Michael Short

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About Michael Short

Project design and proposal writing for community-focused rural development, emergency relief, and large-scale food security programs. • Project evaluation and design of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MRE) approaches to project tracking, including qualitative and quantitative survey and analysis, and report writing. • Experienced with program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, reporting, and management of USAID Food for Peace (EFSP and MYAP), USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), USAID Feed the Future, World Bank, UKAid (DFID), EuropeAid, UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Global Environment Facility (GEF), and multiple private donors. • Project implementation, program management/administration, budgeting, accounting controls, and operational “trouble shooting”. • Experienced with program liaison with donors, national government agencies, local administrative authorities, UN agencies, and other NGOs. • Directed NGO country offices, including functions related to human resources, training, financial management and reporting, field operations, contracting, and logistics. • Some experience with commodity monetization (Title II), port operations, distribution, warehousing, monitoring, and inventory controls.