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Annex 4 – Evaluators’ CVs
Abbreviated CV
Juliette Majot
2203 McGee
Berkeley CA 94703
510 649 7766
(cell) 510 684 1834
jmmajot@gmail.com
Summary
Independent consultant with 25 years of professional experience serving the broader
community of organizations and individuals dedicated to social justice, human rights,
women’s rights, environmental justice, indigenous rights, cultural integrity and economic
justice. Expertise in international campaigns involving wide ranging coalitions, requiring
strategic and tactical diversity from the grassroots level to the international policy NGO level;
advocacy journalism; NGO executive management and development. Expertise in grant
making, evaluation and strategic development.
Professional Background
March 2005 - present: Independent consultant to non-governmental and civil society
organizations, individual donors and foundations.
Major Contracts
The Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace
Served as one of two community organizers responsible for interviewing and evaluating the
input of representatives of 100 foundations regarding their approaches to social justice
philanthropy. Directly contributed to the design and implementation of a four-day convening
of the representatives held in Cairo, Egypt, February, 2009. The purpose of the convening
was to further develop the field of philanthropy for social justice and peace through
strengthening association and sharing of experience and expertise.
The Ford Foundation, Peace and Justice Program, Governance and Civil Society Unit,
The Ford Foundation (NY)
Phase One Strategy Evaluation:
Research and evaluation of the evolution and application of strategies in the Strengthening
Global Civil Society Portfolio (under Lisa Jordan), from 2001 – 2007. Responsibilities
included design of the evaluation process; internal and external interviews with Ford staff,
select grantees, and other experts in the field; oversight and advisor for quantitative analysis;
analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data; organization and facilitation of convening
of selected grantees for in-depth investigation of contextual evolution; and recommendations
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for outcome evaluation and strategic development. Author, “Strategies as Reflected in the
Strengthening Global Civil Society Portfolio, 2001 – 2007”, January, 2008.
Phase Two Outcome Evaluation:
Member of two-member team (with Ricardo Wilson Grau) to undertake outcome mapping
and evaluation of the Strengthening Global Civil Society Portfolio. Responsibilities included
refinement and customization of methodology to field, one-on-one written evaluative
exercise with grantees, organization of data, generation of analysis and findings, design and
facilitation of two-day meeting to report findings back to select grantees, as well as to select
group of additional Ford Foundation program and management staff. ”Mid-Term Review –
Phase Two Outcomes of the Ford Foundation’s Strengthening Civil Society Portfolio”,
Juliette Majot and Ricardo Wilson-Grau, October, 2008.
The Bloomberg Initiative on Tobacco Control, Tobacco Free Kids Action Fund
Responsibilities in 2007 included directly advising the director of the Tobacco Free Kids
Action Fund (TFKAF) on its first round Call for Proposals; and the initial design of the grant
making and evaluation processes. In 2008 responsibilities included design and
implementation of procesess for evaluating learning amongst grantors and grantees in the
identification and provision of technical assistance to tobacco-control campaigns in less
developed countries.
CS Mott Foundation
Responsibilities included direct grantee negotiations evaluation and recommendations for
grant renewals.
The Wallace Global Foundation
Responsibilities included preparation of internal strategic environmental grant making
options paper for board consideration.
Management and Strategic Planning Consultant
Clients include: Pesticide Action Network North America (San Francisco); The League of
Young (Pissed Off) Voters (New York), The Bank Information Center (Washington DC), and
the Center for Genetics and Society (Oakland, CA).
Activist, Advocacy, and Organizing Experience
1999-March, 2005
Executive Director, International Rivers Network (IRN)
(Note: In 2008, IRN’s name was shortened to “International Rivers”)
IRN works with communities outside the US in their efforts to protect both cultural and
environmental integrity through the protection of river systems and watersheds and
promotion of locally and regionally appropriate water and energy supply systems. Ultimately,
IRN’s goal is to support the legitimacy and effectiveness of the voices of many different
communities whose lives and cultures depend on healthy and vibrant living river systems.
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IRN’s work aims to address myriad aspects of social justice, particularly human rights,
women’s rights, economic justice, as well as the application of democratic principles in
global governance arrangements. Highly respected by peers, International Rivers is an
international NGO whose commitment to excellence in activism is exemplary and whose
commitment to internal organizational strength and health is also widely recognized.
