About Mr Deusdedit KAFERE

Deusdedit Peter Kafere holds Master of Science Degree in Integrated Environmental Studies from the University of Southampton, UK (2003) and Bachelor of Education Humanities Degree majoring in Geography from the University of Malawi (1993). He studied Executive Master of Business Administration with the Malawi Polytechnic of the University of Malawi and completed 16 of the 20 modules but did not complete the programme due to financial constraint. He has also undergone many professional training courses during the past 26 years of his career that include but are not limited to the following areas: Results Based Management, Finance for Non-Finance Managers, Project Proposal Formulation, Project Monitoring and Evaluation, Environmental Impact Assessment, Value Chain Analysis, Gender Awareness and Analysis, Environmental Conservation with Focus on Biodiversity Information Management and Gender, Sustainable Soil and Water Management for Developing Countries, Intercultural Communication.
Mr Kafere has theoretical and practical knowledge, skills and experience in education, training, capacity assessment and development at individual, institutional and systemic levels, management training, project planning, project management, project monitoring and evaluation, public sector investment programme (PSIP), environmental education, environmental and natural resources management, environmental impact assessment (EIA), strategic environmental assessment (SEA), state of the environment reporting, and consultancy management, project feasibility study, among others.
After working for the Malawi Government for 12 years, Mr Kafere became the Training and Consultancy Coordinator for Bunda College of Agriculture that is now Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) in July 2006. As coordinator, his core responsibilities are to deploy experts, to manage contracts for provision of short-term training and consultancy services to clients. To date, Mr Kafere has successfully coordinated many training and consultancy services by various teams for many clients. The types of consultancy services include baselines surveys, designing of monitoring and evaluation systems, evaluations of projects on livelihoods, food and nutrition, agriculture, natural resources, among others. For instance, he coordinated baseline study in 2013 and endline study in 2018 of Community Based Nutrition Programmes in Malawi covering all 28 districts for the Department of Nutrition, HIV and AIDS of the Government of Malawi. The types of clients include governmental agencies, non-governmental organisations and international organisations.
Mr Kafere voluntarily participated in teaching of two courses namely project planning and appraisal as well as project monitoring and evaluation to year four students in the Department of Agricultural Applied Economics of the University from 2016-2017 to 2018-2019 academic years. Since 2015, he has been coordinating annual planning and quarterly monitoring and evaluation as well as progress reporting of Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP) development projects of the University to the Government of Malawi. He has formulated and coordinates LUANAR’s Capacity Expansion and Productive Knowledge Generation and Application Programme that has been approved by the Government of Malawi whose first phase spans from July 2019 to 31st March 2024. Overall, LUANAR leads all public universities in the management of PSIP process and mobilization of development funding since 2019-2020 financial year. Since January 2022, Mr Kafere’s function was redeployed to the Directorate of Research and Outreach (DRO) to enhance resource mobilisation for research and outreach of LUANAR.

Research Interest for: Mr Deusdedit KAFERE

Strategic Management; Training and Consultancy Management; Environmental Impact Assessment and Audit; Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation; Financial and Investment Management; Public Sector Investment Programme and Development; Capacity Assessment an

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