Tamara Tschentscher

• Development and coordination of knowledge products for the “Community Development and Knowledge Management for the Satoyama Initiative” programme (COMDEKS) and the “Strengthening Environmental Governance by Building Capacities of NGOs in EU Neighborhood Countries” project (EU-NGOs) • Management and implementation support • Workshop preparation.

• Supporting projects for climate change adaptation in SMEs in India and globally • Conducting market analyses regarding energy efficiency and renewable energy • Proposal writing • Organizing international study tours

• Supporting an assessment of the global impact of the German ‘Energiewende’ • Conducting an energy market and energy services analysis for the United States and selected countries in Europe • Developing project ideas for renewable energy in industrialized countries such as USA, UK, France, Poland and Australia, building on best practices from GIZ work in developing countries.

• Knowledge Management (KM) and communications consultant • Supported country offices with KM guidelines and product development • Maintained and updated website content • Developed bi-weekly articles and press releases for online publication • Assisted with the development of the GEF SGP Annual Report • Development of KM materials for the UNFCCC COP18 on SGP Climate Change and Sustainable Forest Management portfolios and individual projects • Monitoring & Evaluation of reporting process.

• Research assistant to Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics • Assisted with the organization of a monthly Climate Change Policy seminar for academics and practitioners.

• Assisted with project evaluation reports of closing projects, supporting the development of various knowledge products targeting stakeholders at the global, national and local level for CBA • Development of drafts of approximately 22 fact sheets of CBA projects in the pilot countries Jamaica, Bolivia, Guatemala, Vietnam, and Namibia • Conducted a portfolio analysis of forestry projects within GEF SGP and developed a summary report on the existing information and trends.

• Assisted with the development of a brochure on German Climate and Energy Policy • Developed drafts of three articles (transportation, electricity and European instruments for emissions reductions) for the brochure published in October 2011 • Prepared talking points for the Federal Minister of Environment and State Secretaries.

• Volunteer as a team member and photographer for AfricaGoal, disseminating HIV/Aids awareness material along with the World Cup 2010 in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, and South Africa (www.africagoal.com) • Project documentation on the website • Responsibility for the budgeting/accounting of expenses and reporting to donors such as The Danish AIDS Foundation and UN-AIDS, among others.

• Supported an energy carrier analysis in Nigeria • Developed a strategic planning tool to assess focal areas and projects and align GIZ interests with those of the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development • Used the strategic planning tool to assess the focal areas Peace/Security, Good Governance, Sustainable Economic Development, Migration, and Climate & Energy in collaboration with experts at the respective departments • Supported a project proposal for energy business in Africa.

• Project consultant assisting senior modelers with a malaria model in Kenya • Researched data to calibrate the different parameters in the model and gathered additional information on local conditions.

• Training in System Dynamics for development planning specializing in the Threshold 21 (T21) model • Analyses of case studies and model building and calibration in Vensim.

• Coordinated and conducted an assessment of fuel-saving stoves in 100 households in two different regions • Developed a questionnaire, sampling of households, coordination and conduction of interviews with stove producers and stove users • Development of a 40-page report on findings, PowerPoint presentation of results and discussion with GTZ-SUN project members and energy experts.

Concentration of energy and environment, specializing in financing renewable energy technologies and initiatives, energy business and economic development, climate change and energy policy, infrastructure development through PPPs (public-private-partnerships), as well as sustainability management.

Concentrating in International Management, Finance, and Environmental Economics.

Economics, IT, and Arts