As Executive Director, my responsibilities covered all aspects of NGO advocacy
organizational management including: organizational development; human resources
management; strategic development; program implementation and evaluation; board
development; financial management; operations; communications (internal/external); and
fundraising (individual donor/foundation/event planning). The work also required deep
experience with and respect for the hyper-sensitive dynamics and intricacies of international
programs and campaigns.
1989-1999
Campaigner and Editor, International Rivers Network (IRN)
Responsibilities required developing a high level of competency in all aspects of strategic
planning and implementation of campaigns to protect river systems and promote social
justice in a many parts of the world. This work was always in collaboration with local,
regional, national, and international organizations, and following the leadership of local
communities first.
Work was instrumental in the early analysis, development and implementation of
international campaigns (including leadership and participation in international multi-issue
coalitions) to reform policies and practices of international bi- and multilateral finance
institutions, chief among them the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and
regional development banks.
Work required a high level of competency in research, writing, and publishing, including
serving as editor of the IRN flagship publication, World Rivers Review; and co-founding
editor and contributing writer of BankCheck Quarterly.
1986- 1989
Independent editor, Oxford, England
1985-86
Energy Campaigner, Friends of the Earth, UK
1981-1985
Friends of the Earth, US. Began as Office Manager, and was promoted to post of Deputy
Director before transferring to FOE UK.
Major Publications
Author, “Strategies as Reflected in the Strengthening Global Civil Society Portfolio 2001 –
2007”, internal report prepared for Lisa Jordan, Deputy Director, Governance and Civil
Society Unit, Peace and Justice Program, The Ford Foundation, January, 2008
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Author, “On Trying to Do Good Well: Practicing Participatory Democracy through
International Advocacy Campaigns,” concluding chapter in “NGO Accountability: Politics,
Principles, and Innovations”, Lisa Jordan and Peter van Tuijl, Eds, Earthscan Publications,
London, Sterling VA, 2006
Editor, contributing author, Restructured Rivers, International Rivers Network, 164 pp., 2001
Editor, contributing author, Beyond Big Dams, International Rivers Network, 134 pp., 1995
Founding editor, contributing writer, BankCheck Quarterly, Development Group for
Alternative Policies, International Rivers Network, 16 to 24 pp., 1994-1999
Editor, contributing writer, World Rivers Review (bimonthly), International Rivers Network,
16 pp., 1989-1994. Contributing writer, 1994-2005.
Editor, The Political Economy of Rural Poverty: The Case for Land Reform, M. Riad ElGhonemy, Routledge, New York and London, 337 pp., 1990
Editor, contributing author, Critical Decision: Should Britain Buy the Pressurized Water
Reactor: A Report on the Sizewell Inquiry, Friends of the Earth, UK, 99pp., 1986
Board Memberships
1999-2005
Global Advisory Board, Global Greengrant Fund, Boulder, CO
2003-2005
International Finance Institution, Grant making Board, Global Greengrants Fund, Boulder,
CO
Current Board Memberships
The Bank Information Center, Washington DC
Advisory Board Memberships
Blue Frontier, Washington DC, Richmond, CA
EcoEquity, Berkeley, CA
International Rivers, Berkeley, CA
Fellowship Selection Committee Member
Compton Mentor Fellowships
The Compton Foundation
Education
B.S., Management, Purdue University, 1973
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PERSONAL DATA
Wolfgang Richert
Van Ostadestraat 220-1
NL – 1073 TT Amsterdam
Tel: +31.6.43087687
Email: wolf@wolfgangrichert.nl
www.wolfgangrichert.nl
Date and place of birth: 5 March 1966; Itzehoe/Germany
AAREA’s OF EXPERTISE
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Research in all area’s related unsustainable commodity production, South-North
trade; ecological as well as social issues; all related sectors;
Evaluation of and strategic advice on NGO programs, projects or campaigns;
Analysing, avoiding and resolving (natural resource) conflicts; mediation;
Deforestation, sustainable forest management, certification and accreditation;
Policy analysis and political solutions;
Facilitation of partnerships and multi-stakeholder processes with strong intercultural
experiences;
Coaching and training.
