Ato Semachew Kassahun

Training Advisor (TA) and Farmer-to-Farmer (FtF) Coordinator

The Training Advisor is primarily responsible for coordinating and making all project training related activities more effective.  Specifically the TA and FtF Coordinator handles the following:

• Identifies and implements techniques that help in the systematization and implementation of short-term farmer, development agents (DAs), experts and researchers training at all levels;

• Develops and implements, in collaboration with Amhara National Regional State (ANRS) partners, competitive criteria for identifying long-term training candidates and their enrollment in the appropriate local universities;

• Identifies and develops profile of successful projects and activities in the ANRS and Ethiopia in general to serve as a guide in organizing visits across project components;

• Designs the framework for establishment of inductive training program for newly recruited researchers in ARARI, participates in the development of the curriculum and identifying appropriate resource persons; 

• Identifies, organizes and delivers training related to the different types of experiential training methods for researchers and woreda experts;

• Develops and implements training evaluation systems;

• Prepares work plans and scheduled reports related to implementation and impact of training;

• The FtF being a collaborative program between Virginia State University (VSU), Virginia Tech, and the AMAREW Project, the FtF program coordinator manages the operation of the program in the ANRS, including liaising on regular and continuing basis with appropriate staff of VSU, oversight of project development, project design, Scope of Work development for FtF volunteers, counterpart relations, logistics, volunteer assignment and support, follow-up, monitoring and evaluation, donor/counterpart/host organization relations, project impact and report writing. 

Contact Address:
Ato Semachew Kassahun
Training Advisor and FtF Coordinator
AMAREW Project
P. O. Box 61, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Telephone:
251-(0) 58-220-1430 or 251-(0) 58-220-1470

Cell Phone:
251-(0) 911-735978

Fax:
251-(0) 58-220-2555

E-mail:
semachew@yahoo.com