Resume
Family name:
Posthumus
Date of birth:
21 01 1961 Nationality:
Dutch
Prof vd Veldenstraat 8
Tel 31 492 329 458 Fax 31 492 840 422 Cell 31 616 516 453
Education:
|
Institution
|
Degrees
and Diplomas obtained |
|
Dutch University 1993-1994 -
Thesis 1997 |
Master International Business Management |
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Dutch Higher Technical
School 1980 1984 |
Engineering architectural construction |
Present position:
Trainer Consultant (HPC)
Years within the firm: 11
Key qualifications: Value Chain Analysis
and Development
Δ
Analyser
Able to understand
actors and identify factors that drive them, both internal and forces from the
larger macro environment, as well as explicit and implicit causes.
Δ
Developer
Enables stakeholders to
understand their own complex situation and mobilises them to develop concerted
activities geared to achievable goals
Δ
Builder
Formulates
interventions that lead to able organisations that understand and assume
responsibility for their specific roles in the wider institutional environment
that encompasses them
Most
relevant qualifications and experiences:
Δ
Course director and lead trainer for courses on
value chain development,
including facilitation, finance and impact measurement, offered 2-3 times per
year in the Netherlands, with participants from all continents and institutions
(international donors, UN agencies, Ministries, Universities, consultancy firms,
NGOs), in collaboration with MDF training and Consultancy, Triodos-Facet and
Opportunity International, since 2006
Δ
Trainer and coach for value chain development
programmes, for some 10 donor agencies in more than 15
countries, since 2001 details in the overview underneath
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Trainer, auditor and consultant for the Donor
Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) for the global pilot measuring impact results of PSD
programmes since 2008
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Coaching
staff and impact measurement of the UNCTAD Business Linkages Programme in 5
countries, in 2009 and 2010.
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Designed,
appraised, reviewed and evaluated private sector development programmes for
amongst others UNDP, UNCTAD, ILO and IFAD, since 2002
Countries:
Albania, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia, Botswana, China, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, Iran, India, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Malawi, Mozambique,
Netherlands, Nigeria,
Palestine, Pakistan, Romania,Senegal, Serbia & Montenegro, South Africa,
Surinam, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, Zambia.
Clients:
AIM, CBI, Cordaid, Danida, DAI, DCED, Dfid, EMP, EU, GTZ, Helvetas, Ibis, ICCO, IFAD, ILO, IntEnt,
KIT, MDF, MEDF, ODI, Oxfam, SIDA, SNV, STOAS,
TriodosFacet, UNCTAD, UNDP, VECO, WaterAid
Membership of professional bodies:
Value-Links Germany, Nedworc Netherlands
Skills and courses:
Language
skills: (1 to 5 for competence, where 5 is the highest)
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Language |
Passive |
Spoken |
Written |
|
Dutch |
Mother tongue |
|
|
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English |
5 |
5 |
5 |
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Portugese |
5 |
4 |
4 |
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German |
3 |
2 |
1 |
Publications:
·
Reference
guides BDS and Economic Analyses; contributions & case studies, SNV
2002-2003
·
CAPSA
training manual, Capacitating through sub sector analyses, 2004
·
Articles on Value Chain Development and Rural Employment, IFAD, 2007
·
Publication on Value Chain Development and Rural Employment in the SEDJ,
2007
·
Publication on good practices in design and implementation of value
chain programmes, IFAD, 2010
Employment overview:
|
from - to |
Institution |
Function |
Country |
|
1998
present |
HPC |
Trainer
Consultant |
The
Netherlands |
|
1995
1998 |
Ibis-Denmark |
Team
leader |
Mozambique |
|
1989
1992 |
SNV-Netherlands |
General
Manager |
Zambia |
|
1986
1989 |
SNV-Netherlands |
Project
Manager |
Botswana |
|
1985
1986 |
Joosten
Architects |
|
The
Netherlands |
|
1984
1985 |
Stevens
Construction |
|
The
Netherlands |
Overview assignments HPC
1998-2010:
|
Date |
Assignment |
Client |
Country |
|
ongoing |
Courses
on Value Chain Development; |
HPC
since 2006 |
The
Netherlands |
|
|
Training
and coaching starting entrepreneurs |
IntEnt
since 2005 |
The
Netherlands |
|
|
Training
