Hilde Van Dijkhorst Email & Phone Number

Arnhem-Nijmegen Metropolitan Area, GE, NL

Ede

Design and conduct programme evaluations in the domain of international cooperation.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Researcher and evaluator of various sustainability and deforestation related projects

Wageningen

• Research, evaluation, and education activities in the domain of rural development, conflict and disasters. Projects so far:
• Final Review team member for the evaluation of the Dutch Science Organisation's (NWO) funded Research Programme on Conflict and Cooperation over Natural resources (CoCoon). Project visits to Sri Lanka and Ghana.
• Analyst for FAO's evaluation of the contribution to its Strategic Objective 5: "Increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises".
• Thesis supervision for BSc and MSc students at Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University.
• Guest lecturer on topics: Linking Relief Rehabilitation and Development and Resilience, at Wageningen University and Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences.

-Coordinating the research programme on Disasters and Culture "EDUCEN": European Disasters in Urban centres: a Culture Expert Network-Policy coordination of the research program “IS Academy Human Security in Fragile states”, linking policy demands from various aid organizations and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the findings from short and long-term.

Wageningen

• Research on how people’s rural livelihoods are affected during crisis, and how state and aid interventions shape the livelihoods that people have created for themselves in Angola.
• One and a half year fieldwork in Huíla Province, Angola, conducting comparative research in six rural villages.
• Sociological research methods, combined with quantitative surveys.
• Participation and presentations in various conferences, seminars, workshops, and lectures.
• Organization of workshops in Angola, the Netherlands and for the European Parliament in Brussels.

Wageningen

• Independent Research Consultant, implementing various research projects:
• Internal evaluation of Oxfam-Novib’s emergency response to the Tsunami
• Research project on Gender and Humanitarian aid, in collaboration with Cordaid
• Literature research and editing tasks for a project on post-war reconstruction of Liberia, for chair group Technology and Agrarian Development, Wageningen University
• Best-practice study of Pax Christi’s program in Colombia, in collaboration with Disaster Studies, Wageningen University
• Research projects on demand articulation with dairy farmers and poultry farmers in the Netherlands for the chair group Communication and Innovation Studies, Wageningen University

Wageningen

Junior Researcher at the Technology and Agrarian Development Chair group, Editorial assistant for the publication "No Peace, No War", edited by Prof. Dr. Paul RichardsJunior Researcher at Disaster Studies, research on peacebuilding policies and practices at a Dutch NGO, Cordaid: Understanding how Cordaid incorporates themes like peacebuilding into their.

Phd, Disaster Studies

Activities and Societies: Van Dijkhorst, H. (2011). Rural Realities between Crisis and Normality: Livelihood Strategies in Angola.

M.Sc., Management Of Agro-Ecological Knowledge And Social Change

Activities and Societies: 4 months of fieldwork in Botswana for the M.Sc thesis "The use of indigenous knowledge in research on veld.

Ba, Community Development

Activities and Societies: Specialisation in Community Development