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Ian Robinson, Managing Director of AA International Ltd |
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Ian Robinson, the Managing Director of AA International Ltd, has been working in various aspects agricultural/rural development for over 40 years, including 35 years providing technical assistance in Asia and Africa and 6 years in research, teaching and agricultural development in the UK. His key interests are linked to the provision of timely and accurate agricultural/situation assessments related to food security; development programmes in marginal areas, including conflict zones and support programmes to agro-pastoralists. As Director of the Centre for Arid Zone Studies, University of Wales, Bangor for 13 years, he not only provided regular technical inputs to projects but also directed and managed the Centre’s staff and secured the funding for a wide range of studies, training and development programmes. As the team leader of some 50 UN Crop and Food Supply Missions he has a very broad appreciation of rural issues and concerns.
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Peter James, Founder Member of AA International Ltd |
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Peter James has spent 30 years working in the NGO and academic sectors. For more than half of that time he led and managed a portfolio of 50 programmes in 18 countries across Africa. His key interests are socio –economic: sustainable livelihoods, social exclusion and rights, gender issues, HIV/AIDS, and conflict, refugees and migration. Having played a prominent role in relocating a major NGO to Africa, he appreciated the key role capacity building played and the need for every development action to contain clear lesson-learning opportunities. His key skills include analytical problem solving, staff development and organisational capacity building and facilitation and mentoring. Over recent years he has worked in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, Afghanistan and India working on issues of livelihoods, gender, HIV/AIDS, micro-finance and monitoring and evaluation. Peter is a founder member of AAInternational Ltd.
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Heather Pitcher, Programmes Officer |
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Heather has ten years experience working in a broad range of horticultural projects in the Caribbean, Ethiopia and South Africa. Her work has focused both on pre and post harvest production and management of a variety of horticultural crops from a diverse range of production systems. She has experience in curricula development and teaching as well as practical training of exporters. farmers and householders.
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Angela James, Associate |
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Angela has spent 25 years working in the development NGO sector, providing her with an extensive knowledge and understanding of the organisational, funding and management issues that affect NGOs working in developing countries. She specialises in funding systems of the major donors that affect development NGOs. She designs and delivers workshops on proposal writing, reporting and contract management for NGOs and also operates a funding telephone and email advice line for BOND. She has worked extensively overseas and is fluent in French and English.
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Pam Gregory, Associate |
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Pam is a specialist in bee keeping, with over 30 years experience. As well as working in apiculture, she also has extensive, practical experience in livestock husbandry, smallholder systems and value added production. She has a special interest in market development and entrepreneurship with a focus on women's development. Her experience in bee keeping has included honey marketing, training of trainers, designing education and training systems and development of bee keeping projects in Malawi, Cameroon, Tanzania, Kenya, Philippines, Nepal and India. She was senior bee keeping advisor for Wales with the UK National Bee Unit for seven years and a field based advisor for 15 years and has 10 years tropical beekeeping expertise. She has extensive teaching experience and has conducted training in participatory techniques, sustainable development and livelihoods analysis. She also has experience in group development; facilitation and support; project design, development and implementation; development of best practise initiatives as well as analysis of and rural and peri-urban development research for policy inputs.
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Clare Bishop-Sambrook, Associate |
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Clare is an associate member of AAInternational Ltd who has more than 25 years experience of working in agriculture and rural development. Most of her experience has been gained in sub-Saharan Africa but, more recently, she has also worked in eastern and central Europe and Newly Independent States. Her specialist areas include gender, HIV/AIDS, rural livelihoods and food security. She is skilled in project design, appraisal and evaluation; conducting action research; technology transfer; technical authorship and editing; technical presentations; training; organising and facilitating workshops; project support; and administration. She has worked both independently and as a member or leader of multidisciplinary international teams. Clare is currently working as a gender, HIV/AIDS advisor and beneficiary profiling specialist as well as carrying out technical editing work.
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Associate Institutions |
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Due to our close relationship with the University of Wales, AAInternational Ltd has access to the expertise of agricultural/environmental/socio-economic specialists based at these institutes, such as CAZS-Natural Resources , University of Bangor and IBERS at the University of Aberystwyth.
We also work closely with Dulas Ltd, an award winning company specialising in renewable energy systems.
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Agricultural and Rural Situation Assessing
Capacity Establishment and Development
Agricultural Programme and Project Design
Programme and Project Support.
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