Category: Consultants

Associate

Tonje has over 20 years of experience in international development, aid and democracy work with conflict-affected and fragile states, with a particular focus on Afghanistan, Yemen, Palestine and the broader Middle East. She has worked with analysis, reviews and report development for Norwegian and international organisations, as well as political actors, and has extensive experience in written communication in both Norwegian and English.

Education:

• Master in Middle East and North Africa Studies, University of Oslo
• Master in English, University of Oslo

Fields:

• International development and aid policy
• Civil society and state–civil society relations
• UN Sustainability Goals
• Democracy, parliaments and electoral issuesProject planning and risk management

Languages:

• Norwegian
• English

Associate

With close to 25 years’ experience, Gunelie specializes in training and mentoring own staff on Human Rights Due Diligence, supplier social audits as well as practical training of suppliers and workers to improve decent working conditions.

Education:

• Development studies, one year, University of Agder
• Master of Economics, Management and administration, (“siviløkonom”) Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

Fields:

• Social audits
• Grievance mechanisms
• Social Dialogue
• Decent work
• Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement
• Responsible Procurement Practices
• Transparency Act

Languages:

• Norwegian
• English

Associate

Monica has over twenty years of experience in international development and ten years in the private sector. She specialises in establishing, managing, and evaluating complex projects and programmes across diverse sectors such as environment, transport, infrastructure, and energy transition. Monica has extensive expertise in institutional setup, programme evaluations, programme management, stakeholder engagement, particularly in Indonesia and ASEAN countries. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with and assisted government institutions, international agencies, civil society organizations, and the private sector to promote sustainable development and effective program delivery.

Education:

• Master of Sociology, Social Development Management, University of Indonesia (2002)
• Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia (1990)

Fields:

• Programme formulation and planning
• Programme assessment and evaluation
• Institutional and organisational setup
• Partnership development and management
• Fundraising, grant, and contract management
• Programme and project management

Languages:

• Indonesian 
• English 

Associate

Hans Petter held management positions in Latin America and the Middle East for Swedish, Danish and Norwegian governmental and non-governmental development co-operation, and with the United Nations during 25 years. Key qualifications are integral understanding of development processes and result-based management, especially in post conflict situations. Specific knowledge and wide experience with civil society and vulnerable groups in their quest for justice, human rights and participation in conflict and post conflict societies. Team leader of various evaluations and strategy designs for Nordic governmental and non-governmental.

Education:

1984; Doctorandus (Drs) in Cultural Anthropology (equivalent to MA+) 1984, from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, with thesis Nicaragua – Revolution in a Disintegrated Nation, with Political anthropology, Latin American history and Spanish language as supporting subjects

Fields:

• Democratic transition in conflict and post-conflict societies
• Human rights, especially indigenous peoples’ rights
• Good governance
• Access to justice
• Transparency
• Civil society

Languages:

• Norwegian
• English
• Spanish
• Dutch

Associate

Erik has extensive international professional experience from governmental and private organisations within trade, finance, infrastructure investments and private sector development. This includes 30+ years of consulting experience from over 40 transition economies and developing countries, in particular Central Asia, East and Central Europe. Wide experience from project management, evaluations and reviews within private sector development, trade, investments and finance, infrastructure and renewable energy, environment, climate, civil society and education.

Education:

• MBA from Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen.
• Bachelor’s degree from University of Oslo, Major in Russian language and literature. Introductory course in Ukrainian

Fields:

• Institutional assessments, development and cooperation
• Private sector development, value chains and job creation
• Financial management
• Renewable energy
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Infrastructure investments
• Development of green sectors 
• Human rights

Languages:

• Norwegian
• English
• Russian
• German
• French
• Ukrainian

Associate

Ivar is a senior consultant with more than 40 years of experience from development policies, climate change, environment and forestry. He has worked as Policy Director in Norad, as a diplomat in the Norwegian foreign service, the Norwegian state forest service and for the United Nations. He has specialized in development policy and development programme design and has undertaken numerous programme reviews and evaluations.

He has served as executive board member of Centre for People and Forest (RECOFTC ), HQ Bangkok, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), HQ Kathmandu and The Development Fund (Utviklingsfondet), HQ Oslo.´

Education

• M.Sc Forestry, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Fields:

• Climate change, REDD+ and NDCs
• Social forestry and conservation farming
• Environment and conservation area management
• Watershed management 
• Mountains and upland development challenges
• Institutional strengthening
• University cooperation
• NGO programmes in climate change, environment and forestry
• Development policy
• Project design, assessment and evaluation

Languages:

• Norwegian (mother tongue)
• English (excellent)
• Nepali (basic working knowledge)

Associate

Mark is a land resources consultant with over 40 years’ experience in natural resource management (NRM) and sustainable land management (SLM) in developing countries. He has a broad interest in soil and land resources and wider land and environment issues with specific interest in land resource evaluation, integrated land use planning, land tenure and resource rights, land and watershed management, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) within the land and environment sectors, land use policy, soil erosion and soil & water conservation and sustainable responses to land degradation.

He has been a team member on a number of integrated river basin and water management projects identifying land use mitigation and adaptation options to climate change. He has worked at ministerial and presidential advisory level but is never happier than when meeting land users in the field.

Education:

• M.Sc    EIA, Env. Audit, Env. Management. UEA, Norwich, UK
• M.Phil  Integrated Land Resources Management, Reading University, UKB.Sc     Physical Geography, UCW Aberystwyth, UK

Fields:

• Soil and Land Resources
• Land Evaluation, Land Use and Spatial Planning
• Watershed Management
• Land Degradation and Soil and Water Conservation 
• Climate Change
• Land Rights, Land Tenure and Land AdministrationMonitoring & Evaluation

Languages:

• English
• French – moderately competent
• Spanish, Italian, Portuguese – basic working knowledge

Associate

Desiree is a Senior consultant with 35 years of working experience. She has devoted her professional efforts to attain sustainable development with equity. Central to her work has been integrating livelihoods and local communities’ rights in rural and environmental policies and laws. She has worked in the public and private sector, and have assisted many international cooperation agencies, local governments, and civic society organizations in their development endeavors in Latin America. She has strong managerial capacities as well as a solid background in environmental sciences.

Education

• Post Graduate Degree in Human Rights and Justice
• PhD and MSc in Soil and Water Science
• Bachelor in Agronomy

Fields:

• Institutional and capacity development
• Enforcement of social and environmental safeguards
• Program/Projects design, implementation, and evaluation
• Development Aid Management and coordination
• Social and Environmental Assessments
• Land and Watershed Management
• Livelihoods, indigenous lands, and community assessments
• Climate Change (REDD+ and soil carbon)
• Biointensive and sustainable agriculture
• Gender

Languages:

• Spanish
• English

Partner

Arne has over 45 years’ of development experience – 16 years in the field and since 1996 as a consultant. He has carried out over 130 reviews and evaluations of strategies, programs and projects with field work in more than 50 countries, team leader on most.

Education

• Ph.D., Economics, Yale University
• M.A., International Relations, Yale University
• Political Science, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
• Political Science, University of Hamburg
• Sociology and History, University of Oslo

Fields:

• Policy studies
• Governance, human rights, democratic voice and agency
• Conflict, post-conflict and fragile states
• Public finance management, risk assessments, anticorruption
• Institutional, organisational and capacity development
• Monitoring, evaluation, learning, results-based management
• Methodology development, training and facilitation

Languages:

• Norwegian
• English
• Portuguese
• Spanish and French: basic working knowledge