Jozef

EMBRECHTS

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.