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Jim Bailey IIIPOL 450 - Internship
December 2014 – June 2015
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Agenda
Worksite
Work Performed
The Good
The Bad
The Ugly
What I Learned
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Worksite The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving its 194 member states, FAO acts as a neutral forum where nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information, and helps developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices, ensuring good nutrition and food security for all.
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Work Performed
Investment Centre (TCI) Capacity Development of SCP Strategic Planning and Economic Analysis
Team (SPEAT)
Sierra Leone’s National Sustainable Agriculture Development Plan 2009 – 2030 (NSADP), the five-
year (2009 – 2014)
Database for district level agricultural planning
Tasks
– Follow-up on the work of the previous volunteer and complete data entry phase programming;
– Review the current status of the Access database,– Assist in the design of suitable and user friendly reporting formats (soft copy and
hard copy utilization);– *Perform a dry run with existing district information from Sierra Leone;– *Contribute to the user guideline to implement and run the Access based
planning and monitoring tool.– Perform any additional tasks if required
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Original District Level Planning Document
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Access Database
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Access Database
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Access Database
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Access Database
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The Good
FAO Project experience
Supervisor
Multicultural environment
Convenient location
Flexibility and non-restrictive job description
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The Bad
Extensive application process
No pay
No potential for future employment
Bureaucracy
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The Ugly
No ugly experiences
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What I Learned
Database development
Complexity of district level planning
FAO protocol
How to work independently
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Questions