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Leland Fellow

Doug Nagie

11th Class, 2021-2023

Doug holds a dual BA in History and in International Studies from the University of Utah. He studied international development in Dakar, Senegal, and with RECODEF, a Senegalese NGO which promotes economic development, sustainable agriculture, and women's equality in the rural community of Fissel. He has experience working in communities around Salt Lake City, including co-founding the University of Utah Prison Education Project, which provides sustained, quality higher education to individuals incarcerated in Utah prisons; volunteering with the International Rescue Committee's New Roots community farming program; and working on the ground floor of a kitchen for people experiencing homelessness. Doug is motivated to learn about environmentally and economically sustainable agricultural practices in the Global South, particularly relating to water use and conservation in the face of climate change.

Host Organization: ACDI/VOCA

First Year Placement
Siguiri, Guinea

Doug worked at SADA and CDP, programs by ACDI/VOCA to strengthen cashew and other agricultural value chains in northern Guinea. He worked with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team to track the programs’ impact on partner businesses and growers. Inaddition, he worked with ACDI/VOCA’s Washington, D.C.-based MEL team to support other projects. These included reviewing and reporting on the survey data of SADA’s partner growers, as well as developing plans for how the newer CDP project will improve its implementation over time. He also tried to serve as an everyperson and picked other things up along the way.

Second Year Placement
Washington, DC

Doug is working with ACDI/VOCA’s HQ Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) and Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) teams to support learning by AV projects. He supports teams by assessing project implementation and effective strategies for measuring project impact and outcomes. Doug also works on AV-wide projects at the HQ level, including policies and procedures for ethical practices across the data lifecycle.

Blog Posts

Answers to Questions We Don’t Know Exist: “Localization” and Local Knowledge in Guinea

Blog Post / February 24, 2023