Staff
The list of Advisors / Sr Consultants is available here. The Consultant roster is available here.
- Lars T. Soeftestad
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Position: Owner and CEO
Focus (topics): Capacity building, Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM), Coastal zone management, Conflict management, Fisheries, Indigenous people and minorities, Institution analysis/building, Legal reform, Monitoring and evaluation, Non-formal education, NRM, Rangeland management, Social and institutional analyses/assessment, Social and institutional development, Strategic communication.
Focus (geographic): Eastern Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa.
Professional profile: Lars is trained as an anthropologist. He works on social and institutional analyses in natural resource mgmt., democratization, governance, inclusion, institution building, knowledge mgmt., legal reform, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic communication. His theoretical and applied interests in development cooperation are in the areas of agriculture, coastal zone mgmt., common property resource mgmt., CBNRM, fisheries, ICTs and development, minority-majority ethnic group relations, participatory approaches, rangeland mgmt., social assessment, and training and capacity-building. Lars is Founder and Coordinator, the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net), a global community of practice. He is also Board Chairperson of Forum South, a regional network of organizations and institutions in southern Norway that work on North-South issues, humanitarian relief and development cooperation. Former employers include Rural and Health Development Center Foundation (a Bangladeshi NGO), Sida, University of Zurich and World Bank. He has consulted widely in Eastern Europe, Central Europe, the Horn of Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West and Central Africa, for, among others, DFID, Dutch Aid, GEF, Govt. of Norway, GTZ, IFAD, IFC, ILO, Innovation Norway, Norad, Sida, UNDP, UNOPS, USAID, World Bank, and private sector firms and NGOs.
Activities: Projects and operations | Library | Portfolio
Links (local): Curriculum vitae | Curriculum vitae (EU) | Contact
Links (external): Devex, personal | Devex, Supras I | Devex, Supras II | Flickr | Google Book Search | Google Scholar |
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- Simi Ann Solaas
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Position: Trainee
Focus (topics): Children´s rights and child welfare.
Focus (geographic): Middle East (Israel/Palestine), Eastern Europe (Bosnia), South America (Bolivia), Africa (Uganda).
Professional profile: Education: Child welfare and development work. Worked as Ecumenical Accompanier, the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), World Council of Churches (WCC) in Palestine (West Bank) in 2008 (the Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) coordinates the programme for Norway). She is a Consultant/Leader to CISV Norway, and has participated in CISV camps in several countries (the US, Argentina, Japan and Ecuador). Board Member, the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net). Active in Forum South. She is also involved with a new organization, RE:ACT, that has a focus on world poverty. Based in Kristiansand, Norway.
Activities: Research on children.
Links (local): Contact
Links (external): | Blog (general) | Blog (Middle East 2008)