Trainers

 

NMS trainers are qualified professionals with extensive training and working experience in conducting courses for NGOs in countries in the South and in the North. They have worked themselves in NGOs in management and leadership positions, thus they know NGOs from the inside.

Several NMS trainers also have served as advisors and consultants to senior executives of NGOs, to donor organisations and government agencies working with NGOs. NMS trainers thus know what is needed to succeed and what are the challenges both from the NGO’s and the donors’ perspective.

Our trainers have conducted courses for NMS and on behalf of other organisations for participants of the following organisations:

▪ ACT Alliance ▪ Alkarama ▪ Aga Khan Foundation ▪ American Red Cross ▪ The Asia Foundation ▪ Asian Development Bank ▪ Australian Red Cross ▪ AvocAid ▪ Bread for the World (Germany) ▪ Canada Fund ▪ Care International ▪ Cecily’s Fund ▪ Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies ▪ Geneva Call ▪ German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) ▪ The Global Fund ▪ Helvetas ▪ International Aids Society ▪ International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) ▪ International Labour Organisation ▪ International Peace Bureeau ▪ International Rescue Committee ▪ Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) ▪ Japan Social Development Fund ▪ Kinder USA ▪ Médecins sans Frontières ▪ Misereor (Germany) ▪ Netherlands Red Cross ▪ Norwegian Mission Alliance ▪ Save the Children ▪ Swiss Red Cross ▪ Terre des Hommes ▪ UNAIDS ▪ United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) ▪ United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) ▪ United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) ▪ USAID ▪ World Health Organisation (WHO) ▪ World Bank ▪ World Vision

List of our trainers

Anthony

Anthony joined the UK Department for International Development (DFID) as member of the Government Economic Service in 1969 and retired as a Director in August 2004. His career has ranged across development economics, policy work, management, multilateral diplomacy and teaching at post-graduate level. He helped promote the application of New Public Management concepts to the UK public sector in the 1990s, both as Chief Executive of an Executive Agency and subsequently as a member of the Efficiency and Effectiveness Unit in the Cabinet Office. He spent the last seven years of his Civil Service career as the UK Permanent Representative (Ambassador) to the UN agencies in Rome. During his time in Rome he dealt with a wide range of development and humanitarian policy issues, but focused particularly on institutional strengthening in the UN agencies. Among other roles in the governing bodies he was President of the Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP); Chair of the Audit Committee of the Executive Board of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Vice-Chair of the Finance Committee of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO); and Chair of the Governance Group established by WFP’s Executive Board.

He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva, where he teaches courses on Corporate Governance and Strategy on the International Organisations MBA programme (IOMBA); a Visiting Fellow at Ashridge Business School; a Visiting Fellow and Visiting Tutor at Henley Business School; and a Henley-trained coach. He coaches on leadership programmes for senior executives and MBA students and consults on corporate governance and strategy.

John

John was head of international finance at Oxfam GB and senior lecturer in accounting and financial management at Oxford Brookes University.

John is a qualified accountant, manager and teacher and specialises in the international non-profit sector. His participatory training includes: financial management for non-specialists, training trainers (and specialist courses for training financial trainers), building NGO financial capacity, and developing communication between programme and finance staff. His consultancy work includes programme and financial management reviews for southern organisations, and assessing systems to meet the needs of international donors. John has worked with a range of relief and development agencies, including the Aga Khan Foundation, Amnesty International, Bond, European Commission, Homeless International, Intrac, Oxfam, WaterAid and VSO.

He is author of Building capacity through financial management, Basic accounting for small groups and Financial management for development. He co-authored Financial management for emergencies with Tim Foster and Simon Hale. John holds an MSc in development management, and an MBA.

He is based in Oxford, UK.

Sandrine

Sandrine has 16 years of experience in international humanitarian organizations, including 11 years in the field, mostly in program management positions. She is a professional trainer and facilitator with a Master in Adult Training and IAF Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF). Sandrine is specialized in Project Management (logframe, Prince2), relief distribution and Training of Trainers. In the field, Sandrine has worked for Handicap International (HI) from 1993 to 1995, as administrator in Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland and Kenya, for Médecins du Monde (MDM) from 1996 to 1998, as head of mission in Burundi and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the field from 1998 to 2004, as administrator in Kosovo and Albania, delegate in Albania and Timor and Economic Security Coordinator in Democratic Republic of Congo and North-Caucasus. Based at the ICRC’s Geneva HQ since 2004, Sandrine has worked for its Economic Security Unit as head of sector for the Great Lake Region and the Horn of Africa, then as deputy head of Training and as head of its training unit from 2006 to 2009.

Sandrine has a B.A. in Economic Sciences, a diploma in marketing and management and a Master in Humanitarian and Development Aid. Her publications include contributions to the “Guidelines for assessment in emergencies” written for the ICRC and the International Federation for Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, as well as two handbooks written for the ICRC, “Programme/Project Management: the Result-Based Approach” and “Measuring Results”.

Sandrine is now an independent consultant based in Geneva.

