David Charles Hayward

Twenty-one years’ experience in a wide range of rural development planning and implementation activities, primarily in southern Africa:

• participatory land use and natural resource evaluation, planning and implementation
• socio-environmental impact assessment
• voluntary and involuntary rural resettlement and compensation (particularly related to irrigation, hydro-power and mining developments)
• large- and small-scale arable (rain fed and irrigated), livestock and mixed agricultural systems and integrated agricultural, wildlife and forestry systems
• project identification, feasibility, formulation, appraisal and monitoring and evaluation planning
• in-field project implementation and monitoring and evaluation
• participatory project planning and management approaches (e.g. ZOPP, target group analysis, logical framework and project cycle management)
• rural development policy, strategy and procedures
• micro-projects
• multi-disciplinary project management, co-ordination, technical assistance (long and short term) and capacity building and training
• GIS, LIS and computer aided mapping
• Report editing - engineering, environmental, agricultural and rural development