Dominique violas

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Date	Since September 2007
Location	Nogent sur Marne (Paris) – France
Company	Research and Technological Exchange Group (GRET)
Position	Programme manager in sustainable food and agriculture
Description	Design, implementation and follow-up of rural development programmes and projects in Asia (Union of Myanmar), Africa and Madagascar Studies and assessments in agriculture and food security

Date	From October 2005 to August 2007
Location	Paris – France
Company	SOFRECO (France)
Position	Consultant
Description	Support missions to the implementation and the follow-up of two development projects aimed on capacity building for the cotton farmers of Burkina Faso (Bobo Dioulasso) Implementation of an agricultural diversification programme in Mali (Sikasso) aimed on mangoes production, potatoes production, cattle breeding and irrigation

Date	From April 1999 to August 2005
Location	Cotonou – Benin
Companies	Centre de Promotion et d’Encadrement des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises (CePEPE) (Promotion and supervision of small and medium enterprises) Projet d’Amélioration et de Diversification des Systèmes d’Exploitation (PADSE) (Improvement and diversification of production systems)
Administrative supervision	Ministry of Agriculture, Breeding and Fishing (MAEP)
Funding	French Ministry of the Foreign Affairs (400 000 €) Agence française de Développement (6 708 000 €)
Position	CePEPE’s general director’s adviser, from April 1999 to December 2002 PADSE’s project manager’s adviser, from January 2003 to August 2005
Description	Administrative and financial management of the national process of support to farming management for 3,000 recipients, supported by 8 operators on contracts of service providing (5 NGO’s and 3 RPO’s). Support to RPO’s for the management of programmes involved in the production of pineapples, palm oil, cotton, rice, cashew nuts, potatoes, onions, peanuts (supervision and execution of contracts) Facilitating access to bank and micro-finance institution credits for farmers with profit-making projects (modernization, diversification, extension, transformation, export)
Date	From Septembre 1995 to March 1999
Location	Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso
Company	Rural Equipment’s inter-state School of Engineers (EIER)
Administrative supervision	Board of Directors for the 14 state members of EIER
Funding	The 14 member states, France, Denmark, Switzerland
Position	Rural economy adviser
Description	Methodological support and hands-on training for engineering students via practical multi-field studies in work situations (agronomy, economy, sociology, environment) in rural areas (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Ivory Coast, Benin):