Josephine Tsui

Josephine Tsui Research Consultant

Josephine Tsui is a Research Consultant working mainly in the Rural Livelihoods and Social Development portfolios, most recently (2010) in Ethiopia and Kenya. Her past work in Zambia and Ghana has brought experience in value chains and farmer groups’ development. Prior to joining theIDLgroup in 2009, Josephine was a researcher at the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission of Europe)working to bring an economic perspective to women’s rights and to provide examples of how countries can integrate a gender analysis in a variety of policy areas. Through her work experience she has developed skills in project management, multicultural facilitation, and gender analysis.

Her recent assignments with theIDLgroup have included:

• A background paper for a conference on global agricultural research and rural development linkages. Click here to read the report
• Facilitation of a training programme, livelihoods and disaster risk management for World Vision in Kenya
• Project Management of an evaluation of the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme

Josephine holds her masters degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies in Globalisation and Development. Her dissertation focused on horizontal gender segregations of agricultural (cocoa and shea nut) value chains in Ghana.