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During current travel restrictions, two types of volunteer assignments are available: Virtual and Local.

Virtual assignments are available to American volunteers and are usually a series of calls or webinars addressing the assignment topic with the host, with a final report at the end. It is possible, but not guaranteed, that virtual volunteers may be able to travel to country for assignment completion when restrictions relax.

Local assignments are available to ALL applicants regardless of citizenship and combine in-country assistance with virtual support from an American volunteer. The local volunteer is responsible for assignment design and preparation, and the virtual support from a paired American is designed to help provide supplementary training resources, review trainings as needed, and to complete the US Outreach component of the assignment. These assignments pairing local/regional and American volunteers were designed to ensure that hosts can benefit from in-country or regional expertise while Americans are unable to travel.    

Applicants interested in either type of assignment should reach out to the listed recruiter with their interest and resume. 

Benin

Send resumes and availability to Mireille.Ngokion@crs.org   

Local assignments

• BJ216 Project Design and Fundraising Training for Cashew Cooperative
• BJ226 Training on market and communication_SOJAGNON NGO
• BJ230 Cashew Apple Processing
• BJ231 Juice and Syrups Processing Production
• BJ232 Market Research and Negotiation
• BJ233 Soy Milk and Cheese Training
• BJ240 Leadership Development
• BJ241 Cooperative Governance and Management for a Cashew Cooperative
• BJ242 Marketing and Communication for UNCTPC
• BJ246 Sustainable Land Management for Farmers supported by Hunger Free world
• BJ256 HFW on garden products and soybean production techniques

Virtual

• BJ227 M&E System Set Up

On hold

• BJ210 HR Management
• BJ211 Financial Training and Auditing
• BJ213 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Policies Audit & Training
• BJ229 Marketing Strategy Development for Agriculture Training Center
• BJ236 Stainless Steel Welding – Opportunity in Togo
• BJ243 Training on Innovative Mushrooms Production Techniques

Ethiopia

Send resumes and availability to Priyanka.Subba@crs.org 

Local Assignments

ET205 Hatchery Management

ET215 Techniques of Seed Production & Handling for Farmers’ Coop Union

ET226 Leadership Training for Metemamen MFI

ET229 Geographic Information System (GIS) & Remote Sensing training

Virtual Assignments (links to full descriptions coming soon)

ET231 Marketing of Impactful Products & Fee-Based Training Service Delivery

ET232 Automated Customer Service Management for Improved PICS Supply Chain

ET245 University Leadership

ET246 Managing E-Learning

ET247 Curriculum for Workforce Development

ET248 Resource Mobilization and Donor Fund Solicitation

ET249 Strategies for Winning grants for Debre Markos University

Virtual or Local (assignment is adaptable)

ET230 Resource Mobilization and Grant Proposal Writing

ET233 International Marketing for Gozamen Union

ET234 Cattle Fattening for Selale University

ET235 Information Management Technology(IT) IT for Metemamen MFI

ET237 Dairy Waste Treatment Design

ET239 Dairy Product Development

ET240 Strategic Business Plan Preparation

ET241 Climate Smart Agriculture for Improved Productivity

ET242 Portfolio Management for Metemamen

ET250 Youth Reseller Training Manual

Assignments on Hold

ET202-Cheese-Product-Quality-and-Processing

ET204 Climate Smart Agriculture DFSA

ET212 Cattle Fattening for Bule Hora University

ET213 Crop Modeling for Injebara University

ET214 Climate Modeling for Salale University

ET216 Coffee Processing and Quality Testing for Sidama Coffee Farmers’ Coop Union