WORKEXPERIENCE
11/08 – present
Independent consultant, mediator and facilitator:
WOLF; Environmental Advice & Conflict Solutions
Recent projects:
- Evaluation of Milieudefensie’s biofuels campaign
- Advice on FairFood’s research methodology
- Moderator for NCIV’s expert dialogue
- Research coordinator for Greenpeace Netherlands
- Design program for WISE regarding Uranium mining in Africa
- Training for Greenpeace International staff on conflict solutions methods
- Aikido workshops for management trainings
07/07 – 10/08 Global coordinator on bioenergy Greenpeace International (GPI)
Task: to help Greenpeace to understand the issue and to develop a clear and
workable position. This includes coordination of research, facilitation of internal
debates and resolution of conflicts and discussions between different campaigns
(climate, forests and agriculture) and between different offices all over the world.
11/06 – 07/07: Coordinator forest campaign
(GPNL)
Greenpeace
Netherlands
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Task: team leader of Greenpeace Netherlands’ forest campaign. Also: to
coordinate national strategy with Greenpeace International and the other 31
Greenpeace offices worldwide.
09/01 – 11/06:
Senior consultant
AIDEnvironment
As (informal) teamleader responsible for the development of the RETRAC team
that seeked to do innovative research and give strategic advice regarding conflicts
around natural resources extraction globally. We continuously played an
important role for Dutch NGOs (mainly), the ministries and the sector on forest
issues. We initiated and supported several NGO coalitions and multi-stakeholder
processes.
 Management: co-leadership of the team and project leader.
 Core business of the team: Strategic research and advice for NGOs (70%),
governments (20%) and corporations (10%).
 Content: All forest issues, (illegal) timber, palmolie, soya and biomass,
certification, trade flows and financing. Other issues: major dams, WTO,
oil&gas.
 Process facilitation, such as conflict settlement (mediation in case
Greenpeace/timber trader Reef) and facilitation of several multi-stakeholder
dialogues.
 Clients (amongst others): Environmental and social NGOs (Friends of the
Earth, Greenpeace, WWF, Oxfam, ICCO), Dutch ministry of environment,
DOEN Foundation, timber traders, timber trade and paper association.
09/97 - 08/01: Policy advisor
The Greens in the Dutch parliament
Task: responsible for all international and national environmental issues. The
core task of a policy advisor in this faction is to steer and facilitate strategic
choices, develop political positions, prepare debates in the parliament for the
MPs, networking and knowlegde-management.
 Portfolio: Environmental policy (general, national and international), energyand climate policy, spacial planning and (for a short period) transport and
Schiphol.
 In this period the Kyoto Protocol and its implementation agreements were
high on the political agenda. Also the liberalisation of the EU- and NL
energy-sector, sustainable energy and the closing-down of the only Dutch
nuclear power plant were in the discussion.
 Special task: direct support of a bill (initiatiefwet) for mandatory labelling of
timber on the Dutch market of MP Ms. Vos, including its legal and WTO
aspects.
 Support election campaign.
08/94 - 08/97: Policymaker
DCMR Milieudienst Rijnmond
The DCMR is the governmental organisation responsible for the environmental
permits in the region of the Rotterdam harbour. I was part of a team that was
responsible for the innovation of this permit-system. At the end this innovation
was not very successful because it was only voluntary without legislative
support.
 Project leader for two issues: Chain management and emissions from
transport.
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Co-ordinator of an international co-operation between DCMR and similar
organisations in Germany, France, Belgium and the UK.
01/94 - 06/94: Researcher and jun. campaigner
Friends of the Earth NL
 Execution of two researches within the packaging campaign.
01/94 - 12/94: Researcher
Wageningen University
 Research for the faculty of (environmental) sociology and building-up an
international network on chain management.
Early 80s - mid 90s: Volunteer and activist
 In environmental organisations, the solidarity movement for Latin America
and the fair-trade movement in Germany.
CONFLICTS AND COACHING
 Since ‘88: Student in the Japanese defence art Aikido. Present grade: 4th Dan
 ‘93 - ’98: Aikido teacher at the Aikido school in Wageningen.
 ‘03:- ’08: Senior-assistant in the Aikido Centre Amsterdam.
 ’08 – present: Aikido teacher at Dschen Dui Budo school in Santpoort
 Since September ‘07: certified coach for Greenpeace project leaders and project teams
 Since June ’08: NMI registered Mediator
 ’94 until present: Member of a peer group of environmental professionals.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
1991 - 1994
Environmental studies (Milieuhygiëne); MSc
Wageningen University (NL)
Mainly connected to the faculty of (Environmental) Sociology.
