Area of Expertise

Consultancy services; Development Economics; Agribusiness; Agricultural value chain; Rural economies; Project monitoring & evaluation; Baseline studies; Research; Data Collection and analysis; Training; Entrepreneurship; Trade & Marketing; Writing grant p

Work Experience

MR JACKSON BULILI (Agricultural Value chain specialist, Economist, Project Evaluator, Agribusiness expert, Youth &Women groups trainer): He is currently an Assistant Lecturer, Researcher & Consultant at the Institute of Rural Planning (IRDP), Tanzania; Associate Consultant at JWD Farming Ltd, Morogoro, Tanzania. Mr Bulili holds MA in Economics of Development from Erasmus University of Rotterdam in Netherlands (2014-2015), he also holds BSc in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness from Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania (2008-2011).  Mr Bulili has over eight (8) years’ experience in the community education sector, social projects, Agricultural sector, research, youth training and consultancy works in Tanzania and Netherlands. Specialized knowledge has been gained in conducting various consultancies on agriculture value chains, including Agro-inputs value chain, agribusiness and trade sectors in Tanzania. Areas of major experience include conducting assessment studies, feasibility studies, baseline studies, Project management and evaluation, Youth &Women groups training, Agricultural value chains, Agribusiness, marketing, Livelihoods, Development studies, Policy analysis and Sustainable development as well as business plan development. Crops of major experience include sunflower, horticultural crops, maize, rice, sorghum, cassava, legumes, and oil seeds. Mr. Bulili has a good enough international experience of several countries including Tanzania, India and Netherlands.

Professional Skills

• Data collection by both Software app (ODK, Kobo collect & Survey CTO) and paper tools, coding and Analysis by SPSS
• Undertaking Project Evaluation  
• Training Entrepreneurship skills for Youth and Women groups
• Project designing and conducting impact evaluation of projects using RCTs/Quasi-experiments
• Trade, sales/marketing and business partnership building/networking
• Agricultural value chains analysis, marketing and management practices
• Writing development/grant project proposals
• Writing/Designing Research proposals and reports
• Writing consultancy bids [Technical and financial proposal] and implementing the assignment
• Undertaking research and consultancy services
• Report writing
• Leadership
• Interpersonal Communication
• Problem solving
• Negotiation
• Planning and Management of Budget
• Coaching/Mentoring and Training
• Presentation
• Writing business plan
• Business/Agribusiness advisory
• Computer application [Microsoft word, Excel, PowerPoint and internet searches; Skype, email, Facebook, YouTube, uploads]; online meetings eg. Zoom, Telegram, Google met, etc

Research and academic Interests

Main research and academic interest are on Agricultural value chains, Livestock value chain, Rural economies, Agribusiness development, Entrepreneurship development and Development economics.

Publications

ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4656-148X

Google Citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ZI3ZqfoAAAAJ

Email: bulili.jackson1@gmail.com

Mobile: +255 754338911