Klaus V Berger

Ready for new projects in Africa, Asia or Latin America.

Setting up of a new BMZ/GIZ funded Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) in three agricultural value chains (soya, groundnuts and cashew). Supplying market information to all people involved in the value chains. Responsibilities: Creating the necessary infrastructure, introduction of the team members, training, initial workshops. Financial planning and management, staff management, setting up of M&E, planning and implementation of baseline surveys.

Advice and support for several agricultural and non-agricultural value chains. Analysis, organization and quality management of a multidisciplinary consultancy. Capacity development and training of government institutions and civil society entities. Improvement of the vertical integration of players in connection with the selected value chains Project management, staff selection and management, budget management

Responsible for the coordination of all WHH-projects in Haiti and Dominican Republic (about 20) including Emergency and Rural Development Projects like watershed management, irrigation schemes and Food Security activities financed by WFP. Production of project proposals for Rural Development Projects and Emergency Projects in Haiti and the Dominican Republic like low cost housing after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Project Manager/Team Leader of the binational Artibonito Project, working in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. http://www.gtz.de/de/weltweit/lateinamerika-karibik/dominikanische-republik/12046.htm

Project „Programme de Développement Rural dans le Centre et Sud d’Haïti“ (PDR) financed by the European Union (EU) The project has achieved the following results • Increase of the agricultural production according to the preferences of the target group (rural population of the Département du Sud). • Improvement of processing and marketing of agricultural (cassava, mangos, etc.) and fishery products. • Improves involvement of grass-root groups (farmers, fishermen, small enterprises) and NGOs

Project: Rural Infrastructure and Community Development (RICD) in the North-western region of Bangladesh The aim of the project was the sustainable creation of income opportunities for landless people and ultra-smallholders (more than 50% women).

Project: Integrated Rural Development Programme, Mardan (IRDP-Mardan), Pakistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, formerly NWFP) Main tasks: Team Management/staff management, project planning, monitoring, in-charge of the German contribution to the programme

Project evaluation, project finding, moderation of planning workshops

Agro-Forestry Advisor for the Quinte-Bayonnais Agro-Forestry Project.

Backstopping and supervision of projects in the fields of Food Security, Regional Rural Development and Fisheries. In charge of the internal IT system. Preparation of project proposals, staff recruitment

For UNHCR: Together with the local authorities of the Kassala region, agricultural and livestock programs for Eritrean refugees were created in the north-eastern region of Sudan (vegetable production, pasture improvement, etc.)

Advisor for agriculture, livestock and natural resource management, to the Technical Agricultureal Service of the Integrated Rural Development Project, financed by EU

Backstopping and preparation of project proposals covering Rural Development, Food Security and IT

Trainer at the agricultural training centre of the Lake Chad Basin Commission.

Member of a team of seven consultants. Contribution of the agronomic part of a socio-economic study for a master plan for the Tagant Region of Mauritania

Training in structured programming, assembler programming and Systems Analysis.

Rural development, project management

Tropical Agriculture