Mr. Paulo Anania is the Assistant Lecturer, Researcher and Consultant at Moshi Co-operative University (MoCU) under the Department of Co-operative Development and Management (CDM). He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Community Economic Development from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) and a Master of Arts in Co-operative and Community Development (MA-CCD) from MoCU. He previously worked as a Tutorial Assistant at Teofilo Kisanji University (TEKU)-Tabora Teaching Centre in 2013 then joined MoCU in January 2014. His key duties include training, research, consultancy and offering community services.

He has executed numerous trainings, community services and consultancy assignments for co-operatives, NGOs and public organizations and contributed many scholarly works including publications in local and international journals and conference proceedings. Some of his works are available in Google Scholar and Research Gate through the username “Paulo Anania”. His main areas of competency include; Co-operative development and management; Development Studies; Community economic development (CED); Community resource management; Participatory development planning; Gender and Youth in co-operatives; Business and Strategic Planning; Leadership and governance of member-based organizations; Co-operative entrepreneurship; Research methodology; Organizational capacity assessment (OCA); Electronic resources access and management; Stakeholders’ mapping and analysis; Value chain mapping and analysis; Market systems and stakeholders’ relations; Management of farmers organizations; Farmers profiling; Farmers’ financial literacy and agri-financing; Managing entrepreneurship centres in higher learning institutions; Youth entrepreneurship in agriculture and food systems; and Sustainable investments in agriculture. He has been in University (MoCU) leadership for three years as Head of the Department for Extension and Outreach Programmes from 2018 to 2020. He also chaired different Task forces within the University to execute various activities. Since April 2020 he has been working as Regional Programme Coordinator (RePCO) of the Mtwara Regional Office which serves the Mtwara and Lindi regions in Tanzania. He has also participated in various academic and non-academic roles within and outside the University.