Aid & Development Professionals

Aid & Development Professionals

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  • Karsten Weitzenegger
    Karsten Weitzenegger    Premium Member   Group moderator
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    AGEG Consultants eG is a consulting company operating worldwide with over 20 years of experience in international development cooperation. In our work in the field, we draw from a well-established network of over 150 highly qualified experts. In collaboration with our clients and local partners, we develop strategies and carry out measures that effectively strengthen and sustain the ecology, economy, health and cohesion of societies with the goal to improve people’s livelihoods.

    AGEG Consultants eG constantly registers governance experts for upcoming projects in the following fields of specialization:

    * Promotion and protection of human rights
    * In the context of the human rights approach to poverty reduction, inclusive focus on people's participation and empowerment, linkage to national and international human rights norms and standards, equality and non-discrimination, monitoring and accountability.
    * Promotion and protection of fundamental human rights
    * Social, economic and cultural rights
    * Political and civil rights (women rights, freedom of movement, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, children, minorities, migrants…)

    * Support to democratisation
    * Democratisation processes (incl. civic education)
    * Social and political roots of conflicts (conflict prevention)
    * Elections (census, support to electoral processes and supervision…)
    * Role and functioning of the Parliament
    * Citizenship (representative legitimacy, participation and political accountability)
    * Media freedom

    * Reinforcement of the rule of law and administration of justice
    * Reform of judiciary (legal reform, justice and protection of human rights, capacity
    * building, training of magistrates and prosecution officers…)
    * Awareness and prevention of corruption

    * Public administration reform, management of public finances and civil service reform
    * Public administration reform and organisational development of public institutions (including policy formulation, planning, budgeting, monitoring, evaluation…)
    * Civil service reform (including legal code, human resources management -recruitment, training, salaries…)

    * Decentralisation and local development
    * Decentralisation (subsidiarity, legislation, resource and fiscal issues, accountability)
    * Support to local authorities (local and regional levels including municipalities)
    * Community based development (empowerment and participatory approaches, gender issues, micro-projects)
    * Local development strategies (social, economic, multi-sector)
    * Enhancement of the role of civil society

    Please see http://www.weitzenegger.de/en/careers.html for details.