Abbe Fessenden is a Principal and co-Founder of Value-Add, LLC, with more than 35 years of development experience in the public and private sector.
At Value-Add, Ms. Fessenden concentrates on institutional analysis and capacity development, assessments and strategic planning, project design, performance measurement and evaluation, as well as business development and marketing.
Ms. Fessenden's work emphasizes the socio-political and economic context within which Value-Add's projects and activities operate.
- As a USAID Program/ Project Development Officer, she focused on strategic planning, design, oversight and evaluation of technical assistance and policy reform activities.
- At USAID, she worked on economic growth, agricultural development and policy reform in varying sectors.
- During her last USAID assignment she served as an Evaluation Assessment Manager in the Program and Operations Assessment Division of the Center for Evaluation Development Information (CDIE).
- Her long-term assignments overseas included Niger, Burundi, Cameroon / Central African Republic, Nigeria and Morocco.
- Ms. Fessenden has specialized in institutional analysis, agriculture, and natural resource management.
Since retiring from USAID, Ms. Fessenden has primarily been involved in proposal development and oversight of analysis in: agriculture/natural resources, economic development, education, health, food assistance and local government reform.
Education: Ms. Fessenden received her M.A. in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C. She is proficient in French.
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