Selection of Current and
Previous Assignments (as of 2025)
Public
Sector
Reform
2024: Organisational Development Support,
Planning and Development Departments of Punjab and KP
(Pakistan) (DeGe Consult/GIZ)
2015/16: Organizational Diagnosis and
Development of the Local Government, Elections and
Rural Development Department, Government of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (GIZ)
1998: Advisory support on
organisational structure and internal work flowsto
Minstry of Planning and International Cooperation of
the Palestinian Authority (GTZ)
1997/1997: Advisory support on
institutional reformsto
the Ministry of Agriculture (Biro Ortala),
Indonesia, (GTZ)
1993-1996: Policy advice on design, structure and
content of civil service training to the
National Institute for Public Administration (Lembaga
Administrasi Negara/LAN), Indonesia
2021 - 2025: Strategy Support to Decentralization in
Cambodia (GIZ Cambodia) (e.g., decentralization in the
health and education sectors; concept of "metropolitan
governance"; role of the provinces in Cambodia's multi-level
governance system; analysis of the political system)
2020 - 2024: Policy
Advice on Local Governance in KP and Punjab (GIZ
Pakistan):
Support to Support
to Local Governance (LoGo) and Participatory
Local Governance (PLG): e.g., concept development
for an e-learning course on local governance in Punjab;
preparation of input paper on local government &
climate change action; review of diagnostic reports [such
as on digital citizen participation; policy formulation
processes in KP and Punjab]; technical backstopping;
support in annual and final progress reporting;
Advisory
support to EHS Project: participatory sector
planning in the health and education sectors
2018: Design, Organzation and Moderation of Networking
Event on Functional Assignment and the Agenda 2030 (7th
ASPAC Congress, Surabaya) (ADB & LOGIN)
2017 - 2019: Teamleader Strengthening Local Governance,
Support to Local Governance Programme/LoGo (GIZ Pakistan)
(Policy Advice to the Local Government Departments of KP and
Punjab, including on 2019 local government legislation)
2015: Policy Advice on functional
assignment in the health sector(Department of
Health, Khyber
Pahktunkhwa) (Pakistan) (GIZ)
2015: Support in designing and organising a regional
learning event on "Decentralization Reforms and Local
Goverance Systems in the Asia Pacific" (Manila, 25-27 August
2015) (GIZ, ADB)
2014/2015: Policy advice on pilot
implementation of decentralising functions in the rural
water supply sector to the Ministry of Rural
Development, Cambodia (ADB)
2014/2015: Policy advice on assignment
of functions in primary and secondary educationto Elementary
& Secondary Education Department, Khyber Pahktunkhwa
(Pakistan) (GIZ)
2011: Policy
Advice on
the assignment of functions in the health sector in
the new federal structure of Nepal to the Ministry
of Health, Nepal (GIZ)
2007 – 2010: Policy advice
on functional
assignment/activity mapping, decentralization policy, and
social audit systemsto the State
Department of Panchayati Raj (Himachal Pradesh, India) (GTZ)
2006/2007: Policy
advice on
formulation of a decentralization policy statement to the Ministry
of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment
(MLGRDE), Ghana (GTZ) 2005/2006:
Policy advice on government-donor relationships to the
Royal Government of Cambodia (IMC Task Force) in the context
of the Independent
Study on Donor Support to Decentralization and Deconcentration (GTZ)
2000 - 2005:
Policy advice on
decentralization and capacity development policies to the Indonesian
Ministry of Home Affairs and the National Development Planning
Agency (BAPPENAS) (GTZ)
Capacity
Building/Capacity Development
2017 - 2022
Advisory Support to Local Governance Capacity Development
Systems, Khyber
Pahktunkhwa
& Punjab (Pakistan); Support to Local
Governance Programme/LoGo (GIZ Pakistan)
2015: Scoping Study on Institutional and Capacity Development
of Institutions, Organizations and Individuals for Investments
in Mindanao (ADB)
2007 – 2010: Advisory support to State Department of Panchayati
Raj (Himachal Pradesh, India) on strengthening the state’s
capacity development systems for local representatives and state
officials; Formulation of state training plans, modules and
curricula (GTZ)
2004: Design and management of a capacity building needs
assessment exercise and formulation of capacity building action
plans for three local government districts in East Kalimantan
(Indonesia) (GTZ)
2003-2005: Design, field-testing and dissemination of guidelines
on capacity-building for sub-national governments (Indonesia)
(GTZ)
1999/2000: Team Leader of the joint GTZ/USAID/ADB study
team conducting the Capacity Building Needs Assessment for Local
Governments and Legislatures (CBNA) in Indonesia
Subnational Climate Change Action
2023: Lead of design mission
for a Local Climate Adaptive Living (LoCAL) mechanism for
tehsil local governments in KP, Pakistan (DeGe Consult/UNCDF/GIZ)
2024: Design of a training package on the UNCDF LoCAL mechanism
(KP, Pakistan) (UNCDF/DeGe Consult/GIZ)
2019 - 2020: Lead Consultant, Design and
Coordination of E-Learning Course on Decentralization,
Local Governance and Localizing SDGs in Asia and the
Pacific (ADB)
2015: Design and
Conduct of Functional Assignment Workshop (Swiss Development
Cooperation/SDC, Local Governance Initiative and Network
Asia/LOGIN)
1998/1999: Course Director and Resource Person
for management training programmes conducted by Ciptanet
International for government officials from Indonesia and
the Philippines 1997-1999: Lecturer (part time) with the Political
Science Institute, FU Berlin (Germany)
Program Design and Evaluation
2023: Member of
a design mission for a Local Climate Adaptive Living
Facility (LoCAL) in KP/ Pakistan (02/2023 – 04/2023)
(UNCDF/DeGe/GIZ)
2021-2024:
Drafting of Annual and Final Project Reports (GIZ Pakistan:
Support to Local Governance/LoGo; FATA Development
Programme/FDP; Participatory Local Governance/PLG; GIZ
Cambodia: Decentralization and Administration Reform
Programme, Improved Service Delivery for Citizens Programme)
2021: Member of
Appraisal Mission (Improved Service Delivery) (GIZ Cambodia)
2021: Head of Appraisal Mission (Capacity
Development Support to Governance II) (GIZ Nepal)
2020: Preparation of Sector Report Governance (GIZ Pakistan)
2010 – 2013: as
Sector Specialist, mission member or team leader of several
project appraisal planning or project review missions to
Indonesia, Cambodia, Nepal and India (GTZ/GIZ) 2012:
Mission member of mid-term evaluation team for a regional
decentralization and local governance support project in South
Asia (LoGIN) funded by Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC)
1999 - 2010: Participation in project appraisal missions and
project design work in the context of German development
cooperation in Indonesia, Ghana, India and Pakistan (GTZ)
2004:
Participation in ADB ex-post evaluation of technical
assistance projects in Indonesia (ADB)
1990 - 1992: Assessment of project proposals, formulation of
project designs and monitoring of project implementation
(UNDP, Nigeria)
Private Sector Cooperation
2013 - 2015: Senior Advisor Sustainable Development (German
Asia-Pacific Business Association, Hamburg) (www.oav.de)