Project Manager Development

ABRIDGED CURRICULM VITAE

Prof. ALAN F. FOWLER DPhil

March 2012

A broad education and wide professional experience have involved the theory and practice of

development, bridging diverse types of institutions. Formal education to doctoral level includes

studies in: the organisation and management of development, politics and political-economy, rural

extension, vocational training, education and electronic engineering. Over forty years work as a

project manager; an adviser to a range of development organisations; as a Visiting Fellow at the

World Bank Washington, D.C. and with the Society for Participatory Research in Asia, New Delhi: as

well as a programme officer in the Ford Foundation. This practical knowledge is complemented by

research, writings and appointments as an affiliate Professor, Erasmus University, the Netherlands;

as an honorary research professor, Centre for Civil Society, University of Natal; and as a visiting

Senior Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. I have additional working experience in

French, Dutch and Arabic speaking countries as a teacher, a manager in transnational companies

and as an engineer. Co-founder, in 1991, of the International NGO Training and Research Centre

(INTRAC) based in Oxford, U.K, and in 2005 of Inter-Mediation International, a US registered NGO

dedicated to enhancing the relational capabilities of development actors. Recent voluntary service

has been as board member and past president of the International Society for Third Sector Research

(ISTR) and as a board member of CIVICUS, the World Alliance for Citizen Participation.

Publications span this range of experience, with an emphasis on the capacity and functioning of civil

society, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and their relations with states and funding

agencies. Applied work has included the direct management, design and evaluation of local

development initiatives in the areas of governance, strategy, analysis and advice on international aid

policies and programmes as well as the reform of development institutions.

Current advisory services centre on: 1) civic agency and governance; 2) capacity development and

its evaluation, particularly of collaborative arrangements; 3) new philanthropic foundations; 4) aid

system policies; 5) enhancing international scholarship about civil society; 6) organisational design

and change, including providing human resource development. Research, analysis and publications

focus on civic driven change, applying complexity theory to development; comparing civil societies;

the nature of mutual helping and philanthropy of the poor.

PERSONAL DATA

Full Name: Alan Frederick FOWLER.

Born: 3rd February 1947, London, England.

Nationality: British

Ol Donyo Rongai

aboys1@r.postjobfree.com.O. Box 32 Tel: +27 (0-28-735-****

Herbertsdale 6505 Fax: +27 (0-28-735-****

South Africa www.alanfowler.org

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EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy. 1993 Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Thesis on the

role of non-governmental organisations in Kenya's democratisation.

Certificate in Rural Extension. Higher Vocational Training Institute "Nieuwe, Rollencate" and the

1977 Royal Tropical Institute, The Netherlands.

Diploma in Education. 1976 Netherlands Institute for Vocational Teacher Training.

Higher National Diploma in Watford Polytechnic (England). Specialisation in computing and

Electrical Engineering. 1968 telecommunications engineering.

PROFESSIONAL COURSES

Tavistock Institute, England. Leicester Working Conference on !uthority, Leadership and

March-April, 1995. Organisation.

New Economics Foundation, 1997. Introduction to Social Auditing and Ethical Accounting.

WORK EXPERIENCE

SINCE 1990Currently Independent development adviser and analyst.

Advisory services related to international development, governance and civil society.

Emeritus Professor, Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague.

Governance research group

Member of the Expert Roster, UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2012 -

Visiting Scholar, Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu Natal.

Research support and analysis, academic supervisor and examiner.

Co-Founder Inter-Mediation.org, USA.

Innovation and provision of methods and advisory services that enhance collaborative

competence and effectiveness of relationships within and between multiple

development actors.

3/94 5/97 Senior Research Fellow (fractional appointment), Oxford Brookes University, UK

Research on NGO leadership in Kenya.

2 - 3/95 Visiting Fellow, Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), New Delhi.

Providing training to senior NGO staff from South Asia and strategic orientations to

Indian NGO support organisations.

7/94 - 1/95Independentconsultant, development analyst and writer

.

1/94 - 6/94Visiting Fellow, Human Resources Vice Presidency, the World Bank.

Policy advice and analytic support to the Bank's learning in the areas of people's

participation, governance and interacting with NGOs.

9/90 - 12/93 Post-graduate studies, University of Sussex. Part-timeconsultant. Co-founder and

interim co-director, INTRAC

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1/88 - 8/90Programme Officer. The Ford Foundation, office for eastern and southern Africa.

Responsible for a regional programme in Governance and Public Policy, involving

support to the NGO sector, civic participation, capacity building and governmental

reform.

LANGUAGES

Language Speaking Reading Writing

English Native speaker

Dutch Fluent very good very good

French Fair Fair Weak

Swahili Fair - -

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PROFESSIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE AND AFFILIATIONS

President, International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) 2003-2004.

Board Member and Chair of Programme Committee, CIVICUS, World Alliance for Citizen

Participation, 2001-2007.

Member of the Management Committee of the Institute of Development Studies Alumni

Association 1997-2001.

Council Member, Development Studies Association of Great Britain and Ireland, 1992-1995.

Member of the Society for International Development. Vice Chairman Kenya, 1989 - 1990

Convenor, NGO Study Group of the UK Development Studies Association, 1990-1993.

