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(Dutch nationality) Date of birth 1950, April 19th (in Makassar, Indonesia)
(Permanent) Address Wenslauerstraat 75-1 Tel./Fax.: +31.20.6837540 1053 AX Amsterdam, Email: paulvanbeers@hotmail.com the Netherlands Languages Mother tongue: Dutch Fluent speaking: English, French, Portuguese and German Education 1998 Auditing Environmental Management Systems ISO 14001, SGS-ICS Lisbon, Portugal 1980 MSc. in Physical Geography and Hydrology, Amsterdam Free University KEY EXPERIENCE: ( 24 YEARS) • Project Manager; Project and office management, country director, reporting, administration, acquisition and responsible for all finances and logistics. Extensive work experience in Developing Countries as well as in The Netherlands (long term assignments in Development work in Kenya, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and Mauritania and working experience in the Netherlands in managing Environmental projects). Specific experience with long term assignments and missions for Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Projects (dug-wells, boreholes, rainwater harvesting & latrines, public health and community participation) in East and West Africa, and related social, technical and managing aspects, in particular with improving Project Sustainability related to Installation, Sanitation and Operation & Maintenance (O&M) practise of water points. • Water Resources and Integrated Environmental studies: Studying groundwater flow, water quality and seawater intrusion problems, borehole location with aerial photo-interpretation and geophysics. Consultancy work and supervision of Water Supply projects, preparation and evaluation of tender documents, borehole drilling and pump tests, soil- and Ground Water pollution, Environmental monitoring and Multicriteria analyses, applications of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), project management and acquisition; • Teaching skills: institutional and technical “on-the-job” training of local counterparts, transfer of skills, including office administration, phasing out of expatriate assistance, courses in fieldwork, mapping of field surveys, presentation of projects in international seminars, lecturing hydrology on University level, teaching aerial photo-interpretation and applied Remote Sensing techniques; • Marketing and Beneficiary studies, in Rural and (peri)-Urban Water Supply, willingness to pay studies, including gender aspects, informal market issues and Operation & Maintenance of water selling points (water kiosks). Country experience: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso*, Brasil, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Kenya*, Mali, Mauritania*, Mozambique*, Niger Oman, Portugal, South Africa, Zambia (* long term assignment) Other skills • Acquisition, proposal writing, evaluations, organising of workshops, map design, editing of reports and manuals; • Able to improvise and to work in troublesome conditions, with people of different nationalities and varying social background, problem solving mentality and improvising skills, stimulating team-worker; • Good working knowledge of computer programs and spreadsheets applications; • Driving License A, B, C, D and E, good practical knowledge of car and motor repairs; • Private Pilot License (current PPL, 500+ hours), experience with aerial-photo surveys and bush flying. EMPLOYMENT RECORD AND MAIN ACTIVITIES September 2003 to present Nedworc : Free lance Consultant on Rural Water & Sanitation Missions to Burkina Faso, Niger, Brazil and Kenya, for project support in Water and Sanitation, especially to promote low cost sustainable hand pump technology, suitable for local production and low cost house hold water filters to improve the quality of drinking water at home. 2001 – 2003 Co-ordinator Rural Water Development Programme, Nyanza Province, Western Kenya Responsible for the overall management and implementation of the RWD Programme based in Kisii, West Kenya. Yearly budget over 500.000 US$. The program has four field-offices in the Nyanza Province and employed over 50 people. Specific duties included: • Autochtonisation and transformation of the Programme and WatSan services, to a sustainable and self supporting local Rural Water Development Programme. Training of local senior staff to take over the project. 1998 – 2001 Nedworc / Rural Water Systems: Consultant on Water, Sanitation and Environment • Institutional support, Consultancies and evaluation of Water Projects and Operation and Maintenance problems in Rural Water Supply in Niger (PHV Dosso project), Mali, Angola, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Benin and Chad, for NGO’s and the World Bank. • Evaluation Mission to Ilha de Mozambique in Mozambique: Evaluation of Water, Sanitation and Environmental issues to be addressed, for UNESCO, Maputo. 1995 – 1997 SAWA: Office in Mozambique (Country Representative ) • Setting up the Mozambican SAWA Office (in September 1995) and training of Mozambican office staff on management and project implementation; • Acquisition, Project identification, evaluation, studies and technical advice for Rural and (Peri)-Urban Water Supply, Low cost sanitation and Institutional development, specific studies for willingness to pay for water services and Operation and Maintenance aspects of shallow and deep handpumps; • Project Administrator of the DGIS HSA/DNA Project in Maputo, from April 1996 to April 1997, for the Royal Dutch Embassy in Maputo; • Clients: Worldbank (willingness to pay studies), EU, National and International NGO’s, DGIS. 1993 - 1995 De Ruiter Milieutechnology, the Netherlands (Project manager / Consultant) • Project management, identification and acquisition for Environmental and soil- and groundwater protection, monitoring and remediation projects of polluted soils and polluted groundwater, for municipalities and industries in the Netherlands; • Team member European Environmental Network (EEN): Mission to Portugal for advice on EIA Study of the Alqueva dam project with SEIA Consultants in Lisbon, (November 1994); • Representative of Shell International: Supervision of offshore geological and geotechnical drilling and site investigations. Evaluation of onshore Geological and Remote Sensing studies. Ghalilah-Sur LNG project (February – March 1995). 