Professional experience

Facilitation of a strategy formulation workshop to design future activities and improve the coherence of the different aspects of work of the medical committee in Vietnam.

Designing, setting-up and introducing a monitoring system for a large HIV-AIDS prevention programme for countries of the former Soviet Union (NIS countries).

Swiss Intercooperation in Peshawar

Provide training to staff members at different levels in the organisation in report writing, writing case studies, facilitation, doing presentations and chairing meetings. Intercooperation implements 5 projects in the North-Western Frontier Province on National Resources Management and Capacity Development using participatory approaches.

Facilitate a two-day reflection with the Amsterdam based staff of the Medical Committee Netherlands Vietnam (MCNV) to better deal with rapid growth and identify priority areas to improve internal functioning.

Facilitate, prepare and chair a 2-day international meeting on partnership.

Train the staff of the international department of COC in how to develop, monitor and evaluate (using capacity development indicators) the capacity of partners identifies and influence leadership styles.

Mid-term Evaluation of an approximately 2 million EURO capacity building programme in south east Europe (former Yugoslavia and Albania) for the Dutch organisation PSO, which together with HIVOS, supports this programme, implemented by COC-Netherlands.

Providing a training programme in three blocks, training in training and facilitation skills, consultancy in training course development and coaching trainers during trial training for the Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN).

Assisting three of War Childs partners in making Business Plans, while at the same time training partner- and War Child staff in how to structure information, make an organisational analysis and plan for the future.

Provide Organisational Assessment training to the programme staff of the project department.

Sri Lanka

To arrive at a planning document based on an organisational analysis of local government, e.g. of 71 local organisations and their steering mechanisms at provincial level in the North East Province, earlier.

Provide Human Resource Management (HRM) training to the staff and assistants of the emergency department.

Sri Lanka

The Dutch co-financing organisation HIVOS assists the Agromart Foundation in Sri Lanka. Facilitating discussions between the conflicting parties easing the conflict, helping resolve tensions and suggesting improvements

Sri Lanka

Organisational analysis of local government and its steering mechanisms at provincial level in the North and EastProvinces.

Providing an 8-day Développement Institutionnel / Renforcement Organisationnel / Techniques de Consulting training for 15 participants from Belgium, Germany, Rwanda, the Netherlands and Congo in Butare (Rwanda) in the French language

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Facilitation of a change process and the formulation of an appropriate strategy, a business plan and annual work plans.

Providing a 10-day Institutional Development and Organisational Strengthening (ID/OS) training to 14 participants in Lomé in French together with the MDF-Partner ONG-Record (a regional service rendering NGO).

Facilitation of a two-day participatory strategic orientation workshop with the management team of the Dutch non-governmental organisation WEMOS, health for all, based in Amsterdam.

World Council of Churches

Providing an Institutional Development and Organisational Strengthening training to representatives of the "Round Table", e.g. an inter-church initiative in the former Soviet Republics. The training is part of a longer trajectory, financed by the World Council of Churches in Geneva, to build the capacity of new development organisations.

MCNV - Medical Committee Netherlands Vietnam

Facilitating a three-day strategic orientation workshop for the Medical Committee Netherlands Vietnam (MCNV). The objective of the workshop is to think about the future of the MCNV, its role and functioning in a changing Vietnam and arrive at a number of viable strategies for the coming 5 to 10 years.

Institutional Review of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research in Karachi for the Dutch Federation of Trade Unions (FNV-Mondiaal). The review aimed at making changes in management, structure and systems to adjust the organisation of the rapid changes that have taken place in Pakistan and worldwide.

Sri Lanka

A problem solving one-week assignment for HIVOS and NOVIB to work together with board and management of the Agromart Foundation and Agro Micro Finance and assist in a change process.

Providing Human Resource Management training for three days in a training of ten days to Heads of Mission of Doctors Without Borders Belgium (MSF).

A short, 6-day, internal evaluation of the programme of WEMOS, health for all, in Amsterdam. The evaluation looked specifically at effectiveness and efficiency of the strategic components of the programme: lobby, co-operation with partners in the south, and campaigning.

Dutch Federation of Trade Unions FNV

Evaluation of the FNV-IUF Outreach project in Pakistan. FNV is the Federation of Dutch Trade Unions, while IUF is the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations. The purpose of the evaluation was to assess the achievements and weaknesses of project operations and to make recommendations for future project activities.

A Human Resource Management (HRM) trajectory for the Dutch co-financing organisation ICCO for their partner Development and Cooperation in Central Asia (DCCA) in Bishkek, Central Asia. The consultancy assignment provided for HRM training separately for the director and for the staff, the setting up of an HRM system.

Mission of the Regional Office of HIVOS (Humanistic Institute for Co-operation with Developing Countries) in India. Facilitation of a workshop and detailed discussions with staff on organisational culture, work processes en personal efficiency as a rounding of a rejuvenation process, which started a year ago.

Swiss Development Cooperation SDC

Evaluation of the Civil Society Human and Institutional Development Program (CHIP) of Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) in with a focus on the North-Western Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan. Being the team leader, working together with three Pakistani colleagues, to assess the relevance, the effectiveness, the efficiency and sustainability of CHIP and to provide SDC Pakistan with options for designing the next phase of CHIP.

Macedonian Centre for International Cooperation MCIC

Evaluating the methodologies for organisational support used by programs of the Macedonia Centre for International Co-operation (MCIC) in Skopje, Macedonia. The evaluation resulted in an improved definition of organisational support; a review and comparative analysis of the applied methodologies in MCIC identified best practices and provided recommendations for improved approaches.

Training staff of Artsen Zonder Grenzen (AZG, e.g. the Dutch Médécins Sans Frontiers) in Human Resource Management (HRM) components (review meetings, ‘bad news’ discussions, and competency management) and train AZG staff in how to become good trainers (TOT).

Training the members of PSO in organisation assessment. PSO is a branch organisation for capacity building of civil society organisations in developing countries. + 120 persons were trained in 8 times a 3-day training session. Course contents and methodology were designed to help the participants to increase their knowledge on analysis and assessment of organisations and on how to arrive at and formulate appropriate strategies.

Evaluation of REMDEC, an independent consulting firm (Jakarta); is specialising in community based resource management and in the development of consulting services. The evaluation had been commissioned by HIVOS, one of the Dutch co-financing institutions with the objectives to provide HIVOS with an insight (to provide REMDEC with the opportunity to reflect on) in the functioning and impact of the capacity building program.

Training the project staff of CORDAID staff, a co-financing organisation in the Netherlands, in organisational analysis and strategic orientation. The training also dealt with the often-difficult relationship between donor and recipient organisation, where the donor would like to be a partner and advisor/facilitator of the organisation.

Workshop on participatory monitoring & evaluation with focus on the development of social indicators for staff of Trocaire, an Irish NGO.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Delivering of an Institutional Development & Organisational Strengthening training to the two Ministries of Agriculture of Bosnia and Herzegovina (republic of Srpska and of the federation Bosnia and Herzegovina). All participants were part of a European Union Project: “Institutional Support to the Ministries of Agriculture”.

Monitoring mission for the Dutch co-financing organization NOVIB in Montenegro (part of former Yugoslavia). The progress of two projects of the education trade union ITUE needed to be assessed. One project was on Capacity Building, while the other was in response to the deteriorating situation in the country.

Team-leader for four external evaluations in Central Asia. The purpose of the evaluations was to provide information to the Dutch co-financing organisation ICCO and to the four NGOs to be evaluated, about needed adjustment of objectives, policies and strategies and to assist the organisations in shaping their organizations and programs.

Sri Lanka

Facilitation of a two-day workshop for NOVIB partner managers in Sri Lanka on Gender and Organizational Development. The objective of the workshop was to work on gender-balanced organizations where gender and organizational development are integrated.

Macedonian Centre for International Cooperation MCIC

Training in Human Resource Management (HRM) for a local NGO, the Macedonia Centre for International Co-operation (MCIC) in Skopje. A five-day training course for managers, human resource managers and trainers in HRM.

Follow-up mission to assess and review the developments at the Regional Office of HIVOS in Bangalore, to appraise the personnel changes and the relationship between the Regional Office staff and their colleagues at Head Office and to advise HIVOS.

Centre for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia CSRDG

Upgrading a program document for the Centre for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia (CSRDG) in Tbilisi. This included the preparation of interlinked log frames, the formulation of indicators and outcomes, results and purpose of the program.

Conducting training in Human Resource Management to representative of three Ministries in Jordan.

Consultancy mission to Bangalore, India, to reorganize and restructure the regional office of HIVOS (Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries). It was a very specific mission during which attitudes and behavioural patterns needed to change in order for the regional office to continue to function. The communication with the head office in The Hague was unproductive and needed to change into a more constructive one.

Deliver 2 training courses in Institutional Development and Organisational Strengthening for Managers of NGOs in Moldova.

IAAC - Irish Aid Advisory Committee

Facilitating a participatory in-depth study of Capacity Building with Irish NGO’s, receiving funds from Ireland Aid, for the Irish Aid Advisory Committee (IAAC) in Dublin.

Training of youth leaders, logistics managers and other relief staff in Organisational Development and Institutional Strengthening for the American organization UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) in Gjilan, one of the towns affected by the ethnic conflict between Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo.

Project formulation mission to Tbilisi for the Dutch co-financing organization NOVIB, for the second Phase of the Local Democracy Development Program. The mission was to improve the organisation of LDD, upgrade and format the content of the proposal and solve a problem between two participating local organisations.

Centre for Training and Consultancy CTC

Training in Organisational Development for Advisors and Trainers (ODAC) in Tbilisi, for the staff of CTC, a consultancy and training organisation.

Policy Officer Central Asia. Responsible for the programs, supported by the Protestant Churches, in Central Asia, more specifically in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Policy development, identification of new partners, monitoring and evaluation form part of the duties.

consultant and director

Senior Consultant. Support a bilateral project (Agriculture Man Ecology - AME) of the Netherlands Government and the Government of India in its transition phase from project to organization with critical management issues. This was a part-time assignment (40%) and included also representation of ETC in India as its India-Director.

Sri Lanka

Self-help Support Program SSP

of SWISS Intercooperation IC

Director. The Self-help Support Program (SSP) was initiated in 1988 to improve the socio-economic living conditions of the rural poor in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka. The program supports, through a small co-ordination office in Colombo, Government and NGO institutions with a focus on Rural Credit, Rehabilitation of minor irrigation works (village tanks), participatory Rural Appraisal, Institutional Development and Organizational Strengthening.

In an attempt to decentralize decision-making procedures HIVOS decided to set up regional offices. The regional representative is responsible for the management of the office, policy development and implementation, identifying new areas for co-operation, feedback to Head Office and representing HIVOS in India.

Consultant. An assignment to look at privatization of development co-operation, for the inspection department (IOV) of the Dutch Ministry of Development Co-operation, through the Institute of Social Studies Advisory Services, affiliated to the ISS in The Hague.

Project Officer Asia Desk. Responsible for the identification, processing of applications, monitoring and evaluating of ongoing projects in Sri Lanka and South India.

Sri Lanka, Philippines

Rural Development and Urban Poverty visits.

Preparation for a Youth Council.