RESEARCH AND STUDIES

Co-editor, Resource Volume on capacity development, 2010 SNV, the Netherlands

Civic Driven Change and Society, ongoing Institute of Social Studies, The

Reforming practice of social investment in southern Africa, 2006- Hague

2008 Graduate School of Business,

University of Cape Town

Investigation of counter-terrorism measures on NGOs Intrac

Philanthropy of Community: A Multi-country comparative study Graduate School of Business,

in Southern Africa. 2003-2009 University of Cape Town

NGO Leadership: excellence, transition and the successor Ford Foundation funded

generation. 2000-2001

NGOs and Political Transition in Kenya. DPhil 1989-91

ADVISORY POSITIONS

Stichting Het Groene Woudt - 2008 ongoing The Netherlands

MENTORING AND COACHING

Person Focus Area/Topic(s)

Idil Sheytanoglou, North Cyprus. EU Person to Person Organisational development of

Scholarship. non-profits and social economy.

Louis Dorval, Canada. McDonald Foundation Scholarship. NGO accountability and learning in

West Africa.

SELECTED RECENT COMMISSIONS

Adviser assignments

Activity or Title Commissioned By

Adviser on connecting evidence, transparency, governance and World Vision International

accountability. January 2011 ongoing..

Adviser on civil society, partnership and governance. May 2011- Plan International

ongoing

Member of external review team for governance and human ActionAid International

resources. 2010

Mid Term Review MASC programme, Mozambique DFID Mozambique

Member of advisory committee of an evaluation of capacity DGIS, Inspectorate for

development by Dutch NGOs, 2009-2010 Operations and Policy

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Mid Term Review, Civil Society Support Mechanism, Mozambique, May DFID Mozambique.

2010.

Annual Review, Southern Africa Trust, Johannesburg, March 2010. DFID, Southern Africa.

Organisational Development Review, Centre for Social Accountability, Swiss development

Rhodes University. January-May, 2010. Cooperation

Adviser on governance redesign and funding submission Plan Netherlands

Baseline study on civic driven development. July 2007. Context, Netherlands

Adviser, redesign of international programming May 2007 Sept. World Vision

2008 International

Strategy and Implementation Adviser, November 2006 SNV, Netherlands

Organisational Development Adviser. November 2004 - 2008 Bernard van Leer Fdn.

Adviser on partnership facilitation and relational intermediation InterAction, USA

Presentations and Seminars

Topic/Title Commissioned By

Seminar on Civic Driven Change, Advanced Masters Centre for International Development

Course. Issues, Nijmegen University.

Master Class on assessing relational capacity in multi- ETC, The Netherlands. June 2008

actor development collaboration, networks, coalitions,

etc.

st

Fit for the 21 Century - Scenarios for International NGOs. Save the Children, Denmark. May 2008

Master Class on Civic Driven Change, May 2009. Context, Netherlands.

Master Class on Complexity and Development, April 2009 Hivos, Netherlands

Civil Societies and States: can they do without each UNDP, Cyprus, May 2007

other?

Assessments of NGOs and evaluations of their capacity, programmes and projects

An evaluation of the Postgraduate Diploma in Nonprofit Leadership and BRAC, Bangladesh

Management. January 2005.

Assessment of child centred community development, Bangladesh. Plan International

May 2003.

(Inter-)Governmental Consultancy

Adviser on the future of Civil Society assessments. UNDP, New York

Programme development adviser to the Ministry of Capacity Building, DFID, Ethiopia.

Civil Society Unit, Ethiopia. 2003-2004.

Drafting of a revised corporate policy statement on partnership with UNDP, New York.

civil society organisations. December, 2000.

Study on an enabling environment for civil society. May 2000 World Bank, NGO Unit.

Adviser on the institutionalisation of the African Centre for Civil Society, Economic Commission for

Addis Ababa. August-September, 1998. Africa.

Adviser UNICEF monitoring and evaluation of capacity-building. UNICEF, New York.

Strategic Review of the United Nations, Non-Governmental Liaison UN-Non-Governmental

Service (NGLS). Jan-June, 1998. Liaison Service, Geneva.

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BOOKS AUTHORED AND EDITED

The ACORD Transformation1976-2010: Overcoming Uncertainty, forthcoming, April.

NGO Management: The Earthscan Companion, Earthscan, London. 2010 (Co-edited with Chiku

Malunga)

Capacity Development in Practice, Earthscan, London. 2010 (Co-edited with Jan Ubels and Naa-

aku Acquaye-Baddoo)

Civic Driven Change: Citizen s Imagination in !ction, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague,

October 2008. www.iss.nl/cdc (Co-Edited with Kees Biekart). Spanish translation: Biekart,

K. and Fowler, A. (eds), 2011, El cambio dirigido por la accion civica, Icaria, Madrid.

Reference paper for using the 5Cs framework to plan, monitor and evaluate capacity and

results of capacity development processes, European Centre for development Policy

Management, Maastricht. http://www.ecdpm.org/5Cs

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Fowler, !/ and Biekart, C/, 2011, Civic Driven Change. a narrative to bring politics back into civil

society discourse, Working Paper, 529, International Institute for Social St udies, the Hague,

November. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/30559/wp529.pdf

Fowler, !/ and Biekart, K/, 2011, Citizenship and the Politics of Civic Driven Change, in Petty, D and

MacFarland, C. (eds), Citizenship: Practices Types and Challenges, Nova Publishers, New York.

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