Kees Blok Email & Phone Number

Arnhem-Nijmegen Metropolitan Area, GE, NL

Global experience in water management issues; supporting governments and agencies in the Netherlands and abroad in addressing water management challenges through stakeholder involvement. Well-versed in design and management of rural development projects, with a focus on the global south. Countries of experience: The Netherlands, Armenia, Bangladesh.

Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland

Part-time job to teach and develop several courses for the BSc/MSc programme for International Land and Water Management, as well as guide BSc and MSc internships and theses.

Laos, Bangladesh, Swaziland, Malawi, Jordan, Lebanon, Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka

Engaged as mission member and mission leader in project cycle management. Missions include full design, start-up, supervision and interim and final reviews. Recurrent attention to Agricultural water management, integration of value chains and local governance.

Bangladesh

Short-term advisor to the Blue Gold Programme in support to enhancing sustainability of agricultural water management (including fisheries) through intensified alignment of water management organisations to local government bodies and specialised agencies. Review of the programme's theory of change and its exit strategy.

Netherlands

Association WaterForce supports and represents independent water sector professionals in The Netherlands

Egypt

Commissioned for parallel assignments by KfW and GiZ, I work to organise a recurrent donor coordination conference in the water sector, and I am preparing additional mechanisms to enhance aid alignment to MWRI plans and policies.

Den Bosch, The Netherlands

Develop projects for prevention of inundation of urban and peri-urban areas, including high-value agricultural lands.

establishment of a cooperative to enable households from Lingewaard Municipality to invest in sustainable energy production and -savings

Identify and formulate a project intervention to enhance competence in and ambition of local governments in Southwest Bangladesh, especially with respect to food security; reproductive health & rights; and water management services

Mongolia

Review progress and adjust plans of the Project aimed at strengthening integrated water resources management in the whole of mongolia.

In order to facilitate a national roll-out of the EU Water Framework Directive, a core group is trained both in training competence and basic knowledge of the Directive

Project assignments in water sector planning and management