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TONY JANSEN

Honiara, Solomon Islands

Key skills

• training skills in sustainable agriculture
• participatory development and rural appraisal; skills transfer, project planning and monitoring
• establishment and management of seed production and exchange networks
• program planning and management
• facilitation and interpersonal skills
• problem solving, conflict resolution, participatory decision making.

Experience

Programme/project

Programme manager, Kastom Gaden Association + Kastom Garden Programme, Solomon Islands.

The Kastom Gaden Association took over the work of the APACE Australia (Appropriate Technology for Community and Environment) managed, AusAID funded programme of agricultural training and development.

Role:

• overall program management
• monitoring and evaluation
• staff development and support
• administrative systems
• technical input into agriculture training modules including participatory assessment methodologies, participatory technology development, farmer field trials and ethnobotany
• capacity building of local organisations
• budgeting and financial monitoring.

Programme/project

Programme manager, PEDC Agriculture Department Capacity Building Project, Bougainville.

Funded by APACE and APHEDA (Australians for Peace, Health, Education and Development Abroad), the AusAID capacity building project worked from a remote training centre in a former Bougainville Revolutionary Army controlled area.

Role:

• monitoring
• participatory planning, facilitation
• strategic planning
• sourcing of expertise and training materials.

Programme/project

Member, Australian mission - Post-conflict assessment of the role of non-government organisations in Solomon Islands reconstruction.

An Australian mission to the Solomon Islands organised by the Australian Council For Overseas Aid (ACFOA) to assess the impact of ethnic unrest and recommend potential roles for NGOs in reconstruction.

Programme/project

Field Officer 1992 - 1993: Lalano High Altitude Farming Project, North Malaita, Solomon Islands.

A small scale farming project managed by APACE.

Role:

• community facilitation
• training in sustainable agriculture
• monitoring.

Programme/project

Team member: training in sustainable agriculture with the Madre Selva Instituto de Permacultura, San Lorenzo, Ecuador, South America; Centro de Investigacion de los Bosques Tropicales (CIBT).

Role:

• assisted with establishment of sustainable agriculture training centre in remote Afro-American community on the north coast of Ecuador on the Colombian frontier.

Voluntary work

• board member, Development Services Exchange, Honiara, Solomon Islands; 1993-1994
• board member, Appropriate Technology for Community and Environment (APACE) - Sydney, Australia
• occasional member of the ACFOA (Australian Council for Overseas Aid) Pacific Committee
• English teacher - SOS Tibetan Children's Village, Choglamsar, Leh, Ladakh, North India
• Australia Tibet Council - assisting with stalls and awareness actions on Tibet.

Education

• International Course in Food Security - Lessons from the Field, International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), Bangkok, Thailand.
• study tour of sustainable agriculture projects in Medak District, Andrha Pradesh, South India; Aranya Agricultural Alternatives and Permaculture Association of India
• Training of Trainers in Community Ethnobotany -. People and Plants Initiative (WWF, Kew Botanic Gardens and UNESCO), Komuniboli Training Centre, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
• Diploma of Permaculture (Community Development and Site Design), Permaculture Institute, Tyalgum, NSW
• Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology and Resource Management), Macquarie University, NSW, 1989 and 1991 (50% complete)
• NSW HSC, Kuringai High School, NSW.

Languages

• English - native speaker
• Solomon Pidgin - fluent
• Spanish - working knowledge
• Babatana - South Choiseul, Solomon Islands; basic knowledge, non-fluent
• Lau - North Malaita, Solomon Islands; basic knowledge, non-fluent.

Conferences and papers

• Strategies for the Intensification of Shifting Cultivation in South East Asia: a workshop to produce a handbook; International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Manilla, 2000
• Three case studies written by Tony Jansen and presented at the workshop by Roselyn Kabu Maemouri
• Food and Nutrition in Papua New Guinea - conference
• co-author on case studies of improving food security at the community level in Solomon Islands
• editor, illustrator: SAPA - book by Joini Tutua on low-external input sustainable agriculture in the Solomon Islands.

Awards

• Sir Edward Dunlop Memorial Award for Young Australians: Queens Trust for Young Australians - 1998 - awarded for work in assisting indigenous communities in Solomon Islands and Ecuador in their aspirations for sustainable agriculture and food security.

• Community Service Award: Permaculture Institute, Australia - 1995 - awarded for assisting with the establishment of the Madre Selva Permaculture training centre in a remote Afro/indigenous community, San Lorenzo, Ecuador.