About Mr MAGANGA Assa

Assa Maganga is an economist with specialization in Environment and Natural Resource Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics. He is an experienced field work programmer and consultant. Assa has a vast professional experience in impact evaluations, social protection, DRM research, climate smart agriculture reviews, Health and HIV/AIDS, livelihood and rural development. His research interests are in causal-effect designs of development programs, resiliency building and public policy analysis. He has undergone extensive training in impact assessments by trainers who are experts in the field: • Certificate in Impact evaluation of Nutrition programs (Monitoring and Evaluation) – University of Makelere, Uganda. • Certificate in Metrics for Impact Evaluation - University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy • Certificate in Impact Evaluation using GIS and Remote sensing Tools, University of Namibia • Certificate in Assessing Distributional Impacts using GIS, University of California, Davis, USA • Certificate in Impact evaluations Designs for social programs – DevImpact, Kenya • Certificate in Impact evaluations of Land Reform – University of Cape Town, South Africa
Assa Maganga is also a member of professional bodies including International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), American Association of Agricultural Economists. Assa also holds a Master of Science degree in Agricultural Economics with a Major in Environmental and Natural Resources Economics collaboratively from University of Malawi and University of Pretoria in South Africa. Currently, he is persuing a Masters degree in Biostatistics with University of Malawi. He has published his research on food security, climate change and production economics in high impact journals.

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