ET218 Hygiene Milk production and Handling for Elemtu Integrated Milk Industry

ET220 Econometrics Training for Salale University

ET223 Diary Product Development SOW for Elemtu Dairy

ET225 International Business and Marketing for Livestock Association

ET227 Dairy Products Marketing for Elemtu Integrated Milk Industry

ET236 Smallscale Threshers Product Quality Improvement

ET238

ET243

Mali

Send resumes and availability to Priyanka.Subba@crs.org

Local assignments

• ML208 Meat Value Chain Knowledge and Skills building

Upcoming assignments

Nepal

Send resumes and availability to Priyanka.Subba@crs.org

Local assignments

• NE233 Commercial Goat Farming Training
• NE235 Nutrition Management for Goat Seed Production
• NE236 Marketing strategy for Organic vegetables
• NE239 Mushroom Production Training
• NE240 Marketing Strategy Development
• NE242 Cooperative Business plan development
• NE248 Website Design and Development

Virtual assignments

• NE244 Goat Farming Management For University Faculty
• NE241 Disease and Pest Management in Hydroponic Farming
• NE246 Crisis and Agriculture Planning Process
• NE247 (to be uploaded shortly)

On hold

• NE214 Curriculum Review and Validation-Post Graduate Course Animal Science
• NE215 Grafting technology for healthy Pepper and killing Seedling production
• NE216 Quality Seed Testing
• NE224 Dairy Product Diversification
• NE228 SOW for Cold Storage Management
• NE231 Fall Army Worm Training on use of Integrated pest management (IPM) for controlling FAW
• NE232 Corn breeding technology for variety development
• NE238 Identification and use of Trichoderma species

Rwanda

Send resumes and availability to Mireille.Ngokion@crs.org  

Local assignments

• RW233 Investment Plan and Growth Strategy
• RW234 Post-harvest Handling Practices for Horticulture Crops
• RW243 Maize Post-harvest Handling Practices and Storage

Flexible (Virtual or Local assignments)

• RW242 Business Plan Development for Maize Seed bank

Timor-Leste

 Send resumes and availability to Priyanka.Subba@crs.org 

Local assignments

• TL223-Soil Management and Composting
• TL224 Improving Vegetable production
• TL225-Abbatoir Facility improvement
• TL226 Poultry formulation training
• TL227 Training on Ruminant Feed Formulation and management
• TL228 QuickBooks for Micro Finance Training
• TL229-Good Agronomy Practices for coconut Plantation
• TL230 Value-adding and Processing for Sweet Potato
• TL235 Market assessment on potential Lanamona produce_
• TL239 Pest Management (Final SOW pending)

Virtual assignments

• TL222 Agriculture Curriculum Review
• TL233-Website design

Flexible (Virtual or Local assignments)

• TL216 Basic Marketing and Business Planning for SILC Group
• TL218 Proposal development for Material Support
• TL221 design and installation of food dehydrators
• TL231 Create an SoP Manual for a Chemistry Lab
• TL232-Nutrition content on Poultry feed production
• TL234 Five year strategic plan design
• TL236 Design a five year strategic plan
• TL237 Farming as business guidance and training
• TL238 Customer Service Training for a credit union

On hold

• TL205-Cold Chain

Uganda

Send resume and availability to Mireille.Ngokion@crs.org

Local Assignments

• UG213 Finance Software Configuration for Milling Company
• UG216 Inventory Management
• UG226 Dairy Nutrition
• UG227 Promotional Material Development for Kabeihura Farm
• UG228 Farm Record Keeping
• UG229 Financial Management for the Savings and Loan Scheme
• UG231 Grazing System Evaluation
• UG235 SACCO Credit Management and Review of Existing documentation
• UG236 Herd Management (Pasture & Feeding, Animal Health)
• UG237 Pasture Establishment and Zero Grazing Production System
• UG238 Strategic Plan Development for a Dairy Cooperative
• UG239 Leadership and Management Training
• UG240 Cooperative Business Management
• UG241 Financial Literacy Training with Farming as Business Concepts
• UG243 Farm Planning and Management for Dairy Producers
• UG244 Agronomic Practices Along the Soya Value Chain
• UG245 On and Off farm Entrepreneurship
• UG246 Caritas Staff Health, Safety and Protection Training within COVID-19 context