 Thesis on Ecological Modernisation.
 Practical studies with the Zuid-Hollandse Milieufederatie (provincial NGO):
Energy issues in the environmental permit (6 months).
1988 - 1991
Environmental Technology; BSc
Technical University Berlin (GER)
Here also: (international) environmental law, -economy and -philosophy.
Until 1985
Gymnasium in Bremerhaven. Examination with the subjects math, English,
physics and psychology.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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 10/03 – 06/07: Dutch Centre for Indigenous People (NCIV): Board Member.
 02/86 – 09/87: Alternative service for conscientious objectors at the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in
Bremerhaven, Germany. Tasks: old-age assistance and ambulant nursing.
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Ricardo Wilson-Grau
Oude Singel 184, 2312 RH Leiden, Netherlands
Rua Marechal Marques Porto 2/402, Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, CEP 20270-260, Brasil
Tels: 1 347 404 5379 and 55 21 2284 6889 Skype: ricardowilsongrau
E-mail: ricardo.wilson-grau@inter.nl.net
Background
Key consultancy competencies: Evaluation of social change organisations, organisational
development and sustainability, strategic risk management, team leader, trouble-shooting,
facilitation, and editing and writing in Spanish and English.
Development. Extensive knowledge of political, social and economic development
challenges rooted in forty years of practice as community development worker, project
manager, educator, journalist, businessman, director, environmentalist, foreign aid advisor,
consultant and evaluator.
Organisational change. Diverse achievements in designing innovative solutions to strategic
challenges in a variety of non-profit development organisations and private international
funding agencies.
Cross-cultural. Professional experience in over seventy countries. Ability to work creatively
with multi-national groups of people.
Principal Professional Experience
EVALUATOR AND ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
N.B. Does not include on-going assignments.
Plataforma Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Democracia y Desarrollo
(PIDHDD), Asunción, Paraguay
Lead a summative evaluation of the performance and outcomes in 2006-2009 of this human
rights network with 15 national chapters in Latin America and the Caribbean. January-July
2009.
Reproductive Health Working Group (RHWG), Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS),
American University of Beirut
Advise the regional consultative committee and the coordinator of the RHWG Middle East
network on how to analyze its impact, January 2009.
Ford Foundation, New York, USA
Lead an outcomes evaluation of the Strengthening Global Civil Society Portfolio 2000-2008
involving 36 NGO, network and academic grantees around the world, June-October, 2008.
IDRC – International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
Lead a participatory formative evaluation of IDRC’s PAN programme of support to four
ICT4D research networks in Asia, February-July 2008.
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HIVOS - Humanist Institute for Co-operation with Developing Countries, The Hague,
Netherlands
 Lead a participatory, summative evaluation of the Hivos Art and Culture Programme
2002-2006 supporting 32 NGO and network counterparts and over 70 micro-projects in
six Central American countries, August 2007-May 2008.
 Lead a participatory, capacity-building evaluation process of the seven-member Asian
Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, June-September, 2005.
 Lead the facilitation of an internal evaluation by the members of the Copenhagen
Initiative for Central America and Mexico (CIFCA) network of 37 European private
donor agencies, March-April 2005.
 Lead the evaluation of the outcomes of Hivos’s 1999-2004 Environmental Programme of
support for thirteen NGO, network and member-based counterparts in nine Latin
American countries, November 2004-February 2005.
 Organise and facilitate a two-day workshop for a dozen Hivos and Novib programme
officers on Understanding Social Change Networks—The Challenge for Funding
Agencies, The Hague, June 2003.
 Lead the evaluation of the Oilwatch international network, with members in fifty
countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, November 2002-January 2003.
Agribusiness Accountability Initiative, Baltimore, September 2007 – January 2008
Execute a formative evaluation of this international network’s programme and operations for
the Secretariat and Global Advisory Council as AAI and its 70+ members enter into a new
phase of development.
Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, The Hague, June-September
2007
Advise on a capacity-building programme to strengthen the global and 15 regional
secretariats of the GPPAC network.
Forum-Asia Bangkok, May-June 2007
Lead a participatory outcomes evaluation of this 40-member human rights and development
network.
Ibase (Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analyses), Rio de Janeiro, May-June, 2007
Advise on strategic results monitoring for this NGO devoted to campaigning and advocacy
on the international and national levels.
