Career Experience

30 years in development in Asia and East-Africa in water resources, river basin and irrigation management, environmental sustainability in water resources, institutional development and in poverty alleviation.
15 years in senior management positions of multi-expert multi-disciplinary teams, including major domestic consultants teams of 18 National professionals.
Manager of 7 major, multi-million dollar development projects funded by World Bank, Asian Development Bank, EU and UNDP.
Consulting missions for WB, ADB, IFAD, FAO, USAID, for project design, development, loan negotiations, mid-term and post evaluations, with special focus on good governance, institutional as well as community development.
Design and actual introduction of water utility and irrigation service fees on over 1 million hectares on technical irrigation areas in 8 major provinces of Indonesia.
Innovations to management of micro-credit/poverty alleviation program in Indonesia through introduction of a GIS geographical information system/mapping based monitoring system.

Expertise:

Water Resources Development, River Basin Planning and Irrigation Water Management.
Environmental Services and Watershed Management.
Institutional Development/Capacity Building in Water Resources Administration and Governance.
Conflict Management Strategies in Water Resources Management; associated Institutional and Stakeholders Capacity Building.
Assessment of Management Needs and Strengthening, including the total process of cost recoveries, utility payments and services fees.
Environmental ImpactAssessments (EIA) with focus on institutional strengthening and cost management.
Management and Implementation of Irrigation Rehabilitation Program and Projects.
Public Administration and Govemance/Privatization of Water in Developing Economies.
PovertyAlleviation and Micro-Credit Programming.
Legal Aspects of Programs, Budgeting for Program and Project Implementation/Contract Management.
Community Participation and Capacity Building in Water Resources and Irrigation Management.
Public/Private Sector lssues in Water and River Basin Planning.
Policy Development in Water Resources and Environment.
Development Economics and Management Consulting.

Overall coordination of multiple project activities in area of some 13,000 km2 in Ruaha River Basin (Central Tanzania), in such aspects as transport sector, roads, water supply. irrigation development extension, agronomy, soil conservation. watershed management, livestock, training and human resources development, institutional training in region and 5 districts, planning of post-harvest crop management and collection/transport, wildlife and natural park/reserves preservation.
Institution building and training.
Develop a financial management system for Treasury to monitor Regional Development expenditures.
Responsible for all inter-disciplinary aspect of the final report Regional Master Plan for investments in water supply, irrigation, roads, land use, veterinary science, agronomy and inputs distribution, bridge construction, forestry nurseries, livestock dipping tanks.
Managed project staff of 24 professional experts, 200 sub-professionals, 1200 laborers, and motorpool of 70 trucks and 60 Landrovers.

Water Resources and Irrigation Cost Recovery Policies in (Service Fee/Community Development Component in the loans ISSP-1 & ISSP-2 (World Bank). Project Director ISF/Simalungun TISP (ADB) & ISF/IISP-1 (ADB) and ISF/IISP-2 (ADB), Ministry of Home Affairs (World Bank/ADB), responsible for project start-up and implementation, project conceptual design, legal structure, socio-political and economic aspects. Institutional development structure and integration of cost recovery in water resources system management and institutional structure prevalent in Indonesia and as foreseen in the water sector policy concept.
Guided of 18 Professionals and 36 Community Organizers and Field Assistants in implementing introduction of water resources cost recovery in selected districts in the provinces of West, Central and East Java, South Sulawesi and North Sumatra.
Developed a model for long-term financial planning for cost recovery in water resources in selected river basins, based on multi-variable multi-variate analysis; model includes all factors which influence cost recovery in O&M, and allows to predict financial results and required Government contribution over 20-year period for various policy scenarios (combinations of rehabilitation, training, sediment control, social acceptance, area coverage, O&M cost structure, water availability).