I have been working as a field inspector for the Norwegian Environment Agency since 2013. Some of my tasks are within the field of non-food consumer product safety with regard to chemical properties (RoHS, REACH, CLP, POPs), European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) and CITES.

I have a masters degree in archaeology and previously worked as an environmental crimes coordinator with the Oslo Police Department.

Nina Pániková coordinates HRHF’s capacity building activities, ensuring that meaningful, empowering, and participatory capacity building activities underpin HRHF’s work and strengthen the Houses, the network and broader civil society. She coordinates HRHF’s EU-funded capacity building project “STRONG Civil Society” and designs tailored capacity building programmes. In her role, she often supports project sub-grantees and provides advice on establishment process of new Houses.

Prior to joining HRHF in May 2021, Nina worked at the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions where she led capacity building activities and advocacy on economic and social rights and human rights defenders. She is a political scientist and holds a European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation. She started her career in Slovak National Centre for Human Rights, worked for the EU Fundamental Rights Agency and trained national human rights institutions, civil society and students on human rights in Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.

André Bossuroy began his career as a civil engineer in 1986. Between 1999 and 2000, he organized audiovisual and interpretation tests for the Commission, the Parliament, and the Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, with the perspective of the EU enlargement from 15 to 25 member countries. This initial contact with the "European project" redirected his career path. Driven by a "taste for humanity," the engineer transitioned into filmmaking, specializing in giving a voice to European citizens, starting with students from the Erasmus program. In 2007, ARTE broadcasted his first portraits of students, focusing on the transformation of their perspectives before and after their Erasmus year. In 2012, his documentary film on Etty Hillesum, "In the Skin of a Deportee," was selected among the emblematic projects of the European Commission's Active European Memory program (The Citizen’s effect). Other television productions followed on RTBF and VRT in the field of education for development in Southern countries, supported by the Belgian Development Cooperation-DGD. In 2021, his team was appointed by the Sustainable Development Institute of the Prime Minister's Office as ambassadors for sustainable development (SDG Voices) along with 7 other associations in Belgium.

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.