and coaching value chain development |
ICCO
- since 2007 |
The
Netherlands |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2010 |
Three
courses Value Chain Development |
Danida |
Mozambique |
|
|
Training
measuring impact of PSD |
WB,
Dfid, GTZ |
Nigeria |
|
|
Value
Chain Finance design contest & paper |
European
M F Platform |
The
Netherlands |
|
|
Training
& Coaching Business Linkages |
UNCTAD |
Uganda
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2009 |
Write
shop Value Chain Development |
IFAD |
China |
|
|
Two
workshops on value chain development |
VECO |
Belgium |
|
|
Training
& Coaching Business Linkages |
UNCTAD |
Uganda
|
|
|
Training
measuring impact of PSD |
DCED |
Thailand |
|
|
AgriBusinessInitiative
appraisal and re-design |
Danida |
Uganda |
|
|
Training
value chain development |
Oxfam/ICCO |
Angola
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2008 |
Value
chain finance advisor inventory study |
ICCO |
The
Netherlands |
|
|
Impact
measurement framework - advisory |
IFAD |
Italy
- Asia |
|
|
Train
and coach value chain facilitators |
ICCO
|
Kenya |
|
|
Impact
measurement auditor DCED |
Helvetas/ICCO |
Kyrgyzstan |
|
|
Training
value chain development |
Cordaid |
The
Netherlands |
|
|
Review
advisory agricultural services |
GRM/SIDA |
Macedonia |
|
|
Monitoring
system export development project |
DAI/Dfid
& WB |
Palestine |
|
|
Tourism
value chains - analyses |
ODI |
Ethiopia |
|
|
Successful
EU tender for BDS Ghana |
IntEnt/Hivos |
The
Netherlands |
|
|
BDS
providers screening and matching |
ICCO |
Kenya |
|
|
Review
- sector and value chain
programme |
SNV/RNE |
Ethiopia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2007 |
Review
design of value chain programme |
IFAD |
Italy/Mozambique |
|
|
Training
value chain development |
ICCO |
India |
|
|
Train
and coach value chain facilitators |
ICCO
|
Kenya |
|
|
Review
Local market development project |
Helvetas/ICCO |
Kyrgyzstan |
|
|
Research/presentation
rural employment |
IFAD |
Italy |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2006 |
Analyses
agricultural sector |
ICCO |
Guinea
Bissau |
|
|
Business
services market development |
UNDP/Chevron |
Angola |
|
|
Train
and coach value chain facilitators |
ICCO
|
Kenya |
|
|
Country
evaluation child labour project |
ILO |
Tanzania |
|
|
Review
capacity building project |
Cordaid |
Albania |
|
|
Review
Enterprise Development project |
RNE |
Macedonia |
|
2005 |
Impact
assessment child labour programme |
ILO |
Bangladesh |
|
|
Analyses
dates sector |
Cordaid |
Iran |
|
|
Design
agricultural private sector programme |
Danida |
Mozambique |
|
|
Evaluation
micro projects |
EU |
Surinam |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2004 |
Hand
book - advisory services PSD |
SNV |
East
Africa |
|
|
Training
value chain development |
Danida |
Mozambique |
|
|
Design
- impact measuring system |
ILO |
Tanzania |
|
|
Concept
note feasibility
commercial bank |
Oxfam/Rabo |
Mozambique |
|
|
Assessment
agricultural private sector |
Danida |
Mozambique |
|
|
Design
child labour programme |
EU |
Pakistan |
|
|
Review
child labour country programme |
ILO |
Ukraine |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2003 |
Review
child labour country programme |
ILO |
Romania |
|
|
Review
livelihoods programme |
Oxfam |
Malawi |
|
|
Business
plan development dairy company |
Gouda
Gold Ltd |
Mozambique |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2002 |
Review
agricultural private sector programme |
Danida |
Mozambique |
|
|
Review
vocational training projects |
EU |
Mozambique |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2001 |
Training
export promotion agencies |
CBI |
South
Africa |
|
|
Training
and coaching value chain developers |
SNV |
Angola |
|
|
Design
livelihoods programme |
Cordaid |
Serbia
Montenegro |
|
|
Evaluation
micro finance & vocational training |
Oxfam |
Mozambique |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2000 |
Review
reconstruction programme |
Oxfam |
Kosovo |
|
|
Training
export promotion agencies |
CBI |
The
Netherlands |
|
|
Design
training for communication sector |
KIT/STOAS |
Mozambique |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1999 |
Interim
management reconstruction project |
Cordaid |
Kosovo
|
|
|
Feasibility
- agricultural export company |
Cordaid |
Bosnia |
|
|
Review
agric micro finance project |
Cordaid |
Bosnia |
|
|
Management
course construction
enterprises |
Wateraid |
Mozambique |
|
|
Advisory
review informal rural sectors |
Ibis |
Mozambique |