農業省|アブドゥル・ワハブ・モハマディさん
農業省
アブドゥル・ワハブ・モハマディさん(Mr Abdul Wahab Mohammadi)
アフガニスタン農業省 モニタリング及び評価担当官
ワハブさんはアフガニスタン出身で、2015年3月に博士前期課程を修了し修士号を取得されました。在学中は農業開発政策研究室に所属し、「アフガニスタン、バーミヤン県におけるジャガイモのフードチェーン及び貯蔵の重要性に関する分析」をテーマに研究を行いました。帰国後は、農業省による園芸や家畜に関するプロジェクトのモニタリング及び評価担当官として、母国の農業の発展に貢献されています。
Mr Abdul Wahab Mohammadi
Receiving my master’s degree from the Tokyo University of Agriculture with the support of the JICA-PEACE opened up many career opportunities for me.
I had been working at the emergency horticulture and livestock project of the ministry of agriculture, irrigation & Livestock (MAIL), a World Bank funded project to Afghanistan for almost 2 years when I was awarded a scholarship by the JICA-PEACE project. As a development monitoring and evaluation officer working to improve the welfare of Afghan horticulture and livestock grower farmers, I welcomed the scholarship as a much-needed opportunity to broaden my perspective and learn from the development experience of other countries.
I grew professionally because of the rich blend of theory and practical approach in the curriculum of the graduate school plus the intensive field visits across Japan agriculture society. In developing a specialization in international agricultural development and agricultural value chain development management, I was exposed to constant sharing and learning with mentors, tutors, and fellow students with different personalities, cultures, and experiences, from which I gained practical knowledge. More than anything else, the scholarship gave me the opportunity to grow further as a person. The highly managed and cooperative environment of the graduate school was a good training ground for dealing with the stakeholders from various sectors in my development work. Immersion in Japanese society fostered the values of punctuality, cooperation, collective responsibility, and self-discipline, making every day a learning experience.
The research environment at Tokyo University of Agriculture was very favorable: helpful professors, excellent research facilities, and cooperative students. I benefited much from the graduate program of international agricultural development.
I have since returned to Afghanistan, been promoted as Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for National Horticulture and Livestock Project in the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation & Livestock and given greater responsibilities, much of them still involving work with farmers in the rural areas.
My specialization is being put to good use as I now help plan, implement and track project activities to strengthen the professional capacity of field M&E officers, agricultural extension workers and improve the delivery of extension and advisory services to horticulture and livestock farmers.
As head of a team of field officers, I help relieve the plight of the farmers by giving them better access to agricultural services delivery, value addition, farming practices information, farming technologies, extension and investment support services.
Furthermore, in NHLP, I am responsible for managing of the project M&E Unit and I assist the project team in gathering and analyzing data, preparing economic studies according to the directions and guidelines set by the project results framework. I also develop research techniques and survey designs for measuring of project progress, outcomes and impacts on rural target beneficiary households. In addition, I train field officers and extension workers on conducting survey and data collection tools, techniques, mythology in target areas of the project and also representing the project in senior official meetings. Even with this new assignment, I still do some policy work such as studies and analyses of proposals, reports made by technical components and implementing partner agencies regarding their impact on the horticulture and livestock sub-sectors, particularly in the matter of the value-added activities, extension service delivery for the rural farmers on horticultural and livestock products.
Indeed, the JICA-PEACE with Tokyo University of Agriculture is about giving individuals from developing nations the opportunity to grow professionally and personally so that they can contribute to the development of their country. I am blessed to have been given that opportunity.