Solomon Islands

Key skills

• training in ecologically sustainable, village-based farming
• Participatory Rural Appraisal
• Participtory Technology Development with farmers
• community development
• train the trainer
• management and training for community seed saving and seed bank development
• project management.

Experience

Programme/project

Project manager, Sustainable Livelihoods for Rural Youth.

Programme/project

Coordinator, Solomon Islands Planting Materials Network, Kastom Garden Programme.

Role:

• project management
• staff training
• bookkeeping
• promotion.

Programme/project

Regional coordinator/ manager, Kastom Gaden Association + Kastom Garden Programme

Role:

• management of project activities on Malaita island
• training of village trainers and farmers
• * field training.

Programme/project

Project manager, Integrated Pest Management for North Malaita Project – Kastom Garden Programme.

Role:

• project management
• management, training, monitoring and assessment of farmer field trials
• production of project reports.

Education

• Agriculture – Solomon Islands College of Higher Education
• bookkeeping.

Languages

• Solomon Pijin (native speaker)
• English (fluent)
• Lau (local language of Northern Malaita, Solomon Islands – fluent).

Conferences and papers

• * author of training manual Integrated Pest Management
• low external input sustainable agriculture – presentation of papers to international conference in Philippines
• co-author, Promoting on farm conservation of taro through diversity fairs in the Solomon Islands – paper presented to international taro conference in Fiji, 2003.