Mercy Kasanga Mbewe

• Created plans and communicated deadlines to complete projects on time.
• Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Project planning, which involved forehand research and coming up with a project proposal.
• Coordinating Village Development Committees (VDCs) activities which involved direct working with VDCs in all project activities
• Community awareness, sensitization and mobilization
• Formulating work plans
• Actively planning and progress report writing
• Project designing, data collection, data analysis, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of project activities
• Working with government extension workers in trainings and implementing of various project activities

• . Formulating marketing strategies which involved market survey, data collection and analysis.
• Soliciting customers and clients, where it involved finding new customers through physical meetings, emails and phone calls to potential clients who were identified through client aping
• Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues.
• Conducted research, gathered information from multiple sources and presented results.
• Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
• Prepared variety of different written communications, reports and documents.
• Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
• Actively listened to customers' requests, confirming full understanding before addressing concerns.

· Training of sugarcane smallholder famers in all agronomic practices pertaining to sugarcane

· Daily field visits and supervision of a 250 hectares of sugarcane plantation, which involved daily field observations, guidance and field data collection.

· Planning and implementing agronomic activities with laborers which involved plantation, pest and disease control and fertilizer application.

· Mobilizing farmers during harvesting season

· Labor management which involved daily planning of activities for laborers

· Irrigation management, which involved daily irrigation data collection, analysis and reporting.

· Assigning and supervising work of junior staff

· Planning monthly, weekly and daily work for laborers and reporting

· Resource management which involved making sure that resources are used effectively and efficiently

· Field data collection from junior field supervisors, data cleaning, data entry, analysis and reporting

• Facilitating and recording data collection from focus group discussion, key informant interviews and in depth interviews.
• Making transcripts of data from audio files into Microsoft work files.
• Temperate formulation for data analysis
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Worked with principal investigators to coordinate qualitative research.
• Prepared materials for reports, presentations and submission to peer-reviewed journal publications.
• Performed statistical, qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Collected research data through experimentation, surveys and leading focus groups.