Joy

Joy has 15 years of experience in development work. For eight years, she was the Mindanao head of the Social Development Management Institute, the training arm of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), one of the largest non-profit organizations in the Philippines. Moving on, she chaired the Psychology Program and was a professor at the Davao Doctors College. Recently, she was in charge of the Education Development Center/USAID’s community support programme in the Philippines.

Her area of expertise lies in:

- Capacity building of community stakeholders, specifically on curriculum development
- Course design development and pilot testing
- Manual development
- Training management and facilitation
- Organizational capacity assessment
- Tool development
- Training systems assessment and installation
- Development and management of institution building programmes
- Counseling in the workplace.

Joy has developed several manuals on team building, strategic planning, organizational capacity assessment, community organizing and marine protected area management planning. She has designed tools used in research, end of program assessment, training faculty assessment and for recruitment and selection.

Tim

Tim Foster has extensive field experience working in emergency programmes for the UN, Oxfam, MSF and CARE in the Balkans, Africa and Asia, and has also undertaken more strategic headquarters’ assignments in Europe.

Tim has regularly acted as a resource person, trainer and convenor for RedR’s training courses and contributed to both editions of Engineering in Emergencies. He co-authored Financial management for emergencies with John Cammack and Simon Hale, and was the lead author for Managing people in emergencies, both web based guides for emergency programme managers.

More recent assignments include co-facilitating training workshops for the Health, WASH and Emergency Shelter Clusters; a review of IFRC’s Emergency Shelter Cluster Coordinator deployment in Tajikistan; and leading the WASH Cluster’s emergency materials stockpiling project.

Tim’s key competencies are in needs assessment, programme design, management and evaluation, organisational development, training and facilitation. He has a keen interest in exploiting the internet in his work, and is currently working on a redesigned web site and resource database for the All In Diary project.

Tim’s mother tongue is English and he is fluent in French. He is currently based in Geneva, Switzerland.

  • Flemming GJEDDE-NIELSEN
    Project Cycle Management Specialist

Flemming has 25 years experience working with development and humanitarian organisations in Africa, the Arab world and Asia. He has particular strong insights in working with southern NGOs, CBOs, networks and alliances and social movements with emphasis on diverse aspects of partnerships.

During these years, Flemming has been covering all stages of Project Cycle Management, as a designer of programmes/projects, as an implementer, as coach to programme/project leaders, as reviewer and evaluator and in designing manuals and guidelines in support of programme and project design, implementation and monitoring.

In addition to Project Cycle Management, Flemming has extensive experience in strategy development and strategic positioning of organisations, organisational assessment and development.

Matteo has a background in economy and political science. He holds a MPA in Policy Evaluation from the University of Geneva, and a Master in Advanced Developed Studies from the Graduate Institute of Geneva. He is an evaluator and management consultant with nearly 15 years of international experience. Having started his professional career as a researcher at the Laboratory of Applied Economics at the University of Geneva, he then worked as a management consultant with Ernst & Young Consulting.

Since 2003, Matteo has been a partner with the evaluation cabinet MAGI-STER Sagl CONSULTING. He has successfully accomplished assignments in the area of good governance related issues, performance management, and local institutional development for multilateral and bilateral donors, as well as for local and international NGOs. In parallel, he is also a lecturer for the Executive Master of
Advanced Development Studies (IMAS) and for the Executive Master in Asian Affairs (EMASIA) at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, Switzerland.

His core competences are Project Management, Monitoring & Evaluation, Performance Management and Organization Re-engineering. He is member of the Swiss Evaluation Society and the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS).

Matteo lives in Geneva.

Karine Klein is a specialist in fundraising, marketing and communication, with more than twenty years of professional experience.

For over sixteen years, she has worked in leading companies of the private sector (Conté, Sony, Parfums Givenchy, Kenzo Parfums, TAG Heuer, Ebel), in management positions and at international level.

In 2004, she joined Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as the Head of Fundraising for Switzerland. In 2008/2009, after four years of fruitful development in Switzerland, she worked as a consultant for MSF- Japan in Tokyo and as Head of Fundraising ad interim for MSF-Italy in Rome. She is now working as a free-lance consultant. Among other mandates, she recently completed a specific fundraising evaluation for the International Office of Médecins sans Frontières.

On top of delivering courses during fundraising seminars, Karine Klein contributed to the organisation of lectures and best practices sharing for the Swissfundraising Association, in the French speaking part of Switzerland.

Originally from France, where she graduated from a business school, Institut Supérieur de Gestion, she has lived in France, Singapore and Switzerland.

She is now settled in the Montreux area, in the Swiss Alps.

Jon

Laurent has 16 years of experience working for international organisations in the emergency and aid sectors. He was from 1993 to 1999 with MSF-France and Oxfam-UK as programme manager and coordinator and has since worked, among others, in South Sudan, Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Liberia, Ethiopia, South Africa, Albania, Kosovo, Ingushetia and Nepal.

Since 2000, Laurent has worked as a trainer, coach and consultant for Bioforce, MSF-Switzerland, MDM, Solidarité, the French Red Cross, and has been teaching at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. His most recent assignment was with the WHO in Nepal.

