University of South Carolina

Responsible for developing, guiding, and refining the conceptual and technical direction of CARE's development programming, with particular emphasis on household livelihood security (HLS) and rights-based approaches (RBA). I also provide technical support and training to help staff develop skills and experience in HLS & RBA holistic diagnosis and problem analysis, cross-sector program design, and impact evaluation techniques.

Co-Leader of Household Livelihood Security Assessment (HLSA) planning workshop. Conducted a review of Atlanta HLSA planning workshop and conclusions. Developed methodology and research instruments for a food and household livelihood security rapid assessment in El Salvador

Assisted CARE-Togo in designing and writing a five-year Development Activity Proposal (DAP) for Title II funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Provided technical support to CARE-Togo on the design of three proposed interventions to be implemented during FY1998-2002, which included programming in the areas of improved agriculture, micro-credit for women, and reproductive health, and the development of a monetization plan. Not funded.

Conducted a rapid needs assessment in Guatemala's Peace Zone and developed a Concept Paper (20-pages) for Save the Children. The paper assessed the programming needs in the area, the viability of an SCF and Alianza para el Desarrollo Juvenil (a local NGO) partnership, and served as a preliminary Development Activity Proposal (DAP) for Title II funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Funded: US,000.000.00

Assisted CARE-Kenya in designing and writing a five-year Development Activity Proposal (DAP) for Title II funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Provided technical support to CARE-Kenya on the design of four proposed interventions to be implemented during FY1998-2002, which included programming in the areas of improved agriculture, micro-credit for women, water and sanitation, and HIV/AIDS. Funded: US,885,000.00

Assisted CARE-Ethiopia's Food Security Unit in designing and writing a five-year Development Activity Proposal (DAP) for Title II funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Provided technical support to CARE-Ethiopia, compiling and analyzing detailed information and data on five proposed food-aid projects to be implemented during FY1997-2001. Acted as a CARE-Ethiopia representative and negotiator during USAID and CARE-Ethiopia Title II DAP development negotiations. Funded: US,525,764.00

Assisted CARE-Angola's Food Security Unit in designing and writing a five-year Development Activity Proposal (DAP) for Title II funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Provided technical support for designing four sectoral-based development projects based on location-specific data gathered during CARE-Angola's Rapid Food Security Appraisal/Needs Assessment. The DAP proposal outlined four food-aid projects to be implemented during FY1997-2001: 1) Farmer-to-Farmer Exchange Project, 2) Rural Infrastructure Enhancement Project through Food-for-Work, 3) Emergency Provisioning Project for chronically food insecure areas and displaced peoples, and 4) Early Warning Information Gathering and Monitoring System Project. Funded: US,828,879.00

Worked as group team leader on a Rapid Food Security Appraisal of Southwestern Angola. Household interviews were conducted in 18 communities in the departments of Bie and Kuando Kubango, Angola. CARE was the first non-governmental team to be allowed into the previously Unita held territory. Research focused on impact of conflict on livelihoods, impact of conflict on women, and targeting criteria for food-insecure groups for future programming efforts.

Assisted CARE-Honduras' Food Security Unit in designing and writing a five-year Development Project Proposal (DPP) for funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Provided technical support on CARE-Honduras' DPP, compiling and analyzing detailed information and data on three food-aid projects: 1) Community-Based Rural Health Centers, 2) Rural Infrastructure through Food-for-Work, and 3) Community-Based Agroforestry Demonstration Plots. Attended negotiations with USAID as a CARE-Honduras representative. The proposal followed USAID's reengineered Title II guidelines, with particular emphasis placed on designing an evaluation framework that measured results on an ongoing basis. Funded: US,670,347.00

Conducted research in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and wrote a poverty profile of Honduras. The profile outlined regions of food insecurity and vulnerability in Honduras. The report, published by CARE and USAID, was prepared to assist CARE-Honduras in programming redesign

Worked as sub-group team leader on a Rapid Food Security Appraisal of Western Honduras. Household interviews were conducted in 18 communities in the three poorest departments (counties) of Honduras. Data gathered is being used for targeting food-insecure groups for future food aid programming.

