857R+FP9, Monrovia, Liberia
• Developed market interventions to help agricultural productivity in the cocoa sector and enhance the lives of smallholder farmers in Bong, Nimba, and Lofa Counties. Created business models to improve internal control in aggregating from farmers and sales to buyers.
• Facilitated the achievement of the UTZ Certification for Africa Venture Liberia (AVL), the first cocoa trading company in Liberia to export Certified Cocoa. Designed a refundable grant scheme of 200,000 that enabled AVL to purchase certified cocoa from their farmers and also allowed cooperatives in our intervention to purchase cocoa from farmers during the peak of the cocoa seasons.