team+presentation


 * TEAM presentation**

Dear participants,

You will be working within a tutor group with different international experts with various professional backgrounds and experiences. This is part of the rich learning experience where you will be able to communicate, interact and collaborate.

The support service is offering you:


 * Content expertise**

Paul Winters

Paul Winters is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at American University in Washington DC where he teaches //Project Impact Evaluation//, //Development Microeconomics// and //Environmental Economics.// He previously worked at the International Potato Center in Lima Peru, the University of New England in Australia, the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC. He has published numerous journal articles and working papers in the areas of impact evaluation, migration, fertility, cash transfer programs, and smallholder agriculture. He has conducted field work and managed surveys in Pakistan, Indonesia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Ethiopia. Paul spent the 2010-2011 academic year on sabbatical in the Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness at the Inter-American Development Bank helping design impact evaluations for IDB-funded projects.


 * Pedagogical support**

Haley Horan

Haley Horan is a Program Officer with the DELTA Unit of the International Training Center of the ILO. She worked previously as Knowledge Management Specialist for the Gender Team of UNDP's Bureau for Development Policy, where she designed and managed a project to promote knowledge sharing, learning and documentation of good practices amongst joint programs supported by the MDG Achievement Fund in 13 countries. From 2008-2010, she served as Policy Officer with the Peacebuilding Support Office of the UN Secretariat. Before that, she served as Facilitator of the International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics with UNIFEM (now UNWomen) and as Research Analyst with UNDP (2003-2008). Haley holds a Master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University (New York).

Rodrigo Filgueira

Tom Wambeke Tom Wambeke has Master’s degrees in educational science and in cultural management. Before joining the Centre, he was an assistant professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and a specialist in distance learning innovation in higher education. He has also worked as a project manager, trainer and consultant in Europe and Africa. He is now a Programme Officer within the DELTA unit, specializing in innovative educational technology, instructional design, lifelong e-learning, social media and knowledge management. Tom advises and assists colleagues, outside cus tom ers and partners on learning and knowledge sharing methods and technology, with a focus on information and communication technology for e-learning, blended learning and workplace learning. He has helped run projects and training-of-trainer workshops on networked e-learning, knowledge-sharing and innovation in the following countries or territories: Tanzania, Kenya, Pakistan, Thailand, Jamaica, Peru, Iran, Brazil, Colombia, Senegal, Zambia and the Gaza Strip.


 * Technical support**

Rodrigo Filgueira


 * Administrative support**

Debora Ferrai Debora Ferrari studied psychology in Buenos Aires and languages in Milan.She has wide-ranging secretarial and administrative experience in commerce, education and health, in both Argentina and Italy.In 2006, she joined the ITC-ILO’s Regional Programme for the Americas, where she worked on training courses in Spanish. From 2008 to 2010 she ran the secretariat for a European Commission project on social cohesion in Latin America, with a focus on employment. Today, having joined the DELTA Programme in July 2010, she is responsible for administrative management of the distance learning programmes, as well as being responsible for IT support to participants, tutors and technical staff.

This course collaboration was initiated by

Amélie SolalCeligny  Amélie Solal-Céligny holds a Bachelor in Statistics and Social Sciences, and a Master’s degree in Rural Development. She has been working with FAO for five years, with the nutrition division and the integrated food security support service. She has experience with nutrition and food security indicators and information systems, and has run surveys or trained government officers in Burkina Faso, Malawi, DRC and West Bank. She has also worked as an independent consultant for IFAD, providing direct M&E support to rural development projects in Niger and the Maldives. With FAO, she has developed training material on M&E and provides technical assistance to countries on setting up M&E systems and designing impact assessments with quantitative and qualitative methods. She is collaborating on various training activities, such as e-learning, tutored courses and face-to-face workshops.

Cristina Petracchi