MSc Tropical Agriculture & Forestry, Wageningen University; 20 years actively involved in international development cooperation. Experience with field research, capacity building and strengthening of local organizations, advisory work and programme management in different countries; also with documentation and publication of articles in the field of (sustainable) rural development as author or editor. Currently strong ambition to motivate, guide and support NGOS and/or local government agencies in realistic planning and strengthening capacities for participatory development processes and business development.
COURSES

1990 Women and Development, African Highlands Initiative, Kenya
1991 Advanced Management and Leadership, MDF, Ede
1996 Gender and Development, ETC International, Kenya
1998 Post-doctoral Pedagogy, Wageningen University
2000 Advisory skills and change management, SNV, Uganda
2002 Gender mainstreaming, GTZ, Indonesia
2003 Post-harvest technologies and marketing, CRS, Indonesia
2004 Advocacy and influencing policy makers, Vredeseilanden, Indonesia
2004 Organic certification of smallholders produce, SKAL/Swiss Contact/Cordaid, Indonesia
2010 Leading professionals, NCOI, Utrecht

Skills:
• Fluent in English and Indonesian; fair knowledge of French and Spanish;
• Writing and editing;
• Lively presentations.

Competencies: Proactive, analytic, inventive, stress-proof and sociable.

PERSONAL INTERESTS AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Amateur photographer
• Pilot (Private Pilot License)
• Youth work (volunteer) in home city Eindhoven



• Referees from Africa, Indonesia, Belgium or the Netherlands available on request.

May 2012 - present: Owner & consultant; Doe Je Verhaal, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Freelance consultant, writer and facilitator of documentation processes.

2008 - May 2012: Director & youth coach
DARE2GO, Youth & Mission Foundation, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
Management of the organization and its programmes; preparation and placing of young volunteers on social projects in the tropics.
• General management of the organization and further development of its programmes in collaboration with partner organizations in developing countries and with several organizations in the Netherlands;
• Management of change: prepared the organization for the next decade (DARE2GO);
• Responsible for general financial management and acquisition of funds;
• Training and coaching of young adults;
• Developed training modules for volunteers;
• Developed organizational learning tools;
• Duty travel to partner organizations abroad.

2005 - 2008: Senior editor & researcher
ILEIA Foundation, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Production of magazines and networking on sustainable rural development (LEISA).
• Developed themes and stories from the field in collaboration with international resource persons;
• Production of the quarterly magazine LEISA Magazine (now Farming Matters);
• Capacity building of international partners within the Agricultures Network; work visits to partners in Senegal, India and Peru;
• Development of practical documentation methods for organizational learning and facilitated international workshops on documentation of project experiences;

2 months in 2005: Programme evaluator
World Education, Indonesia
Evaluation of the rural development programme in Berau, Kalimantan, Indonesia.
• Designed evaluation methods and implemented field research in Berau;
• Reported back to, and advised the management of World Education in Indonesia on the way ahead with strong focus on capacity building of parties involved and on monitoring and evaluation for organizational learning.

2000 - 2005: Advisor sustainable rural development
Vredeseilanden Foundation, Leuven, Belgium - stationed in Indonesia
Capacity building of NGOs and Farmer Organizations/Networks; programme management for development of sustainable agricultural practices and business development.
• Advisor to about 50 partner organizations on 7 major islands in Indonesia;
• Capacity building of farmer unions and farmer networks on Java;
• Development of learning tools for planning (NGOs and own organization);
• Value chain development for rice (including introduction SRI);
• Market research in Eastern Indonesia; certification process for organic cashew nut production, processing and marketing on Flores Island;
• Participatory research on indigenous knowledge and wisdom for inclusion in development planning for food security and business development;
• Founder and chief editor of the Indonesian magazine SALAM on sustainable development;

1999 - 2000: Flexible advisor sustainable agriculture
SNV, The Hague, The Netherlands - stationed in Uganda
Advisor to local district government, NGOs and private initiatives in West Nile.
• Strengthening agricultural departments in 4 districts on technical issues of food security and planning;
• Advisor to district councils on development plans;
• Market research in 2 districts (cotton, tobacco, dry beans, fish, livestock);
• Research/publication Agroforestry Trees for West Nile Province.

3 months in 1998: Researcher
Bos en Hout Foundation, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Collection of experimental data.
• Field measurements on energy plantations for biomass production.


1994 - 1998: Technical advisor to Kenya Woodfuel and Agroforestry Programme
ETC International, Leusden, The Netherlands – stationed in East Africa
Capacity building of project teams in 8 districts in Western Kenya.
• Daily management support to Kenyan team leader;
• Field visits, on-the-job training and facilitation of workshops with/for project staff;
• Development of monitoring and evaluation systems for the programme;
• Leading the food security programme in all districts;
• Developed new approaches to (mass) awareness creation;
• Contacts with funding agencies and other stakeholders;
• Development of a national tree seed policy for farmers (KARI, KEFRI, ICRAF);
• Value chain development for local coffee in Western Kenya;
• Research into feeding supplements from trees for poultry (FAO-publication);
• Participation in international meetings by FAO (Senegal, Thailand, India)
• Documented 12 years of programme experiences and results (1998);

1988 - 1993: Associate researcher at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
DGIS, Min. Of For. Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands – stationed in Kenya
Support to researchers and management of the agroforestry network in East Africa.
• Applied agroforestry research for food security in Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda;
• Management of new research project in coffee-zone of Embu District, Kenya;
• Developed ethnobotany as an important research issue within the agroforestry network;
• Training of researchers and extension workers on participatory approaches (monitoring & evaluation and planning);

1983 - 1987: Researcher and assistant lecturer
Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Support to research and training of students in several university departments.
• Socio-economic research with cassava and rice/cocoa farmers in the Dominican Republic (one full year);
• Assistant lecturer in the departments Philosophy and Tropical Production;
• Researcher/writer for PROSEA (Plant Resources of South East Asia).