Interested? Please register in the CRS Farmer to Farmer volunteer database. Already registered? Please submit updated resumes and indicate particular areas of interest to our recruiters today.
Benin
Send resumes and availability to mireille.ngokion@crs.org
First volunteers might arrive in February.
Potential assignment topics:
- Strategic plan designing for NGO
- Strategic plan designing for cashew cooperative
- Business plan designing for regional Catholic diocese
- Financial digitizing for a microfinance institution
- Fish farming, mainly on fry production for regional Catholic diocese
- Improved soya production techniques for regional dioceses farm
- Hive building and improved bee and honey production
- Digitizing data collection for cashew cooperative
- Preventive maintenance in cashew nuts processing for cashew association
- Drafting agricultural investment proposals for NGO
- Training on rice production
Ethiopia
Send resumes and availability to maria.figueroa@crs.org
First volunteers might arrive in January or February.
Potential assignment topics:
- Milk processing and quality standards
- Marketing for dairy
- Herd management
- Feed preparation & formulation, reduction of feed costs
- Livestock fattening
- Genetic selection for livestock breeding
- Forage seedlings & grass splits production & supply
- Collective marketing
- Improve linkages & development of abattoir/slaughter sector
- Access to vet services, including private sector engagement
- Strengthening public vet services
Mali (volunteers do not need to be from the US)
Send resumes and availability to priyanka.subba@crs.org.
Full assignment descriptions will be posted in January. First volunteers might arrive in March.
- Human lab personnel training on Zoonotic Diseases (ZD) diagnostic techniques
- Vet outpost cold chain assessment/integration point analysis
- Training for vets/paravets on specimen collection, packaging, storage, transport (w/ kit distribution)
- Community entry and participatory design process for agro-pastoralist groups
- Collaborative curriculum development for One Health (OH) community-based livestock disease surveillance
- Train veterinary actors in community-based One Health livestock disease surveillance curriculum (Focused on priority ZDs)
- Design/conduct a series of SBCC campaigns based on assessment results, using mass media, community events, and interpersonal strategies
- Develop BCC flip books around ZDs in animals and OH
- Development of One Health decentralized training module
- Training on One Health Thinking for decentralized OH committees
- Workshops for committees to develop multi-sectoral communications and information sharing plans
Nepal
Send resumes and availability to priyanka.subba@crs.org
Potential assignment topics coming. First volunteers might arrive in March.
Rwanda
Send resumes and availability to mireille.ngokion@crs.org
First volunteers might arrive in January or February.
Potential assignment topics:
- Capacity building on cooperative development
- Developing/updating strategic plans
- Business plan development
- Develop operational manuals
- Setting up database
- Market research
- Product certification
- Curriculum development
- Seed multiplication
- Market and finance access
Timor-Leste
Send resumes and availability to priyanka.subba@crs.org
Full assignment descriptions will be posted in January. First volunteers might arrive starting mid-February.
Potential assignment topics:
- Cooperative leadership and management skills training
- Cooperative Financial literacy and Record Management Training
- Cooperative business skills and Business plan development
- Good agronomic practices for vegetable production
- Improved vegetable production and post-harvest handling and management
- Strategic market entry plan development for high quality produce
- Sustainable land management
- Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Uganda
Send resumes and availability to maria.figueroa@crs.org
Full assignment descriptions will be posted early January.
Potential assignment topics:
- Animal waste management (manure, residue from poultry meat, etc).
- Poultry feed formulation
- Digital financial management- helping host track financials for four businesses (including a dairy and agro input sales) using ideal software
- Business & workplan development- capturing lessons learned and evaluating expiring plan, guiding host to create a new one.
