Bas Athmer (MSc)

­Bas Athmer has 23 years of professional experience as team leader and technical advisor in employment-intensive rural infrastructure and community-based local economic development projects and poverty alleviation/food security projects in 14 countries in Africa and Asia. He has gained extensive experience in the management of complex and large rural development projects, in particular in the fields of community irrigation, rural roads, erosion control and watershed management. As team leader he has been responsible for directing and supervising multi-disciplinary teams of national and international experts. Through his work he has become very well acquainted with all aspects of Project Cycle Management (PCM) and the logical framework. He has a good working knowledge of procurement procedures of various bilateral and multilateral donors.

Bas has gained substantial experience in the identification, formulation, appraisal, review and evaluation of rural development projects. He successfully prepared a significant number of comprehensive financial and technical project proposals for donor funding. Bas is specialised in designing and implementing: i) monitoring and evaluation methodologies (including participatory M&E and performance, effect and impact monitoring); ii) the application of labour-based appropriate construction technologies; iii) guidelines for participatory planning; iv) guidelines for labour policies and practices in employment-intensive construction and maintenance (including social inclusion and gender issues); v) approaches and modules for technical and institutional capacity building and training.

Bas has a thorough understanding of management information systems (MIS) requirements and has successfully directed and coordinated the establishment of such systems in large projects. Bas Athmer has also substantial experience in advising and assisting governments at national level in the formulation of policies and strategies for employment-intensive rural infrastructure development.

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