Consultant specialised in project design, logframe methodology, management, monitoring and evaluation of interventions managed by civil society organisations.

Johan van Geijn has a unique track record as a specialist in international corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the world of sports, particularly in football and international development cooperation. With more than 25 years of experience – heading the international programs at the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) since 1998 to build local capacity through football in developing countries and low-income countries. More than 20,000 young volunteer coaches have been able to improve themselves in their local environment through programs developed by Johan.
As founder of the WorldCoaches program, Johan has proven many times how sport can serve as a means for social development. Using football as a catalyst for social cohesion, for the position of girls and women in society, for awareness of communicable diseases, drugs and addictions or clean water.
With the international challenges surrounding migration and refugees, using football as an initiator for programs to tackle youth unemployment in these countries. A range of thematic social challenges where Johan has been able to let football contribute to the approach and often to the solution.

A governance and M&E expert with a background in financial and sociological economics, I have more than 30 years of experience in programme management, policy development and M&E in a variety of fields including research, review and assessment in the areas of public administration reform, justice & home affairs, finance, regional development, as well as sectoral restructuring.
My professional experience covering 30 years has been gained in developing economies and economies in transition in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, for a large number of international bi- and multilateral organizations, including DfID, Dutch Development Cooperation, EU, FAO, IFC, GIZ, Norwegian Aid and UNDP.
I have more than 15 years of M&E experience encompasses both leading M&E assignments in the field and the development of M&E systems. A specialty concerns the identification and formulation of key performance indicators, including researching baseline data and the framing of benchmarks. I am fully conversant with project cycle management methodology, as well the latest development in M&E, including results-chain and theory-of-change.
I have highly developed interview skills gained in a variety of cultural settings, which combined with outstanding documentation review and statistical skills, are honed to arrive at sophisticated analytical results. I know how to deliver high-quality, user-friendly M&E reports, which effectively collocate and present the contributions and findings of professionals with widely varying backgrounds and fields of expertise. 

Engineer & agro-economist by education, I have been specialized for 20+ years in design, management, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions. Besides methodologies for developmeent, the following thematics have been my main fields: agriculture & rural development, environment & waste management, forest & natural resource management, local & territorial development, CSO & local authorities, capacity development & adult learning.

After 7 years of in the NGO sector, I have started as a free-lance consultant in 2007. I work mainly as an evaluator, facilitator, coach and trainer, with a diversity of actors (national public sector, local authorities, private sector, CSOs, grass-root communities...) and in a diversity of contexts (micro-projects, sector programmes, regional programmes, sector budget support) and countries (more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Pacific, Middle-East, Latin America and Europe). *

My methodological background, made me one of the experts selected to train and support EU staff on project design and MEAL topics (MKS - Methodological knowledge sharing programme). In this capacity I was/am also part of the helpdesk and quality assurance service for the European staff for i) the design of monitoring and performance measurement frameworks (SQ2M - Quality Monitoring Systems and Methodologies of Projects and Programs); ii) the evaluations of the European Commission's cooperation programs managed by DG INTPA (ESS - Evaluation Support Service).

Following two decades spearheading high-value digital transformation, corporate governance, and risk management projects on behalf of prominent clients in Oceania and the Middle East, I have built a vast network of contacts in these two markets that will be a valuable source of leads for Self Adaptive Power using Gravity (SAPG) going forward. He divides his time between cultivating SAPG sales prospects and managing Cannaleaf Pty Ltd, a sustainability-focused startup he recently incorporated.

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