Monique Zwiers
Programme advisor Blue Deal at Unie van Waterschappen (Dutch Water Authorities)- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Unie van Waterschappen (Dutch Water Authorities)
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Netherlands
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Public Policy
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1 - 100 Employee
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Programme advisor Blue Deal
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Jun 2018 - Present
Coaching of the 16 bilateral Blue Deal partnerships of the Dutch Water Authorities with local water authorities in Africa, South America and Asia. The Blue Deal is an international cooperation between the 21 Dutch waterboards and the Dutch Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Infrastructure and Water management. Coaching of the 16 bilateral Blue Deal partnerships of the Dutch Water Authorities with local water authorities in Africa, South America and Asia. The Blue Deal is an international cooperation between the 21 Dutch waterboards and the Dutch Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Infrastructure and Water management.
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Holland Greentech (hollandgreentech.com)
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Kigali - Rwanda / Oegstgeest - The Netherlands
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Project Manager
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Jan 2018 - Present
Business support in the development of the horticulture sector in Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Kenya, Ghana, Benin and Burkina Faso. Coordination of projects in irrigation, soil analysis and biological solutions for horticulture crop health and soil care, resilience and production Consultancy in the following subjects: • Urban and rural WASH management • Water Resources policy and planning Core Skills: • Project Management and Quality Assurance • Project Evaluation • Business development • Water Sector Performance Studies • Water Sector Strategy Development • Stakeholder participation frameworks • Report Writing • Proposal Writing • Participatory Research Methods Show less
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SNV
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Netherlands
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Non-profit Organizations
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700 & Above Employee
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Water Resources Planner W4GR Rwanda
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May 2016 - Dec 2017
Water for Growth Rwanda
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Sector Leader WASH
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Nov 2014 - Dec 2017
-Leading the SNV Rwanda WASH team in development and coordination of SNV Rwanda's IWRM and WASH portfolio: WASH-Nutrition (INWA) program USAID 2015-2020 (CRS in partnership with SNV), IWRM program Rwanda 2015-2019 (Mott Mac Donald in partnership with SHER and SNV), EcoSan pilotproject 2014-2015, WASH UNICEF project 2014-2015.-Development and coordination of innovative public private projects on water management and sanitation;-Technical advisory in Ecological sanitation technologies and rural water supply Show less
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Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior project consultant- Programme Partners for Water
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2012 - Oct 2014
-Support of the Dutch Embassies of e.g. Egypt, Ghana, India on Dutch involvement and support to the (waste) water policy in these countries -Coordination of Dutch actors (public and private) and foreign water policy stakeholders to develop innovative sustainable water projects -Development of Dutch water projects in the focus countries on the following themes: Water and Climate, Water, food and ecosystems, Water and sanitation, Water and safety -Coordination of the Dutch - Egyptian water panel on collaboration activities, including the set up of an MoU at the end of 2014 to preserve the long-term collaboration between Egypt and the Netherlands on water issues -Development of a pilot study on rural sanitation in the upper Egypt region together with the Egyptian Holding Company for Water and Waste water (HCWW) -Advise the Dutch Embassy in Ghana on the execution of the programme Ghana Wash Window, a Dutch funding programme on water supply and sanitation -Judgement of funding proposals for Ghana Wash Window, EKN Ghana Show less
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Rijkswaterstaat
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Netherlands
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior advisor InfoMil
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Apr 2006 - Aug 2012
Training of officials in the field of (waste) water policy and legislation in the Netherlands and in EU pre-accession countries (Turkey, Georgia, Croatia);• •Stakeholder analyses on the regional implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in EU pre-accession countries; • Set up of a digital databank for environmental measures for industrial sectors in Turkey; • Project leader trainer and expert in an international capacity building programmes between the Netherlands and governments of EU accessing countries in Government to Government (G2G) projects: -Turkey – Trainer in G2G project ‘Implementation of EU-directive urban wastewater treatment, focused on wastewater treatment in small and medium sized municipalities’ (2007 - 2010); • Turkey – Trainer in G2G project ‘Training of trainers (ToT) in the field of the Water and Environment acquis; implementation of the Water Framework Directive’ (2010 - 2011); • Turkey – Project leader of a G2G project ‘Capacity building in industrial air pollution control; implementing IPPC’ (2011 - 2012); • Turkey – Project leader of EU Twinning project ‘Support in the harmonization and implementation of administrative, legal conditions and structures of the EU Volatile Organic Compound Directives‘ (2011 - 2012); • Turkey – Trainer in the EU Twinning project ‘Monitoring Water Framework Directive’ (2012) • Georgia – Water policy expert in G2G project ‘Assisting Georgia in the development of the Water chapters of the National Environmental Action Plan’ (2010); • Georgia – Trainer in G2G project ‘Set up of an environmental permitting and enforcement agency’ (2011-2012); • Croatia – Expert in G2G project ‘Assisting the Ministry of Water Resources with the monitoring and report obligations for the EU-directive urban waste water treatment’ (2011). Show less
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Syncera
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Environmental Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Advisor water
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Mar 2002 - Mar 2006
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Rijkswaterstaat
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Netherlands
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical advisor waste water permitting
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1999 - 2003
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Education
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Wageningen University
Master of Science (MSc), Water Quality and Wastewater Treatment Management -
Het Van Hall Instituut
ing., Milieukunde