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SYSTEMIC INNOVATIONS<br />
in everything from room setup to language use to session structure, you can bring a team from any<br />
point A to point B with greater success.<br />
Knowledge Management<br />
Location: Capitale<br />
Speaker: Stacey Young (Senior Knowledge Management Advisor, USAID)<br />
Stacey Young is Senior Knowledge Management Advisor for USAID’s Microenterprise Development<br />
office, w<strong>here</strong> she manages an award-winning knowledge management & learning program that<br />
facilitates learning among USAID’s staff, its partners and the broader microenterprise and poverty<br />
analysis communities to improve practice via the www.microlinks.org and www.povertyfrontiers.org<br />
websites. Prior to joining USAID, Dr. Young lived and worked as an independent consultant in Kenya<br />
and Uganda, working in the sectors of health/family planning, HIV/AIDS, agriculture, and<br />
development research; before that, she taught political science, women’s studies and writing at<br />
Skidmore College, and at Cornell University, w<strong>here</strong> she earned a Ph.D. in Government. She is the<br />
author of Changing the Wor(l)d: Discourse, Politics, and the Feminist Movement; co-editor of Rowing<br />
Upstream: Snapshots of Pioneers of the Information Age in Africa; and author of Philanthropy for<br />
Social Change: Four decades of Ford Foundation grant making in Eastern Africa. In 2008, the Imp-<br />
Act Social Performance Management Consortium named Dr. Young one of the industry’s 20 most<br />
influential people.<br />
Project Management<br />
Location: Joliet<br />
Speaker: SNC Lavalin<br />
SNC Lavalin is one of the leading engineering and construction groups in the world and a major<br />
player in the ownership of infrastructure, and in the provision of operations and maintenance<br />
services.<br />
Their main concerns are fighting poverty, increasing productivity and improving living conditions in<br />
rural environments.<br />
SNC Lavalin helps their clients worldwide to address their high-priority issues in the rural sector with<br />
integrated, sustainable solutions. Their specialists work together with governments, international<br />
financial institutions and the private sector to plan, design and implement programs and projects in<br />
the agriculture and rural development sector. Their activities include : agriculture and agri-business<br />
(diversification and competitiveness of productions); rural infrastructure development (hydroagricultural<br />
improvement, community-based water development, post-harvesting and processing<br />
infrastructures, and social infrastructures); agri-food supply chains and market development (creation<br />
of value-added throughout the supply chain, market development support, particularly for exports,<br />
technical assistance to ensure that products meet international regulations and standards), technical<br />
and institutional support (training and capacity building, transfer of knowledge); water supply and<br />
sanitation (design and construction supervision of rural water supply system and sanitation<br />
infrastructure).<br />
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