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Research Associate at the Katastrophenforschungsstelle (Disaster Research Unit), Freie Unverstität Berlin. Consultant and researcher on Urban Disaster Risk Governance. PhD in Development Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL), MSc. in Urban Management at Technische Universität Berlin (TU-Berlin), and Designer at Universidad Católica de Temuco (UC-Temuco), Chile. Founder and Editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies on Disaster Risk Reduction REDER (https://www.revistareder.com)

REGIS CABRAL Professional Highlights – Physicist and historian of science and technology.
Specialist in the interactions between the production of knowledge and international relations.
More than 300 books, articles and reports published. Science and technology policy, Technology transfer (including in the nuclear, military and biotechnology fields) Relations between universities and the productive sector.
Known for the "Cabral-Dahab Science Park Management Paradigm", used to study, plan and evaluate science parks, business incubators and similar organisations.
Extensive engagement with European projects: UEE, The European University on Environment - board of directors, IRC, Innovation Relay Centre, the European Commission network dedicated to technology transfer – project manager. ICT LEAP – Distance Education for the Middle East – Project Manager.
One of the evaluators and judge for the ICT Stockholm Challenge Award. This award, with a ceremony similar to the Nobel Prize, was considered one of the most important in the world for the sector of information sciences and society.
Lead evaluator (subcontract) of the USA Department of State GIST, Global Innovation through Science and Technology, a two tranck 5 mi USD Initiative for global innovation.
Evaluation expert of higher education programmes of international organisations such as UNESCO, UNCTAD; the European Commission of international aid and development projects.
Reading (Reviewer) Committee for the Washington (US Department of State) Mandela Fellowship for Young African Leaders.
Referee and reviewer for projects, journals and conferences Recipient of the AOM, Academy of Management awards, Organisation Management and Theory Division and Entrepreneurship Division.
Held positions of Professor (UFSC, Brazil), Lecturer (University of Lund, Sweden) Chaired sessions and workshops (AOM) Key note speaker, I3E Trained study circle leader / facilitator.
Held elected to positions of trust:City of Piteå, Sweden, Committee for Employment and Adult Education – Member City of Piteå, Sweden, City Council – Member (substitute).
Judge (lay) at Administrative Courts and at the Immigration Courts of Sweden.
Engaged in the innovation processes for regional development at the theoretical, at the empirical, at the practical levels and at the political levels.
Director for FEPRO – Funding for European Projects preparation, funding, management and coordination of projects evaluations start ups.
Further information can be found at: http://www.fepro.eu http://se.linkedin.com/pub/regis-cabral/48/775/81b http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oTV2TfoAAAAJ&hl=en

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.

Independent Consultant on Environment, Climate Change, Natural Resources since 1983. Worked mainly for EU in Central Europe, Middle East, SS Africa, SE Asia
I am an experienced consultant, manager, and government advisor with a career spanning over 30 years on donor funded projects and cooperation: EU-ACP and EU-Budget, World Bank, bilateral cooperation, UNDP, FAO and UNOPS. I am a a source of information on programmes, procedures in development cooperation projects funded by the EU in relation to climate change mitigation and resilience building of communities, climate-smart agriculture, nutrition and food security, environmental issues, biodiversity conservation. He is experienced in setting up qualitative/qualitative, gender sensitive monitoring and management information systems for the natural resources sector and in setting up methods for assessing and payment for ecosystem services.
Vast parts of his career have been spent working in South-East Asia, Africa and is well-versed in the status of ODA issues in these regions. He has over 15 years’ experience in institutional strengthening and in team leadership for long and short-term Technical Assistance assignments.

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.