Sasha Mentz-Lagrange

• Company Overview: Research focusing on food sovereignty in Africa, farmer managed farming systems, the impact of agri-industrial developments and genetic modification (See list of publications)
• Capacity Development support in Burkina Faso: Capacity development training to capacitate local NGOs and CSOs with understanding the environmental and legal implications of the roll-out of the Target Malaria project (GM mosquitoes). Ouagadougou, February 2020.
• Research for the Regional Network for Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa (EQUINET): trends in extraction of biodiversity and genetic diversity in East and Southern Africa.

• Design and implementation of the RFS Programme M&E strategy
• Design and implementation of the Transition Programme M&E strategy
• Devised effective communication frameworks that facilitated seamless exchange of ideas and data across agencies and countries
• Lead author of the RFS final Lessons learnt report for IFAD- GEF.
• Lead author of the Emerging Lessons from the Integrated Approach Programme: the Resilient Food Systems Programme.
• Researcher for CIFOR-ICRAF under the Building Systemic Resilience Against Climate Variability and Extremes (ClimBeR), a one -CGIAR Research Initiative: Understanding the policy, institutional and stakeholder landscape to scale up action and achievement of the Great Green Wall Initiative and enhance the resilience of smallholder farmers by transforming the climate adaptation capacity of food, land, and water systems. Focus on Senegal and Mali.
• Facilitated sessions during workshops and events.

• Project design, implementation and financial management.
• Knowledge management, generation of knowledge products, policy briefs and website design.
• Coordination of all Participatory Guarantee Systems(PGS) country-wide.
• Supporting the emergence of farmer based organic production participatory guarantee systems and building the resilience of small-scale farmers to climate change in South Africa
• Facilitation of farm visits process and capturing lessons stemming from this peer-review process.
• Lead facilitator of the organizations’ AGMs and national meetings gathering stakeholders form the agroecological space in South Africa
• Project management of the Organic Knowledge for South Africa project (2020-2023) (GIZ)
• Project management of the Ifoam-Organic International Agroecological Organic leadership Course (Course) (Sept 2025 - to date)
• Networking with strategic partners to amplify the impacts of the project.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design the FSIP KLM and M&E strategies, designing communities of practice

Facilitated sessions during the inception workshop in Rome (March 2025).

• Systematic review of policies and institutional frameworks relating to ecological and organic agriculture in all Francophone countries in Africa
• Presented report findings and contribution to the development of the M&E indicators for the AU (Addis Ababa, October 2019)

Mid-term evaluation of the GIZ funded IKI "2050 is Now" project (2025)

MEL officer : Agroecological TRANSITIONS for building resilient and inclusive agricultural and food systems (part of the Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology) (2023-ongoing)

MEL officer : Resilient Food Systems (2019-2023)

Final evaluation: “Community-based climate change Adaptation programme in the Maradi region (ACB) (UNDPO Niger) (2012)

Final evaluation: Impact of the Soitec solar plant training programme in Touwsriver (South Africa) (University of Cape Town) (2011)

Final evaluation : national AAP programme - São Tomé e Principe (2011)

Mid-term evaluation : national AAP programme, Republic of Congo (2010)

Co-facilitator: Shaping the Food Systems Integrated programme (GEF) (Rome, Italy, March 2025)

Co-facilitator & rapporteur of a 3 - day learning from the GEF Program on Fostering Sustainability and Resilience for Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank) (Nairobi, Kenya, November 2024)

Lead facilitator for the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa

- Lead facilitator of a webinar series presenting the findings of the Healthy Soils Healthy Food Initiative

- Lead facilitator of the Convening of civil society organisations of the Congo Basin to support a transition towards agroecology and food sovereignty (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Lead Facilitator of the Resilient Food Systems Programme close out workshop

- Design and lead facilitator of the 3-day RFS programme close out workshop (Naivasha, Kenya) (UNEP-IFAD)

(June 2023)

• Company Overview: Design of the MAPS Africa programme focusing on low carbon development pathways.
• Strategic stakeholder engagement in the country programmes.
• Design of the MAPS Africa programme focusing on low carbon development pathways.

• Company Overview: Assessing the impact of climate change on the textile and tea & coffee value chains.
• Identifying funding opportunities to support the green development of the researched sectors.
• Assessing the impact of climate change on the textile and tea & coffee value chains.

Providing direct implementation oversight support in compliance with the National Implementation Modality (NIM): elaboration of annual work plans focusing on adaptation projects, reporting, monitoring and evaluation

Liaison with strategic partners and the donor.

Providing direct in-country programme implementation support with a specific focus on business intelligence research and capacity development to inform institutional reform for climate change governance, as well as ‘project to policy’ (evidence-based policy making) activities.

Conducting research and providing advice on integrated climate change, sustainable development and green economy policy.

Developing knowledge management products at a regional and national level.

Facilitating high-level session during the programme's Annual General Assemblies