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The Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

Texas A&M University

Market Systems Development Practitioner

Atlanta, Georgia

Habitat for Humanity International

Global Senior Director, Programs

MyStrongHome

Board Member

- Lead a $20M portfolio or projects aimed at identifying barriers that restrict low-income housing and working to make housing market systems more effective and inclusive in six countries around the world.•	Serve as global subject matter expert for the housing market systems.•	Lead the Shelter Venture Lab, a program aimed at nurturing entrepreneurs and start-ups in the housing and shelter space to serve the needs of people at scale.•	Coordinate business development for the Terwilliger Center for Shelter Innovation (TCIS).•	Align the Shelter Venture Lab and other housing market systems projects to the standards of operations of the TCIS.•	Develop and maintain networks of regional and local housing consultants with skills in housing, market systems and private sector development, monitoring and evaluation.•	Collaborate with other Habitat for Humanity network practitioners in various disciplines to create opportunities to amplify the work of the TCIS and private-sector solutions.

Global Director, Market Systems and Entrepreneurship

- Provide technical assistance and backstopping support for implementing, monitoring, and evaluating nutrition sensitive and gender transformative market system development programs in South Asia and East and Southern Africa including:      - 	SHOUHARDO III, a USAID Food for Peace (FFP) program in Bangladesh, which aims to improve food security for over 168,000 households      - 	Agriculture Extension Support Activity (AESA), a project focused on improving agricultural extension services to improve the food security of 200,000 women and smallholder farmers,      - 	Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain (SDVC) which aims to improve the dairy-related incomes of 35,000 smallholder dairy producers in northwest Bangladesh      - 	Graduation with Resilience to Achieve Sustainable Development (GRAD) project in Ethiopia which aims to graduate 50,000 households from the government safety net program      - 	Pathways, a 6-country gender and agriculture program aiming to increase empowerment, incomes, and productivity of 50,000 female smallholders       - 	Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC), a USAID-funded program, with the goal of strengthening agricultural extension and advisory systems globally      - 	Pastoralists’ Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) aiming to increase household incomes, and enhance resilience to climate change through market linkages in Ethiopia’s dryland areas      - 	SHOMOSHTI, an SDC funded program, which combines a making markets work for the poor (M4P) approach targeting the extreme poor with a focus on strengthening their access to social services      -         Integrated livelihoods recovery and market systems humanitarian response and early recovery programs in Syria •	Develop and contribute to proposals for value chain / market development and food security programs worldwide resulting in successful bids worth over $150,000,000 USD.

CARE

Senior Technical Advisor Markets & Livelihoods

Providing short-term technical support for designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating value chain and market development programs worldwide. Recent assignments include:     • Ongoing support for Action for Enterprise on a part time basis on a range of assignments including: proposal development, technical and administrative backstopping for country programs, and program design exercises.     • Develop and test methodology to design market-based interventions in housing / construction market systems     • Led a team to design a value chain / market development program in the vegetable value chain in Mongolia.     • Developed a value chain facilitation strategy for a $125 million USAID-funded project in Southern Afghanistan.

Self-Employed

Independent Consultant

- Oversaw the design, implementation, and monitoring of a $2+ million Katalyst funded portfolio of AFE programs in the craft export, agro-processing and seed sectors which entail promoting market access, new technologies/ techniques, improved management skills, policy reform, and improved relationships/ linkages between market actors. • Facilitated two seed companies to market “mini-packets” of vegetable seed impacting more than 320,000 farmers by increasing their cumulative income by over $10,500,000;• Supported five processing companies to establish outgrowing (contract farming) operations for potatoes impacting more than 5,000 beneficiaries; and• Facilitated the development of policy changes for the craft export and jute seed sectors.• Developed and tested strategies for applying market development principles for disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs based in part on adapting the Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis (EMMA) toolkit for DRR.• Developed and managed the implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems consistent with Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) guidelines.• Conducted market assessments in numerous value chains including the identification of market trends, relationships between market actors, constraints/opportunities, and market-based solutions.• Managed project budgets and country office finances in compliance with AFE and donor policies.• Trained local AFE team and local partners to apply value chain program methodologies involving stakeholder participation to result in sustainable economic development opportunities.  • Created personnel policies, documentation, and records to effectively manage the AFE Bangladesh team.• Composed memorandums of understanding, contracts, cost-share agreements, budgets, public requests for applications, and summary and detailed reports in compliance with donor regulations and reporting requirements.•Developed new business through networking, presentations, and formal proposals.

