Richard De Wet Email & Phone Number

I have almost 35 years’ experience of working on development and engineering projects and I have lived and worked in Asia and Africa for more than 25 years. I have a BSc in Civil Engineering from the UK, an MBA from South Africa, and a Master’s in Public Procurement from Italy. My track record includes many years of field experience working with project management and contract administration of complex, multidisciplinary engineering projects. All contained elements of planning, project management, client/partner liaison, leadership, human resource development, capacity building and working with local expertise. One of my key strengths is working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams and the timely delivery of reports and other outputs - often in a challenging environment. Although my core expertise has primarily been in the rural development and feeder road sector, I have broad experience of different types of infrastructure, including in the heavy civil, environmental, irrigation, water and energy fields. Most of my projects incorporated cross-cutting issues such as gender, resettlement, environmental and social safeguards, as well as institutional development and capacity building through on-the-job training, working with local expertise, and the coordination and facilitation of workshops and seminars.I also have more than 15 years of experience of providing inputs as a Procurement Expert or Contract Management Specialist in projects and providing procurement assistance to clients for goods, works and services. I am fully familiar with the procurement cycle, risk identification and mitigation, and the general procurement guidelines of most of the major donors, and have given advice, capacity development and training to the procurement departments of various government organisations in several countries in accordance with international best practice. I have also worked with most of the FIDIC suite of contracts and several of the other standard contract templates.Since obtaining my Master’s degree in Public Procurement Management for Sustainable Development, I have also tried throughout my project inputs to incorporate the concept of sustainable procurement into my activities, whereby environmental and social aspects are also considered in addition to purely economic or financial considerations in order to achieve optimal Value for Money in delivering development objectives.