Our trainers

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  Thomas Lewinsky

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  Thomas Lewinsky is assigned trainer/coach to the e-learning courses Institutional Development and Organisational Strengthening and Becoming a Masterful OD Adviser or Consultant. He is based in The Netherlands as an expert within Institutional Development, Organisational Development and Change 

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  Ellen Tijkotte

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  Ellen Tijkotte is the assigned trainer/coach to the e-learning courses on Managing for Development Results (MfDR). MfDR is the main management approach to achieve greater development results. Her areas of expertise are Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, which are all in line with (greater) Aid Effectiveness. As a trainer/ consultant at MDF Head Office her work has varied from PME organisational development courses to larger evaluations and consultancies for governments, UN bodies and CSOs.

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  Jan de Vries

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  Jan de Vries is assigned trainer/coach for the e-learning course Advocacy and Policy Influencing. He has extensive practical experience in policy influencing, having worked in a human rights NGO in The Netherlands. There he influenced human rights and development policies on national, regional (European Union and Council of Europe) and international level (United Nations). He was a co-author of a EUfunded Manual on Advocacy and Policy Influencing for Social Change and regularly gives trainings on policy influencing.

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  Hadewijch Klaassen

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  Hadewijch Klaassen will be your trainer for the courses Writing Winning Project Proposals, Accessing EU Funding and Gender Mainstreaming in Projects/Programs. She has worked for years as gender advisor at a national NGO in Latin America. Today she is based in the Netherlands, working for MDF as a trainer/consultant in the areas of Proposal Writing, Gender & Development and People Management. In addition to being a trainer she is also involved in the MDF Acquisition Unit responsible for the preparation of project proposals.