MS SUSANNE VAN LIESHOUT Country of origin: Netherlands. Currently residing in Yangon (Myanmar) Gender: Female Phone: +95 (0) 9 250224076 Email: sli@mdf.nl MDF DIRECTOR MYANNMAR, CONSULTANT, TRAINER AND FACILITATOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Years of work experience: 20 years Countries of Work Experience: Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Thailand, India, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ghana, Belize, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Madagascar, Morocco, Trinidad & Tobago, Senegal, Netherlands SUMMARY / KEY QUALIFICATIONS Ms. Van Lieshout has ample experience managing, designing and conducting projects, workshops, trainings and many consulting assignments. She has worked with a large variety of clients including UN and other international organizations in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean (e.g. UNDP, UNICEF, ILO, USAID, UNESCO, EU, GTZ, MDF, CARE, PSI, etc.). She has developed an all-round expertise in the following fields: • Training - design and deliver modules on leadership and people management, management and supervisory skills, project cycle management (PCM), training of trainers (TOT) monitoring systems (M&E) logical frameworks/Theory of Change, conducting evaluations, proposal & report writing, lobbying and advocacy, presentation skills. • Facilitation - strategic planning, organizational assessments, staff retreats & team buildings. • Reviews and evaluations – baseline / endline surveys (incl. quasi-experimental designs), midterm reviews, end-of-project evaluations, impact assessments, quantitative surveys and qualitative reviews. • Monitoring systems - designing indicators and systems to measure progress. • Data analysis / research - rapid appraisals, quantitative, qualitative and formative research, data analysis, documentation and various ways of reporting. • Writing - reports, manuals, proposals, guides, publications, weblogs. • Project and Strategy design - designing strategies, projects, programmes, partnerships As a strong believer in inclusive and innovative approaches, she applies participatory approaches that consult and include stakeholders at all stages of program cycles. She has excellent multi-lingual writing and reporting skills. She is motivated and results-driven in all her work approaches as well as through her personal work-ethics. EMPLOYMENT RECORD Sep 2014 - to date
MDF Training and Consultancy Asia – Country Representative & Sr Consultant / Trainer, Facilitator – Yangon, Myanmar
Sep 2010 - Jun 2014
Independent consultant and trainer/facilitator with M&E assignments in Madagascar (US Embassy, UNICEF, WHO, GIZ, EU, USAID, JSI, MSH, PSI, UNDP).
Jun 2009 - Jan 2010
Mid Term Evaluation Consultant for UNDP, based in Belize. Evaluating UNDAF.
Jan 2006 - Feb 2009
Deputy Director and Senior Consultant of MDF Pvt Ltd, Management Training and Consultancy– Sri Lanka and South Asian region. Senior M&E consultant.
May 2003 - Sep 2005 Monitoring & Evaluation Consultant. Short-term assignments for various international organizations worldwide. Jan 2001 - Apr 2003
Enterprise Development Program and M&E Officer. International Labour Organization (ILO) Sub-regional office for the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago.
Nov 1998 - Dec 2000
M&E officer - Start and Improve Your Business project. ILO Sub-regional project office for sub-Saharan countries, Zimbabwe.
Feb 1997 - Feb 1998
Head of project monitoring unit. GTZ – Open Reintegration Fund for Demobilized Soldiers, Mozambique.
Jun 1996 - Feb 1997
Training and M&E consultant. GTZ – Creation of Micro Enterprise project, Mozambique.
EDUCATION 1996
M.A. in International & Socio-Cultural Development. Specialty: Policy Development and Gender Issues. Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1993
B.B.A. in Business Administration and Communication. School for Economy and Management, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
SELECTION OF MOST RELEVANT CONSULTANCIES Design and Delivery of Training: 2016 Myanmar Designed and conducted Management and Supervisory Skills training for various organizations 2016 Myanmar Conducted Results-based Management Training for various organizations. 2015 Myanmar Designed Train the Trainer Curriculum and resources for CEBDS project UNESCO Myanmar. 2015 Myanmar/Thai Conducted various M&E training programs for UNFPA, Malteser, and British land Council. 2015 Myanmar Conducted various Leadership & People's Management trainings with participants from different organisations (PSI, UNFPA, PACT, World Concern, Malteser ...). 2014 Vietnam Conducted Lobbying, Advocacy and Policy Influencing Training in Hanoi, Vietnam. 2014 Myanmar Proposal Writing: designed and delivered training and coaching for (I) NGOs. 2013 Madagascar Conducted various Lobbying, Advocacy and Negotiation skills training for Civil Society Partners of UNDP Madagascar. Trainer & facilitator: development of Logical frameworks, M&E plans for CSR and Environmental program of Ambatovy Nickel mining. 2010 Sri Lanka Ministry of Education/UNICEF’s Sri Lanka Train-the-Teacher, designed modules and trained over 100 teachers in adult learning methods and participatory education design, including psycho-social interventions. 2009 Netherlands Various courses on innovative Monitoring and Evaluation approaches at MDF NL 2008 Thailand Coach / trainer: Asian trainers in CARE’s International Competency Based Managing People’s training. 2007 Sri Lanka Customized and delivered program monitoring for UNAIDS staff and partner organizations developed M&E systems for World Vision. 2006 Afghanistan Trainer: Designed and delivered Management Information Systems (MIS) for staff of DACAAR in Afghanistan 2006 Pakistan Series of training workshops on Project Cycle Management for local government officials under the JICA devolution support program.
