More than 25 years of experience in the area of media development, communication for development & empowerment, press freedom, civil society, human rights and gender. Broad experience in analysing communication needs, developing and designing, implementing and evaluating communication strategies and development projects. Since 1980 worked with women and gender as a cross-cutting theme of importance; community radio for development, empowerment and social change.
Powerful manager with capacity to instil teams with enthusiasm and direction. Proven ability to design and manage projects and deliver to tight deadlines, from programme planning, over implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and on to management, leadership, coaching and training. Extensive experience in carrying out needs assessment to design capacity development processes and to meet the needs identified for institutional strengthening, strategic planning and organisational development.
Good combination of thorough experience with overall research and hands-on facilitation of participatory processes at grass roots level. Policy analysis, design and reforms (including gender analysis, institutional, stakeholder analysis). Design of sustainability strategies, including focus on community ownership, community research for impact assessment, and partnership strategies. Effective trainer and workshop facilitator, focusing on participation & engagement, impact & change. Experienced and powerful speaker and conference moderator. Media mapping and elaboration, analysis and presentation of media landscapes accompanied by clearly presented recommendations and best way forward integrated in most work to build on what exists.
Increasingly high-level work with RBM / Logical Framework approach, M&E, Impact assessments and elaboration of strategic organisational M&E systems and tools. Carried out more than 25 evaluations (ex-ante, interim and ex-post), reviews and impact assessments – most of these as team leader. Has been evaluated 7 times.
Documenting experience in articles, presentations, documentary films.