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Our People: Associate ConsultantsMichael AdairSpecialist Capability: Programme and Project Design focusing on Poverty Alleviation Mike Adair has 25 years of development experience comprising head office staff time in Canada (for CIDA) and in Bangkok (for the UN) as well as 15 years of large team management experience in Asia and Africa. His areas of competence include: country programme and project design, management and team building, M and E, poverty reduction, community participation/planning, MDGs, micro-finance, process-oriented management, institution building, capacity development, governance and management systems, conflict and development, agriculture and rural development, HRD, gender and development, small scale industry, NGO/peoples' organisations, appropriate technology. He has a special interest in and nine years’ field management of microfinance in Bangladesh, the Philippines and Thailand. Mike has lived and/or worked in Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, Ghana, Guinea, Indonesia, Kenya, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Vietnam. His work favours bottom-up solutions and participatory processes that are guided by best practices and he especially enjoys team approaches to blending local knowledge and international experience.  Michael Barr Specialist Capability: Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing and Image Processing Mike Barr has experience in the application of GIS and remote sensing technology to natural resource, urban planning and environmental problems. He has undertaken the design, procurement, installation, commissioning and operation of GIS for cadastral, land use, land valuation and acquisition, water resources, agriculture, range monitoring, resettlement and compensation, urban and transportation planning and property management through GIS projects for national and regional authorities in Argentina, Sri Lanka, UAE and Lesotho. Lynne Barratt Specialist Capability: Environmental Management and Institutional Reform Lynne Barratt is an environmental management specialist with over 20 years' experience of working on development projects in the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia, the Caribbean and the Western Indian Ocean Islands. She has worked for all the major donor agencies in the capacities of project co-ordinator, team leader and senior consultant. She has recently completed an assignment as environmental advisor to the government of Iraq assessing the validity of environmental compensation claims for the 4th and 5th instalments of claimant countries for alleged damages associated with the 1st Gulf War under the auspices of the United Nations Compensation Commission. She is currently involved as a senior environmental and institutional reform consultant to HTSPE’s, DFID-funded, State and Local Government Programme in Nigeria and is an environmental advisor to the EU LIFE, UK and Ireland programme. Robin Beechey Specialist Capability: Public Administration Reform in Developing Countries and Emerging Democracies Robin Beechey has extensive experience in public administration in the UK and for 20 years was Chief Executive of a large UK County Council. Since 1994 he has undertaken assignments for the EC, DFID, UNDP and other international donors in the field of Public Administration Reform and Institution Building in Central & Eastern Europe, the CIS, the Balkans and Southern & West Africa. He has managed projects, drafted terms of reference and undertaken evaluations, and has worked at all levels of government (central, regional and municipal). Many of these projects have involved working with Ministers and Senior Civil Servants on issues of civil service reform, the establishment of regional government, the strengthening of local government, and the transfer of responsibility for refugee return and reconstruction programmes to the domestic authorities in the Balkans. He also has extensive experience of election administration in the UK and of election supervision and monitoring for OSCE, the EU and the UK Government. Ester Bonitatibus Specialist Capability: SME Development, Training Programmes and Training Material, Programme Design, Management and Evaluation Ester Bonitatibus has over twenty years of management and consulting experience working through international organisations in over 30 countries. Her key areas of expertise are: • programme management; • small and medium enterprise (SME) development; • conference and workshop organisation; • project design and evaluation; • development of training programmes and training material. Ester has an in-depth knowledge and experience of EDF procedures. She speaks fluent Italian and English with a good working knowledge of Spanish and French. Michael Daplyn Specialist Capability: Rural Sector Project/Programme Monitoring and Evaluation Mike Daplyn is an agricultural economist by training, with experience since 1971 in Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. He has very broad sector experience including irrigated and rainfed crops, livestock and veterinary services, fisheries, resettlement, agricultural research and extension, flood control, drainage and both smallholder and large scale production systems. Since 1981 he has had extensive and varied experience worldwide in monitoring and evaluation of development projects, including leadership of multidisciplinary evaluation teams, and with recent emphasis on community-based and participatory development. From 1986 to 1998 he was responsible for development and support of the monitoring and evaluation activities of Hunting Technical Services Limited (now HTSPE Ltd.) worldwide. Since 2003 he has been Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist of the DFID/IDA-funded Fourth Fisheries Project in Bangladesh, developing and implementing impact evaluation systems for a range of inland fishery sub-projects, and facilitating development of a long-term Fisheries M&E strategy. Prior to that, he spent four years in Lesotho as Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor to the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, focusing on monitoring the restoration of income and living standards of rural people affected by dam construction. Ali Dastgeer Specialist Capability: Monitoring and Evaluation Ali Dastgeer's areas of expertise include institutional development, government structural reforms, macroeconomic planning, micro-finance, governance, decentralisation, humanitarian assistance, poverty assessment and alleviation, agricultural economics, socio-economic surveys, project evaluations and reviews, non-governmental organisations, community development, rural development and project management. He has undertaken monitoring and evaluation of institutional development and technical programmes for social and economic growth with a focus on equity, improved service delivery, cost efficiency, participation, sustainability, inclusion of women and strengthening of government extension services. Sectors assessed include micro-finance, social mobilisation, water management, human resource development, natural resource management, small and micro-enterprise development, physical infrastructure, government reform, engineering and appropriate technology development, gender issues and social sector services including health, family planning and education. He has held responsibility for donor reporting in these sectors to the World Bank, DFID, ADB, IFAD, UN agencies, European Union, Save the Children Fund, national and provincial governments, NGOs, European governments and other donors. Alec Dawson Shepherd Specialist Capability: Environment, Project Design and Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation Alec Dawson Shepherd is an environmentalist with over 25 years of experience, more recently in the European Sector, as an evaluator for EU-funded LIFE Environment projects in the UK and Ireland. Since completing his PhD on fisheries, at York University in 1981, Dr. Dawson Shepherd has worked extensively on coastal and marine environmental issues in the Middle East, South and South East Asia. As well as undertaking short assignments he has been a long-term resident Government-level advisor on coastal and marine sustainable development in Indonesia, Maldives, Seychelles, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Dr. Dawson Shepherd has lead teams undertaking environmental impact assessments in the tourism, transport, mining and conservation sectors. He also has substantial experience of designing projects using the project cycle approach and of understanding project performance evaluations. Dr. Dawson Shepherd has worked for a range of donors including the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the EU and DFID. Christopher Floyd Specialist Capability: Livelihoods, Natural Resource Management and Research Systems Christopher Floyd is a research agronomist with 27 years' experience as a research manager, research adviser and researcher. He has a special interest in improving the development relevance and delivery of natural resource management research through its management, method, capacity building, governance and the use of competitive grant systems. He has worked and lived in Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea and the United Kingdom and has experience in South-East Asia, Eastern and West Africa and the Caribbean through short-term and research management assignments. His experience covers livelihoods, poverty-focussed, participatory, inter-disciplinary and systems-based research and policy in natural resource management, soil fertility and management. He has worked in a wide range of systems: from sub-tropical to semi-arid tropics, and wetland and dryland systems in both hill and lowland farming. His most recent assignment for HTSPE was as manager of the DFID Natural Resources Systems Programme in the UK. Prior to that he was the team leader on a DGIS funded research and development project in Bhutan. Simon Foot Specialist Capability: Political Economy, Governance and Institutional Change, Human Resource Management Simon Foot has over 18 years of experience in supporting institutional and governance reform. He has worked mainly in Africa (Zambia, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and the Gambia) but also in Bangladesh, Guyana and Bosnia. He is an experienced programme manager and has recently completed three and half years leading a twenty million pound DFID programme in Nigeria. His background in political economics allows him to take a broad and politically-aware perspective on transformational change opportunities and strategies, while his technical specialisation in Human Resources Management provides for a practical approach to short-term challenges. Dr. Foot worked for HTSPE as a full-time employee for some 15 years, which included a successful period as Director of our East European Department. He is now an independent consultant and HTSPE Associate. Frans Geilfus Specialist Capability: Rural livelihoods, Regional planning and Natural Resources Frans Geilfus is an agronomist and PhD in Geography from the University of Louvain, Belgium. The major part of his 25 years' professional experience has been dedicated to field project management in Latin America and the Caribbean in the areas of sustainable agriculture, natural resources management, regional planning and environmental policy. Since 2001 he has turned to short-term consultancy for project formulation, monitoring and evaluation as well as thematic studies in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He works in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Hugh Goyder Specialist Capability: Monitoring, Evaluation and Organisational Development Hugh Goyder has long experience of the management, monitoring, evaluation, and impact assessment of humanitarian and development projects. He was Team Leader for HTSPE on a DFID-funded capacity building project in support of the Monitoring & Evaluation Department of the NGO Proshika in Bangladesh and from 2003-5 worked for HTSPE on