I have maintained a flow of advisory functions and contract researches. Current engagements concern the development of a research centre for gender and development in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, the selection of the new Lobby and Advocacy partnerships of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the organisation of an international conference in Addis Ababa, and research on responses to sexual violence in Congo.

2020 -2023	Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse & Harassment: Making Aid Work Better for the People We Serve
2019	Advisory role to strengthen gender component of the ESAAP civil accountability programme of the International Rescue Committee in DRC, together with Adriaan Ferf
2018	International Ombuds for Humanitarian and Development Aid Scoping Study
2014	Member of the selection committee for the ‘lobby and advocacy call’ 2015-2020, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands, 2 months
2014	Partners for resilience
2014	Workshops and paper on ‘Dutch humanitarian aid, now and in the future’, preparation for Netherlands Humanitarian Summit, 2015
2014	Social side-effects of international attention to gender-based violence in DRC
2014	Academic writing, intensive training in Nepal to 5 international researchers belonging to the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, one week
2014	Qualitative methodology training, Center for Poverty Analysis, Sri Lanka, 1 day
2012	Research training in Sri Lanka to 20 international researchers belonging to the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium, 2 weeks
2008-2011	Service delivery in fragile states
2010	Linking relief to development in Haiti
2007-2009	Peer review on humanitarian aid
2009	Micro-finance after disaster in Sri Lanka
2007	Advisory trip opinion makers and journalists in Afghanistan with Dick Berlijn, Chief of Defence, Netherlands Ministry of Defence
2005-2007	Response to 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka
2005	Evaluation humanitarian assistance
2004	10 years Code of Conduct
2004	Beyond Conflict: Peacebuilding Practices in the Great Lakes Region (Burundi, DRC, Rwanda), contract research, Cordaid
2003	Training participatory research methodology, ZOA refugee care Nyamata, Rwanda
2003	10 years North Iraq programmes
2001	Gender and demobilization in Eritrea
2002	Evaluation of the Humanitarian aid programme of PSO Programma 1998-2001
2002	Accountability in humanitarian aid
1999	Villagisation in Rwanda