• Led HEA field survey in Niger for SC-UK development planning (2007)
• Coordinated and led HEA baseline fieldwork for ECHO-funded livelihoods assessment in North East Province, Kenya (2007)
• Conducted field training and assessment for Oxfam GB in Cambodia (2007)
• Conducted a series of HEA baseline assessments in conjunction with the Government of Ethiopia’s Disaster Prevention and Prepareness Agency in SNNPR, Tigray, Amhara and Oromia regions in Ethiopia (2004-08)
• Conducted HEA livelihood assessments in Ethiopia as a base for the planning of a set of market-led livelihoods projects (2005)• Led field assessments for livelihoods profiling in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala for FEWS NET (2004-05)• Conducted HEA livelihood assessments in pastoral and urban areas in Djibouti for FEWS NET (2004)
• Led field assessments for livelihoods profiling in Niger Chad and Mauritania for FEWS NET (2002-03)
• Led a series of HEA livelihood baseline assessments in Gaza and Inhambane Provinces, Mozambique as part of the FEWS NET Mozambique Integrated Information Network for Decision-Making (MIND) Project (2000-2002)
• Carried out a baseline HEA in an agro-pastoral economy of southern Ethiopia for Christian-Aid UK and strengthened local partner (Action for Development/AFD) capacity for monitoring project impacts using the food economy approach (2002)
• Provided technical support to the set-up of the WFP Technical Support Unit (TSU) in Sierra Leone , with HEA field training and the implementation of a national food security assessment (2001)
• Led four district teams on the Kenya short rains food security assessment to project relief needs for 2002 for the Kenya Food Security Steering Group, funded by DFID (2001)
• Led an assessment for FEWS-NET in Zimbabwe to establish a baseline urban vulnerability profile and set up a food security monitoring system in Harare (2001)
• Conducted a food security study of Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh (2001)
• Provided rural and urban HEA assessments and technical support to WFP in the Balkans (Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro) (1999-2001)
• Worked with CARE International on the development of their Emergency Livelihood Security Assessment (ELSA) approach, with field work undertaken in Garissa District, Kenya 2001 and among Sierra Leonean refugees in Guinea (2000)
• Assessed food aid needs and devised targeting strategies to reach needy households in drought-affected Khatlon Region, Tajikistan for WFP in  2000.
• Undertook a rapid food security assessment of flood-affected Govuru and Mabote Districts in Mozambique for SC-UK (2000)
• Conducted a field-based HEA study of an agro-pastoral economy in southern Ethiopia for Christian Aid UK (2000)
• Supported SC UK assessment of impact of conflict in southern Uganda –including training of staff from government, NGOs and the UN (2000)
• Undertook rapid HEA assessments in three drought-affected regions of Pakistan as part of a multi-sectoral team for Oxfam-GB (2000)

•  Led a 3-month HEA training and assessment exercise in six areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for SC-UK and local partner organizations to inform current and longer-term food security interventions for displaced and host populations (1999)
•  Established a monitoring system fpr nutritional surveillance and conducted HEA assessment of the Dinka displaced camps, for SC-UK in Darfur, Sudan (1999)
•  Led a HEA survey to advise decision-makers in UNHCR and WFP on the continuation of the protracted refugee program at Dadaab and Kakuma, Kenya (1999)
•  Trained and led teams in Arusha and Singida Regions, Tanzania, to determine current year needs for food assistance and future development strategies for government, WFP and SC-UK (1999)
•  Conducted HEA assessments for WFP in southern Sudan as part of Annual Needs Assessment 1998