Competences
Management experience
Since 2000 leadership experience with employed and free-lance consultants
Frequently team leader in evaluations and consultancies
Methodological competences
Since 1980 facilitation and training, frequently conducted training, engagement with theories of learning and concepts of participatory education
Since 1987 experience in development cooperation and intercultural competence
Since 1993 consultancy experience
Since 1996 more than 60 evaluations, reviews and studies with both international and local organisations in Africa, Asia, Europe and international organisations
Extensive experience in methods of data collection and analysis: quantitative and qualitative including hermeneutical and process-oriented
Technical competences
Familiar with the development cooperation and politics sector and international work
Since 2000 work on program theories, concepts of impact and impact assessment, Planning / Monitoring / Evaluation, project cycle management
Good knowledge of political processes, and advocacy in various contexts
Long-term work with disadvantaged groups, first in Apartheid South Africa, then for example with Dalits in South Asia
Work in a variety of sectors, high inter-disciplinary competence
Work in the sectors building, children’s rights, church cooperation and Diakonia, community development, developmental education, education and scholarships, environment and management of natural resources, fair trade, financial management, health / pharmaceutics / HIV and AIDS, human rights, income generation, IT-application and development, micro finance, online learning, peace and conflict, quality infrastructure, reconstruction after disasters, rural development and sustainable agriculture, tourism
Experience in organisational development, strategic planning, coaching; network management
Regional experience
Long term: Namibia (1996-2000), South Africa (1987-1988)
Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia, Botswana, Cape Verde Islands, Georgia, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, Russia, Slovak Republic, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe