Sher mohammad KHALIL
Kabul,Afghanistan
Summary
Qualified agriculture professionals with over 9 years of experience, collecting assessment data by conducting interviews with beneficiaries in the field, implementing sub-projects in the field, conducting beneficiary verification, conducting activity progress monitoring, distribution monitoring, and post-distribution monitoring, close collaboration with government authorities, stockholders, cooperative partners, and the community, implementing monitoring of small agriculture projects, identifying field-level issues, reporting to supervisors, and submitting periodic field monitoring reports (process monitoring checklists, PDM forms, and assessment forms) through WFP’s corporate tool MODA. train farmers to become familiar with new agriculture techniques; registration; documentation; keeping records; supporting selected beneficiaries to become more knowledgeable of the business, the industry, and the market environment; working closely to create linkage between farmers and local suppliers; building strong working relationships with major fresh, dried fruit, and vegetable exporters and local processors; and providing training and assistance to beneficiaries in areas such as small business, post-harvest activities, food processing, and marketing. Furthermore, the planning, scheduling, developing, monitoring, and reporting of the many sub-projects, such as underground cold storage, raising room construction, water harvesting structures, small check dams, kitchen garden, and green house installation, Conduct FFS regularly, typically orchard management, IPM, weed control, mulching, fertilizer use, irrigation practice, harvesting, marketing, and the creation of compost. oversees the training and workshops for farmers and businesses.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Field Monitor (TPM)
ARADA
Paktia
09.2023 - Current
- Conducted site assessment, beneficiary verification, conducted activity progress monitoring, distribution monitoring, and post-distribution monitoring; close collaboration with government authorities, stockholders, cooperative partners, and the community; implementation monitoring of small agriculture projects; identifying field-level issues; reporting to the supervisor; and submitting periodic field monitoring reports (process monitoring checklists, PDM forms, and assessment forms) through WFP’s corporate tool, MODA
- Needs assessments of populations affected by natural disasters or conflict (internally displaced populations) and engage communities including women
- Conduct beneficiary verifications of different Programmed activities emergency response, seasonal support, vocational skills training
- Conduct and coordinate activity/progress monitoring, distribution monitoring as well as post-distribution monitoring for both food and cash-based transfers of all WFP project activities, in close collaboration with the WFP Field Office and stakeholders CPs, FSPs, government authorities, communities and come up with timely and quality monitoring checklists submitted in KOBO and MODA (WFP Corporate Data Collection Tool)
- Conduct implementation monitoring of RFS, VST, TSFP, SF, CVI, and orphanage support project activities
- Conduct random financial monitoring i.e
- Salary distribution, and price verification items under SO2 projects as per the WFP-AO request
- Attend natural disaster assessment in a joint assessment team with WFP partners
- Collect data for program support including but not limited to food security assessments, market food prices, gender, Protection and Accountability to Affected Populations, nutrition surveys, RFS technical assessment, etc
- Follow up on the issues identified during the previous monitoring or site visit(s) that required follow-up and further actions and make sure that they are taken up with the relevant stakeholder CP, FSP, and make sure that they are settled and resolved before becoming a bottleneck to the project
- Undertake post- Beneficiary assessment verifications/ spot- checks to verify if the most vulnerable population affected by natural dieters, conflicts and other crisis were selected by CPs in accordance with establish criteria by WFP
- Visit distribution sites and monitor food delivery, Quality, Quantity and storage condition
- Visit Cooperating Partners’ storage facilities and distribution points (hospitals, schools, etc.) and inspect these sites according to WFP’s food management standards
- Technical advice on warehousing and food management should be provided to the stakeholders to build their capacity on proper food management
- Assist the WFP field offices and cooperating partners in encouraging women’s access to economic skills development and sensitizing public opinion on gender issues and gender-focused activities
- Identify relevant issues in the field and report them to supervisor
- Submit periodic field monitoring reports (process monitoring checklists, PDM forms, assessment forms, through WFP’s corporate tool MODA
Agribusiness Development Officer
HVCDSP
Paktya
10.2019 - 12.2021
- Company Overview: Horticulture Value Chain Development Sector Project-ADB
- Conduct a Rapid Market Assessment (RMA) to identify key high-value agriculture crops that have surplus production and export potential, support agribusiness enterprises to become more knowledgeable of the business, the industry, and the market environment in which their business operates., work to create linkages between businesses and local farmers, review enterprise of interest (EOI) sub-project investment proposals (SIP) and sub-project investment reports (SIR), and manage all related documents
- Horticulture Value Chain Development Sector Project-ADB
- Identify specific value chain business opportunities to pursue and prepare sub-project implementation reports
- Identify gaps, constraints, and bottlenecks in production, harvesting, processing, value addition, and marketing areas of selected agriculture value chains and help establish linkages among producers, service providers, processors, aggregators, and exporters for agribusiness opportunities
- Support agribusiness enterprises to become more knowledgeable of the business, the industry, and the market environment in which their business operates
- Working to establish agricultural businesses that are interested in building zero-energy cold storage facilities for fruits and vegetables, cool room construction, sorting and grading facilities, and machinery installation for processing facilities
