The Masters was definitely helpful and useful as it gave me a solid foundation in key subject areas such as food security, gender, quantitative analysis among others.
Upon graduation, I started as an intern, continued into a consultancy and now I am a national staff of the UN WFP. I currently manage a WFP/IFAD joint project on the Weather Index based on agriculture insurance. The project aims to reduce the vulnerability of the smallholders to weather shocks. I am involved in all project cycles and in particular in the demand assessment and Monitoring and Evaluation of it.
Additionally, I provide technical support and review on a joint analytical report of WFP/FAO/IFAD to assess the food security status in China. I work with Chinese counterparts to evaluate the effectiveness of the agriculture policies to the food security achievements in China and draw lessons and best practices for other developing countries, in particular for African countries.
I am also assisting in an analytical report aimed at outlining the impact on China of the international food prices and act as the WFP focal point and the Trainer of the Trainees on the formulation of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF 2011 -2015);
I am very happy to have attended MESCI as it has given me good grounding for an international career.