Area of Expertise

Budgeting, Strategic Planning, Budget Analysis, Risk Management, Regional Planning, Rural-Urban Linkage Specialist, Rural Transformation Specialist

Work Experience

James Morrice Maghori holds a Master's Degree in Rural and Urban Planning and currently works as a Tutorial Assistant at the Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP) under the department of Rural Planning and Regional Development. He has over 7 years of experience in the field, with a focus on teaching, research, and consultancy.

Professional Skills

• Proficient in budget development, analysis, and execution, ensuring financial resources are allocated and utilized effectively.
• Skilled in developing and implementing strategic plans that align with organizational goals and objectives.
• Possesses strong analytical skills to interpret financial data, identify trends, and inform decision-making.
• Adept at identifying and evaluating potential risks, developing mitigation strategies, and ensuring project success.
• Experienced in formulating and implementing regional development plans that promote balanced and sustainable growth.
• Possesses a deep understanding of the interdependencies between rural and urban areas and designs strategies for mutually beneficial development.
• Equipped with expertise to facilitate positive changes in rural communities through economic development, infrastructure improvement, and capacity building.
• Designing online mobile data collection platforms using most current technologies, i.e. Survey Solutions and OpenDataKit (ODK).
• Experienced in the use and applications of statistical packages such as SPSS, Statistica and R-Statistical Software for data mining and perform complex statistical analysis, such as Principal Component Analysis, Hierarchical Cluster Analysis and Multinomial Linear Regressions.

Research and academic Interests

• Budgeting and strategic planning
• Risk management Framework
• Sustainable rural development practices
• Rural-urban integration and complementariness
• Social and economic development of rural areas
• Regional development and regional growth
• Rural markets and food security
• Sustainable rural development practices
• Agriculture value chain addition
• Rural transformation technologies
• Sustainable and smart villages
• Spatial and social-economic development of urban and rural areas
• Social and cultural development