Evaluation of a School Feeding Project, Swiss Red Cross (Malawi)
Malawi is highly exposed to natural disasters, such as floods and droughts. Available records indicate that the country has experienced about 20 droughts in the last 100 years. Impact, frequency and spread of droughts in Malawi have considerably intensified over the past decades and are likely to worsen with climate change. Other factors, such as […]
Master of Evaluation (Saarbrücken, Germany)
The topic of evaluation has gained more and more importance over the past years – not only in the field of international development cooperation and humanitarian assistance. Against the backdrop of dwindling financial resources, different business sectors increasingly request scientifically based procedures to review effectiveness and efficiency of their programmes and spent resources. Evaluation, as […]
Evaluation of the Adaptation Fund NGO Network, Germanwatch (Senegal)
Germanwatch e.V. is currently implementing the programme “Adaptation Fund (AF) NGO Network”, which is funded by the International Climate Initiative of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. The Network seeks to strengthen the international support structure in order to better assist vulnerable people in developing countries to adapt to the […]
Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment, KfW / GOPA / adelphi (Tanzania)
adelphi consult GmbH has been commissioned by GOPA to develop a Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment for the Simiyu region in Tanzania. I was contracted as Senior Consultant to conduct the study. The Assessment constitutes the basis for the elaboration of the KfW funded project “Climate Change Adaptation in the Simiyu Region in Tanzania”, which […]
Lead Consultant DRR Project, Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe/Caritas (Guatemala)
Due to on-going crises in other parts of the world, as well as the limited availability of funding, it seems that the Central-American region has been slightly neglected by international development support in comparison with other areas over the past years. But Guatemala is still one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. […]
Mid-term Evaluation of 2014 Floods Appeal Operation, IFRC (Bangladesh)
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world and extremely vulnerable to climate change because of its geophysical settings. The country is low-laying and flat with huge inland water bodies, including some of the biggest rivers in the world. Flooding is an annual recurring event during the monsoon season, when 80% of […]
Proposal Development “forecast based financing”, GRC (Bangladesh)
The need for humanitarian funds and the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance have steadily increased over the past ten years on a global level. Climate risks in general are partly responsible for this tremendous increase and are being amplified by climate change impacts. Current and future risks of climate change in combination […]
Proposal Development DIPECHO, German Red Cross (Bangladesh)
The Southern part of Bangladesh is grappling with recurring natural disasters, such as cyclones, floods and tidal surges that are expected to intensify with climate change in the future. The majority of the population in this area lives in utmost poverty. Communities lack knowledge and capacities to effectively prepare for disasters and thus repeatedly lose […]
Support Proposal Development ECHO, German Red Cross (Pakistan)
This consultancy mission served to support the preparatory work for the elaboration of an ECHO proposal under the ECHO HIP 2015. The northwestern provinces of FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been facing waves of displacements due to military operations along the border to Afghanistan for many years. As a result of the launch of the […]
Development of Integrated Programme Strategy, German Red Cross (Philippines)
During this 6 weeks consultancy mission, I elaborated a detailed program strategy for the management of integrated livelihood, DRR and CCA activities in the frame of GRC’s Haiyan Recovery intervention. This process involved the conceptualization and facilitation of a workshop on Integrated Programme Management with the in-country Project Team, as well as the elaboration of […]