1985 - 1993 IWACO, Regional Office in Burkina Faso (Project manager / Consultant) • Project management and hydrological studies in Village Water Supply, Water Resources Management, Environment and Rural and peri-Urban Regional Water Supply Programs in Burkina Faso and Mauritania; • Training-on-the-Job of counterparts in office and project management, lecturer courses in Hydrology and Remote Sensing; • Clients: Local Government, DGIS, World Bank, BAD, Saudi Arabia, EU, National and International NGO’s; 1980 - 1985 Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Scientific Researcher) • Scientific Researcher, Hydrological and geological studies in the East-Algarve, South Portugal: Studies of groundwater basins and groundwater systems, relation between groundwater quality and geology, sea water intrusion. Study of groundwater resources for small and large scale irrigation and Water Supply of Municipalities. Applications of geo-physical techniques, Remote Sensing and Environmental groundwater isotope studies; • Lecturer hydrological field courses for students in the MSc Curriculum of the Free University Hydrogeological Department. 1975 - 1978 INDUMAR, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Marketing assistant) • Marketing studies for the industry in the Netherlands, including the preparation, design and testing of pilot studies. Summary of project management experience in Africa Extensive experience with office management, staff training, programming, supervision and documentation of all operations, budget control and preparation of project reports and audits. Kenya; end 2001 – August 2003 Co-ordinator of the regional Rural Water Development (RWD) Programme of the Diocese of Kisii, Ngong and HomaBay. The program has been active since 1985 and realised over 1500 water points, 300 rainwater harvesting systems and 4000 latrines in Rural Communities and small towns in low income areas in the Nyanza Province, West Kenya. The project activities comprised: “Community Mobilisation and Participation, Public Health, construction of spring-protection, dug-wells, boreholes and rainwater harvesting systems and training for maintenance”. The job function included intensive co-operation with local and National Government and NGO's in the Water & Sanitation sector in West Kenya, especially with NETWAS International in Nairobi. Specific recent RWD project activities includes implementation of pilot projects of new low cost drilling techniques and low cost, locally made sustainable handpumps, easy to use household water storage and water treatment (ceramic filter) systems, including (crushed burned bones) filter systems to remove fluoride in drinking water and innovative approaches to promote rainwater harvesting from slopes. Burkina Faso 1990 - 1992 Mouhoun Project Phase IV; 50 dug-wells and 300 water points 1989 - 1991 Foster Parents, 125 water points 1988 - 1989 Mouhoun Project Phase III, 40 water points 1987 - 1989 French Co-operation in Tapoa Province, 36 dugwells 1987 - 1988 Education III Project, 52 water points for schools 1986 - 1987 Saudi Arabia Project, 600 water points village water supply Mauritania 1989 - 1990 Aftout region, 100 water points, village water supply, ADB Project References Mr. Don McPhee Regional Director Foster Parents Plan West Africa, Senegal C/o Foster Parents Plan, B.P. 21121, Dakar, Senegal don.mcphee@plan-internatinal.org Tel. +221 - 8697430 During the period 1989 to 1992 I worked with Mr Don MacPhee in Burkina Faso, where he was the Program Director for Foster Parents. In that time I worked with him on several projects of Foster Parents in Village Water Supply and Sanitation. Drs E. de Zeeuw Hoofd Sectie Bureau Bodemsanering Provinciehuis Noord Holland Postbus 3088 2001 DB Haarlem, the Netherlands Tel. +31.23.5143143 From 1992 up to 1995 I worked as a Project Manager for the Consultancy Department of De Ruiter Milieutechnology in Halfweg, the Netherlands. Mr. De Zeeuw was at that time my direct superior as head of this Department. At present he is working for the Province of Noord Holland as Head of the Section Soil Environmental Department. Drs. H. van Dijk Former Director SAWA Projects and Consultancy Agro Business Park 96 6708 PW Wageningen, the Netherlands. Presently Head Public Works, Gemeente Wageningen Phone +31-488-431761 In September 1996 I started in Mozambique for SAWA a regional office in Maputo. Mr. van Dijk was the Managing Director of SAWA in the Netherlands in that time. He visited Mozambique several times and I reported directly to him the activities, progress and financial results of the Mozambique office. Dr. Samuel Wambua Director NETWAS International Magadi Road, Off Langata Road P.O. Box 15614-00503 Mbagathi Nairobi, Kenya. Tel: 254-2-890555/6/9/60 Fax: 254-2-890553/54 E-mail: samuel-wambua@netwas.org During the time I was Co-coordinator of the Rural Water Development Program in Kenya (2001 to 2003), I worked in close collaboration with Dr. Wambua of NETWAS International in Nairobi, especially on the development and promotion of the low cost ceramic water filters for schools and individual households and low cost sustainable hand pumps for Africa. you for visiting my page at Angelfire. Please come back and visit again!
