Julia Weinand

Personal data

• Born 1975
• MSc Public Policy and Management at the Centre for Financial and Management Studies (CeFiMS) at the University of London (distance learning)
• MSc Agricultural Sciences, Food Security and Natural Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics at the University of Hohenheim
• Post-graduate diploma in International Development at the Centre for Advanced Training in Rural Development (SLE) at the Humboldt University of Berlin
• Several years of practical experience in international development programmes with short- and long-term contracts (government, research and NGO sectors)
• Since late 2010, consultant at Como in Hamburg
• Working languages: German, English, French

Services

• Facilitation of monitoring and planning processes
• Studies as background papers for programmes/ projects on different topics
• Evaluation of projects and programmes
• Facilitation of intercultural and participatory workshops and events
• Consultancy services for projects and organisations in the implementation of participatory methods
• Strengthening the participation of civil society in development processes

Professional emphasis

• Decentralisation, participation and public sector reform
• Rural development and pro-poor approaches in the public service delivery
• Cross-sectoral cooperation, cooperation management, cooperation with the private sector (PPP)
• AIDS Mainstreaming in various sectors
• Food security, work migration, access to public services for migrant workers

Examples

• Long-term technical support to a provincial government, districts and municipalities as employee of a GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) rural development programme in South Africa
• Member of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFRPI) coordination team for long-term qualitative research project on HIV and mobility in the Lake Victoria Basin agricultural sector
• Introduction of a planning, monitoring and evaluation system (PM&E) in the water and the renewable energy sectors of the German Development Service (DED) in Uganda
• Appraisal and planning of a cooperation of DED with the World Bank in support of the Energy Ministry’s rural electrification programme in Uganda
• Appraisal and planning of development interventions of DED in support of the water sector reform in Uganda (decentralisation, privatisation, pro-poor approaches)
• Study for GTZ on opportunities of integrating health and food security related measures in a project to support post-land reform farms and projects in South Africa
• Repetitive technical backstopping for GTZ employees regarding the implementation of AIDS mainstreaming activities in their core work
• Support in information and knowledge management processes of development programmes (e.g. development of „products“)