Data-for-Appreciative-Decision-Making,
Food Security / Livelihoods,
HIV / AIDS
Technical Assistance,
Training and Proposals
International relief and development are highly complex areas -- where organizations need to channel resources to various groups of people or gather information from them. Situations arise where food aid and HIV/AIDS come together or microenterprise programming faces the challenges of conflict. Such work requires excellent Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation. Clients may need Proposal Writing for new funding or a redesign or defense of current support. Staff may need Training and clear Facilitation in order to understand their role in this changing industry. Communities may need Rapid Rural Assessment/ Evaluation tools to explore and explain their needs and capacities to outsiders.
Other clients may require Strategic Planning to organize their resources better or Research to understand the underlying local issues that are facing their operations or to comprehend their staff's perspectives more clearly.
Jindra Cekan, PhD has 23 years of experience working for non-profit as well as corporate clients in project design, M&E, research and training/ facilitation in Africa, Central America, the Caribbean, Balkans/ Central Asia and Europe.
Topical Areas of Expertise
- Project design
- Monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
- Staff training and facilitation
- Proposal writing/ review, donor reporting and grant management (especially U.S. government)
- Strategic planning and consulting
- Research and interviewing
- Regional foci: sub-Saharan Africa, Balkans/ Central Asia,
Central America/ Caribbean, Europe
REFERENCE
"Jindra provided head office project management, monitoring and evaluation systems development and communications support for a large-scale, multi-country food security and rural development program in Central Asia. Jindra was able to quickly create order out of chaos! She worked effectively with country teams to put project management and reporting systems in place. Her knowledge of good practices in food aid management and food security program monitoring and evaluation were a great asset to the organization. Jindra consistently provided honest and constructive feedback to the senior management team. She also trained and coached country representatives and new staff members to ensure the systems that she had developed and the knowledge that she had shared were sustained. Jindra brings great energy, integrity and intelligence to her work and I highly recommend her."
- Pat Scheid, Aga Khan Foundation.
"I had the opportunity to work with Jindra in 2006 as a consultant for CRS Kenya. She provided technical assistance and leadership in the design of our MYAP. Jindra was absolutely fantastic to work with as she was extremely organized, provided excellent technical feedback on the proposed integrated food security strategies. She was well read and understood the politics of food assisted programs and produced a final very competitive [and approved] grant document. She works well with a diverse group of people and her insight from having worked with many other agencies definitely assisted us develop a strong proposal. I would highly recommend Jindra."
- Hanna Dagnachew, Chief of Party AIDS Relief, CRS-Kenya.
“Jindra has provided LWR with a very helpful baseline and a final evaluation in West Africa and most importantly, did it in a participatory way with LWR and partner staff. Her untiring efforts to provide validated information gathered using participatory methods was precisely what LWR needed and at the same time, she supported LWR’s long term efforts to build staff and partner capacity for evaluation. She also has a very positive disposition which makes it very pleasant and gratifying to work with her!
- Ms. Heather Dolphin, Lutheran World Relief's Monitoring & Evaluation Manager in Organizational Effectiveness
|