He has developed and conducted training courses for a wide range of NGOs and training institutes, and is a specialist in the project management cycle, exit strategies, human resources, evaluations, WATSAN and logistics.

Laurent has a diploma in Community and Public Health of the Medical University of Nancy and an Executive MBA, with special focus on human resource management, from the Montpellier Business School.

Laurent lives in Sete, on the Mediterranean coast, in France.

  • Maria Normita PALO
    Specialist on Financial Management, Micro-Finance Projects, Marketing, Training of Trainers
    rita.palo[at]ngomanager.org
Rita

Rita has fifteen years of experience as a senior executive in NGOs, as a trainer and consultant for NGOs, for cooperatives, communities, local government units, donor agencies and for small businesses.
She has carried out assignments in the Philippines, Chittagong and Rangamati in Bangladesh and in Suva, Fiji for national NGOs, as well as for Misereor, Bread for the World, GTZ, USAID, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.

Rita is a former executive director of the Settlement and Livelihoods Foundation in the Philippines and was a university instructor of accounting in Davao City, the Philippines. She is the author of several financial and operations manuals for NGOs.
Based in Davao City, the Philippines, Rita is the co-founder and an associate of InterDev Consulting.

Her areas of expertise are:

- Development of management courses, providing training courses on financial management, micro-finance projects, marketing and human resource management
- Specialist in training and coaching of trainers, international trainer for GTZ-CEFE Network Foundation
- Consultancy on financial management, micro-finance and local governance
- Development, installation and operationalization of system manuals for NGOs.

Roberto

Roberto has more than 20 years of experience as a communication professional and senior trainer for NGOs, cooperatives, communities, for local government units, donor agencies and small businesses.

He has carried out assignments in the Philippines, Afghanistan, Australia, Malaysia and Fiji for the ICRC, GTZ, Bread for the World, the Australian Red Cross, the Japan Social Development Fund, The World Bank and the Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. After starting his career as a coordinator for theatre and radio productions, Roberto was the ICRC’s communications and field officer in Mindanao, the Philippines, for several years. He developed and conducted numerous Red Cross and humanitarian law-related training courses in the Philippines and in other countries.

Roberto is based in Davao City, the Philippines and is the co-founder and an associate of InterDev Consulting.

His areas of expertise are:

- Training design and curriculum development of management courses for NGOs, financial management, marketing, business plans and negotiation
- Conducting of training courses, training of trainers, senior trainer for CEFE Network Foundation
- Conducting of programme and project monitoring, evaluation and assessments for development and humanitarian work
- Development and installation of system manuals for NGOs and self-help organizations
- Consultancy on financial management, social marketing, organizational assessment and capacity building.

Philippe has 22 years of experience working in development and humanitarian organisations. Since 1987, he has worked as head of project with multicultural teams for international organisations. Since 1996, he also became a specialist in human resource management, first in recruitment and career development.

From 1998-2003, Philippe was the director of human resources at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Switzerland, an international organisation based in Geneva, with a staff of 1500 persons in four continents. He was also a member of the board of directors.

From 2003-2004, Philippe was the training director of a professional training organisation. In 2005, he again joined MSF Switzerland as its head of training. He developed an ambitious strategy and programme for the training of its staff of 3000 persons, especially in the fields of management, finances, human resources, logistics and health. He is now also in charge of career transition for the staff of MSF Switzerland. Based on his experience in the field and at HQ, he puts the individual at the center of attention.

His areas of expertise include work organisation, project management and human resource management, especially professional mobility. He regularly coaches individual managers as well as teams.

Philippe has two Masters degrees, on international project management from Sorbonne University in Paris, and on management of human resources from Geneva University.

Since 2009, Philippe is also a senior consultant at the Geneva-based organisation imconsult focusing on career transition.

Philippe is based in Geneva since 1998.

Jon

Jonathan is a management and organisational development consultant focusing on management capacity development, strategy, policy and governance issues, programme development, and institution building. Jonathan has worked in more than 15 countries on a wide range of  innovative capacity building initiatives, resource mobilisation challenges as well as governance issues and network development. Prior to consulting, he worked for ten years in external relations, organisational development and capacity building with a number of non-governmental organisations including Ashoka: Innovators for the Public and the International Commission of Jurists.

Jonathan is currently completing a Master’s degree in Development Management. He holds a Management Development Certificate  and Bachelor’s degree in Development and Social Anthropology.

Jonathan is based in Geneva.

Stefan Ziegler has over 10 years of experience in the fields of research and advocacy related to humanitarian action. He currently works as the project manager for the Barrier Monitoring Unit, a research team for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), in the West Bank. He has experience working in all levels of planning from Operations Support Officer for the U.N. to Strategic Planning Associate at the Irish Peace Institute. His years working for the ICRC have given him the opportunity to work with partners in promoting advocacy campaigns and to fundraise for projects no longer in the limelight.

Stefan is also an affiliate trainer with RedR in London, a member of the Irish and Swiss Emergency Response Teams and no stranger to giving formal or informal trainings internationally. He further works as a consultant in humanitarian matters, lectures and organises seminars in this varied field.