International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience, New York City, AprilMay 2007
Support the director in the last stage of the Coalition’s strategic planning process. Involved
consultation with 70 members, preparation of planning documents and facilitation of the
strategic planning committee’s deliberations and agreement on a new more decentralised
network structure and a financial plan for a major increase in funding and staffing.
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, Bonn, February-April 2007
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Advise and support the manager for strategic relations on the design and implementation of a
process to identify advocacy partners for the IFOAM network. New relationships with nine
partners established and incipient working relations with five.
UNEP-GPA, The Hague, February-March 2007
Advise on the design of a methodology for monitoring and assessing UNEP-GPA’s
outcomes.
OXFAM Novib
 Design and facilitate a workshop for 12 programme officers on complexity and other civil
society organizations, September 2007
 Design and facilitate a workshop for 20 programme officers on managing grantee and
advocacy relationships with international social change networks, May 2007
 Facilitate a participatory mid-term review of the two-year old, multi-million euro KIC
project, an infrastructure to support knowledge exchange between organisations,
principally amongst Oxfam grantees and between them and the Oxfam family, December
2006-April, 2007
Desarrollo Agrícola del Paraguay, November, 2006
Introduce strategic risk management into this multi-million dollar agricultural development
project run by a private sector-civil society consortium with economic, social and
environmental objectives.
XILOTL, Mexico DF, June 2006
Design regional consultancy service for a German funding agency.
OXFAM International
 Design a strategic risk management methodology and facilitate strategic planning
processes for the seven national and two regional Oxfam International teams in South
America and in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. The teams of Bolivia,
Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Perú produced national strategic risk
management plans for 2007-2010. September, 2005-June 2006.
 Facilitate the strategic planning processes for the regional Oxfam International teams in
South America, the Middle East and South Asia. The three regional teams produced
“strategic programme business plans” for 2001-2004. September 1999-February 2000.
HOM - Humanist Committee on Human Rights, Utrecht, Netherlands
Facilitate the workshop of a dozen African organisations that created RADIF – African
Network Against Forced Disappearances, June 2003.
11.11.11 – Coalition of the Flemish North-South Movement, Brussels, Belgium
Co-facilitate an internal workshop to support the organisational strategic shift from project
grants to advocacy, June 2001.
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AVINA Foundation, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA (and Hurden, Switzerland)
Critically review and re-write (in Spanish and English) the new, 56-page institutional
strategic framework, September-November 2000.
Inter-American Foundation, Washington, DC, USA, 1988-1989
Advise the senior representative of the Foundation for Central America and Panama on
strategic options for funding socio-economic development projects in Belize, Guatemala, El
Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
SENIOR ADVISOR, Netherlands Organisation for International Development Co-operation
(OXFAM Novib), The Hague, 1993 to 2006.
Through an internal consultancy mode, provide professional capacity-building support in The
Hague and in Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa for directors, managers and
programme staff annually granting €150 million-plus to 900 non-governmental organisations in
the Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Africa. Principal responsibility
for improving the quality of the relationship between the eight bureaux of the grant-making
Project Department and their grantees. Major areas of responsibility and achievement:
Research, develop and introduce strategic risk management as a new instrument for
decision-making, when Novib shifted its grant-making strategy from a thematic
orientation to one that is rights-based, and its primary focus from performance to results.
 Design and facilitate the implementation of a risk management approach to the
Project Department’s 2007-2010 strategic plan, resulting in 30 country and regional
programme strategies, 2005-2006.
 Design and facilitate workshops on strategic risk management for NGO leaders and
consultants in Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique, Pakistan,
Paraguay, Perú and Somalia, 2004-2005.
 Lead a team introducing an opportunity and risk appraisal methodology for grant
making, 2001- 2006
- Research and develop the “Toolbox” methodology for the appraisal of grant
requests
- Design and implement field-training for over 100 desk officers, bureau heads,
directors and external advisory committee members in the new methodology
- Oversee the on-going training of new desk officers and quality control of the use
of the methodology
Develop and support the implementation of regional, country and thematic
strategies that dovetailed successfully with deep, rapid organisational change in Novib—
new mission and long-term institutional objectives, transition to new leadership, and
integration into Oxfam International.
 Research and develop Novib’s results-based development methodology, including
workshops with counterparts in Bolivia and India on the key concept of policy and
practice changes, 2004.
 Generate case studies on NGO accountability in South Asia, 2001.
