Over the years I have gained experience in all the following areas.
Development evaluation
- Agriculture and rural development
- Agriculture – research and development
- Agriculture – capacity development and the empowerment of women scientists
- Climate change adaptation
- Climate change mitigation
- Child labour
- Community-based resource management
- Conservation
- Decent work
- Development strategy and programming
- Disaster risk reduction
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Empowerment, capacity development and human development
- Evaluation policy
- Fellowship programmes
- Gender
- Health systems
- HIV and AIDS
- ICT for development
- Knowledge products – quality and impact
- Leadership
- Networks
- Oceans / SDG 14
- Organisational performance – positioning, programming, governance and operational systems
- Partnerships
- Policy, policy influencing and impact
- South-South Cooperation
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Triangular Cooperation
Research evaluation
- Disaster risk science
- Research capacity strengthening
- Research collaboration, partnerships, networks and coalitions
- Research for development
- Research quality
- Research strategy and programming
- Research use and influence
- Research impact and value for money
Organisational development
- Knowledge management strategy development and implementation
- Strengthening of organisational systems and capacities
- Evaluation of organisational performance
- Governance
- Contributions
Grantmaking (R&D and Innovation)
- Biotechnology
- Agriculture and food security
- Rural and urban development
- Veterinary science
- Individual research capacity development
- Organisational research capacity development.
University management
- Research policy, strategy and programme development
- Management of contract research, intellectual property rights and commercialisation
- Internationalisation policy, strategy and programmes
Research
- Chemical communication in nature (pheromones) – combining analytical chemistry, organic chemistry and ecological systems science