Impact Assessment for the Village Investment Programme in Kyrgyzstan. He also has recognised expertise in the monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programmes; he has advised UNDP Indonesia on M & E and knowledge management issues; was Team Leader of The World Food Programme’s evaluation of their response to the Asian Tsunami; and in 2006 led an evaluation of the Irish Government’s response to the Tsunami. He has also led two evaluations of agencies’ response to the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005 – the first for the UK Disasters Emergency Committee, the second for Plan International. He has strong training, facilitation, and report-writing skills. Ian Hancock Specialist Capability: Capacity Building for Agricultural and Rural Development Sector Ian Hancock's qualifications and experience cover production aspects as well as the planning, management, institutional and policy issues within natural resources sector development. Primary work focus in the recent past has been toward rural development in general, supported by experience in participatory agriculture development, livelihood systems approach, project management, human resource development, and agriculture/rural development planning. This is complemented by a wide range of technical disciplines such as: agronomy (comprehensive range of temperate and tropical crops across diverse agro-ecologies), horticulture (production and marketing), integrated watershed development, irrigation agronomy, sustainable agriculture and farming systems, seed sector development, extension and research planning. Consulting experience across the sector ranges from working with the individual farmer to ministerial levels on the implementation, policy and regulatory framework for the agricultural sector development. Dr. Hancock's project management experience covers all steps in the project cycle including programme management and team leadership. Experience gathered in over 35 countries world wide, spanning seven regions (Africa, Europe, South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, Caribbean and Pacific), while working with a range of organisations, including major donors (ADB, World Bank, DFID, EU, FAO, and UNDP), NGOs and the private sector. The combination of broad technical experience and consulting experience to multiple clients: the farmer, private sector, to government and donor level, demonstrates a proven ability to find solutions under very complex circumstances. David Hearle Specialist Capability: Strategic Planning and Institutional Development David Hearle is a strategic planning and institutional development specialist having 27 years' experience with development projects and programmes in Asia, Africa, Europe, South America and the Middle East. This experience as a consultant and team leader covers numerous short and long-term assignments for multilateral agencies, bilateral donors, international companies and NGOs. Sector experience includes natural resources, engineering, environment, policy, health and education. For 10 years David was Managing Director of IMA and provided the leadership and management that made IMA a leading development agency that has provided development training and consultancy services to individuals from 106 countries. As an educator and trainer in the field of strategic planning and institutions David has directed and taught on 93 international courses. Nicolas Jewell Specialist Capability: Geographical Information Systems in Natural Resources, Forestry and Land Use Sectors Nick Jewell specialises in the design and integration of information systems for natural resource evaluation and management, particularly forestry. Nick has sixteen years of international consultancy experience. Clients have included DFID, JICA, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Commission, UNDP, UNOPS and project work has been undertaken in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Honduras, Korea, Albania, Montenegro, Italy and the United Kingdom. Nick Jewell has experience in environmental management and impact assessment; land use planning; watershed management and forestry, planning and design of management systems for local resources centres, and in project feasibility, formulation, and evaluation missions. Michael Mann Specialist Capability: International Management and Economic Development Mike Mann has more than 20 years' experience as an international management and economic development consultant. He is a qualified accountant and certified management consultant with extensive experience in the following areas: project cycle management, financial control and management, international accounting standards, financial analysis and forecasting, computer literacy, marketing, financial restructuring, legal insolvency, privatisation, restructuring, business valuation, development and delivery of training programmes. Mike Mann has worked in more than 30 countries over a wide range of regions including CIS, Middle East, Balkans, Asia and the Caribbean. He is currently working on his 28th Team Leader assignment for the EU and has experience with many other donor agencies. He has worked on more than 100 restructuring projects and has several large privatisation projects to his credit. Rob Mellors Specialist Capability: Local Government, Decentralisation, Capacity Building, Regional and Development Planning Rob Mellors has spent many years in Africa working with local government development and capacity building programmes. He was the Team Leader of various initiatives in Zimbabwe aimed at enhancing the institutional capacities of the Rural District Councils. Of late he has been particularly focused on efforts to support: • the establishment and development of Local Government in Southern Sudan, and • decentralisation and local government capacity building in Ethiopia. Neil Orchardson Specialist Capability: Development Economist, Governance, Monitoring and Evaluation Neil Orchardson is a development economist with more than 20 years' experience, gained mainly in Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia and the Far East. He was a permanent staff member of HTSPE between 1988 and 2000. His early experience in planning and implementing socio-economic surveys have not only left him highly experienced in survey design implementation and analysis but have given him important insights into rural livelihoods and household income/expenditure. In addition Neil is highly experienced in monitoring and evaluation techniques including performance monitoring within service organisations and has experience of applying resource allocation models gained during an assignment in Bangladesh. Neil has experience in the design and implementation of governance reform and decentralisation programmes in both Africa and the Caribbean and he headed the Department of Institutional Strengthening on the PROLINO Project (Dominican Republic) and was responsible for facilitating institutional change in parastatals, local government councils and NGOs. Until recently Neil Orchardson was Team Leader on the DFID-funded State and Local Government Programme (SLGP) in Nigeria. As leader of the programme his responsibilities included facilitating the formulation of reform policies to: strengthen the capacity of state and local governments, enhance capacity to formulate policy, manage resources and support service delivery in order to deliver effective pro-poor governance and to produce a more responsive government. This involved working closely with State and Local Governments as well as the donor. He was responsible for developing strategies that were both consistent with donor and government policies as well as being innovative and assisting change agents in the State to assess the current governance situation and create opportunities for reform. Tim Richards Specialist Capability: GIS, Forest Information Systems, Remote Sensing and Computing Tim Richards is director of a small consultancy company specialising in information technology for renewable natural resources information management. He undertakes consultancy assignments in information management for the sustainable utilisation and conservation of renewable natural resources, remote sensing, Geographical Information Systems, Forest Information Systems and computing. Recently he has been working as Team Leader on an HTSPE project, drafting technical and bidding documents for a Mongolian National Land Information System (funded by the Asian Development Bank). In addition Tim has recently acted as Remote Sensing and GIS Forest Management Applications Specialist on the South and Central Kalimantan Production Forest Project. Also in Kalimantan he has analysed the utilisation of remote sensing and GIS by Forest Agencies for biomass fire monitoring, land cover mapping and land resource planning. Tim developed a GIS-based biomass fire Hot Spot Data Management System for South and Central Kalimantan. Other recent posts have included Work Package Leader on an EU project to develop a network for a European Forest Information Service at the European Forest Institute. Christopher Sealy Specialist Capability: Project Management focusing on Private Sector Development Chris Sealy is currently the manager of a seven-person international team delivering technical and financial support to the development of the non-traditional mining sector in Zambia for a European Development Fund programme which also includes a capacity building component for the line-ministry. This followed immediately from leading another EDF funded multi-national team managing a five-year multifaceted programme of interventions designed to improve the performance of the private sector in Zambia. Government, private and not-for-profit institutions were brought together to provide improved BDS. Whilst focusing on management and implementation, Chris has also successfully completed appraisal, monitoring and evaluation missions to SME support programmes and sustainable credit systems in Africa, CIS, CEU and Central Asia over more than fifteen years. He has designed and implemented training programmes for indigenous SME trainers, expatriate workers and entrepreneurs. Support to business development institutions has included organisational development and institutional strengthening. He completed research on traditional apprenticeships and other training systems in Africa and proposed interventions to strengthen their role in encouraging enterprise development and employment creation. Chris has conducted seminars examining the role of government institutions and NGOs in SME development and taught on the Cranfield University Small Enterprise Development and NGO Management courses and the UN Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance. He initiated NGO networks to share learning and make their activities more effective and founded a UK based development charity. Christine Toppin-Allahar Specialist Capability: Geographer/planner and Lawyer, specialising in Environmental, Planning and Land Law Ms Christine Toppin-Allahar is an Attorney-at-Law, specialising in planning, environmental and land law. Prior to qualifying as a lawyer, she held degrees in Geography and Economics, with postgraduate qualifications in Geography and Planning. She has 30 years' experience in the field of physical planning, both in the public and private sectors. As a lawyer, she has worked for the State and in private practice. She has presented many papers at international conferences on planning, the environment and the law and has had her work published in refereed journals. She is a member of the International Bar Association (Environmental Division), the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, the Environmental Law Advisory Committee of the Caribbean Law Institute, and the Board of Editors of the Journal of the International Land Use Society. She has served as a consultant on environmental planning, institutional strengthening and legislative drafting to various international organisations, including the World Bank, IADB, CDB, UNDP, UNCHS, UNECLAC, PAHO/WHO, FAO, OAS, OECS, DFID and EU. |