 Facilitate strategic planning processes of the nine Oxfams active in South
 America, the Middle East and the Maghreb, and Central and South Asia, 1999-2000.
 Counsel the negotiation of an Oxfam International programme in South Africa, 1998.
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Strengthen Novib support for NGO lobbying in Bolivia, 1997.
Assess the advocacy potential of NGOs in Zimbabwe, 1996.
Assess the potential of NGO networks in Central America, 1995.
Research and promote internal discussion for initiation of a Novib programme in
Cuba, and accompany its implementation, 1994-1996.
Review and renew organisational policies and procedures that ensured Novib’s grantmaking quality in a period when the number of grantees grew almost 50% and grantmaking staff and average grant size increased over 100%.
 Conduct a review of all Novib on-going consultancy arrangements in 30 countries.
Develop new consultancy guidelines and provide professional support for their
implementation, 1999-2002.
 Formulate Novib policy on capital grants in support of local development
foundations in middle-income countries, 2001.
 Organise and lead a review of Novib funding instruments, 2000.
 Lead a process of review of the core values, functions and competencies of Novib
grant-making, 1997.
 Design a funding model based on the notion of strategic planning and support its
introduction with partners in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru and South Africa,
1994-1998.
Foster financial sustainability of NGO partners in a period of fundamental reorientation of international development assistance.
 Accompany Novib bureau heads and desk officers supporting select partners in
Mexico, Central and South America and Asia in making the transition from NGOs to
entrepreneurial consultancy organisations, 1993-1996.
 Develop with Bangladeshi grantees an exposure (educational) programme to their
work for NGO leaders from other parts of the world, 1997.
 Manage a process to promote diversification of the funding base of Novib grantees in
Latin America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, 1994-1996.
Troubleshoot strategic problems within Novib and in relationships with grantees and
consultants in two dozen countries, from Bulgaria to Afghanistan, Indonesia to Colombia,
Guatemala to Mozambique, Tanzania to Lebanon, 1993-2006.
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN CO-ORDINATOR, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam, 19901993.
Provide leadership and management for the second largest of the five Greenpeace campaigns.
Supervise international projects campaigning against toxics problems—pesticides, chlorine
bleaching of pulp and paper, hazardous waste incineration, and waste trade—, and
campaigning for environmentally sound, economically viable and socially just means of
producing goods and services.
Assumed responsibilities at the apex of a ten-year period of rapid growth, with 65
international and 80 national toxics staff campaigning on a combined budget of US$10
million. Confronted a serious problem of fragmentation: seven international projects and
autonomous national programmes in 12 countries. In the first year, led all staff in a process of
defining a common mission and objectives. During the second year in a rapidly shifting
external context and unexpected financial contraction following ten years of rapid growth,
participated as a member of senior management that re-organised Greenpeace International.
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Included the transformation of the work of the Toxics Campaign into three smaller
campaigns: chlorine industry, forests and toxics trade. Managed to reduce staff and budget
25% while streamlining operations and maintaining the Campaign's effectiveness and social
relevance.
MANAGING DIRECTOR, Inforpress Centroamericana, Inc, Guatemala, 1980-1990
Assumed chief executive officer responsibilities when this then eight-year old news agency
was in the midst of crisis: bankrupt and under acute political pressures as revolution and
economic depression swept Central America. Guided the firm in a process of consolidation,
eliminating the money-losing graphic arts division and three of the five weekly newsletters.
Consolidated the two flagship publications, Inforpress Centroamericana and Central
America Report. Established the news agency as an award-winning source-of-choice for
decision-makers who required economic and political analysis of Central America.
Eventually, expanded the editorial staff, created a new information processing system, and
diversified the readership base from decision-makers and those who influence them in
Central America and the United States to over fifty countries. Developed a series of booklength reports, dossiers and studies. Raised donations to purchase majority shares in the
company, which were deposited in a trust to guarantee the firm’s social function and
professional management.
By 1990, the computerised firm employed 35 people in five departments: editorial,
information, administration and finance, production, and marketing.
DIRECTOR, Latin American Programme, Friends World College, Mexico and Guatemala,
1973-1980
Charged with the maintenance and development of an experiential, cross-cultural Bachelor of
Arts educational programme for an international student body. Responsible for educational
co-ordination, personnel and financial management, intra-college communication, public
relations, and student recruitment.