Workshops / Staff Retreats / Team building: 2015/16 Myanmar Facilitator of various workshops: UNFPA staff retreat (80 people), Data Management workshop for UN partners, Learning Workshop for Malteser. 2014 Myanmar Facilitator of Retreat & Reflection workshop for British Council Myanmar AMATEA partners (40 people). 2013 Madagascar Facilitator of change management process of SEKRIMA, confederation of 12 trade unions in Madagascar. Facilitator: Brown Bag Lunches facilitator (6 series) for USAID Mission. 2012 Madagascar Staff retreat Helvetas Madagascar, facilitated teambuilding on Advocacy. Six team building workshops for Ambatovy Nickel Mining (80 people). 2010 Bangkok, Facilitator for various workshops in Bangkok and India on designing Learning Thailand Strategies for ILO Asia region. & India Team Building sessions (including 3600 feedback) with ILO staff, GTZ staff and UNDP staff. 2009 Sri Lanka Facilitator: UNCT heads and staff of UN agencies on UNDAF for Sri Lanka 2010. Planning workshops for OMT (Operations Management Team), inter-agency UN body. Reviews and Evaluations 2015 Myanmar Evaluator (external) of MIMU (Myanmar Management Information Unit) under UNDP. Global / M&E consultant International Labour Organisation (ILO) Start and Improve Your Myanmar Business program, Global Tracer Study II, including case studies of SMEs and BDS providers in Myanmar. 2014 Myanmar Evaluator CIDA funded project of World Concern in Northern Shan State Myanmar. 2013/4 Madagascar Chief Evaluator UNDP CPAP Outcome evaluation Poverty Alleviation Program 2008 – 2013. Team leader qualitative review of USAID/MSH Community Health practices: leading a Formative Research to several health practices and their barriers, using PRA techniques. Team leader: qualitative program evaluation - with case studies and success stories- of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Approaches for four USAID partners in Madagascar, incl. CARE VSLAs for WASH case study. Mid-term evaluator. CAJAC - EU-funded project against corruption in urban areas and Mid-term review WASH approaches in USAID projects. 2012 Madagascar Evaluator International Labour Organisation (ILO) TACKLE program to combat child labor. Global Chief Evaluator: ILO Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) Global Tracer Study 2011. Madagascar Team leader for qualitative evaluation of Dairy Value Chain for Land O’Lakes Madagascar. 2011 Belize Mid-Term Evaluation of UNDAF Belize (Joint program of UNICEF, UNDP WHO and UNFPA) incl. various projects in the field of health, education, human rights and gender. 2009 India, Sri Lanka Evaluator: program evaluation and impact assessment of Family Strengthening Program of SOS Children Villages. 2009 Sri Lanka Team leader: quasi-experimental mid-term evaluation of Belgian Red Cross Psychosocial Program, and Participatory program evaluation for German Agro Action. 2007 Sri Lanka Team leader: participatory mid-term evaluation of tsunami relief and rehabilitation program (with 12 NGOs).
Research / Data Analysis Documentation 2013 Madagascar Survey coordinator to analyze the vanilla value chain in the SAVA region, qualitative and quantitative data collection with farmers, collectors and exporters for Fairfood International 2012 Madagascar Consultant: Analysis of key competences of UNICEF staff and partners and development of capacity building plan for partners and staff 2009 Sri Lanka Researcher: managed the design and implementation of a baseline survey in tsunami-affected areas for American Red Cross: 1000+ households, 650 schools and 450 IDPs 2003 Ghana Team leader: Baseline study (914 households) for ILO Ghana Decent Work Pilot Program 2002 Trinidad Team leader: Quasi-experimental impact survey ILO IWEB (Improve Your Work Environment and Business). 1998 Mozambique Food for the Hungry International Assistant Baseline study agriculture in 3 provinces in Mozambique Monitoring Assignments 2015 Myanmar Data analysis and development of series of Education Profiles for UNICEF 2010 Madagascar Designed M&E system and tools (incl. Intranet) for data collection, analysis and reporting to USAID and Global Fund, of all PSI activities 2009 Belize Developed monitoring system for UNDP in Belize, contributed to data collection and reporting for Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). 2007 Sri Lanka Designed MIS (Management Information System) for USAID/Microsoftsponsored UPP project. M&E adviser: revised monitoring systems (including staff training) for CIDA funded WUSC 2003-2005 Southern and M&E consultant; developed and introduced M&E tools for systematic collection Western Africa of data of ILO projects in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and in 8 countries in Western Africa. Developed and implemented quasi-experimental methodology to assess program impact 1996-97 China M&E consultant: ILO/PEP project in Beijing; China advised about general M&E concepts and standards, developed M&E system and databases Trainer and M&E consultant – GTZ CEFE (Competency Based Entrepreneurship through Formation of Entrepreneurs). Several Impact studies on women entrepreneurs Writing Reports, Proposals, Manuals 2015 Myanmar Development Training manuals for UNESCO Myanmar (10 modules) 2014 Myanmar World Health Organization (WHO Myanmar): proposal writing for 3MDG fund 2012 Quarterly and Annual report writer, USAID-JSI Community-based Integrated Health Program ongoing Global Editor: Editing all English language publications for MDF Netherlands Training and Consultancy Project and strategy development: 2014 Myanmar Project development and proposal writing for VSO international in Myanmar- incl. education, health and civil society and gender projects. 2013 Madagascar Strategic planning for Transparency International Initiative. 2013
Facilitator Strategic Planning sessions for US Embassy Public Affairs Section