Maurice EGWETE
(BSc. in Agriculture – Measured in Crop Science)
Physical Address: Amononeno ‘A’ village, Ajuri County, Alebtong District - Uganda.
Residential Address: Padibe Town Council |C/o P.O. Box 1, Lamwo District – Uganda.
Marital Status: Married.
Email: egwemau@gmail.com | Mobile: +256 782 015599.
Formal Education
 BSc. in Agriculture (Crop
Science), Makerere University,
Kampala, 2010
 UACE (Science Subjects)
Certificate,
Standard High School Zzana,
Entebbe, 2005
 UCE Certificate, Kangai Senior
Secondary School, Dokolo
District.
Career Destiny
I am a trained agronomy professional, with 5+ years’ work experience in implementing
market-oriented agricultural livelihoods, nutrition, financial inclusion and
microenterprise development projects across Karamoja, Lango and Acholi sub regions
of Uganda. I am looking for a job that is both challenging and rewarding in order to
apply the practical project implementation and supervisory knowledge and skills
acquired over years in different projects/programmes in the context of transforming
small-scale farmers from subsistence to market-oriented farming and improving their
food security and nutrition. This is because the future of livelihoods in Africa still lies in
agriculture. Notwithstanding, most of our farmers with all the diverse food crops they
produce, are NOT knowledgeable enough to cater for their own nutrition.
Professional Development
 ToT training on Climate Smart
Agriculture, with Danida in
2019.
 ToT training on Post-Harvest
Handling Techniques, with IRC
in 2014 and Danida in 2019;
 ToT training on Collective
Marketing Committee
methodology with IRC in 2013
and Danida in 2019;
 VSLA practitioner Training of
Trainers (ToT) organized by
International Rescue
Committee, 2014 and Danida
2019.
 Farmer Field School, - Soroti
Master Trainers contracted by
International Rescue
Committee, 2014.
Employment Record
Areas of Expertise
 Report writing.
 Project implementation.
 Proven ability to build
relationship and influence
private and public sector
stakeholders and networking.
 Communication, facilitation and
presentation skills.
Agricultural Extension Supervisor, NURI (Northern Uganda Resilience Initiative
(NURI) CSA programme, Resilience Agricultural Unit Created by Danida, Uganda
through Coordination Function, January 2019 – December 2020.
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Managed and coordinated all the NURI CSA programme staff and activities in
Lamwo district.
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Established and maintained cordial and professional relationships with all NURI
programme stakeholders to achieve desired results.
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Built capacity of seven (7) NURI CSA Agricultural Extension Officers in Good
Agronomic Practices/Climate Smart Agriculture of sesame, sunflower, soybeans
and cassava.
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Organized and conducted quarterly monitoring of farmer group activities with
district executive committee (DEC) and lower local government (LLG). This helped
to identify gaps, challenges and come up with improvement strategies.
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Linked over 1,000 farmers to research institutions (i.e. Ngetta ZARDI, Serere –
NaSARRI, NaCRRI) to get foundation/breeders seeds which are of good quality and
purity. Also linked farmers to private companies like Mukwano Company based in
Lira to supply them with good quality Sunflower seeds.
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Championed and excelled in building networks and collaborations with Mighty Fire
FM Radio through funding of awareness activities like radio talk shows, spot
messages to increase production and marketing of the strategic crops.
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Ensured all the 60 CSA farmer groups were in Village Savings and Loan
Associations to boost their social resilience and to build social cohesiveness.
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Organized and conducted monthly and quarterly reflection meetings with 7
agricultural extension officers to address key issues that emerged from the farmer
groups and or community related to the programme.
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Records documentation and
management.
Demonstrated experience in
malnutrition assessments,
mappings and surveys.
Developing training materials.
High standards of integrity,
professionalism and impartiality.
Demonstrated ability to plan
and execute roles and
responsibilities in a fast-paced
but detail-oriented manner.
Computer Software Packages
 Microsoft Word
 MS PowerPoint
 MS Excel
 MS Outlook
Other skills
Trained on Safety and Defensive
riding training– AAU contracted by
Danida in 2019. I have valid riding
permit.
Key Achievements
 Coordinated the integration of
agricultural component to the
Nutrition Grassroots project
successfully while with Global
Support Development Initiative.
The intervention reduced the
malnutrition rate in the project
targeted children by 20%.
 Increased rice production in
Agoro rice scheme in Lamwo
district from 1.8 metric tons to 3
metric tons over a period of one
year
 Increased production and
productivity of maize grains of
farmers in Namalo Township in
Nakapiripirit district from 3
metric tons to 7 metric tons in a
period of three years (2014 –
2016).
 Linked over 1,000 farmers from
110 farmer groups of Lamwo
district to Mukwano Company
based in Lira City where they
bought PAN 7057 variety of
sunflower seed.
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Demonstrated good skills in report writing. Ensured monthly, quarterly and annual
reports are done according to the organisation and donor reporting formats timely
with attention to details.
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Represented the RAU Kitgum/Lamwo in food security and livelihoods coordination
and Stakeholders’ meetings at the district level.
Organised Farmers’ field day which facilitated and established profitable produce
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markets for farmers while at the same time brought input services close to
smallholder farmers.
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Built capacity of farmer groups in Post-Harvest Handling, quality assurance, Value
addition and processing of cassava, soybeans, groundnuts, sesame, sunflower
among others.
