Africa

> Ms Matias is a dynamic professional, an expert in policy issues, especially networking and lobbying, with 10+ years' experience in government and public affairs in different environments. Strong performance in shaping policy, project management, stakeholder engagement and advocacy.
> She has experience as consultant managing projects and teams remotely; she has also assisted with technical and judicial procedures to support international technical cooperation agreements.
> She has supervised cooperation projects and co-management of projects and budgets with UN agencies.
> She has worked in the development, bidding and management of a gender project on behalf of SCRAP weapons, highlighting women's voices from the South in disarmament and peace transition processes.
> She has also conducted research and analysis of regulatory Occupational, Health and Safety, Environmental and Social obligations on behalf of Whirlpool to ensure regulatory compliance for a new private facility installed in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
> She has written votes for Brazilian deputies, having obtained approval to vote against the Tijuca National Park's privatisation around Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. She also has followed-up with solid waste guidelines, Waste Duty of Care - Transversal logistic, circular economy, Ballast water management to protect local marine biodiversity and Sustainability of recyclable materials.

Head of section OPSYS contract management

The consultant has a solid background in the field of food and nutrition security for ensuing active and healthy life, has over 25 years of international experience involving communication with various stakeholders, policy-making and strategic planning, results-based management and performance monitoring, and implementation of plans and activities. He is a specialist in agriculture, food and nutri-tion and transformation of agri-food systems, with experience in International Cooperation.
• Over 20 years of experience in the agriculture, food and nutrition sector providing technical assistance to strengthen the capacity of Ministries and relevant authorities with regards to de-veloping Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Policies
• Experience as Team Leader of numerous projects addressing agriculture, food security, and rural development, including conducting evaluations in fragile contexts.
• Solid track record in programme and project management, well prepared to undertake devel-opment and monitoring and review of operational plans, and providing support to implementing them and addressing cross-cutting issues (gender equality, environmental sustainability, and good governance issues).
• Solid track record of conducting evaluations, analysing projects relevance, performance and contribution to development objectives, including relevant aspects of intervention logic and re-sults framework and workplans.
• Angus has worked on food systems and business development across various relevant sub-sectors.
• Good capacity to analyse key actors and business environment. He is well experienced in broad based socio-economic development and poverty reduction processes.
• Solid career in support to programming, risk analyses and the identification of mitigating measures, organizational capacity development, management, and consultation and continu-ous learning processes.
• Practical expertise in capacity building and institutional development, including the provision of training and conducting of workshops.
• Frequent Team leader of multidisciplinary teams

In 2016 and 2017 he he worked in South Sudan in the role of Monitoring and Evaluation_Team Leader
Technical support and advisory services to increase the effectiveness of EU financed Rural Development interventions (FSTP, SORUDEV and ZEAT-BEAD) to support the South Sudan Development Plan 2011-2016 to reduce the vulnerability of rural communities and enhance their agricultural productivity and food security. Key areas of support: 1) Monitoring and coordination of actions; 2) Organising extension services; 3) Supporting calls for proposals and new projects; 4) Evaluating programme performance. Beneficiaries are the implementing partners and key stakeholders of the EU's rural development programmes in South Sudan.

With 20 years experience in non-formal education and the non-profit sector, my background is Communication and Anthropology. Started my career as a journalist in 1992 and I am passionate about video production, photography and documentary filmmaking - my favourite tool is stories of life.

I'm interested in visual Anthropology, photovoice, theory of change, communication for development (C4D), civic media literacy and other impactful tools and approaches in the fields of global education, community development, international cooperation and democracy. Thus, I was a founder of NGDO 4Change 19 years ago.

All these have been nurtured over the years - and I may say these also applied to my life and family (two kids, one cat). I've actually started working in non-formal education and non-profit sectors as a volunteer before it became serious work. Always focusing on 'how we can communicate better', 'how a team works', 'how to enhance participation and support diverse voices' - how to be fair in life or trade...

These have been my life and work main challenges.

I've now embraced a new challenge: research in the area of democratic governance, alternatives for civic participation and, of course, climate changes - within the framework of an European consortium managing Horizon Europe funded research programme INCITE_DEM.

Hi, I’m Maria. I am a proactive and skilled problem solver working as a Design and Knowledge Management expert in Meldea (Particip). I have a BA in International Relations and an MA in International Development with a specialisation in International Migration, focusing on African politics.

Since March 2024, I have been managing user support activities on the Capacity4dev platform. I monitor the support@capacity4dev.eu mailbox daily, validate new memberships, and check community content. I engage with the different stakeholders present on Capacity4dev, providing non-technical support to users and Space Managers. I also liaise with the IT team for technical issues and analyse user support data to improve the platform.

Feel free to contact me via the support mailbox - support@capacity4dev.eu - anytime you need assistance. You can also reach out through the personal contact form or on LinkedIn.

My experience is in political journalism, media relations, policy communication, public diplomacy, strategic planning, and knowledge management with a focus on online communication and the coordination of complex international outreach programmes in emerging and developing countries on the main cooperation issues, and 25 years experience in journalism/writing. Since I believe our greatest common challenge is restoring the environmental balance, I am engaged in the EU funded Global Climate Change Alliance Plus, one of the largest initiatives to build climate resilience in the most vulnerable countries, and in the Forest for Future Facility that contributes to healthy forest ecosystems and Forest Partnerships in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.

Communication Expert at the International Partnerships Facility

EFI - European Forest Institute

Mr Bedi has successful experiences in Applications and Business strategies development and management, IT Services Help Desk, Technical documentation, Applications management and support, IT incident Management, IT Services and infrastructures Management, Applications release management, Applications deployment, Applications upgrade, Information management system, development and management, Programme/Project management and evaluation.

Mr Bedi has authored various publications, available on amazon, available on academic libraries, for example on http://bibliothek.univie.ac.at, and with some resumes on his blog(http://amouzoubedi.blogspot.co.at) in the field of information management system, international cooperation, international commerce, cybercrime, local socio-cultural infrastructures for development, underdevelopment, effective development aid, South-South,North-south development knowledge exchanges, climate change, governance, public-private partnership and private sector development, communities development strategies, knowledge management and transfer, effective development programme evaluation and innovative sustainable development processes, etc.

Mr Bedi is a member of different networks where he shares innovative ideas, knowledge, information, discussions with different experts and professionals in a specific context and learn from.

Mr Bedi believes that innovation is the pillar of sustainable development forward progress. Finding new solutions to human problems that tackles the sources and improves the quality of life for poor people should include effective collaborative and participatory approaches, sharing honest/humble constructive and productive ideas, effective sharing news ideas, innovative Practical Knowledge for development Management (knowledge management and knowledge transfer) through the right local/regional sociocultural development infrastructures requirement and effective evaluation processes.