Developed programme from a centralised Mexico-based operation into a decentralised
regional programme with resident faculty advisers in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico and
Colombia, and with students throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
Roughly four-fifths of students' field projects and internships were in development related
fields: health, food and nutrition, agriculture, education, land reform, ecology, cottage
industry, social welfare, demography, and macro-economics. The other fifth were in the
plastic and performing arts, crafts, and literature. The number of professional staff ranged
from 5 to 12, servicing up to 45 students.
Designed a four-year core curriculum that was adopted college-wide. Created and promoted
a visiting student programme that attracted participants from North American and European
universities. Initiated special month-long programmes in health care and agricultural
development for groups of students from US colleges. Also, served as co-ordinator of senior
studies and as faculty adviser.
FIELD DIRECTOR, American Friends Service Committee, Guatemala, 1969-1973
Responsible for overall management, budgeting, accounting, support and supervision of
AFSC staff, reporting, evaluation, and development of relationships with Guatemalan social
actors and international agencies.
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From 1969 to 1971, directed, evaluated and phased-out the Voluntary International Service
Assignments programme providing young US volunteers to international and national service
and development organisations. Volunteers numbered up to 14 at a time.
Thereafter, originated and developed the Pilot Project in Rural Health with the schools of
medicine, dentistry and social work of the national Universidad de San Carlos. Served as coordinator of this effort to develop a paramedical, community controlled, rural health care
model for Guatemala. Special emphasis given to maternal and child care. Chaired the
committee of representatives from the three participating academic institutions and coordinated the activities of the field team. Served as a liaison with the Ministry of Public
Health, the Nutrition Institute of Central America and Panama (INCAP), and the broader
health profession.
Other Professional Employment
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Associación para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales en Guatemala
(AVANCSO), Guatemala, Central America, 1986-1988
With a group of Guatemalan social science colleagues, founded the AVANCSO research
institute. Responsible for fund-raising, overall organisation, personnel management,
budgeting, long-range planning and public relations.
EDITOR AND WRITER, Inforpress Centroamericana, Guatemala, Central America, 1979-1980
Directed Central America Report; included co-ordination of a small editorial staff and writing
portions of the weekly eight-page newsletter on the economic and political events in the
region.
LECTURER, Escuela de Servicio Social/Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala, Central
America, 1975-1976
Taught philosophy and social theory in the senior year of a university degree programme for
social workers.
EVALUATOR, Office of the Disaster Relief Co-ordinator of the United Nations, 1976
Under contract during March and April, directed a survey of the social needs caused by the
February 4 earthquake in 109 municipalities of Guatemala.
DIRECTOR OF CIRCULATION, The Publishers Group, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1966-1969
Responsible for the distribution of the weekly, monthly and annual publications of the largest
publisher of periodicals in the Caribbean.
Volunteer, U.S. Peace Corps, Caquetá, Colombia, 1963-1965
Trained as a surveyor, worked with the Colombian Agrarian Reform Institute (INCORA) to
measure the land of pioneer farmers and give them title. Thereafter, worked with the farming
communities in this frontier region as a promoter of rural community development. Assisted
in the construction of schools, bridges, school gardens and a tertiary road.
Sales Executive, P.F. Colliers, Newark, New Jersey, USA, 1962-1963
Rose from salesman to national trainer selling encyclopaedias in New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico.
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Other Professional Activities
Publications:
Writing for formal publication in both English and Spanish begins with "The Delivery of
Primary Health Care by Medical Auxiliaries: Techniques of Utilisation and Analysis of
Benefits Achieved in Some Rural Villages in Guatemala," with Jean Pierre Habicht, et al
(Pan American Health Organisation, 1973). Continues through the 1970s and 1980s with
articles, essays and book reviews in such diverse media as Science & Society, Christianity
and Crisis, Gerencia (the magazine of the Guatemalan Managers Association). More
recently:
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Evaluación de los Efectos de Redes Internacionales de Incidencia, artículo en Revista
Futuros (www.revistafuturos.org), noviembre 2008.
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Complexity and International Social Change Networks, chapter in Assessing Progress on
the Road to Peace, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, The Hague,
2008.
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“Participatory Evaluation”, @lliance Magazine, December 2007.
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“Evaluating International Social Change Networks: A Conceptual Framework for a
Participatory Approach”, with Martha Nuñez, Development in Practice, April 2007.