Team leader of a project designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a five-year development project conducted by Fundación Agropecuario (FUNDAGRO) and funded by USAID. With a team of 15 enumerators, I organized three interview waves that were carried out over a 12-month period. During each interview wave, 120 farm families were interviewed concerning their participation in the coffee improvement program

Dissertation research in the coastal province of Manabi, Ecuador investigating the impact of the shift from subsistence cropping to cash cropping (coffee production) on the growth and development trajectory of children below the age of five, as well as the economic consequences at the household level. Second, peasant farm household migration to squatter settlements in Guayaquil and the impact of migration on household livelihood systems were also systematically investigated

Conducted interviews with women members of community self-help action groups who were trying to obtain basic services (running water and electricity) for their neighborhood. The research objective was to investigate the effectiveness of women's community organizing, and to understand how the empowerment of women at the community level did or did not translate into empowerment at the household level.

"Using CARE's Underlying Causes of Poverty Hierarchy and Unifying Framework for Poverty Eradication & Social Justice in CARE's Strategic Planning Process." CARE, Atlanta, Georgia.

"Update on CARE's Unifying Framework for Poverty Eradication & Social Justice: Mapping Data and Information for Strategic Planning, Developing Advocacy Strategies, and Project Design," CARE, Atlanta, Georgia.

"Unifying Framework for Poverty Eradication & Social Justice: The Evolution of CARE's Development Approach," CARE, Atlanta, Georgia.

"Conceptual Overview of Underlying Causes of Poverty: Developing CARE's Approach to Addressing Underlying Causes of Poverty," CARE, Atlanta, Georgia.

Household Livelihood Security Assessments: A Toolkit for Practicioners, CARE & USAID, Atlanta, Geogria.

"CARE's Household Livelihood Security Framework: A Means for Addressing Poverty and Vulnerability Across the Relief-Development Continuum," Carter Center publication, Atlanta, Georgia.

"Influence of dietary quality on the growth of highland and coastal Ecuadorian children," American Journal of Human Biology, Vol 12, Number 6.

CARE USA Household Livelihood Security Training and Facilitation Manual, CARE & USAID, Atlanta, Georgia.

"Rapid Food and Livelihood Security Assessments: A Comprehensive Approach to Diagnosing Nutrition Insecurity" in Scaling Up, Scaling Down, Thomas J. Marhione (ed), Gordon and Breach Publishers, OPA, Amsterdam

From Food Security to Livelihood Security: The Evolution of Concepts, Food and Agriculture Organization Newsletter (September), Rome.

The Dominican Republic: Development, Urbanization, and Food Security in the Caribbean. CARE, Atlanta, Georgia.

Household Resources and Food Insecurity in the Departments of Lempira, Intibuc, and La Paz Honduras, CARE and USAID, Atlanta, Georgia.

A Livelihood Systems Approach to Title II Food Aid: A Means to Incorporate Food Security Objectives into Future Programming, USAID, Washington, D.C.

Growth Differences between Children of Highland and Coastal Ecuador, American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Poverty in Honduras: A Food and Nutrition Security Profile, CARE-International and USAID, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, D.M.C.

"Mexicanismo: National Identity and Political Illusions," The Human Mosaic, Tulane University, New Orleans.

Chair: "Livelihood Security and Rights-Based Approaches: An NGO Perspective on Critical Issues to Improve Development Programming, session at the upcoming Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, March 2002, Atlanta, Georgia.

Chair: "From Needs-Based to Rights-Based Development," session at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, March 2001, Merida, Mexico.

"The Shortcomings of Food Aid Targeting: Food for Work Programs and Human Energy Expenditure," paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, April 1999, Tucson, Arizona.

"Household Resources and Food Insecurity in Western Honduras," presented at the CARE-International and USAID Roundtable De-Briefing (with E. Adelski and Thoric Cederstrom), Tegucigalpa, Honduras, October 1994.

"Power and Popular Protest in a Squatter Community in Nogales, Sonora," presented at the Latin American Studies Speaker Series, University of Arizona, September 1991.

"Regularization and Governmental Co-optation in a Mexican Squatter Community," presented at the Southwestern Anthropological Association Conference, April 1991.

"Andean Music in a Mexican Context," presented at the Rocky Mountain Latin American Studies Conference, March 1990.

"Andean Music and Panamericanism in Mexico," presented at the Latin American Studies Speaker Series, University of Arizona, February 1990.

"Ethnographic Fieldwork in Santa Catalina, Mexico," presented at the Department of Anthropology Speaker Series, University of South Carolina, October, 1987.