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Rotterdam, Zh, Nl

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Freelancer in a partnership of journalists and academic researchers. Conducting (evaluation) research and (written and audiovisual) reporting about international developments. Developing as facilitator of participatory video, MSC and photo (Photovoice) workshops.Assignments I was involved in:- Case stories / testimonies in the book Foreign Aid and its Unintended Consequences by D.J. Koch- MTR of Right Here Right Now 2, together with Results in Health. Methods included Sprockler and participatory stories of change.- Research/evaluation Oranje Fonds Corona Sociaal Herstelfonds Eenzaamheid. Methods: Sprockler, stories of change and Photovoice.- Evaluation of Visio in Egypt on behalf of Avance Impact.- End-term evaluation of World YWCA’s Initiative 'Promoting the realisation of the right to health for young women and girls in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe'. A joint consultancy by WiW Global Research and Reporting and Results in Health (RiH). Methodology: survey, MSC, Photovoice, and case stories/stories of change. Tasks: responsible for case stories and co-author overall findings.- End-term evaluation of the Strategic Partnership 'Towards a Worldwide Influencing Network' by Oxfam Novib and SOMO. A narrative methodology. Tasks: Responsible for the study on Conflict and Fragility and co-author of the overall findings.- End-term evaluation of the Strategic Partnership 'Right Here Right Now' on sexual and reproductive health and rights for young people by a consortium coordinated by Rutgers Netherlands. Methodology used: Sprockler and stories of change. Tasks: Team lead- And writing annual reports and other project documentation, including annual reports in the form of a magazine/glossy for Mondiaal FNV, redrafting the final project reports for AMREF Flying Doctors, and a study on civic space for Cordaid and Hivos.

Abuja, Nigeria

Humanitarian Affairs Officer in Nigeria for MSF-OCA. Research, analysis and advocacy. Key focus: forced displacement.

Haarlem Area, Netherlands

Programme management of projects in the field of rescue, rehabilitation, legal aid, reintegration and prevention of commercial sexual exploitation of children. Coordination of education programme with the Malala Fund.

Dhaka/Amsterdam

Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Responsible for political context analysis, research, advice and advocacy on the humanitarian needs and protection concerns of MSF's target groups in Bangladesh: Rohingya refugees and urban slum factory workers.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Contributing to the development, management and implementation of different evaluations of Dutch foreign policy. Topics: the international legal order (focusing on the fight against impunity and peaceful settlement of conflict), human rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

Project consultant responsible for the logistical arrangements around a high-level seminar on UN Security Council Resolution 1325, workshops and a visiting programme for international stakeholders, taking place in the week of Oct. 26, 2009.

HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Division

Camera Journalistiek

Vakopleiding tot allround en zelfstandig werkende programmamaker non-fictie/documentaire. De volgende vaardigheden worden zowel technisch.

Bnp Niveau 3, Communicatiemedewerker/Junior Adviseur Niveau 3 (B)

Van maart tot november 2017 gecertificeerde 7 maanden deeltijdopleiding (op vrijdagen) tot Communicatiemedewerker/junior adviseur op.

International Human Rights Law Summer School

Four-week intensive academic summer school organised by Oxford University and George Washington University Law School. Modules.

Erasmus Mundus International Master Programme Of Aplied Ethics, Applied Ethics

Activities and Societies: Thesis focused on the moral justification of promoting male circumcision as an HIV-prevention method.

Bachelor, Language And Culture Studies, Major In Political History And International Relations

Activities and Societies: An active member of the Dutch United Nations Student Association (DUNSA-Utrecht). Activities: I was programme.