Maureen+Miruka


 * Maureen Miruka **

Maureen Miruka is the Team Leader of Pathways Program at CARE USA and is currently based in Dar Es Salaam Tanzania. Pathways is a six country program implemented in Tanzania, Malawi, Ghana, Mali, India and Bangladesh and seeks to increase poor women smallholder farmer productivity and empowerment in more equitable agriculture systems at scale. Maureen previously worked as a Senior Technical Advisor for Sustainable Agriculture at CARE and Principal Research Scientist at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute and has extensive experience in agricultural research for development with specific focus on of socio-economic issues on agricultural growth and poverty reduction in the Sub-Saharan Africa region and internationally. She brings into the SPAC expertise in social analysis, gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment in agricultural research and development in relation to wider poverty issues, integrated natural resource management and policy. She holds a PhD in Natural Resources from the University of Greenwich, London.