Dominique Thaly

Director of my communication agency. Participation in Requests for proposals for international communication projects in MENA and Africa regions.

Consultant for GIZ Tunisia using the Capacity Works methodology. Different projects in decentralisation, water management, waste management, agriculture, etc. sectors.

Consultant in Communication for Development. Development of strategies, tools and processes for communication for behavioral and social change in health, education, hygiene practices, etc. in many African countries and and regional level.

Short term international expert to PEM Consult (Germany) in the Waste management and circular economy project (GIZ Algeria). Tasks : training in waste communication and elaboration of a concept for the creation of a waste communication network in Tlemcen, Algeria

Situation, existing communication strategies, stakeholders, behavioral, capacity building needs and media analyses. Preparation and conduction of participatory workshops with partners. Elaboration of the communication strategy including recommendations for coordination mechanisms, scaling up and best practice documentation. Implementation of the Communication strategy for juvenile justice with UNICEF Tunisia (EU funded). Countries: Togo, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Chad, Tunisia, Guinea.

Consultant in the World Bank small contract in the project « Demonstration and good techniques and practices to manage sanitary waste and PCB in Tunisia 2013-2017 » Tasks: Elaboration of the communication strategy, of ToRs for the Website and publications, sensitization activities, participation in the steering committee and working groups, animation of multi-stakeholder processes, impact evaluation. 12 C4D training for hygienists for 24 governorates of Tunisia.

Consultant for the German Development Bank – KfW in Tunisia. Gender assessment for the investment fund for waste valorization (FIVAD) in Tunisia, a project implemented in cooperation with the national waste management agency, ANGed.

Communication consultant for the Anglo-Romanian RWA Group in the project « Informal Waste Sector Integration in Tunisia », a GIZ project realized with the Regional Solid Waste Exchange of Information and Expertise Network in Mashreq and Maghreb Countries – SWEEP-NET in partnership with ANGed. Tasks: Participatory evaluation of the needs and expectation of the informal waste sector in Tunisia. Elaboration and implementation of the communication strategy.

Responsible for the implementation of the different activities of the environmental communication component in close collaboration with the Tunisian Ministry of Environment and its implementing agencies like the National Agency for Waste Management (ANGeD), the National Agency for Environmental Protection (ANPE) and the International Centre for Environmental Technologies of Tunisia (CITET).

Communication and Information Manager in the project „Support to the Africa policy dialogue and development of the Africa of BMZ” in Eschborn, Germany. Advising the Africa Department of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ) in the areas of its Africa information and communication management.

member of an international consultant team in Nigeria (several short trips) for the evaluation and the improvement of polio communication as part of the Global Initiative of polio eradication. Analysis of the communication strategy, introduction of innovative tools, training workshops and field research. Others: publications on the Website www.communicationforsocialchange.com and participation in the French translation of the book “Making Waves. Stories of participatory communication for Social Change”.

Communication adviser to the German Cooperation project (technical German cooperation – GTZ, German Development Service – DED and German Development Bank, KfW).

Master’s degree in Communication for development at Malmö University, Sweden. Online studies. Topic of the thesis: „Cinéma Numérique Ambulant: A case study of the medium term impact on the audience in Niger, Westafrica”

Diplom (similar to master’s degree) in Political Sciences at Otto-Suhr-Institut, Free University of Berlin, Germany. Major: African politics, Development policy, political processes. Topic of the thesis: „Environmental policy in Cameroon“ Global grade: 1,1 (very good)

Maîtrise (similar to Bachelor’s degree) in applied foreign languages German – English at the Université Toulouse le Mirail, France. Major: Business and international law, business English and German