Digitalisation

Former project manager capacity4dev.eu

edemocracy evangelist, social networks enthusiast, working on developing web tools 4 capacity development in civil society and pub. admininstrations

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Notable contributions to capacity4dev.eu:

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Head of section OPSYS contract management

The consultant has a solid background in the field of food and nutrition security for ensuing active and healthy life, has over 25 years of international experience involving communication with various stakeholders, policy-making and strategic planning, results-based management and performance monitoring, and implementation of plans and activities. He is a specialist in agriculture, food and nutri-tion and transformation of agri-food systems, with experience in International Cooperation.
• Over 20 years of experience in the agriculture, food and nutrition sector providing technical assistance to strengthen the capacity of Ministries and relevant authorities with regards to de-veloping Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Policies
• Experience as Team Leader of numerous projects addressing agriculture, food security, and rural development, including conducting evaluations in fragile contexts.
• Solid track record in programme and project management, well prepared to undertake devel-opment and monitoring and review of operational plans, and providing support to implementing them and addressing cross-cutting issues (gender equality, environmental sustainability, and good governance issues).
• Solid track record of conducting evaluations, analysing projects relevance, performance and contribution to development objectives, including relevant aspects of intervention logic and re-sults framework and workplans.
• Angus has worked on food systems and business development across various relevant sub-sectors.
• Good capacity to analyse key actors and business environment. He is well experienced in broad based socio-economic development and poverty reduction processes.
• Solid career in support to programming, risk analyses and the identification of mitigating measures, organizational capacity development, management, and consultation and continu-ous learning processes.
• Practical expertise in capacity building and institutional development, including the provision of training and conducting of workshops.
• Frequent Team leader of multidisciplinary teams

In 2016 and 2017 he he worked in South Sudan in the role of Monitoring and Evaluation_Team Leader
Technical support and advisory services to increase the effectiveness of EU financed Rural Development interventions (FSTP, SORUDEV and ZEAT-BEAD) to support the South Sudan Development Plan 2011-2016 to reduce the vulnerability of rural communities and enhance their agricultural productivity and food security. Key areas of support: 1) Monitoring and coordination of actions; 2) Organising extension services; 3) Supporting calls for proposals and new projects; 4) Evaluating programme performance. Beneficiaries are the implementing partners and key stakeholders of the EU's rural development programmes in South Sudan.

Communication Expert at the International Partnerships Facility

EFI - European Forest Institute

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is specialized agency of the UN. It was created in 1945 to respond to the firm belief of nations that peace must be established on the basis of humanity's moral and intellectual solidarity. UNESCO strives to build networks among nations that enable this kind of solidarity by mobilising for education, building intercultural understanding, pursuing scientific cooperation and protecting freedom of expression.

The UNESCO Liaison Office in Brussels promotes UNESCO's mandate, programmes and activities, and works to strenghten relations with the European Union. The Director of the Office acts as representative of UNESCO to the European Union and to all other European partners.

I am a Data and Evaluation expert, former journalist, with 18 years of professional experience, currently working as Evaluation, data and knowledge expert, in the core team of MELDEA project, providing help desk evaluation support DG INTPA and DG NEAR. Following an education at the European School of Brussels II, he graduated in Journalism at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL, École de Journalisme de Louvain), and worked for 4 years as a journalist in Brussels covering EU News. This was followed by 7 years working in the management of International Development projects for consulting companies, and 7 years working as an expert in evaluation, data analysis, communication and knowledge management for the evaluation helpdesk technical assistances with DG INTPA, DG NEAR and FPI, which is his current assignment.
In the past 7 years, he has applied his data analysis skills and knowledge of EU Project Cycle Management to the field of developmental evaluation, with the objective to improve evaluation practices and learning from evaluations in the EC institutions. He has an excellent knowledge of EU Policies and guiding principles of Team Europe initiative, Strategic Planning and Programming Cycle (SPP), Financial Guidelines and EU funding mechanisms, and an excellent knowledge EC financial and contracting procedures (PRAG, INTPA Companion), Intervention Cycle Management guidelines, internal reporting and monitoring.

Advise the members of the Directorate Asia Pacific and Delegations in the programming, design and implementation of budget support programmes and public finance management project.

Franco Conzato, an Italian national, has been working in international cooperation for more than 30 years. Since 2021 Franco has served as Senior Expert directly attached to the Director for Sustainable Development and Coordination in DG INTPA. From 1987 till 2001 he served in 3 EU African Delegations: Somalia, Ghana , Ethiopia as Economic Adviser. From 2001 till 2004 he was Country economist in HQs and then moved to Paris in the EU Delegation to OECD and UNESCO. He represented the EU in the OECD-DAC Committee, of which from 2008-09 was DAC Vice-Chair and a Deputy Representative in UNESCOs.
Back in HQs in 2009, he served in several positions in DG INTPA including as Deputy Head of Unit of the Quality Results and Performance Unit ( now known ad INTPA/D4). He has been leading work in programming and, since 2015, in setting a up a results framework for EU external assistance financial instruments. He is currently leading in DG INTPA work on performance-based financing/financing not link to cost.
Following his retirement in July 2024, Franco has signed in December 2024 as Active Senior within the Directorate for Sustainable Development and Coordination in DG INTPA