Hugo O.

Key qualifications: +20 year of experience with sanitation and water management.

Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Cabo Verde, Colombia, Kenya, Kuwait / Iraq, Mozambique, Pakistan, São Tomé e Príncipe, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Venezuela

Management:

• Coordination and management of multiple projects with multiple stakeholders.

• Grant management based CBA and VfM principles and budget control.

• Business development, resource mobilisation and fundraising from various sources.

• Development and adaptation of monitoring and evaluation systems within programs.

• WB, EU, DGIS, UKAid, MCC, DANIDA, SDC, SIDA, FINIDA, UNHCR, UNICEF.

Institutional:

• Develop strategies for institutional management support.

• Capacity building, mentoring, peer review and training of water and sanitation service providers.

• Facilitating the introduction and adoption of water and sanitation related policies, innovative finance mechanism, strategies and technologies at sub-national level.

• Adapting fund structures to ensure: room for innovation, efficient management, fiduciary duty, compliance and value for money analysis.

• Incorporation of a Human Rights Based Approach / Gender Equality & Social Inclusion as a driving force for project management and implementation.

Technical:

• Review & evaluation of engineering designs of water, sanitation, and solid waste infrastructure and supporting technologies including measuring and monitoring systems (KoBo ODK)

• Co develop strategies and implement WASH emergency interventions (hands on!!).

• Develop of effluent and human waste reuse for agriculture/horticulture and small irrigated systems.

• Experience with WASH: - in schools, - people with disabilities, - Gender sensitive, - in low income areas (LIAS)

• Implementation of participatory planning and needs assessments and participatory oversight of O&M

• Contract management and supervision related to construction of infrastructure, quality control, conversant in FIDIC Yellow and Red books.