Action for Enterprise

Country Director - Bangladesh

- Preparing and conducting trainings on Value Chain Program Design for over 100 participants from a wide range of organizations and nationalities.• Certified trainer of Minimum Economic Recovery Standards (MERS), a companion standard to The SPHERE Project's Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response.• Conducting market assessments in numerous value chains including the identification of market trends, relationships between market actors, constraints/opportunities, and market-based solutions.• Led a team to conduct cross-border value chain program design in Northeast India and Burma.• Oversaw a two year $400,000+ USAID-funded project component in Lebanon aimed at strengthening agri-business linkages with farmers including working with the private sector to introduce new crop varieties and provide extension services to producers.• Facilitated the review and planning of a $100,000 contract farming operation in Bangladesh.• Developed monitoring and evaluation tools for a USAID funded value-chain project in the Philippines.• Developing and contributing to proposals for value chain / market development programs in Asia and Africa.

Senior Associate

- Directed development, implementation and monitoring of an evaluation database for a 3 year $500,000 USAID sub-grant to create employment and economic opportunities for rehabilitated intravenous drug users.• Conducted regular assessments and prepared regular evaluation reports including the final evaluation of the pilot initiative to socio-economically rehabilitate intravenous drug users.

Family Health International

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

- Developed innovative “Value Chain & Cluster Scan” tool and tested it in Uganda for Save the Children US.• Designed and implemented a $100,000 grassroots focused agro-processing project aimed at increasing food security in rural Uganda in partnership with Save the Children and Markere University, Uganda.• Led 4 value-chain analyses for post-cyclone relief and livelihood recovery and creation which led directly to 4 projects worth over $250,000.• Led a value-chain assessment of employment potential and training needs for urban-based adolescents for UNICEF.• Generated proposals worth over $4,000,000 for value-chain projects with agencies including USAID, UNICEF, the ILO and the EC as both prime and sub-recipients to promote a variety of development goals.• Managed logistics of $1,300,000 procurement for relief supplies in cyclone affected areas of Bangladesh.• Developed monitoring and evaluating systems to track the employment of approximately 700 rural-based adolescent girls under a $200,000 UNICEF funded project.• Provided leadership for an assessment of the informal and formal apprenticeship systems in Bangladesh for the ILO.• Assisted in developing proposals for value-chain projects for post-earthquake livelihood creation in northern areas of Pakistan and economic development in rural Sindh.• Created one of 25 winning proposals under the World Bank South Asia Regional Development Marketplace 2008 to use a value-chain approach to reduce stigma against HIV/AIDS in South Asia worth $40,000.• Provided leadership in administrative and technical support to private sector led value chain development and employment generation activities for ongoing projects in Bangladesh, Uganda, and Pakistan.

JOBS

Senior Consultant / Program Manager

- Developed curriculum and materials and taught two types of culturally relevant Spoken English courses: a 10 week course for students at the Department of Youth Development and an 8 week course for health clinic staff.• Selected, through a self-developed application and interview process, taught, and evaluated for English competency, over 100 students at the Department of Youth Development.• Collaborated with the manager, computer operator, and health clinic staff of a local health clinic to develop, implement, and analyze the results of a utilization survey.• Secured a grant to train, in Bengali, a computer operator in MS Access to develop a database for health survey.• Revised the goals and objectives of the health clinic based on the results of the survey and developed new indicators to measure progress in meeting the objectives.• Facilitated training sessions during an intensive 4 day orientation for incoming Peace Corps Trainees.

Scott Merrill