Youssouf Toni
Project Leader
Summary
Youssouf is a Project Leader for the Africa region with a focus on the francophone countries. He has more than 10 years’ experience advising and supporting governments, donors, NGOs and businesses in North, West, and Central Africa. His expertise is in strategy development, project design and implementation.
Education
- Master of Research in Economics, Ivorian Center for Economic and Social Research (CIRES) - Felix Houphouet-Boigny University (UFHB), Côte d’Ivoire
- Engineer’s Diploma (MSc) in Food Process Engineering, Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Sciences (IAV Hassan II), Morocco
Delivery Experience
Youssouf is supporting the Gabon President’s Office to set up a Delivery Unit and drive implementation of the government’s priority projects, notably in digital transformation and agriculture. He is also supporting the Lives and Livelihood Fund and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) in applying the adaptive Result-Based Management (aRBM) approach to accelerate results on their joint project portfolio supervised by the IsDB Dakar Regional Hub.
Other Experience
Prior to joining DA, Youssouf was a manager with the Dalberg Advisors Office in Senegal, where he led projects across West Africa in international development (specifically in agriculture, public health and human capital development). In addition, he served as a monitoring and evaluation specialist in the project management unit of the World Bank African Higher Education Center of Excellence Project in Côte d’Ivoire. Youssouf also worked as a project manager at Inetum Consulting (ex Capital Consulting) in Morocco, and was a management consultant at Performances Management Consulting in Senegal.
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