Mr Rodd Myers
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Research Student | Rodd dot Myers at uea dot ac dot uk |
Biography
I am an experienced results-based project manager and technical assistance provider with over 15 years of community economic development and private sector development experience in 18 countries with NGOs, multilateral organisations and governments. I have worked in project design, monitoring and evaluation, and as an advisor in institutional, agriculture, micro-enterprise and co-operative development. The bulk of my work was with low income Canadians for eight years, specifically with recent immigrants, youth, low income workers, and women surviving domestic violence. I worked for another seven years on international agriculture and co-operative development.
My areas of expertise include:
- livelihoods development
- value chain assessment and upgrading
- private sector development
- participatory data collection and analysis
- co-operatives
- institutional capacity-building
- organisational management
- agronomy
- micro-finance
- agricultural financing
- rural development
- gender dimensions of development
- environmental aspects of development
Academic Background
MSc Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD)
The University of London (U.K.). The Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, T.H. Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering at Wye. University of London.
BA Honours Development Studies, The University of Calgary (Canada).
Africa: Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Americas: Canada, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru
Asia: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR
Languages
English and Indonesian
More information
For more information and a complete profile, please visit http://devex.com/roddmyers
Key Research Interests
In my professional experience, I have been struck by the disconnect between NGO-based development and development research. I have also made several observations related to neoliberalisation, including the commodification of nature and inclination to incentivise and define community development by access to market, thereby further engaging rural communities in systems that inherently require inequality for their very existence. My research areas of interest combine these interdisciplinary areas and culminate in what is a political ecological approach to environmental and livelihood issues.
My research is focussed on community access to natural resources in forest conservation areas and the ways in which women and men’s livelihoods and access to value chains is affected. I have the pleasure to work with Dr Thomas Sikor and Dr Adrian Martin on this endeavour, on which I embarked in 2011 and plan to complete in 2014.
