Head of Operations at the Vienna-based Innovation in Politics Institute and CEO of the European Capital of Democracy NPO. Work experience in the non-profit, start-up, business and political field. Leadership skills in managing mixed and networked teams with a focus on developing disruptive products and growing innovative organisations.
Joaquin, director of To the core of things, is a monitoring, evaluation, researcher and programme manager of multimillion regional programmes and projects specialised in human rights, media, gender, community tourism and children/youth.
As the director and principal consultant of To the core of things consultancy firm, I bring over two decades of experience in results-based management, monitoring, and evaluation of international development programs, with a deep familiarity with EU and UNEG norms and standards. Throughout my career, I have developed and refined evaluation systems, policies, and related guidance for various DGs, national authorities, international NGOs and UN agencies. My work spans multiple regions, including Africa, Latin America, and Asia, focusing on human rights, media, gender, and education and youth programs. Notably, I have led strategic consultancies for different EU instruments including EIDHR, the EU social fund and also outside the EU for UNESCO and OHCHR. These consultancies focused on monitoring, evaluation, and reporting functions of international organizations including the assessment of these functions of UN agencies, OECD, the Council of Europe and the European Union.
My methodological expertise includes mixed-methods approaches and quasi-experimental designs that emphasise client and partner ownership, coherence with learning curves, and pragmatic solutions. These tools, developed under the Creative Commons IP from To the Core of Things, include research guidelines, organisational capacity assessment, modular reconstruction and adaptation of theories of change, stakeholder network maps methodologies, case study guidelines and approaches, outcome harvesting through Most Significant Change stories and implementation of machine learning approaches to development cooperation programmes.
The principles I apply in all my works are ownership of the works and the processes by the client and partners (through a strong participatory approach); alignment with latest trends in the field (including ICT4D, statistical techniques and humanistic considerations); coherence with the learning curve of the clients, and; pragmatism, proposing solutions in line with the interests, philosophy and capacities of the clients and its partners.
Key relevant work that reflects this range of skills and passions include ROM reviews for multi-country EU programmes, consultancies for UNESCO (evaluaitons, periodic reporting consultancies or MEAL system TA). Also for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) I have developed as well another strategic consultancy assessing their in-house monitoring and reporting function plus other programme and country evaluations. Other donors, include USAID, with consultancies carried for US Internews setting up the methodologies, managing seven multicultural teams and producing seven research products for their Rooted in Trust programme and leading several programme evaluations. Some other relevant examples of my works are the evaluation of an agriculture cooperative based project in Ethiopia funded by NORAD, the evaluation of a community radios programme in Zambia funded by the Netherlands; the research manager position for ECORYS and also academic publications in the Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation.
For more information visit https://tothecoreofthings.consulting; check our track of projects.
Ambassador of Hungary in Ecuador
Contadora publica, con especializacion en Tributacion, he desarrollado mi carrera en la empresa Necon en el año 1999. A partir de alli, en el area contable y de administracion, y de impuestos. Luego, en el mismo sector en la Empresa JCR S.A.,
En el año 2007, como auditora de SOCIEDAD PRESTADORA DE AGUAS DE SALTA, y miembro del Consejo de Vigilancia, hasta el año 2020.
A partir del año 2019 fui convocada para la Gerencia de Editora Juan Romero S.A., empresa de multimedios de la ciudad de Corrientes.
Actualmente, ejerzo asesoramiento externo en el grupo económico y realizo tareas de Administración y auditoria en la Fundacion Yetapa.
I'm Anna Tsenteradze, a first-year Ph.D. student at the Czech University of Life Sciences. During my Master's studies, I actively participated in the VCA4D project, delving into the analysis of the Freshwater Aquaculture Sector in Georgia. This experience, where I served as a junior expert and contributed to translation and economic analysis, fueled my decision to pursue a Ph.D.
My current research focuses on value chain analysis, using the VCA4D methodology as a framework (mainly for qualitative analysis). The title of my dissertation is "Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains: A Pathway to Food Security and Rural Prosperity." I'm keen on conducting further research in value chain analysis, aiming to contribute to sustainable agricultural practices.