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Implemented the sustainable strategy of cost-sharing with the Smallholder farmer
groups. They acquired business projects like grinding mills, simple and big produce
stores, cassava chippers, modern beehives, assorted store equipment, tarpaulins
and seeds to boost agricultural production and productivity and increased income
at the household level.
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Prepared monthly and quarterly work and procurement plans and submitted to
Programme Coordinator timely.
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Timely wrote accurate and detailed monthly and quarterly reports and submitted
to the line manager.
Project Coordinator - Agriculture, ISuMaC (Inclusive Maternal and Child Health and
Nutrition) Project, Global Support Development Initiative Uganda, November 2017 –
December 2018
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Mobilized, sensitized, identified and registered the target beneficiaries (Lactating
mothers, pregnant mothers and children under two years) in the project areas
within the first two months of the project.
Mapped out all the existing partners/stakeholders/actors and other physical
resources to ensure that project activities were built on existing frameworks for
sustainability purposes as well as giving support in the implementation of the
planned field activities.
Linked Agriculture to Nutrition by developing smallholder farmer training modules
that supported group trainings on basic agricultural techniques including skills on
Kitchen gardening, crop demo establishment, management, pre- and post-harvest
handling. This improved the quality and consistency of knowledge shared with
farmers by nutrition and agriculture field-based staff.
Ensured that the skills acquired were practically applied at the household level. This
enhanced food, nutrition, and economic security of the beneficiaries in a short
period and reduced the malnutrition rate among the target beneficiaries by 20%.
Took administrative charge of the satellite office in Apac district managing all the
assets and supporting the field-based staff therein.
Forecast the monthly and quarterly budget spending and ensured that I timely
submit the accountabilities for the completed field activities to the finance and
administration manager with high standards of integrity, professionalism, and
impartiality.
Properly kept records of all project activities including project assets, beneficiary
list, partner list, inputs distribution list, activity and monitoring reports and list of
children benefiting from the project.
Linked 180 individual farmers to
Serere Research Institute –
NaSARRI where they were
trained on agronomy of
sorghum and green gram. The
institution supported them with
the seeds which boosted their
production and improved on
their livelihoods.
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Interests/Hobbies
 Emerging trends in Agricultural
innovations implementation.
 Livelihoods in humanitarian and
developmental interventions.
 Empowering the vulnerable
persons to be able to realise
their potential.
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Languages Spoken
Official – English
Local – Luo
Professional Referees
Charles Ochan | Programme
Coordinator, Resilience Agricultural
Unit, Plot 44 General Tito Okello
Road, Kitgum Municipality.
Mail: charles.ochan@nuri.ag
Tel: +256 782683815
Hellen Grace Akullu | Project
Coordinator-Nutrition, Global
Support Development Initiative,
Uganda.
Mail: akullugrace@gmail.com;
hellen.akullu@wfp.org
Tel: +256772475469
Paul Nyeko Kawimbo Dickson|
Programme Manager, International
Rescue committee, Uganda.
Mail: kawimbopaul@gmail.com
Tel: +256 784841114.
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Set activity targets together with the field staff and appraised them annually in
order to make their performance more effective and for continuous performance
improvements.
Facilitated effective and efficient monitoring, documentation, and reporting in
compliance with the agreed set standards.
Supported tracking of project outputs, outcomes, impact or results and changes in
close collaboration with M & E Manager.
Facilitated use of data and evidence from monitoring and evaluation system to
inform decision making to strengthen processes and implementation of the
Nutrition project.
Timely prepared and submitted to programme coordinator high quality activity,
monthly, quarterly and annual narrative and quantitative reports for all project
completed activities.
Agricultural Officer, Economic Recovery and Development Programme –International
Rescue Committee, September 2012 – July, 2017
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My technical and facilitation expertise resulted into an exponential increase in
production and productivity of rice for farmers of Agoro rice scheme in Lamwo
district from 1.8 MT to 3 MT. This brought about purchase of heavy-duty
machines for hulling and milling rice at Agoro sub county that year (2013).
My technical input resulted into an increase in production and productivity of
maize grains for farmers in Namalo Township in Nakapiripirit district from 3
metric tons to 7 metric tons in a period of three years (2014 – 2016).
Linked 250 farmers of Namalu sub county to WFP in 2016 who bought their
maize grains they had collectively bulked and stored.
Linked over 100 rice farmers to Agro-input dealers, produce buyers and Agroprocessors for value additions. These boasted farmers’ income and ensured
purchase of quality farm inputs.
Linked 180 individual farmers to Serere Research Institute – NaSARRI where they
were trained on agronomy of sorghum and green gram. The institution
supported them with the seeds and used their gardens as trial plots and
thereafter these progressive farmers have grown from smallholders to
commercial farmers and have now become the suppliers of sorghum, seso 1 to 3
which are good in brewing industry and also palatable.
Directly mobilized, trained and operationalized up to 300 VSLA groups in
Karamoja, Lango and Acholi sub-regions. Upon maturity, successfully linked VSLA
to financial institutions for saving and credit services.
I successfully implemented post-harvest loss reduction campaign and
demonstrated post-harvest handling techniques to over 16,000 smallholders. At
the end of the campaign, up to 75 demonstration storage facilities were planted
in Lamwo, Amudat and Nakapiripirit districts. There were high levels of adoption
of the demonstrated technologies; the adopted technologies resulted into great
reduction of post-harvest losses.
Organized quarterly reflection/review meetings with the key partners to reflect
on progress of project activities and come up with sustainability strategies as
well, besides, creating spaces and opportunities for action-learning.