Dr William Kasapila – Team Leader

Dr William Kasapila is a qualified Agriculture, Food Security and Livelihood Consultant, Trainer and Researcher with academic qualifications at postgraduate level and more than 15 years of experience in the field. Over the years, Dr Kasapila has trained and led teams of surveyors in large-scale baseline, mid-term and impact evaluations in which different quantitative and qualitative methodologies have been used. Most recently, he has led I in large-scale evaluations for various organizations in the country. Examples of these evaluations include the final evaluation of the 5-year (January 2018-December 2022) EU 14.6 Euro million funded Better Extension Training Transforming Economic Returns (BETTER) project in 10 districts of Malawi. The other evaluations are the end of term reviews of 1) a six year 5.3 million Australian Dollar funded Integrated Community Development (A+) program in Malawi and Tanzania, 2) the EU funded Pro-Act Resilience program in 7 districts of Malawi by Christian Aid and United Purpose consortia and 3) evaluation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) joint program by WFP, UNICEF and ILO just to mention a few. All of them had components of agriculture, resilience to climate change and variability, food security, Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), environmental conservation, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), irrigation farming, backyard gardens and gender, social inclusion and safeguarding as cross cutting issues. Dr Kasapila has strong analytical and team player skills and the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines while maintaining a high standard of work. He also has good organisational and presentation skills that span sound rigorous research and clear verbal explanation. He has worked not only in Malawi but other countries in Africa as well such as South Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, Mozambique, Tanzania, Nigeria, Somalia and Rwanda.