Name : Amadou BOCOUM
Date of Birth: 13 October 1954
 
AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Research - Development, Formulation/Evaluation and implementation of development projects at grassroots level, Rural Credit, Drafting of poverty alleviation policies and programmes 

 
LANGUAGES
  • Pulaar
  • French
  • English
  • Wolof  
 

FIELD EXPERIENCE

Senegal, France, Central African Republic, Chad, Liberia, Guinea-Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Sao-Tome & Principe, Malawi, Madagascar, United States & India.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

India : Since February 2004: Ambassador of Senegal to India

USA   :  Consul General of Senegal in New York, USA.

Madagascar:
-Drafting of the UNDP Support Paper for the National Program on the fight against poverty and contribution to the implementation on the ground of the Institutional Operations framework of the program.
-Technical Adviser (UNDP/UNOPS) of the Poverty alleviation and Promotion of sustainable livelihood Approach.

Guinea-Conakry:
- Drafting of the (UNDP/UNOPS) Support Program for grassroots initiatives
- Finalization (phase 2) of the National sustainable Human Development Program of the Republic of Guinea on behalf of ILO.
- Finalization (phase 1) of the National sustainable Human Development Program of the Republic of Guinea, on behalf of UNESCO

Ivory Cost

Sao Tomé et Principe:

- Preparation and Evaluation of the (ADB) Poverty Alleviation Project

Tchad
- Evaluation of the (ADB) Poverty Alleviation Project and Development of Women activities in the N’Djamena region
- Identification of a Grassroots Development Program in Western and Southern Chad, on behalf of UNDP

Central African Republic
- Program Officer of the UNDP and UNCDF (United Nations Capital Development Fund).
- Technical Advisor for UNDP/UNCDF/ADB/DDSMS projects « Support to Village Self Help Development » and « Social Scope for Social Adjustment and Development.
- Consultant in Methodological support for the (UNDP/DDSMS) project “Self Help Village Development”


Washington, USA
Participation at the Round Table organized by the World Bank on Small Mines at Washington D.C
 
Liberia:
- Reorientation of the (UNDP/DDSMS) project " Self help village development " in South Eastern Liberia.
- Formulation of the (UNDP/DDSMS) program "Reconstruction and Support for Resettlement of Displaced People"

Benin
- Evaluation and reorientation of the Grassroots Support Initiative Fund
 
France: 
- CLONG/AFVP. Main coordinator of the European Volunteers Development Program (EVD)
- AFVP.(French Association of Volunteers of Progress), Presenter of the ‘Discovery of Surroundings’ module, within the framework of initial training
CIFACE.( Training and Information Centre for Adults in National Service Abroad), Presenter within the framework of training of adults in National Service about to leave for Africa and the Maghreb.
- AFVP Consultant (French Association of Volunteers of Progress) for:
Study of the commercialization network of the market garden produce in the Matam department
Evaluation of the Gouriki-Koliabé market garden produce project at Matam, Senegal
- AFTAM. (Association for the Training of African and Malagasy Workers), Literacy programme for immigrant African and Maghreb workers
- Editions NUBIA. Participation in the drafting of the Haal-Pulaar dictionary, by writing of two articles (Agriculture and Livestock farming and on iron trade in the Fuuta region). These two articles were published by Editions NUBIA, 50 Bd Port Royal, Paris 14, in 1992.
 
Sénégal: 
- Operations Officer at the African Fishing Company (COMAPECHE) at Kayar.
- Researcher of the Leiden University (Holland)-IFAN (Basic Institute for Black Africa) project, for the assessment of the creditworthiness of the Dakar suburb households, with a view to establish “Rehabilitated Plots ".
 

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

DESS. (Post Graduate Degree)
Institute of Economic and Social Studies, Université de Paris I Panthéon. Sorbonne.
Major : Agricultural Development 1984
Master’s Degree in Sociology Université Paris VIII- Vincennes. 1983
Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology Université Paris VIII- Vincennes. 1981.