Geert Balzer
[Managing Director]
Education
- Master in Economics and Political Sciences
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Postgraduate training at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Agriculture (Berlin)
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Training in systemic counselling (Institut für Systemische Studien – Hamburg) and
in organisational development (ERGON)
Major areas of professional work
- Planing, monitoring and evaluation of (rural) development projects
- Facilitation of planning workshops and conferences
- Concept development for planning and evaluation approaches of international agricultural research
- Facilitation of self-help groups and organisational development of corresponding institutions
- Methodological backstopping of international sectoral projects
- Support to local Agenda 21 processes
- Training in the fields of project management (PCM) and team building
Country experiences
- Eastern and southern Africa (Tansania Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Sambia, South-Africa)
Indonesia, Philipines, Sri Lanka, Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia)
Working languages