Seember Ali
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As a certified project management executive; Seember is a stakeholder engagement and impact management expert with over 10 years of cross-sectoral experience in international development, agriculture value chain development, public health, public sector reform.
At DG, Seember supports multiple projects in agriculture, tobacco control and public health; overseeing all country-level tasks, communicating stakeholder priorities, and supporting data project design, development, and use.
Prior to joining DG, she worked on projects with development partners such as CDC, AGRA, NIRSAL as well as various national and regional governments across West and East Africa. Seember holds an MBA from Liverpool Business School and degrees in International Business (INTI, Malaysia) and International Management (Hertfordshire, UK) respectively.
Seember is passionate about gender parity, women empowerment and equality.
Recent Posts
Unlocking Africa’s Agricultural Potential: Introducing the Soil Nutrient Roadmap
For over a decade, Development Gateway: An IREX Venture (DG) has been at the forefront of digital agriculture, leveraging agricultural data to support input monitoring, value chain analysis, and farmer-centric governance models. With funding from the Gates Foundation, DG is launching the Soil Nutrient Roadmap (SNR), a cutting-edge initiative using geospatial data to estimate current and future soil and crop nutrient requirements.
From Data Gaps to Impact: Key Insights from the VIFAA Program
Over the last six years, DG, together with its partners AfricaFertilizer (AFO) and Wallace & Associates, collaborated to implement the Visualizing Insights on Fertilizer for African Agriculture (VIFAA) Program. In the program’s final year (2024), the team undertook a “program learning process” to reflect on outcomes, challenges, and successes through internal interviews. This blog captures five key learnings, which we hope will guide similar programs aiming to bridge data gaps in agricultural development.
Case Study: Fostering Sustainable Agriculture through Data-Driven Collaboration and Partnership: Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Nigeria
Through DG’s Visualizing Insights on Fertilizer for African Agriculture (VIFAA) program, we recently published a case study titled “Fostering Sustainable Agriculture through Data-Driven Collaboration and Partnership: Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Nigeria.” It dives deep into how the VIFAA program has impacted the fertilizer data and markets in Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Nigeria. In this blog, we explore the overall impact that the VIFAA program is making, why the program was needed, and offer some key highlights from the case study.