Dr. Simtowe is an Agricultural Economist with over 18 years of experience facilitating policy processes, facilitation and the development of agricultural value chains and in conducting Impacts Assessment and Monitoring and Evaluation of Development projects with a strong practical experience in the development of Theories of Change as well as Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Frameworks.
Dr. Simtowe is an exception Manager and Researcher with a successful record in coordinating Regional Development projects, and conducted Results Based Monitoring, quantitative Impact Evaluations of Social programs implemented by the Consultative Groups of the International Agricultural Research (CIMMY, ICRISAT, ILRI, Africa Rice) using modern quantitative evaluation methods in West Africa (Benin, Mali, Guinea, ) East Africa, (Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda) and Southern Africa (Malawi, Zambia Mozambique), AGRA, Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) and the World Bank. He successfully coordinated the formulation and implementation of Policies for Markets, Fertilizers and Seed in 15 countries in sub-Sahara Africa while working as a policy Economist at the Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa based in Ghana and later in Kenya. He has extensive experience in the policy analysis and advocacy and management of partnerships in Africa.
