User:Payiera

=Personal Details=
 * 1) Name: Pamela Marinda
 * 2) Year of Birth: 1974

My Contacts
ayiera@yahoo.co.uk or payiera@gmail.com

Personal Address
Nairobi, Kenya

=Background Information=

I am a Kenyan currently living in Nairobi. I am an Agricultural Economist. I did my Bachelor studies at Moi University, followed by an Msc at Kenyatta University in Kenya and proceeded to do a PhD at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany. I have done additional training in Agricultural sciences and food security in the tropics and Sub tropics; Climate Change and its implications on Food security; and Agricultural Information Management. My research interests are in the following areas:
 * Agriculture
 * Food and nutrition security
 * Gender issues
 * Agricultural information management
 * Education

Work Experience
I am currently working with ITOCA - The Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa within the Scientific Information for Agricultural Education in Africa Project. I am responsible for implematation of project activities in the East Africa region. Before joining ITOCA i worked as a lecturer at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology and at Moi's University's SACRED Training Institute in Nairobi. My hobies include:
 * 1) swimming
 * 2) reading
 * 3) singing
 * 4) playing Tennis
 * 5) Cooking Healthy Tomatoes.jpg

Website
Go to ITOCA website

Programmes

 * 1) Go to TEEAL website
 * 2) Go to HINARI
 * 3) Go to AGORA
 * 4) Go to OARE

Topics

 * 1) Open Educational Resources
 * 2) Food Security Indicators and assessment methods
 * 3) Web2 tools
 * 4) MSC students supervised

Madchenschul project
A project in support of girls in secondary schools to pay their fees. The project was initiated in 2003 by Pamela Marinda and friends at St. Antonius Kirche in Hohenheim, Stuttgart. Fund raising activities were done by Pamela and friends. Odilo Metzler and the Fihavanana gruppe were instrumental in making this possible. By 2010, there are 25 girls who have benefited from the project. Seven (7) of the students in the project were admitted at public universities between 2005 and 2009. Out of this, two have completed their Bachelor studies and five are still at the university. The students at the the university are pursuing the following degree programmes: Bachelor of Science in Bio-Chemistry (1); Agriculture (1), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (1), Bachelor of Education degree (2); Bsc Information Science (1) and Architecture (1)  In 2010, three girls will sit for their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KSCE) exams and hopefully join the public universities in 2012.

Upendo women group
I am a member of Upendo women group.

Payiera 11:45, 17 September 2010 (UTC)