Resume

Family name:     Posthumus                                        First names:       Hans                                                                                   

Date of birth:      21 01 1961                                           Nationality:         Dutch                     Civil status:        Married 

hans@hposthumus.nl 

                                                                              www.hposthumus.nl

                                                                              Prof vd Veldenstraat 8
                                                                              5427 ST Boekel  The Netherlands
                                                                              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

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

Δ  Trainer, auditor and consultant for the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) for the global pilot ”measuring impact results of PSD programmes” since 2008

Δ  Coaching staff and impact measurement of the UNCTAD Business Linkages Programme in 5 countries, in 2009 and 2010.

Δ  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:

Capacity WORKS – GTZ/MDF certified 2010, Certified auditor DCED 2009, Organisation analyses & capacity assessment, 2007, Facilicom, The Netherlands, Workshop Facilitating Skills course 2006 Facilicom The Netherlands, Workshop Web tools 2.0 Facilicom 2008 The Netherlands, Advanced Management Course, 1997, MDF-Ede, The Netherlands Teaching in Developing Countries, 1986, HKI-Oegstgeest, The Netherlands. Participating in various (international) seminars on the private sector development, small enterprise development, service markets and value chain development.

 

Language skills: (1 to 5 for competence, where 5 is the highest)

Language

Passive

Spoken

Written

Dutch

Mother tongue

 

 

English

5

5

5

Portugese

5

4

4

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