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“Strategic Risk Management in Seeking and Awarding Grants to Nonprofits”, chapter in
The Risk Management Yearbook 2005, Public Entity Risk Institute and the Nonprofit Risk
Management Center, Washington DC 2005, ISBN: 1-893210-19-7.
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“La gestión estratégica de riesgos para organizaciones de la sociedad civil”, in El futuro
de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil: incidencia e interés público, DECA Equipo
Pueblo, México DF, julio de 2005.
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“Strategic Risk Management for Development NGOs: The Case of a Grant-maker”, a
chapter in the Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations special issue
on nongovernmental organisations, Volume 2, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2004.
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“The Risk Approach to Strategic Management in Development NGOs”, in Development
in Practice, Volume 14, Number 3, November 2003.
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“Strengthening Civil Society: Novib’s Policy and Practice”, chapter in Rozen in de
Woestijn, Successvolle Vormen van Ontwikkelingssamenwerking, J.J.F. Heins and B.G.,
editors, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2003, ISBN 90-73418-09-7.
“Towards a Conceptual Framework for Evaluating International Social Change
Networks”, with Martha Nuñez, in English and Spanish, MandE NEWS, April 2003.
Writing for in-house publication, also in English and Spanish, ranges from the Friends World
College Handbook (1975) to hundreds of articles and numerous chapters in the Inforpress
Centroamericana weeklies and books (1980-1990) to Novib policy documents, booklets,
manuals (1993-2006). For example with Novib:
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Strategic Programme Management – Opportunity and Risk Assessment Instrument for
Core Countries and Regional Programmes, 2005, 11 pages.
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Toolbox: A Manual for Grant- Making Opportunity and Risk Appraisal, 2003, 2004 and
2005, 65 pages published in Spanish, French and Portuguese.
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NOVIB Consultancy Policy - Principles and Norms for the Project Department, 2000, 10
pages published in Spanish, French and Portuguese.
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Alternative Sources of Income for Novib Partners, 1994, 38 pages published in Spanish,
French, Portuguese and Thai.
CONFERENCES, LECTURES AND BRIEFINGS:
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In the 1980s, participation by special invitation in diverse conferences in the Americas
and Europe: from the Continental Debt Conference in Havana, July-August 1985 and the
SELA/ECLAC Which Way Latin America? conference at the University of Stockholm in
Sweden, June 1986, to the parliamentary meeting on Dutch Bilateral Aid to Central
America, at The Hague in November 1987 and the civil society-sponsored conference
Peace and Reconstruction in Central America: Choices for Canada, in Ottawa in May
1989.
In 1985 and 1987, lectured on the topic of political and economic events in Central
America at U.S. universities, including Columbia, NYU, Princeton, Johns Hopkins,
Michigan, Washington, Berkeley, and Stanford.
During 1980-1990, briefed diplomatic, governmental, academic, editorial and religious
foreign delegations and missions to Central America on the economic and political
situation in Guatemala and the region. In 1987, 1989 and 1990 invited to brief members
and staff of the U.S. Congress and the Swedish and Canadian parliaments, and the
editorial boards of The Washington Post, The New York Times, Baltimore Sun,
Newsday, and The Globe and Mail.
Education
MASTER OF ARTS, political economy, Goddard College, Vermont, 1974
BACHELOR OF ARTS, magna cum laude, social sciences, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1969
OTHER TRAINING: CIDOC, Mexico: health and education, 1970-71; Guatemalan Managers
Association - administration, financial management, marketing, business law, personnel
management, and direct mail promotion, 1981, 1983; Instituto Centroamericano de
Administración de Empresas (INCAE, Nicaragua and Costa Rica) - advanced financial
management, corporate strategy, marketing, 1985; Management Development Foundation
(Netherlands) - training the trainers, 1995; Community at Work (San Francisco, USA) –
facilitation and organisational diagnosis, 1999 and 2000; Qualitative Evaluation, The
Evaluators Institute (Washington DC, EUA), 2006.
Personal Information
NATIONALITIES: European Union/Netherlands and United States of America
LANGUAGES: Bilingual English/Spanish; Portuguese: excellent passive and good active;
Dutch: good passive and beginner’s active.
AWARDS: Poynter Fellow in Journalism, Yale University, 1985; Black belt, 1st Dan, Tae
Kwon Do, 1987
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