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).