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Jacqueline Johnson is a seasoned development and emergency program practitioner and project designer, with over thirteen years’ experience in managing food security and nutrition projects. She has had short and long term assignments in more than a half-dozen West African countries and provided general program management support to another dozen countries in Africa while based in Washington, DC.

Mrs. Johnson joined Africare in 2002 and provided support to six country offices as a headquarters-based Program Manager for the East and Anglophone West Region. As the Administrative Officer for Africare/Liberia (2004-2006), she upgraded the accounting, procurement, personnel management, and other administrative structures. As Food for Development Manager at Africare’s Headquarters (2006-2009), she was responsible for overall program monitoring and technical assistance with reporting for five of Africare’s PL 480 Title II programs, and was integral in the design, review, and submission of more than a dozen food security related proposals to USAID/FFP, USDA, and OFDA.

Ms. Johnson then served as the Monetization Officer for Africare/Niger (2009 – 2010), where she coordinated the importation, reception at port and in-country delivery of more than 38,000 MT of development and emergency food aid for distribution, and generated more than $31 million from the umbrella monetization of 41,000 MT of grain for two generations of USAID funded food security programs in Niger implemented by five different international NGOs. As the Country Director for Africare/Niger (2010 – 2013), she was in charge of the country program which grew by an average of 25% annually from FY2009 through FY2013, with an overall $20 million+ portfolio of development and emergency food security programs that included proven climate smart agriculture, disaster risk reduction, and community based early warning approaches.

From 2013 to 2014, Mrs. Johnson served as the Food Security Manager for the Agribusiness and Food Security unit at Africare, where she was the primary Headquarters contact to a variety of public and private donors, and provided regular support to food security, nutrition and livelihood programs at various stages in the project cycle, from proposal design, start-up, implementation and monitoring, through final evaluation and close-out.

Mrs. Johnson has a BS in Political Science, with a minor in Sociology from Howard University, Washington, DC.