General Director of
Fondation d’Appui aux Initiatives de Base en Afrique (FAIB)

 

 

Hann Mariste N° 64 DAKAR

Tel.(h): +221 33 832 7202
E-mail: senghor@orange.sn

• Fondation d’Appui aux Initiatives de Base en Afrique (FAIB),
  (a Senegalese foundation that supports grassroots' development initiatives in Africa), September 2002 -present
  General Director
  
• African Development Foundation (ADF) (a US Government agency specialized in the funding of development projects at the community level), August 1998 – August 2002
  Program Director
  • every fiscal year select a list of projects to propose for funding to the foundation’s headquarters
  • ensure effective implementation and monitoring of projects funded in Senegal
  • supervise feasibility studies
  • establish contacts with public administration and other development partners
    
• ORSTOM (currently Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD);
  (Sustainable Irrigated Agriculture Program), October 1996-August 1998
  Researcher
  • within a multidisciplinary researcher’s team, was in charge of the development and experimentation of a prospective accounting model of the environmental risk resulting from irrigated lands (Ngalenka sector, in the medium valley of the river Senegal )

• Ph.D. Agricultural Ecology, University of Montreal, Canada, 2000
• Master of Science of Agricultural Ecology, University of Montreal, Canada, 1994, Scholarship from Joint Japan/ World Bank Graduate Scholarship (JJ/WBGSP), 1993-1996
• Bachelor of Science Institut Agronomique de Paris Grignon, France, 1989
  

• Contribution to taking into account the environmental risk in Sahelian irrigated systems. A case study of the Ngalenka sector (medium valley of the Senegal River)
  

• Un modèle multi-agents pour simuler le fonctionnement hydrosalin des PIV du Ngalenka amont. ORSTOM, Paris, 1997
• Contribution to taking into account the environmental risk in Sahelian irrigated systems. A case study of the Ngalenka sector (medium valley of the river Senegal), University of Montreal, 2004
• Dynamique de l’économie rurale en Afrique occidentale, University of Montreal, 1997
• The marriage between ecology and agriculture. Ecology, Ottawa, 2000
  

• Certificate on agricultural land management, Leuven, Belgium, 1992

Diola (native), French (fluent), English (intermediate)