Affiliations and Achievements:
- Always putting people first: I designed, managed and provided advice to diverse
programmes and organizations: from emergency response to development, including
advocacy. My focus has always been “how to ensure that they respond to people’s
needs and aspirations (first and foremost most vulnerable and marginalized)?”
- Appreciating how to support and achieve change: Outputs are only one part of
the story. What matters is the process of change, be it for a project or an organization. I use Results-oriented approaches and methodologies / frameworks emphasizing context and power analysis, looking at how achieving change - within complex setups.
- Participation, inclusion, facilitation: I seek to actively involve stakeholders with
participatory processes, facilitative approaches, on-the-job learning that foster
dialogue and listening. I emphasize inclusion and accountability.
- Systematization of learning and Capacity Development: I believe that a wealth of
knowledge and experience already exists but is not always capitalized on. Grassroots
workers, project staff and beneficiaries, office teams have a deep understanding of
change and might have developed strong, contextualized practices. I see my role as
harvesting, systematizing and synthesizing them. I use and adapt Capacity
Development approaches to make the most of those knowledge and experience for
further developments.
- Creative processes, adaptation and innovation: I strive for innovation and I work at my best in initiatives and with organizations that aspire to learn and innovate, be it at project or at organizational level. I always adapt methodologies to the context I work
in.
- Mixed methods: I lean towards qualitative methodologies, emphasizing active
listening and dialogue with people - and driven by genuine curiosity. But I can well
complement with quantitative ones (data visualizations, etc.).
- Making complexity less complicated (and, possibly, fun!): I analyse and articulate
the information management requirements of complex multi-sector and multi-country
programmes, seeking to appreciate complexity and dynamics of change. I believe that
the best way to address complexity is to make things simpler (that does not mean
simplistic!), by creating conducive working environments, applying participative
processes and using simple tools to document and synthesize.