Nepal

Based in The Netherlands, Natureherit Design & Consult is an innovation SME for Nature-Urban Spatial Planning, Green Economic Studies and Investment Pre-Strategies incl. - GreenMagnets’Tools -- Web-Reality Place Interface Tools - Coast, Waterfront and On-water - Micro-Area Redevelopment & Environmental Mitigation - Place Branding & Sustainable Tourism of City-Town-Village - Environmental–Climate Education Applications - Promotion & Platforms for Low-Carbon Products & Technologies Founded in 2013 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Natureherit Overall Design is a new design formula to revitalize Nature and Heritage, which includes Overall design, pre-study, investment and promotion strategies for Nature-Urban Developments etc. The spirit of “Low-Carbon from the Roots” tells to combine most vulnerable urban-rural environmental problems, research potentials and approaches for local and international markets, discover of best areas and value chains for environmental-friendly investment. Based on rich international professional networks and platforms, Natureherit dialogues with practical-oriented professional institution and technical enterprises on local and national scale. Natureherit and its partners have sophisticated experiences and knowledge in integrated planning, coastal and waterfront development, tourism and leisure development, integration refurbishment / design of urban and landscape, ecological protection and recognition, out- and indoor leisure, renewal of agricultural and industrial areas,. Natureherit enables green growth for projects. The emphasis lies in overall spatial planning strategies, technological combination of eco-water education and environmental recovery, sustainable tourism, regional and place branding development strategy plan. Contact: Xiaoying Liu Tel: +31 614741165 (NL) | +86 13816670457 (CN) Email : xyliu@natureherit.com | info@natureherit.com Founder/Director of Natureherit Overall Design, Senior Spatial Planning-Design Consultant | Netherlands Reg. Architect | Master in Engineering (Germany) | Reg.  Expert of EU-China Urbanisation Leadership Program | Member/Observer of EcoAP and Business@Bio-diversity Communities by European Commission

Hur Hassnain (MDS, MBA) is an evaluation specialist, author, Treasurer and founding Board Member at the International Evaluation Academy. Currently he is working as the Senior Evaluation Expert at Meldea, the European Commission DG INTPA, DG NEAR, and FPI’s external service on Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Design supporting the headquarter units, and over a hundred EU Delegations around the world.

Hur has authored several internationally peer reviewed publications, including a book as lead author: Evaluation in Contexts of Fragility, Conflict and Violence published in 2021. It presents an interesting argument that “evaluation” – like development aid itself – can unintentionally exacerbate tensions in ways that can negatively affect people and institutions if care is not taken in designing and approaching it with caution and sensitivity.

Hur has over 20 years of experience of working in a variety of thematic areas including but not limited to gender equality, rural development, climate change, renewable energy, agriculture, women’s economic empowerment, education, and protection. He has lived and worked in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. Hur has designed, commissioned, and conducted research and evaluations for projects funded by UN agencies, the European Commission, private donors and the governments of the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Norway.

Hur is a staunch advocate of the Latin proverb "rerum cognoscere causas", signifying the pursuit of understanding the causes of things – a guiding principle that underpins his work and philosophy.

Economist

Please use my second email for contact: christinaandersson0@gmail.com

Notable contributions:

Voices & Views - Getting Results in Global Education: Funding Models, Future Goals, and Fun

Mediation Adviser, EU Peace Mediation Support Team, Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Mediation Division, European External Action Service

Agronomist with specialization in applications of remote sensing for agriculture. After 10 years on control of CAP subsidies with remote sensing and GPS, I moved to the group dealing with food insecure countries; we monitor agriculture (with a foucus towards drought) in 80 food insecure countries on a monthly basis (see JRC ASAP); we also work on yield forecasting at regional (infra country) level using meteo and remote sensing yield indicators. Our main challenges there are to access crop statistics (over at least 15 years) and find relations between these statistics (which may be biased) and yield indicators (the ones we have may not be the best ones).

Starting 2020, I started working as an independent consultant for various internationla development organization in the field of policy analysis and development; program dvelopment, and monitoring and evaluation using the OECD frameworks.

In 2010-2020, I worked as GIZ-technical adviser on planning for local government units in at the Department of urban Development and Building Construction in Kathmandu, Nepal. I have been engaged as well in providing services to develop local government policy-making and in the implementation as well as monitoring and evaluation of governance programs. 

I have a Masters in Public Administration and post-graduate diplomas in Urban and Regional Development Planning and Management, and on Land Management and Formalization of Informal Settlements.