- On selected sub-projects, work with the sub-project representatives and technical team to develop production and processing-related technical documents, such as standard operating procedures (SOPs)
Horticulture Extension Worker
National Horticulture& Livestock Project (NHLP)
Paktya
02.2016 - 10.2019
- Company Overview: WB- Project-Paktya
- Conduct regular site visits for the selection of beneficiaries and implementation of all sub-projects in targeted areas
- I was responsible for all beneficiaries’ training in carrying out assessments, planning implementation and monitoring of all field activities, sub-project completion, and preparation of all technical documents
- Program Descriptions Bills of Quantities (BoQs)
- Also lead all lead stakeholders during the distribution and implementation of all activities across dispersed locations and actively engage with the local governments and local elders (CDC, DDA), prepare weekly and monthly progress reports to supervisor
- WB- Project-Paktya
- Regular field visits of activities and updating information to the provincial coordinator
- Prepare plans for provision of training and workshops to farmers and leaders on orchard management, IPM weed control, pruning fertilizer using irrigation practices, and sub-projects
- Raising Room construction products storing, maintenance, harvesting, marketing FFs, and record keeping
- Implementation of different sub-projects such as water harvesting structures, raising houses, small check dams, micro catchments, soil water pounds, and bore wells
- Work closely with project stakeholders in the field
- Managed all the finance-related documents in the field
- Report weekly and monthly bases of progress of project activities to the provincial coordinator
- Prepare a weekly and monthly plan and share it with the provincial coordinator
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
Stability in Key Area (SIKA-East-USAID)
11.2014 - 12.2015
- Conduct gender-responsive assessments, including pre-project assessments
- Conduct implementation monitoring of sub-projects and progressive reporting to the supervisor
- Collect data for program support, including but not limited to food security assessments, market food prices, gender, protection, and accountability
- Visit training sites and monitor participation, quality, quantity, and class condition
- Assist the SIKA field offices and cooperating partners in encouraging women’s access to economic skills development and sensitizing public opinion on gender issues and gender-focused activities
- Identify relevant issues in the field and report them to the direct supervisor
- Submit field monitoring reports (process monitoring checklist forms, assessment forms) to the direct supervisor
- Perform other related activities as required and requested
Horticulture Extension Officer
Roots of Peace CHAMP
Paktya
09.2012 - 11.2014
- Company Overview: USAID-Paktya
- Regula site visits in targeted areas, train and support local famers to increase their products, improve famers' capacities to acknowledge marketing products, monitor all field activities, local project completion financial papers, and project implementation, submit all activity reports to the government line department, distribute materials to selected beneficiaries, coordinate with local government elders, and work closely with community elders, typically CDC (community development corporation)
- USAID-Paktya
- Prepare plans for provision of training and workshops to farmers and leaders on orchard management, IPM weed control, pruning fertilizer using irrigation practices, cool storage facilities, construction products storing, maintenance, harvesting, marketing FFs, and record keeping
- Conducting farmer field school regularly
- Visit participating farmers and provide improvement advice and training
- Implementation of cold store projects for agriculture products
- Underground Cool store facility construction and training to store products
- Managed all the finance-related documents in the field
- Prepare and submit monthly financial and work completed reports to the supervisor
Agriculture Development Officer
Agribusiness Development Team (ADT)
Paktya
03.2010 - 05.2012
- Company Overview: Paktya
- Paktya
- Monitoring all field activities, implementing the sub-project at the field level, preparing training for local farmers, preparing a project progress report, attending every month's PDC meeting, submitting all activity reports to the government line department, conducting regular field visits, distributing materials to selected beneficiaries, coordinating with local government elders, and working closely with community elders
- Technically support the farmers on best production practices and management of on-farm investments and marketing of horticulture produce
- Coordinate with the DAIL Extension Directorate and all other agencies engaged in the horticulture extension
- Consider social, environmental, and safeguard issues in all stages of project planning, implementation, and capacity building
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual progress reports for the manager
- Provide technical support to selected farmer entrepreneurs on cultivation techniques of high-value crops (planting, irrigation, fertilizer application, IPM, harvesting, and storage of high-value crops)
- Develop monitoring and visit plans to oversee progress of the field activities
- Establish and provide regular extension services to the selected farmers
Education
Bachelor in Agriculture - Agronomy
Paktya University
Gerdiz, Paktya01.2008
High School Diploma, General -
Mirzaka Khallilan High School
Paktya, Afghanistan01.2004
Skills
- Assessment
- Team working
- Monitoring
- Field activities
- Strong communication skill
- Supervising Skills
- Report Writing
- Ms Office suite
Certification
- Microsoft office user specialist training- 6 Months
- Diploma in English language -2 years
- IPM training -10 days
- Monitoring and evaluation training
References
- Baryali Hakimi, ARADA/ WFP, B.hakimi@arada-af.org, +93 779969594
- Rafiq Khawreen, IPSO, Rafiq.khawreen@ipsocontext.org, +93 76 650 7126
Timeline
Field Monitor (TPM)
ARADA
09.2023 - Current
Agribusiness Development Officer
HVCDSP
10.2019 - 12.2021
Horticulture Extension Worker
National Horticulture& Livestock Project (NHLP)
02.2016 - 10.2019
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
Stability in Key Area (SIKA-East-USAID)
11.2014 - 12.2015
Horticulture Extension Officer
Roots of Peace CHAMP
09.2012 - 11.2014
Agriculture Development Officer
Agribusiness Development Team (ADT)
03.2010 - 05.2012
Bachelor in Agriculture - Agronomy
Paktya University
High School Diploma, General -
Mirzaka Khallilan High School