Experience International,

Experience International, Inc. (EI) comprises development professionals who have four decades creating rural economic growth. Collectively, we have designed, managed, and provided technical inputs to some of the most successful rural and agricultural development projects funded by US or international agencies. While many things have changed since we first started research on Small Farmers in Development, and the world continues to be more interconnected and complex, equitable agricultural sector growth still consists of providing organization, technologies, inputs, and markets that add value to local resources. We have done this in many diverse countries and circumstances. Our conversion to modern technology is through Management and Geographic Information Systems that support development. We have pioneered hand-held mobile data collection and transmission for real-time management review and reporting, building GIS systems that collect individual site data that can be aggregated and displayed to improve project planning and implementation. This capacity has led us, sometimes reluctantly, into donor-defined monitoring and evaluation systems. We prefer doing development to reporting on the progress of others.